August Earning

August ended with minimum increase despite the posts’ deletion. Both GSC click and GA PV increased only by about 1000. Earnings increased by about $30.

  • GSC click: 10,466
  • Ad revenue: $225.12
  • GA PV: 14,202
  • RPM: $15.85 (from ad only)
  • Ezoic visit: 13,624
  • Ezoic EPMV: $18.40
  • Amazon revenue: $56.07
  • Total revenue: $281.19

I’m considering to add Amazon revenue into the table but it seems to be very dependent on 1-2 pages so maybe sometime in the future.

First Revenue Withdrawal

After getting first revenue on January, today is the time for first revenue withdrawal. The withdrawal comes from Ezoic ad revenue instead of Amazon affiliate commission though.

The conversion rate to my home currency is kind of suck, but being a Neteller user for years I already expect that. At least Payoneer doesn’t charge $12 withdrawal fee on top of the trash rate like Neteller.

Rearrange Categories & Unpublishing Posts

As I get more visitors from my new articles, the old ones stay dead. Categories & menu are very misleading since they’re not what the site actually about these days.

Based on what I learned about how google sees and determines your topical authority, it seems a bunch of unrelated-unranked articles dilute that topical authority. In order to make it clear, tough decision need to be taken: rearrange categories & delete those unrelated-non performed posts.

After consulting a bit in IS forum, I finally did it today:

  • Unpublished 26 posts
  • Deleted 8 posts
  • Removed all internal links pointing to those posts
  • Rearrange categories and assign new categories
  • Change the main menu based on new categories

All said and done, now all I can do is sit and see if this will make anything