And I'm not talking about the kind of suck<\/em> where people can't travel, or find their favorite product at the grocery store, or watch their favorite sports team.<\/p>\n I'm talking about the kind of thing like losing your job, going into debt, and having a myriad of other personal problems.<\/p>\n However, there are ultimately two reasons why I've still decided to write a blog income report for 2020<\/strong>:<\/p>\n This isn't <\/em>going to be a post that tries to convince everyone to start their own blog or begin making money online<\/a> because I don't think these options are always viable, especially if you don't have much money<\/a> right now.<\/p>\n Instead, this blog income report will provide a completely honest look at what WebMonkey earned in 2020, the cost of doing business, and some personal updates since this year has definitely been a wacky one.<\/p>\n Before we start, I'd also like to thank everyone who has taken the time to read, comment, share, and even email me your thoughs over the years.<\/p>\n I feel like I'm a very different person since I started this website back in college, and I'm grateful WebMonkey is something people actually care to read.<\/p>\n Anyway, without rambling on, let's get to it!<\/p>\n Want to start from the beginning? Checkout<\/strong>:<\/p>\n This year has been the most dramatic increase in my blog as a business, and I think it ultimately highlights the fact that creating a profitable blog is a marathon<\/strong>, not a sprint.<\/p>\n It takes time to nurture a blog into a profitable business.<\/p>\n However, you'll sometimes find that it just takes that one lucky break for your blog to really start rolling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n For me, the big break in 2020 largely came from switching up my display advertising provider to show more profitable ads on my website.<\/p>\n I'm going to talk about that income stream and every other major stream of blog income for 2020 in the name of transparency, so let's get to it!<\/p>\n In 2020, my blog earned $15,085<\/strong> <\/strong>thanks to running Mediavine advertisements.<\/p>\n I've written about Mediavine before in my Mediavine review<\/a>, and this is undeniably the most significant change I've made to my blog to-date.<\/p>\n It also represents how blogging is very much a case of putting in months or years of effort in order for something to finally click.<\/p>\n When I started blogging, I used Adsense, Google's advertising network, to make money.<\/p>\n After over a year, I switched to Monumetric<\/a> and increased my blogging revenue by 400% compared to the pennies I was earning with Adsense.<\/p>\n I then <\/em>used that extra income to redesign my website, outsource Pinterest marketing, improve SEO, and funnel the revenue into growth.<\/p>\n That growth helped me reach the 25,000 monthly session requirement for Mediavine (it's 50,000 now sadly but they are working on a lower-tier product as well for smaller bloggers).<\/p>\n So, in reality, getting into Mediavine was really just a series of smaller steps and advertising networks…not such an impossible feat when you look at it that way!<\/p>\n Alright, time for the second major category of blogging income I rely on: affiliate income<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I've honestly always struggled with affiliate income, so I'm pretty pumped that this year has shown much stronger signs on the afiliate side of things.<\/p>\n There's really two main reasons my affiliate income has improved<\/strong>, and this is what I suggest other bloggers consider too:<\/p>\n This might sound like stupid advice, but it finally hit me this year that in order to really earn affiliate income, you gotta get some hooks in the water and actually get those clicks!<\/p>\n So, this year, I've used the following affiliate networks to make money:<\/p>\n Total<\/strong>: $5,939.96<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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My Blog Income Report – Making $22,000+ From Blogging In 2020<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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