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August was a CRAZY Month - Website Income Report
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It's September. You know what that means. It's time for the income report. And I got a crazy
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one to show you because we made so much less money. Yeah, keeps going down. That Google hit
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has really been hurting me a bit. Other sites are rising and we'll talk about that. But the main
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issue right now is what's going on with my blogging career. And is it going to keep going
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That's a good question. Let's go ahead and talk about that. How much we made, the traffic
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the stats, how much we spent, all of that. Let's break it down. As always, let's start talk about what work we did. Now, we didn't do a huge amount of work in
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August because it's been a crazy month. You know, I had a week of vacation, kind of
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but I was still working, but not a lot with websites themselves. And I was going through
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and also starting to take my kids to school, which was a whole new thing
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This week has been crazy because I'm starting to have a lot of time now that we're kind of ironing things out
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And I feel like there's going to be a lot of time to work on stuff, which is really exciting
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I wish I could say my websites were blowing up, but they're not. They're doing OK, and we're going to go over all that as well
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Let's talk about what we did first, and then we'll talk about that portion there. RC Ride On, we only added one article for a total of 171
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And Best Playground Nada. my new hobby website 14 new articles last month I also added 14 this has kind of been the focus
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of my website portfolio right now I would say my hobby site then wild fog which I'm going to be
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adding some content on in the next video I just have to go ahead and make it and then we have
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my writer's site that I do with my writer. Basically, I do all the SEO and the posting
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and he does the writing. That site's doing very well as well. And then all my other sites have
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kind of been not much going on with. I've just been leaving them go. The new info sites have
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been kind of showing a nice upward tick, which is good. I just can't get content on them right now
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because right now my mind is into focus on two sites and get them earning to rebound from my write-on issue
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And those two sites are the highest ones other than the one that I have with my writer
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which basically I don't do anything other than maintenance except when he has content to add
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And I already have plenty of keyword research I've done on that
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I may want to get a few more info articles on write-on, But let's talk about how we did 19 articles, only one written really poor
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But I have been focusing on a lot of other stuff. And, you know, with my life, I need to go and pay the bills
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So if one thing is dragging and another thing's taking off, you don't stick with the thing that's dragging at that moment
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You have to pivot because I got I'm not making enough where I can relax
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I have to hustle all the time. Because of that, I have been focusing a lot on my main YouTube channel and sponsored content
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and working on that just to kind of make up for this and hoping this bounces back
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So total of 19 is really bad because 38 was last month
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However, 18 of those were bought. It was a little more pricey of a month compared to what I wanted to spend
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as I was trying to not spend a lot this month since I knew I wasn't going to make a lot
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I do have a website, requestwriter.com. That's where my writer works. And anytime people order from there, they get work from him and he does it the way they like
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And there is articles and there's also surfer SEO articles, as long as you have a surfer
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subscription for that. Orders have been a lot lower this month. I think this is a rough month for everyone as far as money's concerned with the economy
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and everything. And I feel like people are spending less. it does seem like it's picking up now uh not towards the this month last like week i would
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say it's starting to pick up but he's definitely got a lot of room for more people if anyone's
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interested in going with the service definitely check it out usually i say you know don't worry
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about it we got plenty but right now because people are you know only getting like one article
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here one article there he definitely has time for more so if you have any big orders you'd like to
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put through or anything. Send one, try it out. If you like it, you'll keep them coming
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What do we need to note? Videos slowed. Yes, I haven't done as many videos on Kevin stats. Why
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I haven't really had a lot to talk about because I'm not really concentrating on websites as much
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as I was. I just don't have it to talk about. Will I have more? I'm sure once things get somewhere
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where I'm earning more than I am currently earning, I'll be able to put more time in it
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But like I said, I have to kind of go where the time goes. Google update
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This should be a good thing, the Google update. But I haven't seen much of anything
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All the websites are basically saying no update has come out yet
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even though Google said on the 25th that it was released. Not many big signs
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Some people have had some problems and got hit, but I haven't really seen much other than that
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I feel like I fixed all my issues on RC Rhydon and I feel like it should bounce back, but it hasn't
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And I've been checking, you know, two, three times a day. I've been checking my stats to see and just hoping that instead of two, 300 viewers, I
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see one, 2,000 and it gets back to normal. That would really make a huge difference in my life
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And I could definitely focus more back on this and also invest more into some of these
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other websites that are starting to do well, but could use some more content
