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I have literally been waiting 15 months to go through and give you all this news
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It's not 100%, but it's a lot better than it was. I told myself I was the man at websites when I first started
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I thought I knew it all until I got hit by my first Google update
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And recovering has not been easy. It's been very, very difficult. And I have been grinding, trying different things on my website
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more and more trying to get it fixed. I would list it, but that would turn this into like an hour video because I literally did three to five huge things every single month since that time
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Now, things are looking up. This is what my RC Ride On website looked like before the last Google Core update
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You can see I was down to 27 top 3s, 49 top 10s, 71 top 30s, and 87 top 100s
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That means there was only 87 things ranking for what I was tracking
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And the average position was 173. Now this is a lot different than it was
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So I'm happy to say it has recovered some. And let me go ahead and show you the next SERP
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There it is. We went from 172 average ranking to 68. That's huge
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381 improved. I had 67 more top threes. So now I have 94
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I have 143 more top tens, 192 total. 262 more top thirties, 333
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And 411 top 100s as opposed to 87. Wow. So that's pretty crazy
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Here is my graph to give you an idea of where I was
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I was up here and here. And we went down and down and down
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And recently it went down again. And then it started doing a tiny up and then boom
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The update hit and things are looking really good. Now I'm not back where I was
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I'm doing really well, but I'm not back where I was. Where I was, was looking at 1,000 to 2,000 views a day
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And I'm probably in the area of 150 to 300 off the top of my head
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So it's better than 30 though, you know. So this is a big game changer
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Now, I'm not really making a lot more extra money on this because I did remove ads from it
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Because like I said, I tried everything. So I wanted to strip it down and just have an affiliate base
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and I did that. I also trimmed a lot and sped up the website recently. So we got the website
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running a lot faster. We got no ads on it and I trimmed out all the articles that were not ranking
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However, that could have been a mistake and those could have went up or that could be the reason
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this worked and if I wouldn't have done it, it would never go up. We don't know. There's so many
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things with the Google update drives me crazy. So this happened in May of 22 when my heart sank
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I mean, when I got hit with a Google update. So it took a long time to get it back. And now I'm
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in the 70 range here for the daily position where I was in about 38. And in the volume
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I was around, where was I, around 70, and I'm in about 140
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So lots more to go, but I'm very optimistic, and I will take half of it back as opposed
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to none of it back. So I'm going to go over more and show you some stats, show you how much money I made
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and all of that fun stuff. First, let's go over what happened this month
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Now, this month, I don't know if people have noticed, but I have been becoming more involved
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in the Amazon Influencer program, and that program has really taken off for me
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So because of that, websites are definitely second place, and unfortunately so is YouTube
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So Amazon's coming first because it's working, and what I'm doing is showing
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So here we have Best Playground Sets. I took a break off last month, and I am starting to get some more articles in now
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there's 84 that were saved and I got my person in Upwork working on about 30 of those right now
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RC Ride I added one I had a sponsored post where I got a Ride car I made three videos on RC Ride YouTube channel and we put it together unboxing full review I also took that made an article on it pointed them at each other and letting it go So that what happens
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when someone wants a sponsored video through my ride-ons. You know, I get a free car and usually
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some money with it. However, in the future, I'm going to be asking for a lot more money because
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it's a lot of work. Helpful Tutorials is actually getting a lot of articles. I have Amazon videos I
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do. And when I do those videos, I upload them to YouTube. And when I upload them to YouTube
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I have a plugin from Helpful Tutorials that grabs them from YouTube, makes generic posts
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Then I use ZimWriter and I point it at the video of the YouTube channel and I grab the script
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rewrite it in a blog post, and then I just edit it. So I haven't done that a whole lot lately
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but I probably did early this month. But right now there's just too many posts to count. It's just
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going too crazy. I also have my wife's videos on there as well. So there's even more that way
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The site really hasn't ticked up much in traffic yet. I think it's going to take a little while
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but I think if I keep the force of this going, it's going to do well, even though it is AI content
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it's taking it from my words. So because of that, I think the originality will be there and it will
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move up in the future. Pet website basically shelved. Let's go and just move that one
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It was increasing, but then it kind of went back down. Hobby website
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Let's take that and move that up here. That site's doing really well
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I really like that site. And I always have. I'm trying a little bit of different things with images on the websites
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Instead of using images, I'm kind of grabbing them from Instagram and embedding them in
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I think that's pretty cool. And I think it's going to work well. And it's original
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And maybe they'll share when they see I'm sharing. and vice versa. Who knows? Overall, the hobby site is pretty much written by my writer completely
