I started a gaming guide blog six weeks ago. Twenty-one articles later, it's getting traffic from Google, I have four affiliate programs set up, and I have never written a single line of code.
This is not a "how to make money blogging" post. This is a practical breakdown of the tools, the workflow, and the mistakes I made so you can skip them.
The blog is yxgonglue.com. It covers PC and console game guides — GTA VI pre-order comparisons, VPN setups for gaming, cloud gaming platform rankings, extraction shooter loot guides. Niche stuff. The kind of content people search for when they have a specific problem.
Here is the stack that runs it.
WordPress + Kadence Theme
