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You're about to see my blog income report for December and I'm going to show you how I made
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over $8,000 this month. Amazing month. I'm really excited to share it. Hey everyone
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my name is Kevin Smack and like I mentioned, this is my income report for December 2021
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Everything I made blogging, not YouTube, that's going to be a separate video and that'll be out
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probably next and in that video I'm going to show you how this channel is doing as well. So make sure
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you're paying attention and have notifications so you don't miss that. But back to this video
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We're going to go over everything that I've done, everything I plan to do, any issues I had, any hurdles
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This month went very well. November being so high, I didn't think December was going to be as good
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And it was. It wasn't as good, but it was really good
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I expected to get half of what I made. I was thinking maybe $3,000, $4,000, but we are over $8,000
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I'm very excited, and I'm seeing some decrease now in January. So I know it's going to be a few quiet months, but we're going to report those as well, even when we go down
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With that said, let's hit the computer so I can show you everything that's going on with my sites
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all the ones that I've talked about, and give you an idea of the struggle that I go through and the good stuff too
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Let's start with what's going on with my sites, how they did. We're going to go with our Rhydon site
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That's the one that probably earns the most money out of all of these
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These are familiar with that site. it added five articles and it's now at 138
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You may think that's not a lot and it's not a huge amount because I've been kind of focusing all over everything
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but I have redirected my attention to Rydon. So I have a lot of orders pending
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So you will see next month, probably a huge focus in that site
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and not much love to the others. We're kind of giving that a boost since it's doing so well
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I want to make sure I keep it moving and keep the authority on it. keep it going. My play sets website added six articles for 93,000 in the beginning of the month
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And, you know, like I said, I was seeing some movement and then it kind of calmed down. So I
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kind of let it go and I've actually seen it move up a bit, but it's not because of articles
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Basically I use the Ezoic tag tester and I messed around with one article just to kind of test that
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out. I've tested it out in my ride on site and it really pushed one of the articles up to the top
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And because of that, I'm getting a nice, you know, 20 views extra a day, which is pretty nice at the size it's at where it averages about 100 views a day
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Now it's about 100, maybe 110. That's really good on that site
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My hobby site is still doing good. I added six articles. They were long articles and they did cost more money
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That site's doing well. And I'll actually show you the traffic on that one just to give you an idea
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It was started on 6-30-2021, so it's still a new site, but it's doing pretty good
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And Streamlofi, I had one article added and one article I rewritten
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I had one article in the beginning that I just didn't think flowed well and it never got indexed
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And I had my writer go back and rewrite it because it just didn't work for me
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I don't think I knew enough about the actual article when I was doing it at the time
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And it was like the first article I published on that site
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So I just had him rewrite it and we added that. So we are up to 13 articles on that site
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And that site's doing very good for the amount of articles that are on it. Wildfog, we added eight articles
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Now we're at 27. And on the right-hand side, the date, those are the times that the websites were started
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kevinsmack.com is on pause. I got two new sites. I added, these are just info
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I added two articles to one for eight articles and four on the other for six
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I'm probably going to let these sit for a little because I do need to focus on other projects
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But they're there when I'm ready. Like I said, every once in a while, I'll probably add two or four, you know, and go like that
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Shiller VPN, I added one. And after the redesign on 1027, I have not noticed much indexing
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Google is just not liking me. The site's still getting traffic from YouTube, so it's still doing something
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It's just, it's not doing what I want it to. Pause on articles until Google starts looking at some of those
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And the moment I see that Google is starting to index those, I'll go ahead and add more content
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I have it all ready, the keywords researched and ready to go
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I just need to pause it. Pro Gamer Stories is my gaming website. I added two articles
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Those are very easy for me to write because they're about gaming and I love gaming. So I just write them, make them informative, add some good stuff, and that's it
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I don't focus on this site. Gaming sites make barely any money, but I enjoy the site. So if I
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think of something and I want to share it, I'll make an article on it. Also, I usually have YouTube
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videos, so I kind of point them to each other, so they kind of feed off each other. The YouTube video
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might get people to my website, and the website might get people to my YouTube. So that's always
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good So a total of 35 articles because we also did post one on request writer to give that a shot see what going on with that so it up four from last month which I really thought I didn do as much this month but I guess I started batching
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work better so when I work I work really hard for a day and I get so much done and I've checked
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stats a lot less and it's amazing how much more time you have when you stop checking stats now I
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still check them and you know i was a little worried because ride on went down so much but
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it's because it's seasonal i checked my keywords and i'm still going up in pretty much everything so
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the site's doing great request writer i have a site called requestwriter.com and people go ahead
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and put in orders for content and my writer writes them that site's doing very good it's getting a
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lot of orders. It's really keeping my writer busy. He's still getting them all done, no problem
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And they keep increasing. So we'll see how he does. I'm excited to see that continue to grow
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And it's awesome. He loves it because that's his full-time job. So everything that comes at him
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he'll do it. And we're getting a lot and a lot of repeat customers. So that's great
