How To Monetize Your Website Before Joining MediaVine


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So I woke up this morning and the very first thing that I saw was a brand new video from Carl broadband and it had some shocking news. Apparently things are changing again. And this time they’re going after our ads, I want to set you a challenge and I want to set myself a challenge and it’s quite simple.

Hello, YouTube and a very special hello to all my subscribers, my name’s Phil. And welcome to my channel where I just basically document my journey, building an online income. So I was watching a video from Carl broadband this morning. And if you dunno who he is, you probably do. If you watch the Income School channel about a year ago, he won a fantastic prize to have Jim and Ricky from Income School, fly out to the UK and to work on his site.

And apparently he didn’t want them to go so badly. That he locked their car in a car park. At least that’s what I think the story is. So I was watching his video and he was sharing some insider tips from the Meine Facebook page. And apparently what’s happened is they’ve upped their threshold. In order to get onto their ad network.

So previously you had to have 25,000 sessions in the previous 30 days, and they’ve just doubled that to 50,000. So as soon as I finished watching Carl’s video there’s a link in the description to his. Channel I went over to the Project 24 community to see what was happening. And there were lots of people talking about the changes.

Fortunately, there have been a few people who’ve just got under the wire with around 25,000 sessions and they’ve managed to get into the program and there are others. And I’m talking to you, Emma cruises, who just managed to miss it because of other circumstances now. No. What does this mean for us?

Normally what we’re taught in Income School is you go to a Zoic first and we’re quite lucky because we have a special relationship with the guys over at Ezoic. And as a Project 24 member, you can actually get in a little bit earlier than the general public. So you stick with Ezoic until you.

Before you would hit the 25,000 sessions, in which case you probably would go over to Mediavine and then once you got to a hundred thousand page views, you can go over to ad thrive. And this was generally the progression that we’re talking about within Project 24. Now, obviously that’s gonna change a little bit.

So this kind of brings me onto a question that I was asked recently by a view called mark. And it’s one of them. Tricky questions. He asked me where do I see my site in one year’s time. And it’s a tricky one because I’ve never done this before. I’ve never had a successful site that really brought in a lot of organic traffic.

I don’t really know, but I do know that my goal is to reach that full-time income. So just as a reference for. I live in Taiwan. I’m an expat here. And the cost of living is a little bit lower than it might be in the UK or elsewhere. So for me, personally, if I got to about 2000 us dollars a month, two and a half thousand, I could be quite confident to quit my job as a teacher and focus on this.

Even more full time. I spend quite a bit of time doing this anyway. But I also have a goal: if I get to about 5,000, then I think I could take the pressure off my wife a little bit. And I, I said to her, she’s adamant she doesn’t wanna give up work, which I think is great. She. But she does work pretty hard and she has to do things that I don’t agree with in her job.

In Taiwan here, they work a lot of overtime and they don’t actually get paid for it. So if I was able to get to 5,000 a month, then I reckon that she could choose any job she wanted and she wouldn’t feel so beholden to her bosses to do whatever they ask her to do in terms of overtime.

Working very late into the night. So that is my goal. But how can I get there? If you saw my previous video, I’ve only just recently hit 12,000 page views on my main project, 24 sites. So in fact I’ve got three sites and site one I managed to get about 9,700 sessions in the last 30.

Site two, which is my wedding niche. I just poked over a thousand. I think it’s like 1,160 sessions in the last 30 days. My third site is doing a little bit better. I managed to get about six thousand six thousand seven, 700 there. I’m far from getting to the 50,000 sessions. I need to get these sites into Meine.

However, I was looking a little bit at the growth that I’ve had. With site one I compared it to last month and I’m getting something like about 30, 30, 2% growth over the last month or so. I think it’s slowed down a little bit because I’ve put Ezoic ads on recently.

And I do feel like that’s slowed the site down and it’s been reflected a little bit in the stats. But based on that, If I had 32% growth continually over the next couple of months, probably in about six months, I’d be at that 50,000 session Level for site two. I’m getting about the same, about a 39% increase each month.

And based on that, probably in about 1920 months, I’d be at 50,000. If that carried on, if I didn’t touch anything. However, site three is a little bit more exciting. I’m actually getting an 89% increase in sessions from month to month. And if that was to carry on, I only need about four months to get to the 50,000 sessions.

So the point here is okay. They may have moved the goalpost a little bit, but if you carry on building your traffic just month by month, you’re probably going to get. Stage where you can join Meine at 50,000 sessions sooner than you might think. However in the meantime, I want to set you a challenge and I want to set myself a challenge and it’s quite simple.

