Blogging income report for January 2022. I lost a really good writer this month, but after making a community post I found a handful of people wanting to write for me so I should be able to keep producing content without too much down time.
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So this video is going to be a little bit different than my other income reports
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I recently got a GoPro Hero 10. My thought process is I can take this little camera with me to work
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and on my lunch breaks and stuff I can record some videos. It just came in yesterday. I recorded a
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video already before this video and now I figured I might as well pull up my phone and see if I can
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do an income report from my phone. I'll see how the video turns out. If you guys like this method
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then I might do income reports similar like this in the future. But if you guys think that this
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income report is bad compared to my other ones, then I'll stay with the other method. But just
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sometimes the way the months fall, like the way this one fell, the end of the month was Monday
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So now I've got to wait all the way till the weekend to record the video. Then I've got to
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edit it and try to get it all together, ready to go by next Wednesday, because Wednesday's my
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posting days, but I figured it'd be better this way. I can get the recording out of the way and
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then on the weekend I can edit it. So that's my thought process behind this. I'm not going to do
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this for every income report, just when I feel like doing the video this way. Hopefully now that
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I've got this camera that I can take with me to work, I can maybe post an extra video or two per
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month. We'll see how it goes. Let me know if you guys think that this video quality is good and if
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you like this type of video and if you are wanting to see more videos from me. Anyways, onto the
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income report. So this is site number one. It had a 12.74% increase. So it went from about 45,000
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sessions last month to now it's making 51,000 this month. So good increase, which is good
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but you'll see in November, we actually had a decrease. And in October, we're making about 53
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and then it had a decrease and then another decrease. And now it's back up to where it was
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about a few months ago. So I think it might've got hit slightly in the November update, but it
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seems like it's starting to bounce back. AdSense this month, the site made $71.23. Looking at
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Amazon affiliate, it looks like we made about $345.95. So the reason why I have it ticked on
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multiple is because I have a few months ago, I added affiliate tables to the site and I tracked
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those separately, but it's both the same site. So it makes, since I've added affiliate tables to my
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top five to six posts, my site makes about $50 to $60 extra from affiliate tables. But I don't
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know if it's actually making extra because it seems like the other income has gone down. So it
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kind of just seems like affiliate tables has taken revenue from the other tracking code. So it's hard
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to tell, but that's my theory. Either way, I'm still making about the same, honestly. And now
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looking at Ezoic. You see we made $657.91 from Ezoic. We made $271.91 from the premium
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So our total earnings was $9.29.84. So you see this month the EPMV has gone down slightly
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which that always happens in January. But our traffic went up slightly, so really we only went
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down about $100 this month. So not too bad, and it's a pretty good month for January. Real quick
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Thanks and back to the video. Okay site number two had a slight decrease but it says 10 but that only 146 visitors I still have 1 so not too bad at all And again this site is still off right now so towards the warmer climate
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the traffic should go up a little bit. On Amazon this month, it did pretty good
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a few sales, and made $19.94. On AdSense, this site made $5.81
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And on Ezoic, this site made $10.97, plus $4.51 for a grand total of $15.48
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Again, the EPMV has gone down slightly to $10.71. The next site on the list on my spreadsheet is Site 7
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which is I made a website for my channel. So it's tortoisecashflow.com
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I actually have on there a tab you can click that'll take you to the resource page
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where you can see all the blogging products that I use and I recommend
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So definitely check out that if you want to see the things I'm using. This site, surprisingly, is bringing in traffic. I
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haven't even promoted it or anything, so people are just finding it in the description box on
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their own. And it got 37 organic sessions and a total session of 103. And surprisingly
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it actually made some money. So I made a recent video on how to set up Ezoic ads. So for that
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video, I put Ezoic ads on this blog. It actually ended up making a total of $2.46, which is pretty
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cool. That's that one. Not going to really go into too much detail about that. I'm not really
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trying to build that website. I just wanted a website for my brand. So I did that. Later on
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I will try to make the website look better and do some stuff with it, but that's not my focus right
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now. Site number four is my MIGA site case study site. So that's obviously going to be a separate
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video because it's a case study site I've been doing for about 14 months now. Good news on that
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site. The traffic is going up and, and we got my first affiliate commission on that site
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which is crazy. 13 months later, finally got a sale on Amazon. That'll be a video in the future
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Excited for that one. The site is doing good. I can't wait to keep going with the site and adding
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more content. There is some sad news. I lost a writer that was doing really good on the site
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I made a community post and I've had a few people reach out to me. So I should be able to get a new
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writer within a week or two and I actually might hire on a couple writers and really go in hard on
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content. I want to get one writer for this site, another writer for a site I purchased about a
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month ago, and another writer for another case study that's coming up soon. I'm not going to go
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too much detail on that, but I might be getting a aged domain site from Otis and I might be doing
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case dating on that. So stay tuned for that. Should be exciting. But anyways, that'll be a future video
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On to the next one. The next one, I'm not going to go into the ytics or anything. I just started
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this site. It's my gaming site. I have a gaming channel now. I've been kind of slacking on it a
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little bit because I went on a trip to New Orleans, so I wasn't able to really post much
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Last week, I didn't really do anything on that. I need to post more videos on there. I need to just
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get on the game and play around with it and find some video ideas
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I wanted to do a lot of let's play videos because that's the whole reason why I made the YouTube channel is I wanted to just be able to play the game, record it, upload it
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and then I didn't feel bad about playing video games because I was making content. The let play videos are not bringing in the traffic The type of videos that are bringing in traffic are the tutorial videos or the interesting things about the game videos stuff like that So I think for a while I just need to make interesting type videos for the game And once