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A few notes, my growth grant, the third time I applied, denied. Out of five times I got
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I applied for two sparks, got one, applied for three growths, got zero. And Amazon, like I said
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it's better than I expected, which is great. I was expecting it to die. It did well until shipping
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couldn't guarantee till Christmas. And then it calmed down a lot. And then day after Christmas
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or two days after Christmas, it just fell off. I'll show you that as well. We'll go over all
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the earnings specifically. As you probably know, if you've seen other income reports
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we figured out the Ezoic EPMV variation. I was having some issues where my EPMV went down
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and we couldn't figure it out. And after a while we figured it out. Basically my sites
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some of them are seasonal in articles. I have some articles that are info that are pretty much
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always going, but when the holiday season comes, they go down and a lot of my buyer's guides go up
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not because they're like losing rankings or just less interest. More people want to buy
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So those articles go up. And when that happens, what happens is the EPMV goes down because I don't
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put ads on my buyer's guides. So we got that figured out and it is starting to increase because
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the buyer's guides are now going down because it's no longer being purchased because it's not
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the holidays anymore. And with that, the EPMV is starting to rise. We're back to about 2350
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hoping it continues to go up even though now it probably won't for two months because
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you know, January, February, rough months. And what else we got? Playground site, like I said
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pooling back up because of what I mentioned. And we talked about that stream lo-fi 47% increase
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I'll show you that while fog still pending monetization, even with those eight articles
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interlinking everything, Google still is being a jerk. That's basically how I can say it
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I don't understand. I have sites with a lot less content that they've accepted. The only thing I'm
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worried about is wild fog. Maybe they're thinking fog smoking, and maybe something with smoking is
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a problem with their terms, but they did specify lack of content. I don't get it. We're going to go
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ahead and give it a little more time. I'm going to do a few more articles this month and see if we
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can push the needle. If by February they're still saying no, I'm going to contact the Zoic and we're
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going to work on getting that fix. I didn't put as much money into spending this month because a lot
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of my money went towards paying debts and it's going to be that way for the next two months
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because I'm trying to get them as low as I can. So we don't have to worry about that
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Backlinks, I didn't get any this month yet because I'm still waiting for a November one
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But once that November one completes, I think they're just really behind because of all the orders and the holidays and everything
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Once they complete that one, then I'll put an order in for more. Plans for this month, as I said, Wild Fog
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I'm going to put content on that myself. And I'm not going to try not to pay for that
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And then the write-on site I'm going to pay for and maybe do some myself
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And everything else we got set up on there. So let's go over the numbers and show you what's going on
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This is the write-on site. It's down 12.78% in December, but, you know, November is just insane
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And I still got about 47,000 users, so that's great. I'm fine with the numbers
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They look good. Sessions are good. you know i i knew november was touching the sky i don't know if i'll ever see that high of numbers
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again i would love if they did but i understand if they don't so it is down 12.78 but we'll see
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what happens i'm sure january is going to be a rough rough income report but i'm going to continue
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the content and maybe we can make it not as rough as it should be here a playground site it up 0 percent so not quite a percent but we are up a bit and we still did not hit that pesky 3 000 views a month man i missed it by five
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views oh rough but i definitely noticed like towards the end we're hitting a hundred a lot
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more consecutive and yeah things are going well just got to give it some time here is my third
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site this is the one i don't release the information to but i did want to give you an
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idea of what it looks like this site is how old uh five months old so this site's five months old
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this is all pretty much organic and we got 210 views last month for a 23.5 percent increase
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and I love the engagement time because usually I don't have good engagement
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early on when sites are new but people are staying long on this site
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and that's a really good thing. I think I did really good with the design and everything I have seems really good
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I think I've hit a nice area that is a little competitive
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but not completely competitive. We'll see how it goes as I continue to add more
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I don't want to stop adding content on this but the articles are pretty lengthy
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so it does cost more to have them written and they are a little bit more technical
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As I mentioned, Streamlofi is doing really good. Actually, it looks like it's 57.6% up
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So this is a site that only has 13 articles. The Streamlofi is my music collection and it does
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link to like my Spotify and my YouTube channel for Streamlofi so people can listen to the music
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for free. And the website is basically there to try to get people to go over to YouTube and Spotify
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and get my music more popular. That's the basic idea. I don't have ads on it now. I'm still
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considering if I should get ads or not. I want to continue to track to see if people are converting
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over to my other stuff or if they are just going there and then leaving. If they're converting
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I'd rather not have ads. If they're not converting, I definitely would like to pick up some ads in the
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future. As far as Ezoic, here we go. And you can see that EPMV $23.65 was what the total ended up
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being in December, which is up about $3.60 from November because towards the end, the EPMV really
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went up because the buyer's guides, like I said, switched positions with the info. So we made $1,553.17
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Now keep in mind I do have a Zoic Premium so that does cost $220
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So you would subtract $220 from that amount If you look at the ads I made $345.51
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You subtract what I put into it Technically it made $125.51 in December
