Where could you be in 6 months time with your blog?
Where could you be in 6 months time with your blog? Ok, Where am I after six months read on for my First income Report Exciting times! First off I will only be giving an insight into how I made money and how you can too but not the actual amounts unless you sign up for my email list which you can do by getting a free list of 40 different free courses.
(If this post contains affiliate links please see our full disclosure policy although I have to warn you it is quite boring, if you really must read it you can find it Here)
I have had an eventful 6 months!
I have made a small income this month and I will give you a rundown on getting to the same point.
I started my blog on the 3rd of January so far I have had 33 posts on the blog.
It’s roughly about one post a week some weeks I can squeeze in another post.
Where could you be in 6 months time with your blog?
Thinking about starting a blog then you need to think about hosting and also preparing the ground work have a look at my post below to help you prepare you blog for traffic and monetization.
If you think this is something you can do then I recommend Siteground as a hosting company.
They have been excellent and have solved two issues I have had with my blog if you want to check out my post on how to start a blog you can find it here it will help you decide if Siteground is for you and give you more details including a video walkthrough.
Ok, I will not lie it’s been hard work you won’t immediately see results either.
You will need a certain amount of traffic to make any difference to your bottom line.
If you want to increase your traffic then check out this post.
I have been sitting around 20 to 50 page views a day for the last couple of months until these last couple of weeks :
Have a look at the first graph for May & June 2018 it shows my page views.
At the end of June and beginning of July I have had pin go viral and now its increased my traffic up to 200 page views a month hopefully it will settle around this quantity.
My top posts are currently the following ones:
Awesome Tips for Affiliate Marketing on Pinterest Without a BLOG
Do you Know What the 3 Most important Pinterest boards you should have are?
Income reports: how 8 bloggers made money in their FIRST month blogging
https://smartpennies.com/tailwindapp-pinning-strategies/
TOP bloggers reveal how to make MONEY blogging: 21 Bloggers Income reports
5 Best Modern Crochet Blanket Patterns (Includes beginners patterns)
So it is important to find out where your income is coming from.
You can add in more affiliate links to posts already bringing in money.
You can update old posts add in relevant affiliate links.
You can also add in new posts with similar topics to the top posts you already have.
At the moment what hasn’t taken off is my
TOP bloggers reveal how to make MONEY blogging: 21 Bloggers Income reports
I hoped that it would be a better traffic driver as it’s a mammoth 6000-word post.
Ok, so my top posts are a mixture from DIY posts and how to blog courses.
So what should you do next:
Make sure your old posts are optimised for increased traffic
- Which means I should have updated my Pinterest Affiliate marketing post and 3 Pinterest boards not to mention the PINS too!
- Watch this space! So my plan is to add affiliate links if it doesn’t have any
- Add more inter-page linking
- Add any more new information due to Pinterest changes – like Board Booster is no more!
- And generally, make it more SEO and readable!
My first blog income has come from affiliate sales via Awin if you want to find out more have a look at Awin for more information and to sign up as an affiliate it has some great stores that you can promote including Etsy.
Where will you be in 6 months time with your blog and what you will need to do:
- Post consistently at least once a week
- Interlink your posts to encourage people to hang around longer
- Generate traffic to your blog using SEO and Pinterest
- Add affiliate links to your posts if you want to monetize your blog
where could you be in 6 months time with your blog?
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