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Here We Go... July Blogging Income Report
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Dec 1, 2023
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Welcome. It's been a bit, and now we're going to go through and talk about websites
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Yes, websites. How have they been doing? I put a lot of work into Best Playground Sets
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My current idea was to focus on Best Playground Sets and nothing else, and I did that for about
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two months. So how have I done? Well, you're about to see. I might have strayed a bit
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came up with a good idea, and it's been something I've been kind of working on. I'll kind of show
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you that. I think it's going to really take off, but it's still starting out. So we'll see how that
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goes. In this video, I'm going to go through, show you how much money I made, you know, show you all
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the numbers. I'm going to show you my Amazon earnings. At first, I thought I wasn't able to
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show you the numbers here. I'm just not able to show you the dashboard, which I also wasn't showing
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but I can show the full numbers now, which is good. So I will go through and show those at the end of
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the video as well. When I go through all the expenses and everything, I spent a little more
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money than I wanted to this month. And, you know, I need to be a little more careful. So with
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everything said, let's just dive in because we got a lot to cover. Let's go. Here we go. We have
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63 articles we added to best playground sets in July. So I had a lot privated and 63 of them have
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now become active and there's 84 more that are still private that are ready to post. Now I do
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have someone working on these and formatting them. And also they formatted a lot of my old posts as
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well, especially anything that got traffic or any buyer's guide. I added some formatting and pictures
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with someone I hired from Upwork. It's going pretty well and with the site's appearance
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but not really with the stats. Unfortunately, it's been a little tough to concentrate on this
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one because the traffic's been going down, unfortunately. And it could just be seasonal
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because, you know, it is kind of an outdoor playground site and that site goes up and down
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all the time. So we're going to kind of see what happens there. I'm not sure exactly today what I'm
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going to do this month, but I have some ideas later. We'll talk about that. We did add 99
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articles, helpful tutorials. It was 136 articles altogether, but 99 of them have blog posts
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I'm going to explain all about that as well, and it'll be more clear then
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So those are the three sites that I've been working on. And my pet site, I've just been
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watching because I added a whole lot of content. And it does look like it's having a small uptick
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but I mean, I added a lot of articles. So not sure what to do with that. I might let it sit
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another month, see what happens and go from there. My hobby site, I did notice that is starting to go
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up nice and strong. I'm getting about 100 to 120 views a day. It's got 106 articles, which is pretty
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strong. Wild Fog is still continuing to slowly trickle up. You're looking about 80 views a day
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in that area. I have InfoSite. This site's probably going up a tiny bit, but not really worth talking
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about. My travel site, which I don't really know if it's a specific travel site, but it did have a
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nice spike in impressions lately. But unfortunately, the traffic's not following. I can definitely see
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an area where I can put some more content that could be some quick wins just by what the site's
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about and what's happening in the world today. And I did start researching that, but then I kind of
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just put it on hold because I'm not 100% sure how I want to go about that. It's really hard for me
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to say without kind of giving away the niche and everything. So it's, yeah, we'll see about that
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So altogether, 162 articles were added. Last month, 276 were. And a lot of this is AI with
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me cleaning it up and editing it a bit. We're going to talk about both of those sites. First
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Let's talk about RC Rhydon. If you didn't know, I had a site called RC Rhydon that did very well
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It was getting up to 60,000 views a month and a Google update hit
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And since then, I have been relentlessly trying everything I can under the sun to improve the site and get it to bounce back
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I thought I saw a little spark with this, but I'm not sure
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It might be short-lived. So I did decide to go through and remove RC Rhydon from Azoic
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is the only site I'm removing from Zoic. And there's the reasons for that is the RC Ride On site
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It does really well with selling affiliates because the products are very high
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And I feel like if I sell one extra a week, it's not worth having the ads
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because the ads are so low right now. So I decided to go through and remove the ads
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and see how it is. And the affiliate has been doing better. That's a good thing
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It's gonna easily even out and then I don't have to even have ads on it
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If ads come back in the future, that's something I'll have to take a look at
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when that comes, or I'll try to just add it and maybe not as many ads
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because I think that was a little too rough. I did look at the score and I was in the high 30s
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but 39 for performance was not very good. I did, after I removed the Zoic
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it did hit in between 60 and 50. It's been back and forth
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So it did improve some, but there's a lot more to improve on the site
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I'm actually just hired someone from Upwork to go through and try to speed the site up
