[Journey] Growing A Money Site Network To Over $25,000 A Month!

Would be good going forward if you can list what you plan to do - a timeline or something is great.


The idea of a 'path thread' is twofold - to held your motivation to reach your goal and to helpp others understand the work necessary to reach a goal.


Good luck - sounds like you have a great start to build from. I think many members will be interested in your progress mainly because of Amazon recent changes.

How long has the journey been going?

I am confused. Can you put this in perspective because a lot of your statements confuse me?

• You state that you earned almost $6400 last month from the Amazon Affiliate program as you can see in the image above.
• then you state the majority of your income is from two sites that were not affected by the Amazon commission changes,
• then you state The majority of my income currently comes from the Amazon Affiliate program.
• then you state another site that has been hit by Google updates and Amazon commissions that only makes around $200 a month now.
• then you state The vast majority of my income currently comes from the Amazon Affiliate program but I am starting to diversify as I am overexposed to Amazon cutting their commissions as they did in April 2020.

With respect, I for one do not know where and when you began, more less how you got to where you are now and I have no idea of where you are going.

Is there a plan?

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• Income seems to be down due to Amazon suspending delivery services due to the riots as actual orders seems to have held as normal.
• Article 1 - 2105 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 2 - 1500 Words - Outsourced.
• So I was talking to a friend who has been doing really well with affiliate blogging and asked how he is diversifying away from Amazon and he basically said he is going all-in with Amazon and dropping more per month on scaling than I am earning from my own network in total. I asked him about shareasale and other programs like that and he basically said how they have their own issues too as vendors leave the platform or close their affiliate program down with little to no warning and its usually harder to find an alternative where as Amazon can just do their job of trying to show an alternative/more recent version of an item to someone who clicks your links. Although I am still wanting to scale this latest domain to diversify income sources, I also want to look at getting back into a fresh Amazon blog in a month or two as I have more confidence in actually ranking those types of keywords.
• I spent most of today fault finding on May 4th update, and it looks like the YouTube videos in the SERPs for my niche have normalized into the horizontal YouTube widget now rather than 3 individual YouTube entries in the SERPs. I have been doing keyword research in a bunch of niches for "review" and "best x" terms and this seems to be widespread unfortunately and the niche for the domain I started in January is affected too. Amazon.com does look like it will hold on the top page too now as its showing results for some really good customer reviews rather than the old product page it used to prior to the update so seeing Amazon on the first page of Google is not a tell for low competition and an easy keyword anymore. I am wanting to put more time into trying to tweak my keyword research method to try work out a way to quickly find low competition keywords after the May 4th update for the potential new Amazon Affiliate project in a month or two so that will probably be the plan for tomorrow.

Cheers .

Right now I am focusing on a domain that is based around diversifying my income with display ads and shareasale affiliate programs as I am overexposed to Amazon right now. Although I do still plan to keep on scaling this domain, I may slow down on the content generation for it temporarily to launch a new Amazon Affiliate website in a month or two as its what I'm more comfortable with then come back to the display ad/shareasale domain once its had more time to age in and let me get data on if my informational keyword research method actually works.

Timeline wise, its a pain to plot one in all honesty, the Amazon commission changes in April cut some peoples incomes by 60% and the Google update in May cut people's traffic by as much as 90% and I expect more of the same. I would hope to be above $10,000 a month by this time next year at the latest but no timeline for >$25,000 yet, need to see how this diversification domain goes.

I have been doing various types of internet marketing for years but this current money site network is made up of domains from around 2018 with each one taking on board the lessons identified from the last.

Yep.

In April 2020 Amazon release an update to their commission rates for their Affiliate program, my two highest income domains are in niches that were not hit by it.

Something like 99% of my online income is from the Amazon Affiliate program.

A third site in my money site network was hit by the Google Medic update and fell from over $1000 a month down to less than $400 a month. This same domain then had its comission rates slashed by 60% in the Amazon cuts in April so its income fell again to below $200.

The domain that I am currently working on is to try and diversify my income streets so that I won't potentially drop 60% of income the next time Amazon cut their commission rates in the future.

This is really inspirational, after so many things you hear about Amazon cutting their piece of pie for affiliate marketers.

I think you just gave several reasons why you should not become an amazon affiliate.

