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It\u2019s the start of another month, which means it\u2019s also time for another blogging income report and update!<\/p>\n
As usual, I always aim to be 100% transparent and share as many blogging metrics, income screenshots, or tidbits of info as possible.<\/p>\n
While blogging income reports are a dime a dozen these days, I think the truly honest reports are becoming harder to find amidst swarm of \u2018blogging about blogging\u2019 niche writers.<\/p>\n
Thus, while this is getting repetitive, I will persevere and continue to write these reports because they help me stay motivated and will hopefully provide other writers or content creators with a realistic <\/strong>road map of what to expect.<\/p>\n So, onto the details!<\/p>\n I\u2019m going to start including my income numbers at the top of these reports since I figure these stats are more interesting to other bloggers.<\/p>\n Despite only publishing 3 posts, August was the highest month of earning I have ever had.<\/p>\n In August, WebMonkey or syndicated content from this blog resulted in $229.52<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Here is how the income breaks down:<\/p>\n The bulk of my August earnings were driven by increased traffic to WebMonkey (I\u2019ll get to this later) and an increase in my Google AdSense average RPM (it was around $9.49\u00a0<\/strong>for the month, which is crazy).<\/p>\n An increase in traffic bringing in additional display advertising revenue isn\u2019t surprising, but I was happy to see my RPM creep up.<\/p>\n I also noticed CPC bids (cost-per-click) were appearing in my AdSense breakdown alongside CPM (cost per thousand impression) bids, which is new as far as I can tell.<\/p>\n My gut is telling me that my recent posts on college related topics like college side hustles you should start<\/a> might have attracted some new display publishers in the education vertical, increasing my average RPM with back to school pumped advertising budgets.<\/p>\n While this is just my guess, I think this month has proved that AdSense can provide publishers with strong RPMs depending on their niche and the season\/advertising economy.<\/p>\n I\u2019m still striving to reach the 25,000 session mark for Mediavine, but for now, I\u2019m happy to start making money with Google AdSense every month!<\/p>\n Additionally, I also think this increase in earnings shows it is feasible to start your own blog and generate income within 6 months to 1 year.<\/p>\n I recently published a post that outlines the steps I have taken to create a $100\/month blog<\/a>, and I think posts like that, coupled with these income reports, definitely prove that blogging isn't dead or impossible.<\/p>\n The money isn't easy and blogging takes hundreds of hours of work to pay dividends, but the effort is worth it in the end!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019m actually getting fed up with the content syndication system on Medium, and I expect my earnings to dip on the platform very dramatically over the next few months (until I can write some original content on the platform).<\/p>\n 2 months ago, I noticed that my phone farming guide<\/a> and \u2018how to make money on Medium<\/a>\u2019 guide were starting to receive organic traffic on Medium and were actually cannibalizing my own blog posts.<\/p>\n Upon checking the source code for my stories, it was evident that my phone farming guide did not actually have a rel=canonical tag, and was therefore not informing Google to attribute WebMonkey as the original source of the article.<\/p>\n My guide on how to make money on Medium was formatted correctly, but it was still receiving traffic from Google\u2026and a lot of it:<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n After contacting Medium\u2019s support team, I was assured that all the tags would be fixed and both of my articles would resume their rank 1 position on Google.<\/p>\n After 2 more weeks, nothing changed.<\/p>\n I have finally hidden both of those Medium stories so they won\u2019t appear on Google, and this has corresponded with an increase in organic traffic to these 2 articles:<\/p>\nBlogging Income for the Month of August<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Google AdSense Blog Earnings – $166.17<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Content Syndication on Medium – $63.35<\/strong><\/h2>\n