Amazon Prime Day 2021 was Monday, June 21 to Tuesday, June 22. My experience with Prime Day is mixed. Around the time they announce Prime Day my site traffic goes up a little, but Amazon sales go down. I am assuming people are putting things in their cart to see if they go down on … Read more
Every once in a while you should revisit posts or pages that include Amazon affiliate links. Sometimes the product you link to has moved or been removed from the site. If you haven’t already, add SiteStripe. It lets you create links as soon as you find a product you like. From the product page you … Read more
This is the third time AdSense put an ad serving limit on my sites and this one really hurt. The ads showed for a few minutes on March 15. On March 26 ads showed for a couple of hours. When the ads stopped showing again it was really disheartening. I started looking around again to … Read more
Amazon caches the ads on your site to make them display faster when someone loads a page. When you make changes to the page, you can’t really see the changes correctly right away. They changes are made. Anyone coming to the page will see the changes. But you are seeing some kinda confusing cached stuff. … Read more
If I understand the question, you want to know how long it takes to make money from Amazon Associates ads. How long does it take from when someone clicks an Amazon ad on my site until I get paid if they buy something? When someone clicks your link, puts the item in their shopping cart … Read more
I added up all my Amazon Associates sales and it comes to a lot more than what it is showing as Revenue. What is going on? Why is the Revenue I am getting Commissions on always less than my Ordered Items? First, you don’t have to add up your sales. Just click Group By: and … Read more
Help! I just got a message from Google that says “The number of ads you can show has been limited. For details, go to the Policy center.” What do I do? It happens. The first time I got this message I really panicked. I also got an email that said; Ad serving limit placed on … Read more
You need to be able to add code to your site to serve up Google ads. This is how you add snippets of code if you have WordPress. From your WordPress panel go to Plugins. Search Keyword Add Code There are a lot to choices. AddFunc Head & Footer Code is a good one because … Read more
How do I file taxes on the income from my blog? As soon as I put AdSense ads on my blogs, I started receiving income. So, did I have to set up an LLC or some other kind of business? Did I have to pay taxes on this income? What expenses can I write off? … Read more
This is the first question I am asked. There are a lot of different ways to monetize a blog. And you don’t have to have a lot written yet to start making some money blogging. Google AdSense Signing up for Google AdSense is super easy. Just answer a few questions. You put a couple of … Read more