The Reasons Your Blog Isn't Making Any Money
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- If there was one simple answer to this question I would give it to you. But it depends on a lot of factors. Which is why I made an entire flow chart for you so that you can figure out exactly why you're stuck making little to nothing on your blog and how to remedy it for yourself.
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Chapters:
0:00 Earnings survey data
0:26 Diagnosing your website
0:47 Problem #1 & the solution
1:35 Problem #2
2:13 1st reason for problem #2
3:56 Second reason for problem #2
5:04 Problem #3
6:27 When to use display ads
6:58 Affiliate marketing the right way
8:40 Still under-monetized?
11:53 What to do next
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I just finally got to the 30 blog post level and Google took an interest. But now I have to base more blogs on my search analysis. I did the think to get my ideas out but I think that is okay because I have content to refer my potential clients to when I speak to them about ways to help them.
My site is 4 months old, getting about 20-30 hits a day, and I just earned $0.02 on Google Adsense. That Lambo is just around the corner, bois!
Made by Lego.
Congrats! im just getting there
May I know How many hits per day you have when Adsense approved your site?
@@chineeandvashee Not many, about 20.
I wish you to make that amount of money with blogging because at that point you will have a paradigm shift and value your money and life better that spending on a car. :)
As usual, this info is spot on for me on so many levels in my quest to build a content driven website and what I've not understood clearly along the way. This has been an eye opener and how I need to focus what I really should be doing for better traction.
Each point touched on apply to me but my number one was creating enough content based on specific search queries.
There are so many good valuable nuggets in this video I've replayed this video a few times.
Thanks again for your professional, kind and straightforward approach from you and your team. I'm truly grateful for you❤. Keep up the great work, we're listening❤❤
Thanks for addressing this issue, Ricky. I am a new sub and have been enjoying catching up with all your previous content. I really like the topics you cover and your no-nonsense style of getting straight to the point and how you provide an outline on everyone of your videos so we are able to jump right to the topic.
Going through this flowchart for my website:
Do I have enough content that is old enough? Yes
Do I have more than 10k traffic per month? Yes
Is your income greater than $10 RPM? No
Ads & Affiliate marketing? No. Just ads (Mediavine).
I'm not sure how to implement affiliate marketing with my celebrity biography/net worth niche.... I guess I have some homework to do....
Welcome back Sir
Mine is topical authority
I've been writing content on all my interests. It's time to restructure my website and draw out a content silo for my site. Thanks
Consistency is the real secret sauce though. Working on it
RUclips is the way
@@stockmeat 😅 4:50 4:50 4:51 4:51 4:51
yes it is the key of our success 😮
How many hours in a week exactly?
Thank you! Good video. For me it is content as i have just started the journey.
For your web, FOR YOUR FAMILY, thank you.
amazing video as always!
Let me know which of these issues is holding you back so that I can make the content you need the most!
Thanks Ricky!
Thank you, great value
No hope for me - I have a new Canadian Website.
I keep on telling myself that I'm writing it for my kids.
Thank you Ricky! Welcome back!
A Canadian audience is still pretty lucrative! This resource is a couple years old but it's still relevant: www.ezoic.com/display-ad-rates-geolocation-2020/
Thanks, it's good to be back!
@@IncomeSchool Thanks very much Ricky! I will go look.
Appreciate your content ❤
This was so helpful! And a little relieving 😅. We're still less than 6 months along and though we're doing our very best to follow the Project 24 system, we still aren't seeing any money come in yet. I guess we just keep our heads down and keep on keeping on.
Hi there, how many posts did you publish so far? Any luck with making any money?
Thank you Boss
Let me know which of these issues you're having so that I can make the most helpful content possible for you in the future! Also, you can get the flowchart right here for free, no email address required (incomeschool.com/what-to-do-if-your-blog-earns-less-than-you-think-it-should/).
Do you have a printable outline to follow?
Hey Ricky! Thanks a lot for informative and insightful video. I feel as if I know you, like we went to school together! 😂 Ezoic ruined my website... Killed it, just suffocated it. I had plugin integration, but still, it shouldn't suppose to do that. You could talk about it... It would be helpful! Cheers!
Do the parameters still apply today with AI and chatGBT? Or so you think that it would be 30 articles per week…as some people are just flooding the Internet with the AI generated content in masses? Thank you
I don’t think Google cares if you publish 30 articles per week. No blogger is vetting 30 articles per week so unless they have a team of editors, their content is low quality.
@@muletowndumpsters there's a link to download a pdf of it in this blog post. incomeschool.com/what-to-do-if-your-blog-earns-less-than-you-think-it-should/
Nice explanation
I think that my problem is the search analysis. I have a couple of blog posts that have some traffic - the rest isn't getting much traffic.