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I build up a viewership base of two or three thousand subscribers, maybe get monetized
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then I can do let's plays that my viewers will watch. So it's basically let's plays for your
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current subscribers and then interesting videos slash tutorials to bring on new people. And right
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now I don't really have a subscriber base, so I should focus on. Wow. Okay. So I just had to stick
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my GoPro into my lunchbox for a few minutes because apparently it can't record for more than
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like 20 to 30 minutes. It got too hot. Also, I got too hot as well. So I stripped down a layer and
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now I'm down to just my flannel. Anyways, let's finish this income report before it shuts off
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again. So the next site is the site I bought from Karo a few months ago. And if you saw my last
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income report, it's not doing too well. This month, it actually did go up about 2.5%. The revenue did
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go down though. But as you can see, the last month, it had a 36% decrease. So before that
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it was getting $8,000. And then it went down to $5,000. And now it's still at $5,000, but it's
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slightly up, which is a good sign. Hopefully it continues to go up. I'm not really adding any
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content to it or anything. So I've just got too many other things I'm working on, but it's something
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I do want to come back to in the future. And I do have a writer for it that writes every now and
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then, which is fine for me. Eventually I'll put more focus onto it, but right now I just got too
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many other projects. So this site had a few sales this month, not too bad. And it brought in a total
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of $115.40 from Amazon. You can see this month and last month, you can just see the huge decrease
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in revenue that's been happening to this site. The Zillic ad is 105.47. So it's down about 30
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40 bucks. From two months ago, it's down over $200. Then we look at the premium. The premium is
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about the same as last month, but from two months ago, it's down about 20 bucks
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You can see the EPMV has just continuing to fall from 34 to 29 to 23. Just bad signs all around
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You'll see the total earnings was $149 compared to two months ago was $300
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So it's down about $150 on Ezoic. The income from Amazon affiliate is also down
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That site used to make like $300 or $400 from Amazon. In total, it's made about $250, $300 this month
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It used to bring in like $600 a month. So it's down quite a bit
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The site isn't worth as much as it was worth when I bought it. It's still a good investment, I think
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I got a tax write-off on it this year on my taxes. So I'm getting a good amount of money back from that
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It's still bringing in about 300 bucks a month. So I think it's better than having it in the stock market
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where that money was before. So overall, I'm still happy with the site and I'm hoping that part of it is seasonality
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So maybe later on it'll go back up. I also just think that it just needs more content
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and needs more informational articles. It's got too many affiliate articles, which Google doesn't like for some reason
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It needs more work down to it, but I'm still happy that I made the investment. It's not as good as it was when I first bought it, but I'm still happy with it
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Now, this is site number eight. And I bought this site about a month ago, I think
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I think I mentioned it in my last income report. I can't remember. I got a pretty good deal on the site
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It was a viewer that was selling the site. He needed the money real quick
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So he asked if I wanted to buy it. I wasn really looking to buy a site but since he gave me such a good deal on it I had to buy it So last month it brought in 2 views and this month it down slightly about 2 The traffic is going down slightly
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but it's still bringing in a decent amount of traffic. This site had a really good month this
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month on Amazon Associates. So it made $54.32, which is awesome. You can see it made a few sales
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towards the end of the month, which is great. And on Ezoic, you can actually see it had a increase
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Last month, 23.57 with $8 premium. Now this month it went up
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which is because I bought it halfway through last month. So it didn't have the full month's earnings last month
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This month it did. So now I earn 43.60 and 18.11 on premium
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So we scroll down here, we see the views, 3,700, Ezoic 43, 18
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So our total earnings on Ezoic this month is $61.71. sense. And the EPMV is a 16. This site, I'm so happy about the site. And this is actually the
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site that I'm going to get another writer on here. And I'm hoping to do like two articles per month
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So hopefully I can get that going within a few weeks to a month. So that's awesome. Now we'll
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just look at a spreadsheet and go over everything and see my total income for the month and how much
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I spent and everything like that. So real quick, site number one, the gross income was $1,347
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I spent 352 on articles, 136 on an editor. So our total expenses was 488.98. So my net income was
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858.02. Site number two, gross income was $41.23. Didn't spend anything on the site this month. So
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our total profit was again, 41 bucks. Site seven, which is the tortoisecashflow.com. Again, total
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profit was $2.46. Next site, site four, my MIGA case study site, total income $27.95. I spent $299
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on articles. So the net income for that one was negative $2.71. That's an investment still
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Site nine, didn't make anything, nothing on that one. Site six, the high ticket item site from
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carl total profit was 286 and 19 cents didn't spend anything on articles so the net income was
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286 next we have the new site that i just bought so the total profit for this month is 116 dollars
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that's so good i hope it stays that high that's good that's a good income as long as it's over
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100 i'm happy now we'll come over here our total gross income was 181 1820 but it's actually more
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like $1,900 because I still have my other Amazon stores that I haven't got the numbers from yet. I
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need to get on my computer for that, but that's usually about $100. So we're looking at gross
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income about $1,900. Expenses $7.88 and $0.86. And our total profit was $1,032, which should be more
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like $1,200, I think. So this month I made about $1,900 to $2,000 per month, around that range
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Let me know down in the comments below how your websites are doing and how much money did you make this month
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So as you can see, I did make a pretty decent amount of money this month from Ezoic
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Now, if you're getting close to where you're ready to sign up with Ezoic, you should check out this video right here
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It's a quick five minute tutorial on how to set up Ezoic on your own website
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It's super quick and to the point, and I think you'll really like that video. If you already have Ezoic on your website, well, I have a video for you right here
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It goes over a few ways that you can increase your EPMB with Ezoic
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It's a great video. It's quick and to the point as well. I think you'll find some value there
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