--- title: "First month I broke $500 - here's what changed - Amazon Associates Hub | SideHustlr" description: "Hit $512 last month for the first time after 14 months of doing this. Niche site around a very specific outdoor gear category, about 40 articles now, ro..." lang: en json-ld: | [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "DiscussionForumPosting", "@id": "https://sidehustlr.ai/forum/amazon-associates/first-month-i-broke-500-heres-what-changed-4e21564e", "url": "https://sidehustlr.ai/forum/amazon-associates/first-month-i-broke-500-heres-what-changed-4e21564e", "headline": "First month I broke $500 - here's what changed", "text": "Hit $512 last month for the first time after 14 months of doing this. Niche site around a very specific outdoor gear category, about 40 articles now, roughly 12k monthly visitors, and an email list I started around month 5. 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How long did it take you to actually get all those written? 0 MA marisol\_k · about 1 month ago About 14 months total, but the first 8 months earned almost nothing. It really did compound once I had enough pages ranking at the same time. 0 KA kaylee\_r · about 1 month ago This is the kind of timeline I needed to hear instead of the get-rich-quick stuff everywhere. 0 Login to join the discussion Login to Reply [![SideHustlr - Earn more. 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