Morgan

Morgan @ Charleston Crafted
💻 long time blogger & content creator
🧶 crafter + writer
📲 Google Success Story
🙅‍♀️ Don't give me SEO advice I don't care

[Morgan @CharlestonCraft]

Honored to have our story featured by @ahrefs .
If you can find 15 minutes in your day, please give it a watch!

https://t.co/NDltRUgdB5

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Has anyone ever struggled with Hyatt elite nights from @Chase card spend just not posting? Every month this year I’ve had to message and call repeatedly and beg for them to be manually credited.

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@BrantTedeschi I have not, I have always been very loyal to mediavine. they scooped me up when I had no idea what i was doing and empowered me to build a business for which I am eternally grateful. But, they have been a mess lately tbh.

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How’s everyone’s RPMs looking for January vs January last year?

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@BrantTedeschi down between 30-50% across my sites. I reached out to mediavine and they told me to make my blog posts longer.... as if I went in and shortened them all since last january. More and more disappointed by them lately.

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I was excited when a brand I worked with last year asked me to be a brand ambassador. Until I realized they wanted me to create content for free. They paid me last year, but their ambassadors work for free? For the “possibility of paid campaigns later in the year”. Pass.

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@glenngabe yall are still getting google traffic?

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With all the information on the Internet and with AI, I still cannot believe that if an unknown number text or calls you, your phone doesn’t tell you who it is. Like come on – I know you know. I’m never answering an unknown number. Tell me who it is!

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@natejhake Our only hope is for big companies with the resources, like disney, to take action

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Do anyone ask for this apple glass iPhone update because it sees like a big redesign with no improvement just different

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@Google @mediavine any chance yall could put together some examples or templates of how we might ask readers to do this?

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@WallStreetApes The muffins were way too big before. I prefer the new size and my kids love all the new flavors

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@MattLech I would desperately like to turn OFF the AI features

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@loganix Google has nothing to do with the rpm drop. This is economic.

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running my month end report and our RPM on our primary site was down THIRTY THREE DOLLARS from last year. $74.75 in 2024, $41.62 in 2025.

Y I K E S

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@hodsonated sure, this explains retail sales being down. This site is monetized primarily via display ads, which are paid by marketing budgets, which usually shoot up on and around BF.

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wow i cannot remember the last time our site has had such a lackluster black friday. y i k e s

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so despite our traffic being up ~25%, our earnings were the worst november in memory.

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@ali310019 no, traffic is up year over year.

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@fidler_emily @FlaShDaNce314 @901Lulu Different to share w your bio brother vs with a step brother you didn’t grow up with, new to you, both teenagers.

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@Aoakudotcom I gave it a solid 18 months of doing the same old hoping things would change back and they did not so it was adapt or get a desk job LOL. I'd rather do about anything than that at this point.

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Things I miss about making the majority of our income from display ads on our websites (a mild rant):