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And that's going to be something going on this month. I also removed Popcorn 1 and put Popcorn 2 on RC Ride-On for the theme
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I went through and optimized all my images. I took JPEGs and changed them to WebP format
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And that was also included in the speed increase. I went through all my buyer's guides that get views
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and I fix the links with new products or products if they have switched from Amazon Something I learned recently like if you have a product in Amazon say you selling a pen and you need to change something
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when you change something, Amazon wants you to create a whole new listing with a whole new ASIN
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And when that does that, that breaks your link. So if you don't look and fix that, you're not getting the commission for that
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because you're just going to send them to a 404 page. Unfortunately, it doesn't really redirect like you would think it would
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So with that, I just go through and I check my links usually every six months
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I feel like I was falling behind. And since I've fixed the buyer's guides, I've also noticed an increase in money from Amazon
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Now, keep in mind, this is not getting a lot of views right now. When I did all of this stuff, it did appear like it was going better
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The time on page spent went up 50% in seven days. So they're spending about another, I don't know, I think it was like 45 seconds longer without ads, which was nice and stuff was starting to go
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I decided to go back and add ConvertKit to my website because I had an email list and the email list was working
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I get one to four signups a day, even getting under 100 views a day traffic
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So I can really get good conversions on there. But right when I added that, I noticed my site kind of hiccuped and started going back down
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And I wasn't sure if it was because of the pop-up for the email list or what
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So I decided to just delete that for now and see what happens
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Could just be seasonal. Maybe nothing is even happening. Maybe these uptakes are just a pattern because this site's always all over the place
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I just want it to work so bad that I put everything into this website
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And I'm probably going to continue until I get it fixed because I really like the website
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And I also went even further and tried to contact people for some ride-on cars to do reviews
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They all said no. However, someone contacted me to do a review for a ride-on car
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So they sent me that. We have it built and I'm working on a video for that now
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And that's going to go, you know, on my Amazon. That's going to go on my Ride On YouTube channel, which the Ride On YouTube channel is doing well
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And that'll go on the website. So I can hit all those boxes, which is great
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Editor for Best Playground Sets. I'm trying to figure out if I should continue that
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I might take this week off. That way I use that money to get my site optimized
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Helpful Tutorials. I'm going to talk about that in a moment. Playing for this month
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Keep up with the Helpful Tutorial articles I'm about to talk about. Keep new content with Best Playground Sets
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I have 84 private. I'm going to go through those and pick the best ones and put more out
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I'm going to continue to watch RC Ride On and speed up the site, as I mentioned, and
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just watch the pet site and try to come up with a plan for that. So helpful tutorials, I put a lot of time in, but it's not just helpful tutorials I'm
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putting a lot of time in. It's the Amazon Influencer program, as you've probably seen
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So my take on the Amazon Influencer video is I'm making videos that Amazon puts on Amazon
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And if people watch them, I make commission. So what happens then is I also take those videos and I edit them to make them correct
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for YouTube. Some people just put them right up on YouTube. It's actually against the laws for FTC
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You have to disclose verbally as well as within the comments. So I do add a disclosure at the end of the videos
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With that, I add all the videos that I think are worthy to YouTube, which is probably about
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95% of them. and I have them all go on my YouTube channel, Helpful Tutorials
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So now I have a website, HelpfulTutorials.net. It's running a blog plugin that goes through
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and checks my YouTube channel every day for a new video. And if it has it, it takes that video and makes a post about it
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It uses the thumbnail as the top thing. It embeds the video and then it puts whatever's in the description
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So it's really basic and that's fine for me and it does that automatically
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So what I do then, I'm using ZimWriter and ZimWriter can now write blog articles on videos
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because once you have it on YouTube, YouTube is going to auto script the words for you
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and ZimWriter can go through and pull that script, take it, turn into a blog post
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So I do that and then I go in and just edit those and I add everything
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I make it look a little better, not a lot better, just a little better. I also take my affiliate tables and put that inside as well
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So it looks like a nice blog post. So here we're on helpfultutorials.net
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And no, I don't have the .com. I've been trying to get it for about eight years and I still haven't got it
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They keep renewing even though they don't use it. You go into Amazon reviews and there's going to be my Amazon reviews
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And yes, I do have a Zoic on this. And you can see everything I have here
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For example, let's see. I believe I did that with this water bottle
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So we click on the water bottle. It's going to make me a new title instead of just having the name of the product, which
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is what is the default for YouTube. So I change this. I have my disclaimer automatically
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My intro. I have easy tables just to throw that in. I do have key takeaways to kind of let it go
