Alright, this is my first time reporting on blogging income.
First of all, if you are new to my blog, a very warm welcome. For loyal users, thank you so much for all your immense support and love towards my blog.
Before we get into the monthly stats and income reports, let’s first take a quick look at my blog – Personal Finance Freedom. So here we go. I actually started this blog in 2017. However, you may not find many old blog posts because I personally deleted a few – it was quite outdated content and I thought it was of no use to my users.
I didn’t delete them all, just a few outdated blog posts 🙂
Looking back, I still remember that I wrote a few articles between the ages of 10 and 15, then got very busy at work and with family, lost track a bit and went offline for almost 2 years. Somehow I’ve always been interested in coming back and continuing to post new blog posts, but I just haven’t had the motivation to stop this thing from continuing.
Personal Finance Freedom – Journey So Far in 2020
Fast forward to February 2019, I’ve started blogging again and this time I’m not going to give up. I have the right tools, motivation and family support to keep moving forward. Additionally, I invested a lot of time learning the things needed to run a blog these days – Yoast SEO, plugins, page speed, article word counts, etc.
All of the above metrics influence Google SERP ranking. If you are not in the top 10 search results for the given keyword, then you are no good.
Now, I’m not promising to publish 20 articles per month, but whatever I write, I will make sure that it will be useful to someone who is looking for quality information on this topic. Whether it’s 5 articles per month, 10 or 20, I assure you in terms of quality.
Currently, my blog http://www.personalfinancefreedom.com has 52 articles, including almost 40+ articles written in the last 2 months of March and April 2019. As I said, it takes a while to drive quality search engine and social traffic to these blog posts and keywords (6 months is the industry standard for peak traffic on Google).
Plus, I have this love for blogging and personal finance that keeps me going.
I love sharing information in my own way (individual point of view and perspective) and reaching out to my users. Blogging gives me a feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment; after publishing each article.
My only request to all of you readers is to comment on individual posts after reading, this helps me improve and ultimately deliver better content by understanding what you expect from me.
With that said, let’s now move on to the actual statistics and the revenue report.
Personal Finance Freedom – February – April 2019 Income Report
Let’s take a look at the Google Analytics report from February to April 2019.
I still remember that I started blogging again after a gap of almost 2 years from the 2nd week of February 2019.
Here is a quick Google Analytics report from February to April 2019:
Here is now the Google Analytics report for the months of February 1 to April 21, 2019 (nearly 80 days of data).
I got a total of 16,633 page views with 8,440 new users during this period. Also look at the bounce rate, it stands at 76%, which is pretty good by industry standards, however, I am working on reducing it even more.
Quick note – I experienced Google Analytics crashing for a few days last month, not sure what the problem was but it was resolved. During this period I saw that the actual number of users was 0 and happened for a few days.
As I said earlier, I only started publishing new posts from the 2nd week of February, since Google takes time to generate search traffic for new blog posts, no wonder I am doing great and am really excited to look at these results. (BTW, I still rely on Google for the majority of my blog traffic since my blog is relatively new and not many returning users at the moment)
PS – Google takes almost 6 months to generate good to downward traffic to the keywords of new articles.
Also take a look at the screenshot below – I just wanted to look at the stats for March and April 2019. Because it’s bigger than February when I started blogging.
As you can see, blog traffic increases over time and this is a sign of success. I’m really happy blogging and it’s really satisfying for the effort I happily put in.
Now let’s move on to the blog income report that I produced for the months of March and April 2019 (I’m not taking February into account because I hadn’t earned anything at that time and I had just started the second week)
Blog Revenue Report – March and April 2019
You may have already seen articles on my blog, yes I run Google Adsense ads on my blog.
I really enjoy working with Google and the Adsense program in general. I don’t think I’ll be switching to Mediavine anytime soon, even after I hit 25,000 sessions per month (which is a threshold for applying to Mediavine).
Although all successful bloggers recommend switching from Adsense to Mediavine, I am still skeptical about them and the income I can potentially make from them. They show Google ads anyway.
For now, at least, I’m not very interested in moving away from Adsense. Let me think about it in the future and once I reach 25,000 sessions.
I’m really happy with my Google Adsense earnings so far. Here’s a quick overview of my income so far:
There you go, look at the Page RPM, it’s $21.40 CA Canadian for the last 28 days of data.
Isn’t that amazing? Why should I move my display ads to Mediavine or others when my income is so good and comes from the best advertising company, which is Google itself.
I got a total of 142 clicks on my ads and my CPC is $0.63, which is great!
A page CTR above 3% is also a good thing.
With 4,200 pageviews in the last 28 days, I’ve earned $76 this month so far in 21 days.
Now imagine that as I write more and better content, things can only get better. My personal goal is to reach at least 25,000 page views by the end of 2019. Realistic? I think so. I’m definitely working hard to achieve that.
Blog Income Alternatives – Other than Adsense?
I tried managing Amazon Associates for a brief period of time – about 3 days.
I have seen some progress, but I just figured that when my Adsense earnings are this good for the pageviews I have, why should I ruin my site with other ads/affiliate programs, slow down my site, and get affected in Google’s search rankings (SERPs).
With this in mind, I removed the Amazon Associates ads from my blog after running it for a few days.
I don’t think I’ll be switching to new ad networks anytime soon and will stick with Adsense for a while unless I see something wrong. My personal goal is to reach 25,000 page views by the end of this year. Given my current income, I should be able to easily earn $250 each month with that many page views and Google ads.
Let’s see how it goes. For now, I’m happy with the way things are looking. My blog traffic is increasing week by week and it’s really positive once my blog posts reach the 6 month peak traffic period.
Final Thoughts
So there you have it, this is my first blog income report.
Just to recap, I’m only running Google Adsense ads at the moment (display ads only). And I don’t want to market any affiliate programs or products to my users at this time. I’m still not comfortable recommending information products at this time.
Once I find that my blog does justice with good quality content and users like it, I will surely recommend one or two products or programs.
At the moment I don’t care much about the income I earn from my blog, I also know where I want to get this blog, so I work alone on the articles and in turn focus on helping more and more people who are looking for quality content and solutions to their problems.
Regardless, when the quality is there, the income follows, that’s what I believe in.
I will write more income reports in the coming days and keep you updated on the direction, statistics and income of this blog.
Alright, friends, thank you so much for reading my first blog income post. Comment below with your valuable feedback. Until next time, with a new article, take care of yourself. Also check out popular blog posts below.
Much love, Sagar