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I did a few AI articles on there, but not many, maybe like four and a few comparison AI articles
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My shelf sites, you know, pet sites, where it's at, whatever. I'll just take the money as it comes
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in. Wild Fog, same though I expect it to go up because it's getting closer to Halloween and it
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has been doing pretty well on the Amazon side. So that's really nice. I definitely could put more
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time into it, I just don't have more time. So when I get, if things keep going with the Amazon
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influencers like they are, I'm going to be getting to the point where I'm making so much money, I'm
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hoping that I can go through and start hiring people on Upwork and have them do certain tasks
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and continue along with this. Info site, that's fine, shelved pretty much. The travel site
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shelved though, there's a lot of opportunity there right now, especially because the niche I think is
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very hot right now and people haven't noticed, but I just don't have time. Other sites, nothing
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really to talk about. Shielded VPN, I'll probably let go at the end of this year just because I
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don't want it anymore. So overall, not sure how many posts I did and don't worry, I have the time
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to count. So last month we did 162. So notes, we continued with H2. We sped up RC a lot
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I almost spent like $800 with someone to speed up my website. Someone else said they'll do it for
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90 bucks and I did that and it was awesome. It sped it up really nice and it's all working great
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So that guy's going to get more of my money when I'm ready to speed up more websites
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RC Rebounded, we're about to show you. Plans for this month, keep up with the helpful tutorial
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articles. They're just going to flow in now. Monitor all Amazon affiliate product links on
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all my websites. So with Black Friday coming up, I want to check all my product pages
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I almost want to get it done monthly and just keep checking, make sure things don't go out of stock
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or even worse, that they don't just get discontinued or change ASINs
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People change ASINs all the time. When they update that Amazon page, a lot of times it redoes the whole ASIN
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And when that happens, your link breaks. So I need to go ahead and keep doing that, especially for the more expensive stuff
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Let's start with RC Ride-On. Now, this is not going to look that impressive because I did kind of have a dip before the takeoff
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But you can tell here that, you know, we started getting about less than 100
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And then all of a sudden, we started jumping up to the 100s, 200s
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So 140 to 250 almost. So we are jumped up a lot higher than we were
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I would say three to five times more traffic. and the weekends is doing really good
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because that usually where it really big is Saturday Sunday Monday and then it kind of tapers off after that You be able to see it much better in Search Console how we doing You can see the big spike and where it going
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And it's really nice because these are pages that weren't getting traffic. Again, a lot more of these are info
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So because of that, I'm not really seeing the affiliate side raise too much
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So I'm going to go ahead and let it ride for a little bit, see how it goes
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I may start adding content again if I can think of stuff to add
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I do have a different area that I'm thinking of expanding in. Originally, I tried expanding into go-karts, bumper cars, electric bikes, scooters, regular bikes, all that stuff
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And I wiped out all of that stuff from my site. I am now just RC Ride On
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I think there might be one or two articles that were just pinned at number one that I left go, but that's about it
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I'm really excited for this site, and I hope it comes back because it's my baby
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I have a bunch of them, but this was the one that I've always liked the most
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Best Playground Sets, this is the one I've been working on a lot. It's been going down, and of course it's going to go down because seasonality
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The one thing I did not think I would see go down is the average engagement time
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because I've really been hiring someone to add pictures, change formatting, make the site look more visually pleasing and it's just not helping. In fact, it looks like it's
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getting worse. We did have a good day yesterday, you know, 246, so that's nice. But overall, this is
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where the site usually calms down for the year, so I'm not going to really know too much. However
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we are going to go ahead and do another probably 30 articles or so and then I'm probably going to
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shelf it and go to a different website. Here is the search console so you can get an idea
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what that looks like. Because so much stuff is in the backyard and now it's getting hotter
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people aren't out there as much, you know, the traffic comes down. This is my hobby site that
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I really like and it's doing really good. I was about a little over a hundred articles on it and
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it seems to improve month over month slowly but surely, usually about by 10%. It looks like 13
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this month. So we're up to 3,900 views this month. I like that it's continuing to rise and I'm pretty
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excited and I do have more content that has been added recently with my writer. This will go through
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and give you a quick idea of search console so you can see it's continuing to rise. Who knows
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what's going on here if it's going to keep going up or if it's going to come back down we will see
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next month for sure. I think this site usually stays pretty strong throughout the year so there's
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not huge differences in traffic that I've noticed, but it's also a newer site. So I'll know more in
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the future. So I did mention my writer wrote those and you can hire him at requestwriter.com
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He actually has taken his price and cut it in half and he's been writing superb articles