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Then I have the embedded video. I have the feature product with the name
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Check on Amazon. Check on storefront. And then here, for some reason, this is broke
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There might be an ad being stuffed in between there. This will be the fill tables portion
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I just going to take the information specifically from the product description of the blog post that made paste it in here and bold some highlight yellow and link to Amazon and then whatever left
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and the conclusion. So now if someone comes, they can go through and watch the video
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and say they're going to watch the video. When they get to the video, you can see here
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It's just the name of the product and what I say. If I click on show more here, it's going to have the same thing, price on Amazon, my storefront
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which will go ahead and give me some stuff. And then it's the article itself is posted here
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So this is pointing back to the article to make a solid loop
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So that can go through and help push the two for each other forward
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And it's not that difficult to do considering it's already a video
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and I'm just using AI to go through and post it. And then I'm using AI to write it
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And then I'm just editing it myself. It does take a little time
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I'm not going to say it's instant. I have heard someone else doing this
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but they had an AI background and they were on a podcast. And that's how they had everything automated
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Mine's not that good, but mine's going to work for me. Let's go through and show you how this site's going
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Remember, this is still new. not pulling the videos, but adding the words. The videos have been there pretty much since the
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beginning that I started the Amazon program because I've always had this plugin because I
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used it also for my iPhone videos, which is up here. If you want the iPhone videos, it'd be
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similar, except I didn't have the blogs written. And that is something I'm thinking about going
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through and doing is doing the same thing to all the iPhone ones. So we look up the traffic. It's
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not a huge difference. It's 16.9%. If we look at the performance, you can see it is going up and
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this site has been pretty stagnant for a while. So you can see the Amazon videos probably started
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going up in this range here and then they start going up, went down and now it's going back up
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I got really serious about this probably about probably like the 15th. That's about when I
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started really going through and using the new feature from Zimrider. I do recommend Zimrider
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I have other videos on this channel if you want to check out how the AI writer works. It's really
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nice because you pay OpenAI. You just buy the lifetime license is what I did. So this is going
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to be very interesting because I can use this on a lot of fronts. And to be honest, I'm thinking
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about also bringing my wife's YouTube videos in here as well. And I could just make the site really
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huge if this does take off and I need more content. So enough about helpful tutorials
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How's best playground sets doing? Well, here it is. We're down 15.2%. Not so happy about that
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And it's really weird that average engagement went down a bit because it was going up for a while
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And then all of a sudden it started going down again. I feel like the website, when you're
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looking at the pages is a lot easier to read, a lot more friendly and nicer to see. So I'm a little
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confused what's going on here. Maybe it's just adjusting to all the new articles. Sometimes
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there's a bump down before a bump up. You know, stuff does have to go through and take some time
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to rank. We'll see in time. Here's Performance Manager on Best Playground Sets, just to give you
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the six month view and give you an idea. We're kind of back where we were before the spike
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so we'll see how this goes I have not worked on the titles I want to change some titles around I
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didn't get to that and let me show you RC Ride On real quick as well this is what we're looking at
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here we're only up 4.1 percent but don't forget a lot of this stuff I did happened this day I made
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the changes on the 19th and when I did that it went up up bad day up up and then it I had a
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ConvertKit here on this Wednesday and you can see it went down and then I removed it
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this day here. Then it went up and then it went back down again. So who knows what's going on
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with this. I'm going to continue to work on this site and see what I can do in my spare time. It's
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not my focus, but I'm not going to give up on it. I put way too much time into it. And at one point
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this site was making $10,000 a month. Yeah, we'll see what happens on that. And here is the idea of
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where we're at. And you can see we go up and down like a roller coaster. The weekends are usually
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the better part. That's why you see the bumps and the dips. And you have like, I think Tuesdays are
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usually terrible. And they kind of like spike down. And yeah, we'll kind of see what goes on
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with this site and keep rocking and rolling. I do have other sites, like I said, but that's all I'm
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show for today. Let's go and get into the earnings. Here's a Zoic. I do recommend a Zoic on all my
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websites, except like I said, the one I removed it from because the affiliate revenue is so high
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and the ad pay is so low right now. So I'm going to go through and work on that site and I'll
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probably bring it back in the future when things bounce back. So that was about 50, $60 a month
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that that site made. So you're going to see a decrease from last month. We're at $214.11
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Also, my premium went down to $22 instead of $44 coming up. And that's because probably the extra