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The ball's in Google's court, so I will just wait and see
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And pretty much RC Rhydon and Best Playgrounds are neck and neck
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They about the same and you know they haven been moving either way They just kind of been staying about there Harrow Link Campaign The four months is up However we only got six links out of 15
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Five of them are all from the same site. So it hasn't been very helpful for my domain
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I have asked for them to remove that so they stop pitching to them
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And I've noticed like the other day, they did add them again to another one
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so I will do a full review once that is completed but currently I feel like the Harrow is not helping
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at this point who knows we got time to go and we got you know we're not even halfway with links
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it's just taking longer than predicted. Zoic Premium is now $22 traffic goes down so does
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Premium not only that it seems like rates are going down just because of everything going on
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or it could just be me because of my downward swing, but I feel like it's the whole economy
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To be honest, I did make a mistake and I haven't looked to see
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what the trends are for everyone else. So let me know down below
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is your EPMV going down, up, staying the same? Comment, let me know, I appreciate it
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Plans for this month? Continue content push and look for an affiliate program
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for my private hobby site. That's what I had last month and I found the best affiliate program
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that fit my hobby site 100 i feel like these people would be like thank you so much for
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applying you are perfect it could not have been a better fit and they denied me so
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yeah there are a few others not as good just kind of taking that blow and
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laying off a bit see what happens maybe get some more traffic and try again i don't know
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gonna focus on the hobby site wild fog partner site already said that and try and find a few
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articles on rc ride on for info maybe i'll write some as i have more time if sponsored videos are
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coming in though i will pick those up because then i can turn that into money and money into
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articles from my writer and that will be a lot quicker and more productive than me writing them
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myself at least at this point you know watch stats and come up with a plan you see what websites are
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doing good what are doing bad if for some reason rc write-on would blow up back up i don't know what
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i would do maybe i would trickle in some articles honestly i'm afraid i would break it again
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blogging was so easy for me and I got it so good in the beginning and I guess I didn't realize how
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good I had it and I've learned a lot along the way however now I feel very uncertainty going on
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and yeah we'll see what happens I want to keep blogging I want to keep going but when Google did
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that it really hurt and that could happen for any reason that could happen because there's something
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on your site. That could happen because Google just wants to change all of this stuff. And I
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think Google is going to continue to keep changing. I know they're doing this helpful content thing
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and I believe I can really do well on that. But right now I haven't been focusing on writing
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articles specifically that way because that's not what Google rewards. Google rewards what I've been
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doing, but I can do it the other way and I don't mind doing it the other way. But let's see if
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Google can even figure that out. So that's everything with the plan and what's happened
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the last month. Sorry, it's a little long. Let's go and get into stats. Here we are with RC right
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on and you can see pretty steady. The amount of users is basically the same half a percent up
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I mean, I guess we'll take it, but really, you know, 32 viewer difference. Remember
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this is a site that was getting you know 50,000 and now we're at seven so still huge letdown on
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that but it's still something it didn't go to zero at least I know some people get hit to zero
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I got probably hit just a little lighter than that and we'll kind of see what happens I did
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add a huge amount of content before this google update hit and it was what I thought was very
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well written articles, well formatted. I put a lot of work into it. I was really pushing to get the
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site to the next level. It was starting to move and then Google hit and then that was it
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Again, really hoping that it bounces back. Just for reference, this is Algaroo. It's a website
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that tries to predict when crazy stuff is happening with websites. And we've been in the green. We've
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been in the green for a while. And the 25th is when Google announced that it started deploying
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However, it does take two weeks to fully roll out the update. From my experience, when they
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roll out an update, usually day two or day three, I notice things happening. So it's really odd
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that, you know, one, two, we got all these days and still nothing has moved. I have no idea
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We're just going to keep going. I see right on this is where the Google update hit and you can
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kind of see what happened just to give you a good idea of how it went. So we are still about the same
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I don't know. It shows pretty even. We don't really see any increase. I feel like the
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impressions are going down a slight bit, but the clicks are still holding. Average CRT of 6%
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You know, it is what it is. And again, the ones that drop, they either drop off completely or
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their number one and they bounce back and forth often so it's really weird. Best playground sets
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is down 4.05% and you know that's that. This is kind of a seasonal niche I would think but I don't