You hit the nail on the head. I’m getting around 10k users per month, but only 25% of the traffic is from the US and 65% are 18-34. That’s why my EPMV is just $5. I thought my niche was finance because my blog explains corporate finance and financial markets concepts, but I’m starting to see it’s actually education. What do you suggest I do? I’ve tried to affiliate for Coursera with no success. I feel like I just wasted the last 8 months of my life.
02:40 "They just don't do it!" You made me laugh 😄
Bloggers in my part of the world say 100 blog posts mark should be your target if you are a newbie. Many say they didn't make any money even after 30 blog posts, but things started to improve after that.
What about if you intend starting a blog site on a tourist destination city outside the US but aimed predominantly at US site visitors? What would the earning potential look like? How would you approach monetizing such a website? The idea with the website is to write a blog about great things to do and see that are not promoted by the majority of tour guides, operators and travel websites. The intention would be to later start a tour guide business and link the blog site to the tour guide site. Would it be a good idea to create a mirror site that caters for site visitors from other countries and make the primary site exclusively for US visitors? Would this benefit monetizing at all?
How do you add affiliate disclaimers on pages with affiliate links ?
My traffic fluctuates. There are high and low months. I blog about educational printables, most of them are seasonal. I think I need to add more helpful content like how-to posts
Powerful, practical, and helpful content as always. Thank you. In the "ramp up" phase (
I wouldn’t. 1) Medium will likely outrank your blog, meaning you’ll get less traffic (and people are unlikely to click a link to read the same article again but on your site). And 2), I believe Medium only gives “no follow” links, so it’s not going to have much “juice” to send to your blog. IMO, it’s a lose-lose.
@@scribbledjoy Thank you for your input! That's helpful.
Thanks so much Ricky. My blog is about marketing, but I think my mistake is because I don´t have a topical authority. I started my blog in 2016 and I used to talk about getting money as an affiliate, Pinterest Marketing, SEO and now about Copywriting because I wanted to attract clients for those areas, but now I think that I should narrow it. I just don´t know how exactly. I am now trying to bring more content about Pinterest (because I have a course of my own) and about Copy (because is new here and I want to sell those services too). What do you think about my strategy?
Do you do marketing as a service or only write about it? If you're doing it yourself, then analyze each step that it takes to market on pinterest, detail a step-by-step guide and describe each, show examples (very important),suggest strategies, comparisons which strategies are better for diffrent content etc. You can even highlight how you learned about it yourself. Do some feedback analysis as well, ask your readers whats troubling them, what they would know. Building communities is also a key factor
How can I write good content for my blog, even if I'm not an expert in my niche yet? I'm making a telescope/astronomy niche blog. I'm genuinely interested in the topic, but only have beginner knowledge so far. I want to gain topical authority. How do I write content? Do I need to take information from other sites? How do I research without copying others? If I need to cite, how do I cite another website as a source of my information? Do I even need to give citations?
Quality of organic traffic is key and the niche, some niches are doomed .
In the YMYL space. Just hit 30 posts. Purchased Income school and going to restart the courses now that I have 30 posts. I find it hard to balance the need for a complete informative site with things I can actually rank for. Let’s face it. I will never rank for Low Sodium Diet and Heart Failure Diet but I can’t have a site without them. Slow going over here 😊
Similar to my situation. I am working on donkey milk content in a way that I display nutrients in it, how they affect our body, immunity, endocrine system.... When I come for example to proteins, and I need to explain what is A1 casein, I also need to explain whey. How are they build. Speaking of, then I need to go in depth about peptides, dipeptides, which again leads me to particular aminos.. This is just a part of the story that needs to be covered when speaking about cow milk allergy. The other part is about different types of manifestation of this and other allergies. Like with skin issues like dermatitis, where you have seborea, atopic, psoryasis... It's crazy what I embarked myself into. But from my personal example, only when I understood how things work in my body (and mind), and tested and trialed so many foods, cleanses, fastings etc etc I was able to start living an allergy free life. When you say slow going... Im in this research ( without personal struggles of few decades), now sixth year.. My overall message to you is, just write what people need to know. Search engines will pick it up if people stay on your site, come back and share. and believe me, for truly original content with a human touch, there is always place. For sure today more than yesterday, and in the future even more because of AI, ghostwriters and other copy cats.. Keep ya head up and best of luck. Your site looks good btw.
I have a sports blog where I give predictions. What is the best way to drive traffic to those articles?
Hello, I have made a website where I do publish articles but they are not in a particular niche. The articles are divided into current affairs ,travel etc. i.e. I write articles in many different categories there. Does this make it hard for me to establish Authority?
