Amazon Earnings for January 2015 and De-indexing

My January Amazon earnings is much lower than December, but not as low as what I was expecting. My earnings where $555.39. There are 2 big reasons for the drop in earnings. The first is that the shopping season has passed and the second is that All My Amazon Store Websites are de-indexed! There is about 230 of them. Most of the website were de-index about the beginning of the year. I can see in the analytics that the traffic from Big G stopped about 1 January. This was a huge shock to me, but I know why it happened. All these store websites scrape content from Amazon. So it is duplicate content and a big no-no to Big G. I was relieved to see that some of my websites had good traffic from Bing and Yahoo and this is where my traffic came from. The websites have not been … Continue Reading →

My Amazon Earnings for September

This post is late and I am sorry about it. 🙁 My earnings for September was disappointing. See below. I had big drop in earnings from $516.60 last month to $409.15 in September. This was due to my best website earnings dropping dramatically. I am not sure if it is a penalty, but it looks like it. The website is still making money, but much less then before. I hope that as I increase the number of websites my reliance on one website will diminish. With more websites I should get more star websites. I still believe it is a numbers game with the strategy I am following currently. My goal of 100 websites in 100 days are way off target. I am at day 47 and have 25 websites up. I am 22 websites behind and I am worried that I will not be able to build 75 websites … Continue Reading →