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So I'm definitely glad I paid for those because it does help
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they do very well very very well if you're using something like Google AdSense you're behind the
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times it's a good time to switch and start making some real money it took me about three days with
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Zoic to beat what I made in Google ads in the last six months. It definitely will push you forward
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And just to give you an idea of what I made monthly, this is what I made in November and then
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December. So we definitely did see a rise of $180 in Zoic and a little bit of a dip in premium
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maybe like 20 bucks. I believe it was like 160. Here we are. $143 increase. Very nice
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Glad we're going through and going back up. Traffic seems to be going great. Like I said
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it's going down in January, but you're going to have that. Now it's time for the big thing
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And you guys know I do affiliate marketing with Amazon. I do have other affiliates. It's just
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Amazon is the one that shines for me. I know people say you'll never make any real money with
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Amazon. I disagree. And this is why I made $6,163.01. So that's great. You can see how the graph
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goes continues to go down over time and where it slows down. Once the shipping stopped
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it definitely started going down some more. And then I probably had some refunds towards the end
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and that kind of might take a little while to even out
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But we did make a lot more than I expected. I was thinking if I hit 3K, that'd be amazing
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And I doubled that. I'm really curious what's going to happen in January
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Even though it's rock bottom, I'm wondering if I'm still going to go ahead and sell stuff
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We shipped over $200,000 in revenue. last month we did 250 over 250 so we are almost at half a million dollars in the last two months we shipped to Amazon
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Oh my goodness, that is a lot of product. Next, let's go ahead and jump in and break down all the numbers for you
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And here we go. Again, this spreadsheet was from Carl Brubbent. Check out his channel if you're looking for it
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He has it. I took a copy and this is what I got
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We're in December. Here we go. You can see I made $4.61 Amazon California. Oh my goodness. I mean
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Amazon Canada. Canadian. The UK made $3.03. Then I had some other small affiliate revenues in here
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and Azoic Ads. Came to $8,033.69. Then we had some expenses. Like I mentioned, Azoic Premium
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hosting we didn't have a domain renewal we did have one this month but not that month
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plugins i forget what this plugin was for i don't know if it was for aarp or if it was for link
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whisper one of those i don't remember if that was last month or this month things all blend together
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sometimes keyword tools zero dollars wow well you know i have a lot of keywords i haven't built up
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Am I going to still need more? I am. But right now I have a good amount to get me through this month
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And I only think in one other site that needs it at the moment, maybe more write on keywords because you can never have enough of those
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But because I'm pushing so many of those articles, that's why. My SERP tracker, I track all my keywords, which is good because with a big decrease in January, I ran my SERP checker to see if I'm dropping in some major spots
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and everything looked fine, looked about normal. But most likely it's just seasonality
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or maybe one of my main articles has fell down a bit
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Content, we spent $744 and no VAs. Subscription, that's for Surfer SEO
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I'm not using it as much as I should be. I should be using it all the time
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It's such a great tool, but it's so hard to continually use it
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because I don't always write. and that just kind of gets a little rough for me
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It works so well. I just need to utilize it more. It's one of those tools that I kind of wish was more like Keyword Chef
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I wish I could pay for what I use and not a subscription because there's months that I use it like crazy and I need more
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and then there's a month where I don't use it and I'm barely using anything. They actually did like a special thing over Black Friday
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If a bunch of people buy it, you get bonus things. And I got all these bonus things
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So now I'm afraid to cancel because I'm going to lose all these bonuses if I cancel
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So I don't know. I'm kind of stuck in that. What do I do
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I mean, I use it. I just need to use it more. AI subscription
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You know, I use Jarvis, the highest one, and I use that
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So altogether, after everything, we added it up. And last month we finally broke the green and this green goes up even more
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So for this year, after everything is said and done and paid here, we would be looking
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at $15,500. And these profits came in the last two months. I was down overall over everything
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I reinvest a lot of my money and I'm also reinvesting in other things other than websites
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but I reinvest everything. I always try to have as many different things as I can trickling in and constantly providing me revenue
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That way, if something shuts down or dries up, something else might get hot
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That's why I have YouTube channels and I have websites. Now I'm working on blockchain, NFT gaming
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So many different things. You got to test them out, figure out what works, and then go with it
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So very excited. still can't believe I'm getting another decent check after the next one
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Remember the last month's check was really good, but you know, I still don't get it to the end of the month. Once I get that
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I'll be able to definitely do a boost of my website even more
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especially with some more backlinks. I plan to really raise the authority up and content, content, content
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you know how it goes, add the content. So that's how my sites did
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your sites do in December? Let me know right now in the comments how your sites are doing
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Hopefully January isn't as bad for you as it is for my main site
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However, oddly enough, my playground site is still standing its own, if not
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doing better, and it's December and cold out. So maybe that site has been progressively getting
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better and I just haven't noticed because of the seasonality and maybe when it comes springtime
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maybe it'll start popping off. I don't know. That's just a theory
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A Kevin Stats theory. All right, everybody. Thank you so much for the view
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I'll see you in the next one