How many page views you need to make a full-time income blogging.
If you have more than 100,000 pageviews a month on your blog (total page views, not unique) you should be blogging full-time (i.e. earning more than $3,500/month from your blog).
That doesn’t mean that the second you hit that 100,000/month pageview mark that someone will send you a check. It means that if you’re already at 100,000/month and you’re not pulling in full-time income then you’re doing something wrong (which is pretty common and isn’t a testament to your business sense or character at all).
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That being said, if you have less than 100,000 pageviews and more than 30,000 pageviews a month, it’s possible to pull in a full-time income from blogging if you really know what you’re doing.
Then the question becomes one of two things…
I’m not even close to 100,000 pageviews a month… How do I get there?
Set a good foundation for your blog. If I thought I could teach it better than Elite Blog Academy, I would. But I took Elite Blog Academy and that was the best course in the world for people who are trying to make a full-time income from blogging.
They took me from $18/month to full-time income in 10 months and within 18 months this blog was supporting my whole family.
You need to work on the foundation of your blog. The foundation includes things like…
- The way your site looks
- The posts that you write
- The titles
- The graphics
- The content
- The structure of your blog.
Then you need to work on how to market your content effectively through social media (effectively being the operative word there).
Elite Blog Academy brings you through that step by step, but unfortunately, the class is only available once a year so you need to have almost perfect timing to get in. Your best bet is to get on the waiting list here…
While you wait for the class to open up, your best bet is to go step by step through the First 10 Steps to a Profitable Blog worksheet and focus on each step in order.
What? I have over 100,000 pageviews and make almost nothing from my blog! What do I need to do?
If you aren’t making a full-time income from blogging and you have over 100,000 pageviews then you’re probably equally excited and frustrated by this news. It’s not fun to waste time doing the wrong things!
Why aren’t you making money from blogging if you have over 100,000 page views?
First, you need to identify what you’re doing wrong…
- Are you self-hosted?
- Do you have a newsletter list?
- Are you in a premier ad network?
- Do you accept sponsored posts?
- Do you have an affiliate marketing strategy?
Those are the things that will directly affect your income.
The order in which to increase your income if you have over 100,000 pageviews a month.
Get Self Hosted.
If you aren’t self-hosted, you should do that first.
You can grab hosting for only $3.49/month here. Need a step-by-step guide for those that suck at computers? You can find that here.
Get Better Ads.
Once you’re self-hosted, join a premier ad network. Join Adthrive if you have over 100,000 pageviews a month or Mediavine if you have over 25,000 pageviews but haven’t cracked 100,000 yet.
There may be a waiting list, but this will give you an instant income boost. Just for an example, my RPM with Adsense and Media.net was $2 RPM and with Adthrive it’s $11 RPM.
So for the same 100,000 pageviews a month, I would be making $200/month in ad income with Adsense and Media.net or $1,300/month by switching to Adthrive (which will only accept your application if you have over 100,000 pageviews a month). Keep in mind that everyone’s RPM is different and I have a fairly aggressive ad strategy that you can read more about at the bottom of this post, but that’s a good example.
Focus on Your List.
Your email/newsletter list and affiliate marketing go hand in hand. The best course of action is to invest in the Core Affiliate Strategy which step-by-step leads you through how to make (a lot of!) income from affiliate marketing.
The best part of that strategy is that it teaches you how to grow your affiliate income as fast as possible without requiring you to work more hours by using the 80/20 rule.
When you have affiliates mastered, then I would analyze your current content. Make sure your foundation is solid going forward. If you’re kind of just “winging it” and still getting over 100,000 pageviews then you should absolutely grab Elite Blog Academy which sets the foundation of your blog as a business.
Elite Blog Academy covers everything from your content, your graphics, and the business structure and strategy. It’s AMAZING. I can’t recommend it enough. If you look at your titles, content, and graphics and you know that you have a solid strategy and that they’re converting well, then leave EBA on the table for now and focus on affiliate marketing.
My caution is that if you’ve been winging it and you getting over 100,000 pageviews a month then your potential is actually so much more than that. Elite Blog Academy would firm up your foundation and teach you how to blog from brainstorming to business structure. Again, it’s only available once a year so you need to have almost perfect timing. Your best bet is to sign up for the waiting list here.