Do you think its a good idea to expand a blog by a dropship, print on demand or some other service on same website, or would it be better to make separete websites?
The same website would be fine as long as the products are related to your niche
Something ive noticed through reading other blogs, and i might be wrong here, is that there is a real lack of indivuduality and personality within said blogs. Im attempting, with my blog to write very personal and styalised content, but im worried that this type of content wont drawuch traffic. I dont want to write how to's or anything, i want to write opinion pieces. Is there a way to monetise what im assuming will end up being a smaller but maybe more loyal audience? Thanks
You are brilliant. I have been facing the same problem with my site for the last couple of months: enough content but no sales. We mainly write broker's reviews and offer financial education like guides and strategy. After analyzing our competitors, we found that we are giving the same information, even the updated one, but cannot rank on the first page. At the same time, our sales is dropping like hell. We still failed to find the core problem. Is there any option that your team could help us to find our flaws?
Currently we don't have the capacity to offer private consults. But we do group masterminds in Project24 and the community is very helpful for individual roadblocks like this. Best of luck!
@@IncomeSchool How to join and find the solution? And do you have any suggestions for the finance or trading industry if anyone wants to drag sells from there?
I think I have a lean content issue. I have 15 blogs (well over 1200 words each). My goal is 25. Once I get to that, i plan on focusing on on of my pillars. I just started this in late Jan and am only doing 1k visitors per 28 days. I have a long way to go 😑
That’s a solid start. Keep it up and you’ll get there!
@@IncomeSchool It is? I genuinely did not know. I figured 5K would be good and I'm behind the 8-ball because I'm not churning out 5 posts a day. Cool
@@TeXXicJA It took me about 15 months to get my first 10,000 page views. 24 months in I was getting over 100,000. It starts slow and doesn't seem to go anywhere. I noticed my numbers start to climb once I hit around 45 articles. I am a slow writer due to poor vision. I get headaches if I am in front of the computer too long.
Please help clear some confusion on my part concerning affiliate links. How do you keep track of the ones you have? How do you find the links in your blog of products you were linking to before they became an affiliate but later become one? Thanks for any assistance.
I have a ton of links for my real job. I have an excel spreadsheet I keep them on with the actual link in the row and the description in the first row. I also add the help desk phone/email and have a notes section. You can right click and copy the link and paste it right into the excel document. I also keep my user name and password there. I have the document password protected. Good luck!
@@Plantsonpurpose I do something similar. I have 3 rows, The title of the link, the link itself, and the blog article. Although, I am thinking of writing a quick Access database for tracking everything. With Access, I can program it to get all the unique links and test them once a month, and then generate a report of the broken links. Right now to test the links, I have to manually go through my Excel spreadsheet and test each one.
I need more posts to see if it helps, so far I have 42 and 0-8 visits a day for more than a year. But each post takes time to write, research and get the images, then I've encountered so many technical and algorithm issues that...I lost my mojo...But all blogs I see succeeding are in the same niches and the same model, and if that's what internet became, a copy paste of tech or money app product reviews...then what's the point?
More depth in content
Who is searching for this content
Answers to search questions
Monetization via affiliates and ads.
Needs 50% of traffic in the USA and UK.
Content related to older people
Free time and money to spend
Develop an information product
So, if I live in Italy and I want to start a blog, my chances to earn through ads are that small?
where is the link 4 affiliate marketing strategies video?
I pointed to the wrong corner of the screen. It’s a link card in the video itself when I mentioned it.
Also here: ruclips.net/video/rMnDdDwXBHE/видео.html
Writing content is my pain point especially there are competitors for the same stuff
HI guys, Thank you. I have an e-commerce business and i would like to know which is the best platform to blog? Kindly help if you can. thanks.
I’m all in on WordPress. There’s a learning curve but you can start simple with a nice looking blog and you’ll never be limited by the platform.
@@IncomeSchool hi thank you so much for taking time out to reply. WordPress huh? OK. Last question what about Blogger by Google?
Hard to make money if I'm not posting. But it's coming...
Me too 😢
One day at a time! It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
The blog market is heavily monopolised by huge entities who have way more money than you to dominate nearly every topic you can imagine. Combine that with AI becoming a more dominant form of search, I recommend selling.
Do you recommend starting a blog?
This person contrarily doesn’t. I do because I think this defeatist attitude is both incorrect and harmful. There’s still a lot of money to be made by individual bloggers.
Could you add the beautiful solution map from this video in a Google doc, please?
You can download the pdf right here for free. No email address required.
incomeschool.com/what-to-do-if-your-blog-earns-less-than-you-think-it-should/
I have so many posts on my site but theyre barely bringing in any traffic! 😢
Are you a member? Did you post in their exclusive group on their website?
