Income Report

May analysis brought the welcome news that traffic and impressions are slowly nudging up. This news is always welcomed in an era of constant Google algorithm updates and never-ending horror stories from other site owners about sites being decimated in reductions to organic traffic. I attribute most of this to new articles created using the … Read more

April brought in relatively similar revenue to the previous month, but we had a clear increase in EPMV and ad revenue on the outdoors affiliate site. On the Entertainment site, revenue continued to fall, even though page views continued to rise. Most of the month’s work was done filtering existing content and planning new content, … Read more

It has been an interesting month of data analysis, reflection, and AI experimentation to try and decide what direction to go with my web publishing business, and though I am not certain I know what to do, or what is likely to be more successful, I have a plan that I will execute, and then … Read more

If I am completely honest – I have had my head in the sand regarding the progress of my sites over the last few months. I have beeing doing all the same things, even better than before, but both sites are on a continual slow downward trend. It is clear I need to rethink my … Read more

December was a reasonably straighforward month in the internet world. Google continued its never stream of ‘updates’ and some of those saw some traffic return to my Ads site which was nice. This counteracted some drops in traffic on the affiliate site as we came down from the Black Friday sales so it balaned out … Read more

Thanks to the Black Friday/Cyber Monday promotions I saw big spikes in both revenue and traffic. Overall though they don’t represent any significant changes in rankings or traffic or revenue, unfortunately, but I’ll take the extra $. Otherwise, I mostly spent the month directing site and content quality and making changes to improve. Outdoors Site … Read more

I’ll tell you what…. I am sick and tired of talking about Google Algorithm updates in these posts, but here we are again, talking about another one. The month of October was going great, until late, then Google pushed out ANOTHEr update, which hit me reasonably hard this time. I’ve been hit before and bounced … Read more

September was a great month all around! Yet another algorithm rolled out. It feels like there is a new one every month, and there basically has been this year. Sometimes two in a month. I’ve been working a lot for an SEO agency as well as my day job, as well as working on my … Read more

May 2022 was a big month in the SEO world, with Google rolling out a significant update to its ranking algorithm. All those in the industry were nervously awaiting it as these updates can have a big impact on their site performance, and therefore earnings. In this monthly update, I’ll give the usual updates on … Read more