If I remember correctly, I believe I mentioned in last month’s report that it would be nice if Google held off on updates through the end of the year. Right after I published that video and wrote that report, Google of course put out another Helpful Content update. They then followed that up about a week later with a link spam update. At the time of this writing, both updates are still in progress. Thankfully,…

After seeing our revenue bottom out in August, it’s been nice to see the revenue slowly climb in the months that followed. What we’ve been most curious about though, is whether or not November and December would bring the usual uptick in RPMs. With the algorithm updates and worsening economy (leading to lower RPMs), this year has been anything but normal. As a result, no one really knew what to expect going into the fourth…

From the economy to the frequent Google updates, this year has been one that many would like to forget. Going into Q4, let’s hope we can get back to some sort of normalcy. October came with yet another Google update, one that hit a lot of sites hard. We weren’t hit badly by this one, but we weren’t untouched either, which I’ll jump into in a bit. All in all, October was a relatively strong…

After seeing a big revenue decline over the last few months due to an algorithm update, lower-than-normal RPMs, and seasonality, we were hoping to see some movement in the opposite direction in September. Thankfully, that’s exactly what happened. In September we ended up making $33,971.99, which was up slightly from $31,200.79 in August. This increase in revenue came despite our traffic dropping slightly. Thankfully, the traffic drop in September was simply the result of seasonality.…

Another month, another big drop. Hopefully, September will put an end to this downward trend. In August we ended up making $31,200.79, which was down from $39,429.59 in July. Like I mentioned in the last income report, the downward slide that we’re currently experiencing isn’t due to an algorithm update. In fact, we didn’t see any impact at all during the last week of August from the Helpful Content Update that Google recently launched. In…

In the last income report, I went over the impact of the most recent core algorithm update, which led to a fairly steep drop in revenue. Last month, we again saw a big drop, but not for the same reasons, which I’ll get into below. In July of 2022, we ended up with a total revenue of $39,429.59, which was another big drop from June where we made $50,749.80. Seeing a drop of over $10,000…

In last month’s income report, I mentioned that we had our biggest revenue month ever, but we were also hit by the core algorithm update right near the end of the month. In this month’s report, we get to see the true impact of that update on our portfolio of sites. In June of 2022, we ended up with a total revenue of $50,749.80, which was still a great month, but a huge drop from…

Last month caught us off guard, as we ended up reaching almost $50,000, which was our new high. In previous years, we typically saw a big jump going from April to May (not March to April), so we were definitely curious to see if we would still see that jump again this year. In May of 2022, we ended up with a total revenue of $62,212.86, which was easily our highest month ever. For reference,…

This year has been off to a great start for us, with each month exceeding our expectations. Last month, we nearly hit $40,000, which was significantly higher than we anticipated. In April of 2022, we ended up with a total revenue of $49,870.56, which again exceeded our expectations and was our highest month ever. For reference, last month we made $39,444.58. Seeing such a big jump last month was a huge surprise to us, as…

Going from February to March in 2021 came with a big uptick in revenue, so we were hoping to see something similar this year. Even with that being said, we weren’t expecting to hit close to $40,000 this early in the year. In March of 2022, we ended up with a total revenue of $39,444.58. For reference, last month we made $28,895.92. Part of the reason for the revenue increase was an uptick in overall…