1: sales can be unreliable...
2: you have zero control
3: you own nothing but your site and content which is all but useless without amazon.

If I were you, then I would stay with amazon as long as you can still squeeze a dollar from them, however, I highly recommend that you sell your own digital product, have your own affiliates and rely less on another source like amazon.

I have never been all that keen on using 3rd party affiliate sites simply because you could be cut off on a dime with no advanced notice, not that an advanced noticed would really matter, cut off is cut off....

Awesome keep up the good most inspiring post.

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• Article 1 - 2003 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 2 - 1509 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 2074 Words.
• The second affiliate program that I applied to on ShareASale seems to have been removed for some reason. Not sure if they ended their affiliate program or if ShareASale kicked them off or not but kind of goes to show that programs other than Amazon can have their own dramas too so the grass is not always greener.
• Google put out a tweet last night saying that they were aware of and have now fixed a bug with their indexing, as search console has a few days delay on it update it will take a while before I know if its the same bug on the coverage tab thats being a pain for two of my domains or not but I have my fingers crossed.
• Finished putting together the services that I wanted for my outsourcing team to try scale as quickly as possible in the future. After reaching out to a bunch of web 2 services, one seemed promising but they seem to be ghosting now so I will just stick with guest posts, niche edits, and manual forum posts for the foreseeable future as it has worked out well enough so far.

I also published my monthly update video going over the progress for my full affiliate blog network that may be interesting for some following along.

What kind of numbers are you pulling from your own project and having your own affiliates out of curiosity?

Cheers dude .

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• Article 1 - 2645 Words.
• Article 2 - 1496 Words - Outsourced.
• The Google indexing bug seems to be worse than ever, there's reports of all kinds of random stuff happening since Google pushed their fix live and it looks like one of my older sites may be affected by it now too. Until more is known about this indexing Issue I am slowing my content production right down when it comes to freelance writers to save cash.
• I got an email from ShareASale saying that one of the programs on there has changed their payout rates so with one program removing themselves from the platform and this new one changing their rates, it's making me just want to stick with Amazon even more. I have been asking around and people have told me that this is very common for platforms like ShareASale so I am just going to build out the keyword list for this next domain-based around Amazon and potentially eBay while also trying to fault find the indexing bug more.
• Spent some time doing keyword research for this new project, I have well over 100 keywords that fit my new keyword research method that I have tweaked since the May 4th Google update now but they are definitely harder to find than they used to be due to Amazon, Pinterest, Quora, Reddit, and YouTube taking up so much of the first page and seemingly being unshiftable able right now but I will keep doing keyword research.
• I had a little think about domain strategy for moving forward too, I am kind of looking more towards building smaller niche sites rather than bigger authority domains to try and reduce the risk and open the buyer pool more for potential exits on the domains in the future.

Wow! You really are getting into it! Your thread would be an inspiration to others to work hard and never give up such as myself. I look forward in reaching your target and I hope the best for you.

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• Article 1 - 3195 Words.
• Article 2 - 4371 Words - Outsourced.
• The buyer intent article from buy sell text was tweaked and the formatting issues have been fixed, the content is excellent for the price in all fairness. Ordered a test batch of 10 manual forum posts from the new provider for the article as a test to see how they measure up against the other service that I have been using.
• Really not feeling well today so I'm taking the rest of the day off and probably going to take tomorrow off and sleep to try and get better for next week.

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• Article 1 - 1959 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 2 - 4124 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1971 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 4 - 1955 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 5 - 1959 Words - Outsourced.
• I published a pretty long traffic leaking post for Reddit.
• Released one writer from the contract on upwork as they are more of an informational content writer. Templates for this new affiliate project have been sent out to the buyselltext team and the two writers that I have on Upwork still so they are all flipped to the content for this new project now.

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• I feel better than I have the last two days but I still feel a little ill so I have just been in bed most of the day sleeping or watching YouTube videos on how to market on Pinterest.
• Ordered a >DA50 guest post from the new provider that I have been waiting to try. I have used it as more of a test of the service for my new project but targeted it towards a buyer intent term on the domain that I started in May as it has the highest chance of a return and may help push the other pages on that domain high in the SERPs.

