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Is Amazon Going to Drop Me? Blogging Stress
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Dec 1, 2023
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Blogging isn't all sunshine and rainbows
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It doesn't work that way. A lot of time you see the accomplishments we do on these channels
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and we let you know about them because we're excited. They're big goals and we hit them and we want to celebrate them with our community
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That's why we do this. A lot of times you don't see the things that we don't celebrate
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Things that kind of frustrate us and get us really upset. On this video I'm going to highlight at least two of those
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and kind of show you what it can be like being an affiliate blogger and the stress that you don't
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see behind the camera. So with that said, welcome everybody. I'm Kevin Smack and I'm excited to show
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you all this. I just got out of the shower so my hair is still wet but I only have like 10 minutes
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to bang up this video and it's been on my mind and I want to be completely transparent with you
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so that's why I'm doing this. With that said, let's go and just jump right in, shall we
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so I've recently uploaded a video about my income report and my Amazon did amazing I sold so many
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products for Amazon and I was very excited and this is really taking me to the next level I've
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made a lot of extra money on Amazon as you've probably seen in the video I'm guessing most of
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you've probably seen it because it pretty well with that said I then get a message on my Amazon
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account. Yeah, I guess when you sell $110,000 worth of merchandise in a month, they're kind of
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a little questionable. So here I got this message here and it says, important notice, your account
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is at risk. We've sent an important email, which requires your immediate action to the email address
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you provided in your account info. Yada, yada, yada. We don't have to say that. And basically
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I need to update my settings in Amazon. No big deal, right? I can go and do that. The one part
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it says in the email is I have five days to do this. And if not, my account will be closed and
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I will also lose all the money that is waiting for me. So that's kind of concerning. So I basically
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they basically said they want to do a manual review of all my websites, which gets my paranoia
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level to 10 because now I worried about a lot of things So what do I do I push through and I go through and make sure I meeting everything from the Amazon agreement that I can think of And I go through my websites
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Yeah, all of the websites, page by page, even if it wasn't an Amazon page, just to make sure I didn't put an Amazon product in there
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so I went through and in about 18 hours I did every single page of every single site few
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hundred or several hundred web pages and I got it all set up so I updated the information in Amazon
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within 24 hours so we're good I sent the message they want me to so they're aware of it and now
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it all happens they'll get back to me in 24 hours sweet three days later that big red box
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is still on my account they have not checked the message what happens after five days are they just
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going to automatically delete me because they think they didn't receive a message do i send it again
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in the message they said if you've already done this please ignore this alert a little hard to
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ignore a red alert that will cost me five thousand dollars especially when that is a lot of money for
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me a lot for my family. Rough times for everyone, so that would definitely go a long way. I would
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make it without it, but it would be very, very tight. But with that said, not everything is so
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smooth. So that was Tuesday. So let's go before Monday. I don't know if you remember a long time
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ago I mentioned about someone that sent me an email saying they're going to buy an expired
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domain and come after my website? I think I found them. Can you believe it? It is so random. They
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weren't ranking for anything. It's so bizarre. I found this new niche that I thought I could go
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through and I was looking at the competitors and I found a domain name that matches that niche
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I'll just tell you what the niche is. I don't think I'm going to go for it anymore now anyway. I'll just tell you what the niche is, but I'm not going to reveal the website itself
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It's slot cars. Slot cars are those things that you go to like a outdoor place or a big track and they
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put the cars on the track. They're usually all different colors and then they fly around and they have like races
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You could soup up your cars and everything like that Well I had a friend say I trying to get into this with my son and I cannot find any information on this Well right there bing that a perfect niche
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So let me go ahead and see who's competing. So I found this one website with two slot car
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articles, which were not even relative related to what I'm even trying to target
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basically just kids tracks and then I noticed like seven other articles at first I thought
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they were mine the titles were almost identical at least the first 60 to 70 percent of the title
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and then I went in and looked and I did a quick once over I didn't go through this too much
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because I've just been busy with the Amazon thing I noticed they're basically coming after my site
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and copying as much as they can, but not copying from what I've noticed. I need to look over it
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more, but that's just another stressor because I knew this was going to happen. You know, I knew I
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was going to reveal it. It's just that sometimes I don't think it's, you know, very fair. I guess
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it is. You know, I'm putting myself out there on YouTube and I'm blogging and that's what happens
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So blogging is one thing. Blogging on YouTube is completely different. Now I've been to stuff like
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this you know i've been a youtuber for six years so i kind of expected stuff to happen like this
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that's why i started a new site that is not talked about because just in case but if you want to go
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ahead and make yourself public on youtube you got to be very careful now remember rc ride on cars i
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wasn't really hiding but i didn't tell people about until someone discovered it and the person
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was like i'm gonna take all your keywords i'm gonna take all your money and everything and
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from the look at the content it was okay but first of all he's behind he does have a domain
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authority of 40 doesn't it's an expired domain it's like a lot of traffic and in years of like
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no traffic and then a little bump from the newly created articles and i'm sure there's going to be
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a lot more there are there's another site in my niche uh kids cards i told you about that he's
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doing very good. So you got my site and his site, and then you got some other sites that worked for a while
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and they don really work on anymore But now you have all these other ones that are popping up trying to go ahead and you know overtake everything I built up my domain authority because once he sent me that email I was like okay no problem I build it up So I in the I think mid right now
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and I don't plan on stopping. So I'm just going to look at what they're going through, and I'll
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just build more backlinks to that if I notice I have more problems. But I just kind of want to
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let people know i'd put a lot of work in people don't see how many hours i work a day minimum i
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would say 12 hours a day i work and that's probably low low balling it i work a lot i mean not everyone
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does that but that's me that also leads to more stress because when people start attacking something
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that you put so much time in it feels like you know they're coming after you when i'm just trying
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to help people out but I get it everyone's different you can't satisfy everyone and this
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video is just starting to ramble I think I just need to kind of cut it short here and kind of
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get my thoughts out there to the world let you know what I thought I don't know what do you think
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you just have this problem are you blogging in silence and you're fine I mean you have Amazon
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can turn on you at any time you have Google could flick their algorithm and then you have other
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things like technical issues you know money issues content issues copyright issues it could
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be so many different things a lot of people don't talk about these they only you know talk about
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the good things and I wanted to mention it and let you know there is stress I mean this is only
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two days of stress I'm talking about granted it's more than usual when things are going good they're
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going good when they're not they're not have good things happen for me sure they have I've reached
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new level three on Tuesday which was kind of good on a zoic I was very excited I got approved and it
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kind of made the Amazon thing not sting quite as bad but I wanted to still get it resolved and I'm
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hoping the red goes away before the weekend. I don't know if I can take it
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Let me know if you have any of these problems. I really am curious. And this video is kind of jumping in the middle of my series
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I do have to get going. So thanks so much for stopping in. And I will see you in the next one
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