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think now would be time to go down. I think it would be still decent however usually it's more
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of a springtime niche from what I noticed but usually it pretty decent all the way year round just a little more stronger in the springtime so down 4 It was going up lovely And then we got to I think I was like 9 And then it started kind of going
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down a bit and being a little weird. And at that point, I just stopped adding content because I
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still have so much more content on there that needs to be aged. And since it's not really
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getting anywhere. I'm just going to let it sit and focus on something that does. Here's best
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playgrounds and you can see how it went up here for a while. I had a popular article kind of take
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off and it did go down a few rankings and I think that really did hurt what happened there. And now
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the site's still doing good but that one article is probably like third or fourth and huge difference
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in views because of that. Here is my hobby site. So you can see we're up 17.5%, which we'll take
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Engagement time is up as well and new users. So looking good all around. It's been continuing
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to go in a nice trend and I just see it continue to rise. You know, the first one, two thousand is
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so hard to get going. And then once you get into the few thousands, you know, the traffic usually
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is a lot easier to get as long as you don't plateau. Hopefully we're not going to plateau
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with this yet. However, yesterday did look a little like it could happen. Here's search
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consult for that website. And you can see at the very end, the last one did spike down a little
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bit. However, you know, we've been going up and up and eventually you're gonna kind of plateau or
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dip down a bit and slow down. I did have put 14 articles out last month and 14 the month before
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and in the beginning of the year I really didn't do much to this site at all
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I just kind of let it sit. So all of a sudden, you know, we're throwing gas on the fire
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to keep it going and get this site up there with others
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There's one other that has started recently that's kind of competitive to mine
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and is doing probably twice as good last time I checked last month
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and I feel like I'm catching up but at the same time
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it takes some time. You know, things have to age and maybe I have to
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not go too crazy because I feel like if I keep pushing too quick, sometimes it doesn't pay off
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But to contradict myself right now, I feel like I'm going to continue to put articles on this
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Probably get like two or three orders of this, one of something else, two or three of this
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one of something else, and kind of go that way and be very selective when I am taking away from
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this and putting to the other. However, I also don't want to spend much money this month because
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I need to recover my money because it's the end of the month. So now I need to get
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it's the beginning of the month. I need to get my money back up so I can pay my bills for the month. And then once I have enough saved, then I can start going through and doing that
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Wildfog is a website we do completely on here. And you can see it's still doing pretty good up 38.4%
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764 users. Again, my writer has written almost everything on this site, except for maybe like
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six or seven articles and those I've all written myself on videos. You can see them on the YouTube
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playlist for Wild Fog. We've created this website completely 100% online. Everything from me
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figuring out what to go into to me posting and updating articles and updating plugins
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Everything is in that playlist. So it's really valuable. And I think more people should check it out, especially if you want your site to get going
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You can see the stats here and, you know, it's doing good
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Considering how many articles I put on a month, which is maybe average between five and seven
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I think it's doing very well. Here's Performance Manager for Wild Fog
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It's a little all over the place the last six months. Overall, it has been going up
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You know, we've had some Google updates and it feels like an update might have hurt it
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But then a few days later, it kind of corrected it. But it always went through and put it back to being successful and going up
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So we'll continue to watch it and see how it goes. And hopefully it makes a lot of money
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I do plan on continuing this site and I'm going to be posting articles in my next video
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and eventually I am going to sell it, but not to the point that it's making
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at least $1,000 a month. And then I'll decide if I want to sell it then or not
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depending on what's going on. But I don't plan on keeping this site forever because I wanted to, from the beginning
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show how to create a site, raise a site, and then sell a site. And that is going to be my journey
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And selling a site is something I haven't done yet. However, I have been preparing to do it
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So I know how to do it. I just have to go through it. So this will be the first one we sell when it is ready. Let's check
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out the money. Here we are on a Zoic. I do use Zoic and I really do believe in them. I have a lot
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of videos on them. If you want to get with Zoic, I have a link down below and I'll also put a video
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up top so you can check it out. They are really good because they even let you put other ads from
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other people like Google. And like this month, you could see Google made me $76.99 because they
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paid more than a Zoic did. So the Zoic pays for what they pay more and Google pays for what they
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pay more and it kind of combines. So it's really cool they do that. So how is it doing? Well, like
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I said, things have been on a downward trend for me. So June, we're at 1697 EPMV and I was in the