This is fantastic. I always like to see people succeeding in life. I like how you are documenting along the way and just look at your profits. You mentioned above that you were looking for other ways to create extra income. Why not try a hand at your creating your own product showing people how to do what you are doing? You have plenty of outsourcers available. They could help you out with it. I've subscribed to your thread to see future updates. Congrats and keep going. You are doing great.

interesting, good luck and continued success with it!

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• Article 1 - 4063 Words - Outsourced.
• Got a few thousand words of content back from test writers on Fiverr for a video for YouTube to show the quality of content available while also trying to screen for a cheap writer. So far, none of these initial test orders are what I would consider to be good enough to use on a money site but it gives me stuff for video content.
• Sent out two new test orders for new writers from Upwork that I am wanting to work with on the informational domain that I started in May as it doesn't seem to be having the issues with the coverage tab that my other domain from January is having. As it is lower-income content due to being based on display ads I am looking to drop the quality and get my better writers to focus on my buyer intent domain.
• Started looking at ways to try and integrate Instagram into promoting my YouTube channel and personal blog, I think I have a plan set out now but doubt that it will work on any of my actual money sites.
• Finished my Pinterest marketing plan, I am going to proof test it with my YouTube channel as it is black hat in case the account gets banned or URLs get ghosted then I plan to try build a new site in the future based around nothing but Pinterest keywords to try diversify traffic sourced across the network.
• Keyword research with my post 4th May update method is now complete or my new site for next month as well as the rest of the keyword for the informational domain. I also have keywords banked for two more future sites too but these initial keywords that I will order content for over the coming weeks are more of a test batch and proof of concept.

This its some nice income with amazon and i am pretty sure your traffic gets a lot of traffic if you make that income .Do you spend money on advertising ?

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• Set up the new domain to launch next month, plugins and themes are all on there as well as the first few articles the first two 4000 word articles are now formatted and ready to launch on the 1st.
• Did some keyword research for the domain for next month based around the zero search volume keyword method that I have been playing with on other domains. I have about 50 keywords already, I have build Surfer SEO templates for 10 of them and will push these initial 10 to my Upwork writers when they are free ready for launch, the buyselltext team will be used for my higher search volume stuff.
• The writer that I was planning on using for my informational domain that I launched in May got back to me and said he is fully booked with content orders. I think I will just leave content generation for this domain until next month now and put the cash into my current writing team for the domain I want to launch on 1st July.

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• I'm getting absolutely smashed with returns right now, the last three days have all had at least $50 of returns on Amazon.com. I'm guessing that it is due to so many people buying gear last month with their stimulus checks and then deciding to return it.
• Article 1 - 1463 Words.
• Article 2 - 4210 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1455 Words.
• Spent some time getting my Pinterest marketing schedule up to date for my YouTube channel and setting tailwind up, I see some potential in it and if the strategy comes off then I will scale it into other money sites if possible.
• 100 manual forum links delivered, manually checked 25 of them and they are all good quality so I have pinged them to my indexer to try and get Google to crawl them, with the issues with indexing in Google these days though, not sure what kind of benefit this will offer is any.
• AAWP dev got back to me, the custom button idea is a no go but I have come up with a slightly different way to do it that actually looks better anyway so I have implemented it in the posts that are currently in draft ready for launching on the 1st July.
• Got suckered in by a paid traffic offer on Pinterest of £10 worth of credit if I spend £15 so I have decided to give it a little try to promote my Pinterest account.

I also published the video below on choosing a niche and ways that you can make money from them that may be helpful.

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• Smashed with returns again, this time on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca.
• Article 1 - 1685 Words.
• Shopllc kindly said he would help me with the custom AAWP buttons and although there was some user error on my part, we ended up getting it done. I spent some time going back through the articles saved as draft on this new domain I am planning to launch next month and added eBay links where possible.
• My personal blog is getting smashed with bot traffic and it will likely go offline in a few days if I can't fix it. Installed the Blackhole for Bad Bots plugin to try and get a quick fix but will leave it for a few days to see if it helps or not. If I can't fix it I might just switch it to a branded domain on a service like bitly as I only need the shortened URLs.
• Applied to the Walmart affiliate program to try and increase diversification of income.