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traffic is coming off from that site. And my main site also went down a little bit. So that's why we
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got moved down a bit on premium. But all together, we got the 214.11
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and we got 16.52 of that is through mediation, which is Google Ads
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And no on RC I don have Google Ads either I removed that too I really can wait till they speed it up and they work on removing all the old code and plugin stuff Cause I sure I have a
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bunch and I'm sure that site's going to run really nice then. So let's break down the monies
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Here we are in July. You can see the changes I made for Amazon did go through and result in more
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earnings because I had some links broken and updating your product pages also shows Google
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that you are keeping things up to date and they love things up to date. So a lot of times I'll go
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through and push them a little further. So I did 971.89 in regular affiliate revenue. And you can
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See, I did 10 in Canada, 30 in Spain, and 16 for Google AdSense
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197.61 was the Azoic ads total. If you're interested in joining Azoic ads, I do have a link down below or just go to
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azoic.com because the affiliate program is ended. So it's you can go to anything
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I am still recommending them because they are a great early ad company and there's not
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many other than AdSense. I don't think AdSense pays very well. On expenses, you're going to see a lot. We had some domain renewals. I had two websites that I
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had for a while and I'll let you know what they are. So if you want to go buy them, they might
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still be available because I let them go. One was timeonsale.com. The other one was lovewith
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and then the letter u.com. Those are two sites that I bought that I was going to do something
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with and I couldn't really think of anything. And I had them for a few years and it was time to let
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them go because I have too many sites right now and expenses are too rough. So they are out there
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I think I had them for about three years and I tried to sell them on Google auction, but no one
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was interested. So premium, as you see, went down in half. Key search, I'm still using for my keyword
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search. I have videos on that. If you want to check out key search, I really recommend it. I think it's
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an amazing program and it helps me get keywords. Serp robot got here. Here we had Canva renew and I
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also canceled mid journey. So mid journey is now canceled because I'm not using those because the
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person I'm hiring is and I don't want to pay for something I'm not using right now
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No content writers. Voicemail was like $10 and then convert kit was like $30. So that's that there
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chat GPT $20 subscription my AI expense was $78.74 now a lot of that was from me doing the helpful
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tutorials I was using GPT 4 because I do prefer that even though others like to do other stuff
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$349.25 I spent on Upwork which was a lot so I need to be careful with that and my this is just
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miscellaneous here, this 1589, I had two things that I had like short pixels and something else
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small. And I just wanted to make sure I got it on here. So that's why I put that there because
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I'm no longer in a partnership for that website. So altogether I did okay, but I spent way too much
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I did do really amazing on the Amazon influencer side, and I'm going to have a video for that later
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and that has definitely overtaken this. It's more than everything on this list combined this month
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It's really doing well and I'm really putting more time into that
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So I'm thinking videos, then switching to the YouTube videos, making the helpful tutorials
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That way I'm getting offsite affiliate commission. Some of this is from doing those videos as well
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which is nice. and then I also have the on-site, which I'll explain in another video
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So we're still going forward. We're still making money and we're just going to kind of let this go
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and find the site that's going to take off for us. They're all rising, which is good
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You know, there's only a few sites that are down. Shielded VPN, and I'm just going to let that expire this year
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And Stream Lo-Fi is my music thing. That hasn't been doing well ever since it got hit
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but that really did terrible on ads anyway. So I don't really care. It was more for my music
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So I'll probably keep that around yet. And, you know, RC Ride On got hit. We're just trying to
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get that back up. Other than that, things are all going up slowly. They're crawling. So let's
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keep it going and I'll keep adding content. I'm probably going to focus more on the Amazon
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Influencer program because it's just so much easier and it makes so much more money and there's
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not much waiting time and you can just keep going and going. You do need a social media following to
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get into it, but it's definitely worth it. So thanks so much for listening to all of that stuff
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I got so much stuff going on and I'll tell you one month I'm stressed out of enough money and
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the next one I feel very blessed. I have money and yeah, this last month I just got paid. I did okay
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Not great, but okay. But the months coming up, it looks like the money is increasing, which is good
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I can relax. Sometimes you just have to take a breath, especially when you're wound so tight
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with money for like three, four months in a row. But things are starting to calm down. A lot of
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stuff is getting done and I'm really excited about the future. I hope you are. If you would
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like to continue following this journey, do me a favor, smack that subscribe button. I'd really
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appreciate it. And let me know how your websites are doing down below. Thank you so much for the