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What Tools The Wayward Home Uses
Blog and media brand covering van life, RVs, boats, and tiny homes
Tools
22 tools · grouped by what The Wayward Home uses
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WordPress
· 3 mentions · 2 sourcesBlog“his main project is to take these writer articles, format them, upload them into WordPress, find images, basically do the work to keep the website going with these new articles”
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“And then my VA knows to go to that spreadsheet and look at the surfer brief and then import that into WordPress.”
high“When I launched, I purchased hosting from Bluehost and followed the steps to install WordPress.”
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Ahrefs
· 3 mentions · 2 sourcesSeo“I go to Ahrefs and I do a site search for the wayward home. And then I look at what are my new keywords.”
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“Yeah, I am still doing my own keyword research, and I almost exclusively use Ahrefs now.”
high“Ahrefs: (https://ahrefs.com/) For keyword research and checking on how my blog posts are doing”
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Divi
· 3 mentions · 2 sourcesDesign“I built my own website, it was June of 2017, on the Divi theme. I remember doing that and I had the hardest time with it.”
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“It was June of 2017 on the Divi theme I remember doing that and I had the hardest time with it.”
high“In 2017, I knew nothing about website design or even how to build a self-hosted Wordpress site. I struggled through online tutorials and learned how to build a functional site with the page builder “Divi.””
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Google Analytics
· 3 mentions · 3 sourcesAnalytics“I just looked at Google Analytics, and I was kind of seeing what was going on there and not really understanding why it was ranking.”
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“I just. I looked at Google analytics and I was kind of seeing what was going on there and not really understanding why it was ranking”
medium“https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-9SYFB1E1X6”
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Pinterest
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesSocial media“She decided to start a blog and share interview-based articles about nomads on social media platforms like Facebook and Pinterest.”
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“And I did Pinterest. And so I started uploading, you know, pins, I took a Pinterest course.”
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Google AdSense
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesAdvertising“I became laser focused on Mediavine because I put Google ads sense on my site and it was making, I forget like 10 cents to a dollar a day or something.”
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“I put Google AdSense on my site and it was making, I forget, like 10 cents to a dollar a day or something.”
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Surfer seo
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesSeo“After I do the keyword research, I plug the keyword I want into Surfer SEO. That's what I use now to create articles, and all I do is I have a spreadsheet for them.”
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“After I do the keyword research, I plug the keyword I want into Surfer SEO. That's what I use now to create articles.”
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ChatGPT
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesPlatform“But I use ChatGPT for other things, you know, like podcast topics, or intros, or working on my emails and funnels. I use ChatGPT as kind of an online brainstorming assistant, but I'm not really using it extensively for content creation, especially on my flagship site.”
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“But I use chat GPT for other things, you know, like. Podcast topics or intros or working on my emails and funnels. I use chat GPT as kind of a online brainstorming assistant, but I'm not really using it extensively for content creation, especially on my flagship site.”
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Facebook
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesSocial media“She decided to start a blog and share interview-based articles about nomads on social media platforms like Facebook and Pinterest.”
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“Grow a niche Facebook page and Meta’s content monetization program pays you for the views your posts earn. It’s how I built one of my main income streams — my three pages reach tens of millions of views a month.”
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Cloudflare
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Canva
· 1 mentionDesign“Canva: (https://www.canva.com/)Creating social media posts, templates, PDFs, digital products”
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RankIQ
· 1 mention“RankIQ: (https://www.rankiq.com/) For low-competition, long-tail keyword ideas, headline optimizer, and bog post optimizing”
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BlueHost
· 1 mention“When I launched, I purchased hosting from Bluehost and followed the steps to install WordPress.”
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SurferSEO
· 1 mention“SurferSEO: (https://surferseo.com/)For keyword cluster research and preparing briefs for my writers”
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Grow's Spotlight Subscribe
· 1 mention“I am now experimenting with Grow’s Spotlight Subscribe feature, and adding an embedded email form to the middle and end of all my blog posts.”
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ThriveCart
· 1 mentionPlatform“When I launched my first product, Niche Sites Made Easy (https://sales.thewaywardhome.com/niche-sites-made-easy-full-price/), in late December of 2022, I did a pre-launch sale to my email list with the simplest “Cart Checkout” page on Thrivecart.”
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Kadence Theme
· 1 mention“Launching a blogging business isn’t all that hard or expensive, especially if you know web design. And in this day and age, it’s WAY EASIER with products such as the Kadence Theme, Kadence Starter Templates, and Kadence Blocks.”
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Plausible
· 1 mention“https://plausible.io/js/script.js”
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ConvertBox
· 1 mention“To gain new email subscribers, I was using Convertbox to create a variety of opt-ins for my website. These were mostly pop-ups that seemed to convert very well, but I recently turned them off in light of the Google HCU.”
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Grow
· 1 mentionAnalytics“I am now experimenting with Grow’s Spotlight Subscribe feature, and adding an embedded email form to the middle and end of all my blog posts.”
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Gusto
· 1 mentionOther“Gusto: (https://app.gusto.com/login) For payroll, paying contractors, issuing 1099s and managing my S Corp”
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LeadPages
· 1 mentionOther“Leadpages (https://www.leadpages.com/): For sales pages, Tripwires, and lead generation”
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