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• Article 1 - 1619 Words.
• Article 2 - 4468 Words - Outsourced.
• Spent some time trying to decide if going with genius links will be better for this new domain rather than intext buttons. A friend uses them and he said his income held after switching to them but it is much more diversified now so I think I will give them a try later in the week.
• Put a new test up on Quora for traffic leaking and I think I have worked out a way to track hits now.
• 10 manual forum posted delivered from the new service vendor, 2 dead, 4 do follow, 4 no follow, considering they are 30% cheaper then the old vendor I will probably stick with this guy from now on.

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• Article 1 - 1640 Words.
• Article 2 - 4011 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 4395 Words - Outsourced.
• Pinterest paid traffic test came in at $0.28 CPC so I will be focusing on just trying to grow my account and pull organic traffic if possible.
• Spent some time planning the diversification approach and I think that I might swap all of my domains over from AAWP to Genius links over the coming months or so. I have stuff on tomorrow so it probably wont be till Thursday when I actually sign up and see how I feel.

I also upload the video below going over what I would consider to be a realistic approach to the first six months of part-time/full-time blogging that may be helpful.

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• Article 1 - 4059 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 2 - 1471 Words.
• MediaVine increased their minimum session requirement to 50,000 per month so it's going to be a pain to get the domain that I launched last month on their network in its current state, I guess Ezoic or Monumetric will have to do but I'm not even sure if it's going to be getting to 10,000 sessions a month anytime soon so it might just have to sit on Adsense.
• Bot traffic still smashing my personal blog even with wordfence and bad bot blackhole set up. Ticketed Sitegrounds support and apparently its something to do with the htaccess causing issues with Apache generating hits that aren't real from pretty links redirects so its not actually bot traffic. Their tech team has tried to fix it but its going to take a few days to see if it actually works.
• Turns out Pinterest traffic does track on YouTube analytics so going to look into scaling into Pinterest and Quora from now on as its more longterm traffic rather than one-hit-wonder traffic. I have only been messing with direct links with Quora for a few days and its already up to the fourth highest external traffic source for my YouTube channel. Now that I have a way to track the Quora traffic I am thinking of doing one post per day on the platform for all of next month.

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• This I have given myself food poisoning or something so been in bed most the last few days and it's been worse today so didn't get much done.
• Article 1 - 4297 Words - Outsourced.
• Been in bed watching a bunch of videos on Pinterest and Quora promotion.
• Microphone deliveries seem to be starting up in the UK again soon so hope to be able to get an upgraded mic.

Uploaded a video last night on some ways that you are able to use IFTTT with blogging.

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Basically been man down with this food poison or whatever it is all week, not much better so I guess it will be the same for next week too, even just sitting up right hurts. Going to think about going to hospital tomorrow for prescription meds and scans if its no better.

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• Article 1 - 2018 Words - Outsourced.
• Built out more Surfer SEO templates for next month's content orders all caught up with the template side of things now.
• Spent most of the day prepping the content from that was delivered from the freelance writers while I was sick, pretty much up to date now but still have a hand full to finish tomorrow then its up to date.
• Guest Post order from the new service has been delivered, the actual article content is solid and the post is on a DA89 domain with solid metrics so I'm really happy about it in all honesty, going to put more orders their way next month.

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• Finished formatting all of the banked articles for this new domain, I will probably start publishing them tomorrow ready for the 1st as I have a few things on next week so depending on how things land I might not be able to publish them all in a single day.
• Been number-crunching my analytics and rank tracker data more and more today and I think buyer intent affiliate keywords are only going to be getting harder and harder as Google seem to be adding more and more widgets to the SERP rather than just having organic articles. After this domain that I am launching in a few days, I will probably try an informational domain again for the one after it based around display ads.

I have to say that I don't understand everything that you post simply because I may be unfamiliar with certain terms or tools that you may be using, but I find this an interesting look into your journey. I wish more people would share as regularly as you. Even if I have my own path that isn't like yours I like seeing how the sausage is made, so to speak. Good for you, keep hustling, and I hope others might pick up some ideas from this.

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• Article 1 - 1565 Words.
• Article 2 - 1473 Words.
• It finally looks like microphones are coming back in stock so hoping to get a new mic for YouTube next month.
• Managed to publish all of the content for the new domain and submitted the sitemap to GSC. I will keep an eye on the coverage tab as I am expecting to have indexing issues with this domain too but fingers crossed it doesn't happen.

