Reached 5K click on 6 July, 8 days after 4k

An attempt to cross to other side
Reached 5K click on 6 July, 8 days after 4k
Reached 4K 8 days after 3.5K
The current EPMV according to Ezoic is $18.7 (dropped from last time)
Got another notification on GSC 8 days after the last one. Reached 3.5K on 19 June
Reminder to self: do NOT adopt ‘victim mentality’ where you think you’re the victim of things happening around/to you.
Things always change, accept it and react appropriately to it.
No one owes you anything, you already receive what you deserve.
Reached 3K clicks in 28 days on 11 June. Session start data on analytics shows 5.9K.
I always wonder how much I will get and by extension when I can quit my job. A guy on Twitter educated me yesterday. He got about $1.4K from about 80K PV -> this means he gets $17.5 per thousands view.
Meanwhile, my data from 16 May to 16 June is 6.9K PV (according to analytics) and I made $112 from Ezoic. This means I only have $16.2 RPM.
Ezoic count it by visitors, which they count as 5.7K, making it $19.6 EPMV (earnings per thousand visitors).
The number isn’t bad but isn’t good either. With this RPM, I will need 187K PV to reach $3K/month, which seems very var now.
The other way is to increase the RPM, which on ‘normal range’ can be up to $40. It seems NSL is able to achieve this as she makes $40K from 1 million PV. If I manage to achieve this I only need 75000 PV to get $3K/month, but this is an idle thought.
I checked a few sites I came across that show advertisements and found that many of them use Criteo. Did a bit of research and apparently Criteo has much bigger market share than Ezoic. The sites that use them are good ones with hundreds of thousands of traffic
This can be a good alternative to the Ezoic -> Mediavine path that everyone is going.
May came and 3 things happened:
Past 3 months:
It’s far from all those heavy hitters on Twitter whose graph climbed at 80 degree elevation but at least it’s progress.
GA shows more than this but I had 2-3 days anomaly when traffic spiked (probably from Ezoic bot, I’m not sure) so it’s not showing average.
The first thing noticeable is that the change n direction into focusing on topical authority paid off. That was October 2022, 3 months later on January 2023 I got my first revenue.
Now, after 6 months of trying to dish 4 posts per week, I see quite an improvement.
Yesterday I got another congratulatory message from Google for 700 clicks in 28 days, which is great
Regardless, I feel kind of frustrated with the growth speed, it feels like it crawls slowly upward. Now I’m at 2100 PV/month and it feels like the number increases 100 by 100 every week I check. When considering you need 10K just to apply to Ezoic, it feels thousands of miles away.
My frustration came from several factors
Factoring that, it seems the realistic one to aim for secure income (not factoring drop from google update) is 100-200K PV per month? Seems like unbelievably far away.
I earned the first revenue from my work. First time after 2-3 years working day job + trying to create a business afterward. The first one flopped after wasting money and time (the writing was on the wall but I refused to acknowledge it and keep pushing, resulting in more time & money wasted)
I worked this one for more than a year now, started doing it seriously from around May 2022 then wasted around 2 months pursuing BLs from guest posts. From October I ditched guest post and tried to push content instead. Currently 2 of my 3 best performers are posts without link at all.
Around last week I have about total 700 PV on the last 2 days and decided to add affiliate links to pages that get views. Got 2 conversions into Amazon purchase shortly after
The amount is laughable and minuscule compared to the cost I’ve spent so far but at least it’s a sign to the right direction.
I’m working in a big company and over the years I’ve been approached multiple times in linkedin by competitors. Since I have low interest in just changing masters mostly I ignored them but I did entertain 1 or 2 out of curiousity.
The theme is quite similar: they expect me to bring ‘book of clients’, basically ‘stealing’ client database from my current company and bring it to them. The term is ‘bring in business’. Nothing about my years of experiences in the industry or how I can help growing the company based on those. All they want is ‘business’ AKA instant client.
When this expectation pop up I instantly reject them, the reason are simple:
Each morning when I do my morning jog I saw this car that I really wanted to buy months ago but decided against it because I wanted to prioritize my spending on things that are more important: traveling & the business.
The business alone on average now eat about 50-60% of my salary so if I want to travel there’s no way I’d waste my money paying installment for a thing I would not even use once every 2 weeks.
This morning I saw the car again and this time it comes down to me: this guy has been going to work at my morning jog time. He’s going to work at 6 AM in the morning! Meanwhile on non-jogging day I wake up at 7, start working from home at 8:30. No commute, just in my shorts.
Be grateful for what you have.