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high 20s a while ago before all this Google core update. So then we went to 1212 and this month
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we're at 1091 also people are definitely pinching pennies on advertisements and you can kind of see
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that on things like azoic and with amazon overall with earnings though this is what we're looking at
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here 143 and then 49 with premium and premium is 22 for me to kind of subtract 22 dollars out of that so it definitely gone down it been a rough ride but we are trying to get our sites back up there and on the green again I think some of these new
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sites are really sprouting out nicely. And as they go through an age and get more content
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we'll have some others to contend. Let's take a look at Amazon. This month on Amazon, we had $616.08
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cents. So again, down probably almost another, I think $184 about from last month. And I
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like I said, I feel like less people are trying to spend money right now, but you know, everything
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looks okay on my end. You know, people are buying for the websites, for the sites that are getting
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clicks. People are buying. So, you know, it's just not a lot. I have a feeling it's going to pick up
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a little bit in September and then as the holiday seasons come in we'll go up higher and higher
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I'm hoping I can still have a very good holiday season even though I'm getting a 20th 20 percent
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of what my traffic was last year. I know last year my RC Ride on site got about $10,000 on Amazon
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in November and 20 percent of that is still $2,000 which you know would be nice. Even more would be
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So hopefully we can get that up there and some other sites contending as well
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Let's get into the full breakdown of everything, show you the expenses, everything we made
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Here we are in August. So that is what I went over. We made $4.56 Canadian and 13 cents in UK
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And Google Ads was $73.49 for mediation. That's not my YouTube, that's mediation
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YouTube is a whole nother ballgame because I have a bunch of YouTube channels
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which I also do income reports on, and you could check those out as well
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Zoic adds $193.94, minus the $22 for premium, so they're going to $171.94
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Domain Renewal is one of my newer sites, hit one year, so I had $41.99 on that
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Hosting, I paid all in one bulk, no plugins. I still have Surfer, I'm still using that
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when I do write stuff. Unfortunately, I didn't write much this last month. A lot of the keywords
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I have right now I feel are very difficult for me to write. I just don't know a lot of the stuff
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about it. But as I get time, I'm just going to have to jump in and give it a try. Serp Robot $9.98
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I get two robots I hired. Canva $9.99, I actually pay that in one year now. So let me actually
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correct that because technically it's zero because we paid 120 last year for a year or last month for
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a year content writers 546 dollars was for those basically 18 articles that i got written and then
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i do still have jasper which is 119 and my partner website uh their split was five dollars and 75
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for the month of July. So we subtracted that and paid that out as well
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So for a grand total of $24.48. Woohoo! Because I've had so many sponsor videos on my other channel
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I've been able to continue to purchase articles this last month. This month, again, is going to be more difficult
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since we went down both in azoic and in Amazon. If we look up here, we were at 808
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Now we're at 616. And then we were at 97. Now we're at 73
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We're at 212. Now we're at 193. You add those little differences up
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and they become big differences. This is actually a big difference right here because Amazon's big
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but this isn't just happening on Amazon. This isn't just happening on a Zoic
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This isn't just happening on Google. It's happening on YouTube as well. All of my YouTube channels are also getting hurt with ads because people just aren't paying
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as much. Again, hopefully it corrects as we go. We'll see. The end of the month is coming
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The last month of the quarter is here. Hopefully it does pick up and we see some ups this time
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And I hope this is the bottom. I said that last month
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I hoped it was a bottom. I hope this is the bottom. I hope we don't have to say it again next month
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I feel like Amazon can hold this amount or more because it seems like it picked up more towards the end of the month
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Zoic, I don't know. We'll kind of see how it goes. Traffic seems to be doing okay
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Everything's been, smaller sites have been rising. Big sites have been staying steady
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So we shouldn't see less money next month. We should see more, I would think
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My two info sites, I really want to get some articles on the one as well, just because it's getting closer to the point where I can get it on a Zoic, but it needs more content
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So I'm going to see about that. Maybe I try to write it
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I don't know. We'll see. But overall, we are plus 2448 from last month
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Remember, last month we went down. So we are plus. So that's good
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I'm definitely noticing, though, the expenses are very high. and I might need to get them down lower
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I'm not sure what else I can cut out at this point. I'm gonna have to kind of take a look and see
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I don't really wanna get rid of Surfer or Jasper or SurfRobot or Canva
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So those are kind of like where I'm at. And I don't know, maybe I'll just have to figure it out
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But that is how my websites have done this month. How have your websites done
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Please let me know in the comments. I love to read it and hear how everyone's went
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If you're here to the end, make sure you comment, champion so I know I really do appreciate it and love to see it thank you so much for the view
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