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• Article 1 - 1616 Words.
• Article 2 - 1281 Words.
• Smashed out some Surfer templates to use the rest of the credits that I have for this month before the credits reset tonight. I will probably quickly use up the credits for July too and then downgrade my package with them as I'm not getting through the credits quickly anyway.
• Two test orders sent out for the informational domain started in May using the post May 4th update keyword research method and I will scale this up over July.
• All of the content that I published last night for the new domain has had its initial crawl from Google according to GSC and there's no issues in the coverage tab yet so hoping for more of the same as the pages start to jump into the SERPs and hope it will just climb as usually and not be in the Crawled - Not Indexed section.

Published the video below going over my highest income domain that may be helpful for some people following along.

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• Article 1 - 1558 Words.
• Article 2 - 1694 Words.
• The pages for the new domain that I just launched are starting to show up in webmaster tools but they are in the "Crawled - Currently Not Indexed." section. I'm hoping that its just because it's brand new and that they will index soon, if not I will try the forced indexing thing in GSC to see if that can help.
• Ordered 11 new 4000-word buyer intent articles from Buy Sell Text.
• The guy who I have sent templates to for my informational domain emailed me back saying the slots he has free are in the middle and end of the month but he will try to get content back as and when he can.

I published a video going over ordering content on Fiverr at different price points with examples of the articles that the gig vendors delivered that might be helpful to people.

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• Article 1 - 1583 Words.
• Article 2 - 1623 Words.
• Article 3 - 1797 Words.
• Did more keyword research for the domain that I launched in May using my post May 4th method. With any luck I will have this new domain that I just launched in maintenance mode by the end of this month and then be able to focus on the domain from May again as my primary project as the issue with the coverage tab in GSC seems to have cleared up.

I also published my monthly update video that might be helpful for anyone following along.

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• Article 1 - 1563 Words.
• Article 2 - 1578 Words.
• Article 3 - 1479 Words.
• Did more keyword research for the project I launched in May between the articles above to keep productive.
• Had to order another bot on SERPRobot as I was maxing out my daily checks on my rank tracker and prefer to have it run daily then reduce the frequency of checks.
• Initial entry positions for the new domain I launched on Monday are starting to show up in my rank tracker project giving me hope that it won't have the same problems that the domain from January is having with the indexing bug in Google.

I also uploaded a video going over how I make my blog article templates in Surfer SEOs content editor that may be helpful to some people.

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• Article 1 - 1562 Words.
• Article 2 - 4123 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1590 Words.
• I spent some time trying to find the release dates for the new products confirmed for the blog I started back in August 2019. The teasers are all out and the community are speculating on release dates but I can't find anything solid so I think it will probably be next month now so I will just put the time into articles for the domain I launched a few days back.
• Managed to find the time to go back and reformat most of my Quora answers so they use direct linking for YouTube so I can actually track it. I am also wanting to try and publish more articles on Quora this month to see the level of traffic that I am able to pull from it now that I have a way to actually track growth. I managed to publish two new Quora answers today, one was 1500ish words and the other was 2000ish words.

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• Article 1 - 1514 Words.
• Article 2 - 4016 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1949 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 4 - 1956 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 5 - 1507 Words.
• I also published this 3840 Word Quora Answer to traffic leak for my YouTube channel.

I also published a video going over my thoughts on using Web 2.0s in 2020 as a part of a backlinking strategy that maybe helpful to some people.

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• Article 1 - 1667 Words.
• Article 2 - 4043 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1521 Words.
• Article 4 - 4336 Words.
• Had it pointed out that last night was 4th July so thats probably why conversions was so low and its picked back up today anyway.
• Force indexed all new pages on the blog I launched at the start of the month as a bunch were in the "Discovered - Currently Not Indexed" category on GSC and most of them seem to be indexed a few hours later.
• Ordered 5 x Logos off Fiverr as content for a YouTube video but also to screen gig providers for logos for my new blog and future blogs as I usually just use a logo made from a Fiverr gig on my money site blogs.

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• Article 1 - 1611 Words.
• Article 2 - 1527 Words.
• Ordered Content on iWriter for a future YouTube video for the platform.