@@Darknight526 I have yes.
I have a lack of ideas for selling info products in the travel niche. Everything is available for free.
This video makes me want to cry. 147 posts (after completing the content warrior challenge) 1 year and 4 months later, and I consistently have 3000 pageviews per month. My goal was to have at least 8 posts on each topic, but most have way more than 10. And I'm in the RV camping niche. So hearing about Camper Report's success is heartbreaking. Maybe 147 posts are not enough to be competitive? After the content warrior challenge, I'm completely disparaged. Could you share the decision tree so that I can review it?
Spend few thousands on backlinks and don't listen to seo bs(actually you need to do seo but it is useless without juicy backlinks or ads).
I feel your pain. I have a fitness blog with around 120 pages of content and the traffic had been really choppy. It prayed at 6k views per month, but currently down to around 4k. It's so frustrating. My question is: at what point should we turn our attention to a new blog and start again?
@@ThePANDA1885 I've been thinking the exact same thing.
my site has an indexing issue and getting very little traffic with 90 articles
Are you a member? Did you post in their exclusive group on their website?
@@Darknight526 nope
If content isn’t getting indexed, it can’t show up on Google and won’t get traffic. This video may help: ruclips.net/video/5FFGfWDIBo8/видео.html
I'm in the building content stage and it's hard.
Are you a member? Did you post in their exclusive group on their website?
@@Darknight526 I’m not
Okay, since I’m not from the US, are you saying that my blog can’t earn from advertising? 😢Although my target audience are tourists staying in my country.
I didn’t say it can’t. I said it won’t earn as much. But many people outside the US earn great incomes, including ad revenue.
Australia, Canada, and the UK earn pretty well too but advertisers pay more for US traffic.
I have 160 blog post on my affiliate Amazon site and my site traffic is in hundred. 😢
1 year old web with 200 posts but no traffic yet..any advice
Hi how are you doing your SEO? Do you mean zero traffic?
@@chineeandvashee everything is Okey with seo, unless there is something new that I don't know,. Less than 20 visits per month
Are you a member? Did you post in their exclusive group on their website?
@@Darknight526 no
Not able to rank
Are you a member? Did you post in their exclusive group on their website?
How can I earn money without ads on my website ?
Yep, just watch the video and this one next: ruclips.net/video/rMnDdDwXBHE/видео.html
Well for me my problem is my content attracts alot of visitors outside of the US, even though I'm focusing my search analysis on US keywords, like for this march I got 70k visitors from countries with very low EPMV, then 14k from the US, and that is making me have an EPMV of $1.5 overall.... I really hate that.
you can geo target and block certain countries if you think these hurt your trafic
40 blog posts in... 600-1200 page views per month... $0.75/month... Good grief haha
You guys have great content and your program looks great. Unfortunately, your inability or lack of interest in returning simple phone calls or emails is a poor initial impression I got after trying to learn more. I’m interested in your program from the standpoint of wanting to learn how to buy websites for the purpose of improving them etc. Seems to me you’re missing an opportunity here.
The trouble is, we get literally dozens of emails every day from people who want to partner with us or get us to sell their product. We try to get perspective customers to reach out via a contact form so it doesn’t get missed. But even that gets flooded with spam. We’re working on a better solution.
As for phone calls, we don’t publish a phone number on our site because we don’t have a dedicated phone support line. It just doesn’t make sense for this business.
Instead, we dedicate our time to responding to the needs of our members.
If you have a question though, feel free to ask it here. I’d be happy to help.
I’m not trying to sell you anything or looking for a partnership. I had asked what help could be provided for creating a website that utilizes Ai to help users with a particular solution. I thought my idea was different and didn’t want to use a public forum to evaluate it. You should have a process where you can give simple feedback/opinions to prospective users before someone shells out $$ only to find out this isn’t the right course. I understand you don’t want people using your tools, canceling, and asking for refunds. However, I don’t think some basic vetting/feedback takes that long. I should add this was in addition to wanting to use your instruction to learn how to find good websites for purchase. I know there's Flippa, etc., but since you also sell websites, I thought joining would be useful.
Right. My comment wasn’t insinuating that you were trying to sell us something. My point is that we get a ton of spam email and sometimes legit emails get filtered out with the spam.
I never saw your email and never received your call.
We’re working on a better solution to be able to respond to people’s questions about our services. I appreciate your feedback.
@@IncomeSchool I called you on 3/28 , I have 510 area code. I found your number on google and the VM was your voice. I left message.
I’ll look. I get about 20 spam calls per day.
UPDATE: I found your voicemail. I’ll call you tomorrow during the day.
This the advent of AI this channel is so over it's not even funny :D Do they even have any successful content site nowadays?