Making money as blogger

How much money do bloggers make. Many bloggers out there that work between 10-30 hours a week are able to make over 200,000$ in yearly income. There is also a smaller group of bloggers that makes millions every year and work less than 10 hours a week. That’s of cause bloggers that ave had their blogs for many years and have multiple income streams to their blogs.

But as a normal blogger it is quite easy to make an extra 500$ – 2000$ a month in your first year. Then i year 2, 3, 4 and 5 you can significantly increase your monthly income from your blog. Alright. Now we start talking about the good stuff. In the following paragraph’s I will explain how to make money and how much you can make by writing blog posts on your own blog. It is not a huge science.

How much money can you make blogging

How much money you can make does depend on how much traffic you get to your site. It is not far to say that you can make somewhere between 25 and 50,000$ in your first year of blogging. Then around 100,000$ year 2, 250,000$ year 3 and 500,000$+ year 4. If you continue to work on your blog and building your traffic, the income will continue to grow all the time. The good thing about blogging is that you can do it from everywhere. You only need a laptop and an internet connection.

Some bloggers that make huge money does actually not have very small audiences. They just know their audience very well and maximize their earnings per page view and email subscribers. Most bloggers measure earnings by page view and earning per email subscriber monthly. If you are a busy man/woman it also works with every other month or quarterly. It doesn’t mater as long as you keep track of your income in some way.

Traffic (page view monetization)

0,01$ to 0,25$ per page view in many niche’s is not unrealistic across display and affiliate ads. So if you have 1,000 page views per month you will earn 10$-25$ per month, and that covers the cost of actually running a blog. If you on the other hand have 100,000 page views per month you will earn 1000$-25,000$ a month on your blog. The most realistic is that you will earn 0,02$-0,05$ per page view . The more people your blog reaches the more money you can make.

Also the more time you put in to blogging, the more the traffic will grow, and the email list will also grow. Blogging is definitely not easy. One of the best things is that when your Google traffic grows over time, and your audience grows, you can make more and more money each year. Here is where SEO (Search Engine Optimization) comes in. SEO is what is making the money in the long run, because traffic means money.

Email list (per email subscriber monetization)

The email list is the most important asset you have as a blogger. This is your followers, crew, audience. They are the ones that is coming back and reading your posts every time you write a new one. Thees people is the ones that you build enough trust with so they come back and ultimately buy something or click on your ads. While you will make some money with the links and ads, your biggest asset is your email list. The biggest bloggers out there is making between 1$-5$ per email subscriber per month, so if you have 10,000 subscribers you can make up to 50,000$ in revenue.

That’s a really extreme example, and normally the number is between 1$-3$ per email subscriber per month. So start building your email list as soon as you start building your blog. Your email list is your biggest asset in the world of online money making and blogging. This is the one that will bring in the big money.

Your blog niche matters a lot

The niche you are blogging about is a large factor in how much money you can make. If you are blogging about used books for example you could probably only make money out of it if you sell them on your website, if you don’t sell expensive in-demand books of cause. A good topic to blog about is money. Then it is much easier to make some money out of your blog, because the affiliate commissions is larger, and you can sell stuff for more money.

Pick a niche that you are really interested in, and you can make money out of. You can make money in almost any niche, but some are more profitable than others. Some bloggers are able to combine multiple niche’s in the same blog, to maximize monetization opportunities.

Most profitable blogging niche’s

  1. Money/Insurance

  2. Product Reviews

  3. Travel

  4. Fashion

  5. Decorating

Least profitable blogging niche’s

  1. Music

  2. General news/Politics

  3. Cooking/Gardening

  4. Home Improvement

  5. Toys/Games

There is the five best and the five worst niche’s revenue wise.

How to make money blogging

You need to think of your blog as a platform, not just a blog. A big difference between million dollar and amateur bloggers is that their view their blog as a platform, meaning that they use it to test and upscale money making ideas. They use it to connect with people and make money in as many different ways as possible. The more ways you can make money on your blog, the more money you are going to make. The experience you get from connecting with other bloggers and try to monetize your blog the more ways you will find to monetize it. Over time you can grow your blog in to a really profitable business that suits your lifestyle.

Conclution

I am still in the beginning of my blogging career, and it will probably take a few months before I start to see any results from my efforts. It is no question about that it is a hard job, and much research every time you want to write something new on the blog, but it will be worth it in the future.

If you want some help along the way, here is a review about a site that have helped many to succeed in the blogging and reviews business. Wealthy Affiliate

And as usual. If you have any questions. Pleas feel free to post them in the comments section below.

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