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• Article 1 - 1616 Words.
• Article 2 - 1602 Words.
• Stumbled onto a new sub-niche for my new domain when researching one of the articles for today so did a little Keyword research for it. Products tend to be priced $20-$40 but there seems to be a bunch of keywords in there so I might actually make them as hybrid pages on the domain and supplement the income for this sub-niche with display ads too. If this works then it might be the way that I move forward with my new domains where I just make hybrid sites for low price point items on Amazon and supplement the income with display ads.
• Some of the keywords for the new domain are on the first page of Google already after around a week, it is just low page one and they are the zero search volume keyword batches, just waiting for them to climb top the top three and see if they get traffic.

Published my new video on YouTube about ordering content on iWriter and how the more expensive content on there is a waste of money.

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• Article 1 - 1298 Words.
• Article 2 - 1616 Words.
• Article 3 - 4040 Words - Outsourced.
• The article writer that I was going to use for the content my domain from May this month has emailed me saying that he has overtime with his regular job so cant do the articles. In all fairness, I am happy about this as it gives me more free cash for next month for other stuff.
• I spent more time doing keyword research for the domain I started this month as well as keyword research for YouTube.

I also uploaded a video going into how I work out the word count that I want for my articles too.

When you hit the sales over $10k/mo, the Amazon start to behave tricky.
Asking for all traffic model, all possible and impossible details, proof of virginity, screenshots of your computer and all related accounts, 150 references, and everything possible to find a reason to kick you off.

In case the reason wouldn't be found - they would simply relate to the TOS topic, that they have the right to break the agreement without any explanation, and would kick you out.
Without the payment, of course.

By my experience, only 1/3 of the affiliates keep working after they step over that volume.
Bet your 4 months cashflow to see, if they would allow you THAT MUCH earnings.

That's why I quit Amazon.
Good, kind and nice company turn into a were-fraud at the certain volumes.

I would still get back to it, if I would find a partnering CPA that would ensure the payments. Amazon COULD bring the profits. It could.
It wouldn't allow you to earn in bulk.

Earn the cent's and write a positive articles, that is the allowed behaviour.
IMHO, and my personal experience.

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• Article 1 - 1527 Words.
• Article 2 - 1945 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1615 Words.

@zavhoz thanks for the input.

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• Article 1 - 1678 Words.
• Article 2 - 1728 Words.
• Article 3 - 1654 Words.
• Found another sub-niche for this new domain so spent some more time doing keyword research for that too. Although I initially wanted to keep this domain around 100 pages, I think its going to be more than that now as its more of a test/proof of concept domain for moving forward with my money site network with three types of test on it right now.

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• Article 1 - 957 Words.
• Article 2 - 1553 Words.
• Started some SEO tests for YouTube as I want to play around with YouTube SEO in my downtime.
• 1300 monthly search, $200 item that I lost in the 4th May update jumped from 4th to 1st. Another page jumped from 5th to 2nd for a 320 search $400 item but T3 are 1st so I wont beat them but its good to see some recovery.

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• Article 1 - 2010 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 2 - 4031 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 4042 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 4 - 1541 Words.
• Article 5 - 1257 Words.
• Finished my first batch of tests for YouTube SEO for my existing videos. I will leave it for a few weeks and then see if I see any benefit.
• First organic hit from Google for the new domain that I started at the start of the month, with one hit, it still has more organic traffic this month than the domain from May, even Bing has sent more traffic to my domain from May. Makes me think there may be some other issue with it so not planning on going back to it next month like I was planning.
• Thinking of getting an AHRefs sub next month as i'm sure they have a tool that makes it quick and easy to find terms that have YouTube videos on the first page to try and save time avoiding anything that was potentially hit by the May 4th update. They also have a few tools that I want to try for keyword research for the YouTube channel too.
• The domain that I started in January seems to be going from strength to strength with the content that is actually indexed. It had its first 100 organic hit day last night and I am hoping for more of the same. The domain had an initial spend of $1400 on it and it has made me just over $600 but with this growth rate I think it might be profitable within two months even though a bunch of its pages are not indexed with Google.