We’re all reliant on other people to make money. Amazon, they cut their commissions. And most of us, we lost 50% of what we would be earning. I’m currently getting around $60 a month, so it’s not gonna pay the rent ads as we’ve seen. Really, again, it depends on other people. They can move the goal post.

They can your ads, your revenues per thousand views can. Different from niche to niche. So these are really external things. And again, even with Google traffic, you can’t trust them. They may also change something and it’s gonna affect your traffic.  so the challenge I want to set you and myself is to try and take back control.

The best way that we can take back control is to actually sell our own products. So info products, digital products. Now I personally have been holding off on this because I’m a little bit scared in my niche. I’m not an expert. I don’t feel like an expert. I don’t feel like I’ve got anything that I can share with people.

I don’t think that I can do anything. On the same sort of level as Jim and Ricky from Income School, I can’t build a Project 24. I don’t feel like I’m at that level, but you don’t have to be now the challenge I’m gonna set. It’s got a really catchy name. It’s the 9 99 1% challenge. Yeah. Okay. I couldn’t think of anything better, but I looked at it and I thought, okay, if I can convert just 1% of my traffic each month, then I.

Maybe sell them a product worth 9 99. So an ebook or a mini video course. If I can just do that, then if I get a thousand views, say a thousand views, okay. I’m probably going to only make about a hundred dollars, but once I hit 10,000 users, let’s say if I can convert 1% of that’s a thousand bucks, 20,000.

2000 and so on. So do you think that you can convert 1% of your traffic to buy an info product or an ebook or whatever it might be in your niche? That’s worth 9 99. I’m sure that you can do that. And once you take the challenge and once you. Build something like that, then you are gonna have a lot more control over the revenue that you can make.

And to be honest, 9 99, you don’t have to have a fantastic product. It doesn’t have to be something on the same sort of level as Project 24, where there’s lots and lots of cools, you can think of. In any niche, there are some things that you will probably know just because you are in that niche and that information will be valuable to other people.

I’m gonna give you an example. So for my YouTube channel where I work for my colleague, Michael the alts grind. So we’re trying to build up a YouTube channel to help students take English examples. Now we were talking to Michael’s friend. This is the guy that lends us his studio. Which makes that channel look a little bit better than this channel.

And he was just talking about editing with me and I explained how I have my video. I have my audio and I spend a lot of time syncing them up and he is like, Hey, Phil what program are you using? Oh, okay. I use the power director. He knows that if you just select the video and the audio and you press sync audio, it just makes them sync up.

I was like, Mike, I did not know that, that kind of information, although it might seem very obvious to you, to someone who doesn’t know that, that saved me hours of work, trying to get things perfectly synced up. So if you watch some of my previous videos, you might see the audio not quite syncing up, but that’s the kind of thing.

For 9 99, if you can find a pain point. Even if it’s just a small one and provides a tool or a resource that will help the person with that particular problem, you could definitely convert 1% of your traffic to buy that info product. And what I’m advising is that you. Really go for something that’s digital.

So e-book for example, or like I said, a mini course, something that you can create once, even if it takes you several weeks to come up with it, something that you can create once and resell, this is where you’re gonna start making money from that 1% of traffic. And I think that’s durable in any niche. So this is what I’m going to be focusing on in the coming weeks.

I hope that you will. Okay. So if you’ve been watching this video and you’ve liked what you’ve seen so far, don’t forget to subscribe to the channel. And if you’ve got any suggestions, any questions, leave me a comment. Also, if you’ve been watching any other videos on this channel and you are interested in how I’m generating organic traffic, then why not join me as a member of project 20.

There’s a link in the description, which will take you to a webinar that explains everything about the course. I cannot recommend it enough. It’s really changed the way that I’ve looked at making money online. And to be honest, I don’t think I would be in this position if I hadn’t taken that course. Just be aware that if you click on the link, it is an affiliate link.

So I would get a commission, but even if you don’t use my link, join Project 24, you won’t regret it. Okay, guys, thanks so much for. Please take up the challenge of the 9 99, 1%. Yeah. Not the best name in the world. And I’m sure that you’re gonna see a big change in your revenue and you can take back control.

And when things like this happen in the future, you won’t be so shocked and you won’t have any other obstacles in your way. Okay, guys. Thanks for reading. I know I will see you next week. Bye.

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