In an effort to be completely transparent about blogging income to show other bloggers what realistic numbers they can expect from blogging, I always do a post showing what my blogs earn each month. August 2009 was my most successful and profitable month yet as a blogger. Between my three blogs, only two of them earned anything other than some Adsense revenue, but I earned $435 dollars this month which was easily twice as much as three to six months ago. Dragonblogger.com my flagship blog is still my top earner at more than $335 dollars earned from it, most from only 3 SocialSpark opps that netted me $290 dollars from just doing 3 paid opps. Meanwhile, my personal blog continues to average between $50 and $70 per month from PayU2Blog which is still worth doing. All in all my goal was to try and earn $500 per month from my blogs by December 2009, and I am getting close to achieving that goal, though I don’t think I can sustain this high of earnings each and every month, this was clearly a successful month blogging.
I also earned $23.33 in AdSense for the month and my new AdSense ads and placements have netted me more clicks this month since I have done some tweaking, hopefully this will continue to increase as well.
According to Google Analytics I came out with:
- 10,041 unique visits / average of 323.9 unique visits per day
- 12,555 Page Views
- 59% of my visits from Google Search (Organic)
All in all though, remember that I put in about 20 hours per week into my blogging and online earnings, so if you divide $435.51 / 80 hours, I have netted about $5.44 per hour blogging this month, which is still below minimum wage.
-Dragon Blogger
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September 4th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
$435 is pretty damn good for the months blog income. I still need to work harder at ad placements and bring in advertisers and stuff like that. Keep up the great work. Greg Ellison
Greg Ellison´s last blog ..Your blog isn’t working right!!!
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September 4th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Thanks, was lucky, one SocialSpark opp accounted for $250 payout, which is more than 1/2 of total earnings.
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September 5th, 2009 at 9:25 am
It’s good money for blogging, but as you point out, it’s still below minimum wage. Question is, would you still have done it even if it didn’t pay anything?
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September 5th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Very good question, and I will do a blog post with my answer since I think it deserves a full post. Short answer is yes, I would do my poetry blog because it hones my writing and artistic skill, my technology blog because it is a hobby, and my personal blog, but probably no others. I just wouldn’t spend nearly as much time promoting them and looking for paid opps.
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September 5th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
hi, congrats… good jobs
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September 5th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Thank you, I appreciate it.
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