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• Article 1 - 4040 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 2 - 4012 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 4413 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 4 - 1543 Words.
• Article 5 - 1545 Words.
• I had a video call today with one of my friends whos portfolio is mostly display ad sites as he was hit by the May 4th update too. He went over my domain from May and said its pretty much the same issue that his newer domains are having too but he did say that the search volumes that my domain from May is targeting may be pushing it closer to the 8 month sandbox mark as he said he usually experiences a longer sandbox period with higher search volume keywords even if they are low competition for a new domain.
• I put some content orders in with new writers on Upwork today, partly to see if I can find any new writers to actually work with, partly for YouTube content for two future videos.

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• Article 1 - 1586 Words.
• Article 2 - 1043 Words.
• My laptop has been giving me hardrive error messages all day so I think that it might fail soon, it is an old 2014 Macbook Pro and its been battered over the years and had water spilled on it too. Backed everything up to Dropbox that I might need from it and spent some time researching a new laptop, I really want to try the new iPad 2020 Pro but I think I would miss the Alfred app too much.
• The domain that I started this month is on track to be finished soon so I need to try workout what I want to do from next month, I am in two minds about trying to start a zero backlinking domain or to actually put more time and effort into the domain from May but I think the domain from May might just be a waste of time and money now after the 4th May update.

I also uploaded my video on how you are able to come up with blog post ideas for free that may you money that might be helpful to some people.

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• Article 1 - 1517 Words.
• Article 2 - 1614 Words.
• Article 3 - 4122 Words - Outsourced.
• Spent some time doing keyword competition analysis for youtube videos, Youtube seems like its going to be a total pain for search traffic when compared to google for my actual blog network. Might look into more traffic leaking or parasite SEO from Google with YouTube embeds or something in the future as its probably going to be the best way forward for this niche.
• Due to getting through the content that I had planned for the test domain I started at the start of the month so fast I have done some niche research for a potential new zero backlink domain for my next one as I dont really want to do much with the May domain.
• Ordered some manual forum posts from Fiverr to test the Gig, he is half the price of the current manual forum post supply I use so if it works out I will use him for my live projects. I can also use the links he provides for YouTube content too as a way to actually show what I mean by manual forum links on live examples.
• I got an email from Amazon Australlia saying they are going to withhold 47% of the income from that storefront due to not having an ABN number. As I am not earning much from that storefront right now I will just add it to the bottom of my to do list but if its anything like the USA system it should be a pretty easy fix.

Update

• Article 1 - 1534 Words.
• Article 2 - 1551 Words.
• Published a new 3719 word answer on Quora to try traffic leak to the YouTube channel as the one from a few weeks ago is doing pretty well so I wanted to do another test.
• YouTube Channel got Monetization turned on for adsense.
• Surfer SEO has been a total pain today, been down and crashing a whole bunch making it a pain to get my articles done.
• Did some keyword research for the potential niche for next month and it might be a solid option for a zero backlinking domain but I will look a bit more before making a decision.

Update

• Last night and tonight both in one as I had a head ache last night and had to sleep early.
• Article 1 - 1509 Words.
• Article 2 - 1533 Words.
• Article 3 - 1588 Words.
• Server problem with Surfer SEO still happening with it white screening on me and locking me out of my article, its really annoying when trying to churn content out, seems to be getting more frequent too.
• Did a little bit more research for the potential new domain from next month, at this rate this test domain will be done in a week or so then I will have a few free days at the end of the month to smash through the keyword research and decide on what I want to do.

Upwork

• Article 1 - 1982 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 2 - 2017 Words - Outsourced.
• Article 3 - 1526 Words.

Update

• Spent most of the day doing keyword research for the next domain. Got a decent set now, around 150 have been screened with a whole bunch left to check. I am thinking of having a third buyer intent, a third informational, and a third hybrid to diversify income to reduce the risk against Amazon rate cuts in the future.
• Been going over the analytics and rank tracker data for my domain that lost 20% traffic in the May 4th update and one thing I noticed is that the pages that were hit by the update are all recent product releases. Not sure if this is anything to do with it or if people just haven't made reviews for products that are over 5 years old on YouTube yet but I want to try work out a way to try use it as a screening system for this new domain.
• I also published the video below going over some manual forum posts I purchased on Fiverr as a test but they are mostly no follow, not sure what kind of shelf life they will have either in all honesty.

Regarding Backlinks: I watched your video and for the most part it seems as though, because most of the links are no follow, there is little SEO benefit. But, do you see any traffic from these links

Thanks

al

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al