{"id":25208,"date":"2018-11-02T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webmonkey.com\/blogging-income-report-2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T19:38:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T19:38:51","slug":"blogging-income-report-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webmonkey.com\/blogging-income-report-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Income Report – October 2018 – Making $368 From Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"
Well, it\u2019s officially the end of October, so this marks the start of when it is socially acceptable to start playing Christmas music!<\/p>\n
The start of November also marks the end of my 10th month of blogging at WebMonkey, and this has certainly been one of my more enjoyable months of blogging.<\/p>\n
In October, I published 2 posts on my blog:<\/p>\n
I was hoping to publish 2 more articles throughout October, but a mixture of school\/work\/my consulting side hustle ended up taking most of my week.<\/p>\n
However, while I didn\u2019t publish as many articles as I would have liked, October was a very solid month in terms of SEO work.<\/p>\n
In October, I spent a lot of time adding or updating content for several older posts on my blog. In fact, I probably added upwards of 2,000-3,000 words to previously published articles.<\/p>\n
For my post on ways to earn cash back when shopping<\/a>, I added information about a brand new cash back application called Caddle, and also beefed up some of the older content.<\/p>\n I also went back and updated my post on lock screen apps that earn passive income<\/a>, adding fresh lock screen apps and also editing the title to hopefully boost CTR from Google Search (it ranks at position 2-3 for many terms, but CTR is only 14%!)<\/p>\n Finally, I completely revamped my post on the best gig economy platforms<\/a> to start a side hustle by adding pictures, new platforms, editing content, and improving the article depth. Currently, that article is over 5,000 words!<\/p>\n You might be wondering why updating old content is worth so much effort. After all, it can seem detrimental to put new content marketing efforts on hold and to return to older work.<\/p>\n However, here are some of the benefits of updating older content:<\/p>\n I try to edit some aspect of my content at least every 2 weeks, but this month was certainly my first major editorial push.<\/p>\n Most of the time, the positive SEO impact that is gained from updating content won\u2019t be very apparent. In fact, you might not even notice differences for several months.<\/p>\n However, if you truly create a better article and add more value, a lot more opportunities can open up.<\/p>\n Just check out the traffic for my post on gig economy apps for the month of October:<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n I updated the article around mid October and proceeded to share it on Reddit, Hacker News, and Medium.<\/p>\n Since the article was much higher in quality, it took off on social channels with better response than when I first shared the article. Additionally, the article is now generating between 10-20 views per day, whereas it hardly ever broke 10 daily views prior to the edit.<\/p>\n In time, I predict this post will be a major driver or organic traffic, but we will have to wait and see.<\/p>\n Ultimately, if you\u2019re a blogger, make sure you return to old content every so often to update information, attack more keywords, and improve your website!<\/p>\n Anyway, now that I have created an excuse for my lack of content creation in a roundabout way, time to get into the numbers for this blogging income report!<\/p>\n Let\u2019s just say, it was a pretty great month!<\/p>\n After back-to-back months of $100+ in Google AdSense revenue, it seems my numbers have finally come back down to earth a tad.<\/p>\n I still only have 3 ad units and no in-feed ads, so I am happy to see that AdSense earnings are at least staying above $50\/month.<\/p>\n Ultimately as long as AdSense holds above a $3RPM amount as it has been doing, this is a decent amount of free income every month without sacrificing too much on the page-load\/user experience front!<\/p>\n Alright, now this surge of income definitely took me by surprise throughout October but I\u2019m very excited to see that revenue is being generated by my dropshipping guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re unfamiliar with the Shopify Affiliate Program, it basically works like this:<\/p>\n\n
Google AdSense Revenue from Blogging \u2013 $71.82<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Shopify Referral Income from my Dropshipping Guide \u2013 $145<\/strong><\/h2>\n