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Because the AI thing's happening and everyone's going AI, it's harder for people to get jobs
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and he needs some help. So if you're interested, he has 16 reviews, all five stars. I use him and
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my content does well and it ranks. And now that he just cut the price in half, you're getting
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500 words for $7. So you're not going to find anyone writing like that at that price
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unless they're using straight AI and he is not. He's writing very well and doing heavy research
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and just go ahead and try it, you know, see what happens. You can't go wrong at that price
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I believe I still have a 10% coupon code with KevinStats for your first order too
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This is another site he primarily wrote as well. I did add some articles on here
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This is Wild Fog. As you probably all know, you've seen me add lots of his articles
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3,200 users and up 10%. So it's still going nicely. It works and it's making a decent amount of money
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So in time, I'm going to put more resources into this and keep it going, see if I can get it to go up even higher
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Here's the performance console view, just so you can see that WildFog is also going up
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I have done a lot of my stuff with WildFog with Surfer SEO, so you can definitely check that out
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I have other videos on it. I don't use it anymore because I have focused on something else at the moment, but Surfer really did help me get a lot of my articles ranking really high in here
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Here's a look at my dashboard for all my websites. Now, it's not that impressive because ads have been down this year and it's really hurting
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Hopefully they rebound soon You also have to remember that I have removed my ride on site from my ads So I not earning ad money on that Will I add it back I really not sure at this point
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When we look at the monthly, you can see my EPMV at $6.99
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Ouch. That really dropped when RC was removed. Also, the funds have went down as well
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We made $144.12 overall and $13.78 was from Google. If you're looking to get ads on your website, I definitely do recommend Ozoic
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I use it for all my sites except for RC. So you can go ahead and check the link down below or just go to ozoic.com
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You can see this month, my EPMV is already up 50 cents. So I'm hoping that continues
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And I think it's going to, especially next month, once the fourth quarter starts
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So let's look at all our numbers overall. So with Amazon affiliate, we did $878.65
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cents. It's down a bit, but we also did really good with the Canada, $0.57.58. So that's really
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nice. And then we did like $0.12 in Germany, $0.13 in UK, and $1.21 in Spain. Google ad revenue came
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out to be $21.55 altogether. Zoic ads, the total was $130.34. Then we have our expenses. There was
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$76.15 for domain renewals. I spent $22 on Ezoic Premium. $17 on KeySearch, which is the
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keyword tool I use. I also have videos on that in here if you want to check it out. If you're
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looking for a keyword tool that is a lot easier to use and is going to do some advanced stuff
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I really like it. It helps me find a lot of my keywords. SerpRobot, we still got one of those
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at $4.99. Content writers, I spent $68 with my writer to write me those articles and one or two
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more. Voicemail is $21.20. I have that for RC Write-On. I added a voice mail phone number
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Don't really use it. AI expenses, this is not including ChatGPT, which is $21.20
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This is with the API. Also, I have 11 labs I'm using, which is a voice, and I use scraping
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through ZimWriter. So the 11 labs is $5, the scraping is $5 and change, and then the rest was
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through the API, mainly for my helpful tutorial articles. Overall, $263.58 in expenses, $1,089.58
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in earnings. So it came out to $826 profit altogether. So that works really good. And this
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would be really hard for me, except Amazon Influence is also doing really good. Plus
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I'm getting a lot of sponsor deals through doing their videos as well. So that's going really
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really well. I'm going to do a video on that next as soon as I have time. But you can get an idea
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I made similar to what I made on all my websites on Amazon Influencer last month
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I'm very hopeful for the future. I love that my site's doing good again, and I really want to get
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back to writing content for it, but it's so hard because there's not a lot of keywords out there
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for that niche, and I think I got them all covered. However, there's some that I had to, you know
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delete and remove, and maybe I can go ahead and rewrite and try to gain those words. I'm going to
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keep working on my hobby site with some articles funneled in through my writer, and maybe some wild
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fog next month. I don't know. We'll kind of see. But again, the priority is Amazon Influencer
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Program. I'm doing really well and things are just looking up and up. It's like a full-time
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business. It feels like it keeps me busy seven days a week when I wake up to when I go to sleep
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So I don't know. It's pretty awesome. I'm glad I'm in it and I hope it keeps going
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But I'm not forgetting about the websites. I'm going to be continuing talking about the websites
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letting you know how it goes. However, I just might not have as much to share at times
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because it's not my priority. But that could always change. With the money from the Amazon Influencer Program
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if it does really well, I will probably use some of that money to get some backlinks to probably my hobby site
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And then I can build off of that. And once one site is doing really amazing
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that money can be reinvested as I wanna keep reinvesting on my websites
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and just build them up to a point where they're golden. I hope you're trying to do the same
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Let me know how your websites are doing in the comments. I would love to hear. And thank you so much for the view
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