January Goal: FAILED!
The goal in January was $5,000 profit. We didn't even get $700 in REVENUE.
Update:
Okay, I have good and bad news. Let's start with the important things first:
money.
We are currently using 4 different ad networks, and 3 of them are still paying pennies: see image
Our best current ad network is slowly decreasing CPMs:
United States has a $0.10 CPM with the "better" ad network. There is only one reason I can think of, fraudulent traffic.
Good news, we are now able to detect if a user is a proxy/hosting/relay/tor/ or using a VPN.
The next step is to block the bad traffic in those categories. I think we should block all "Proxy", "Relay", and *maybe "Hosting" ? (Please give your tips on which ones we should block or allow)
My hope is that organically, because we are no longer paying for VPN/Tor/Relay/Hosting/Proxy traffic, users that send this traffic to our website will stop. But I still need to block some.
Once this is done
WILL OUR CPM's INCREASE????? Even if cpm goes to $1, that is enough.
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Our traffic is fairly steady. I don't care much about this right now, I care more about being profitable, blocking proxy traffic, and increasing cpms. Because once we're profitable, we can start getting uploaders like crazy.
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REVENUE & Expenses
Revenue:
We've made around $780 since January 1st.
Payouts:
We have paid out $4000+ to users since January 1st. (Not profitable!)
- Us no longer counting VPN/Proxy/Tor/Hosting/Relay as a view will help decrease our payout expenses.
Other expenses:
And thousands more just in Server/development costs.
Good thing I have a lot of capital to figure this out!
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We are still pushing new updates daily, but that is a little boring to talk about here.
FEBRUARY IS MY MONTH