February 2020 Income Report
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Happy March and welcome to my blogging income report for February 2020!
Why am I writing income reports?
If you don’t know what an income report is, it’s a report where bloggers breakdown their traffic, how much they made during the month, and their goals for the next month.
There are a few reasons why I’m writing income reports on my blog.
1. To keep myself accountable. Writing up a monthly report is a great way to keep myself accountable. I am letting the internet know my results and future goals so it’s a great way to keep me motivated and on track.
2. To stay transparent. I want to be as transparent and honest to my readers.
3. To inspire others. I started this blog to show others that it’s totally possible to make money blogging.
In fact, I was inspired to start this blog because of the income reports published by successful bloggers who are digital nomads and earn six-figure incomes a month.
It’s crazy to know that nowadays you can now make a career out of being a blogger and create your own life of freedom. Oh, how times have changed!
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February 2020 Income And Traffic Report
In February, I got 9,070 pageviews mostly from Pinterest and Facebook compared to 8,512 pageviews in January (a 6.56% increase).
I only wrote 2 blog posts this month unfortunately (aside from this income report) but I was still able to make money after all expenses. This goes to show that blogging is a pretty awesome way to make semi-passive income!
I say semi-passive income because I spent a lot of my free time that I scheduled for this site dedicated to making new pins on Pinterest.
Right now, I’m making 1 to 2 new pins a day but I might ramp up that number this month just to experiment with current algorithm changes happening with Pinterest.
I’ll also be experimenting with different ways to increase my efficiency when making pins as well as my pinning strategy.
Blog Posts Published This Month (aside from this income report)
Now, let’s get onto my earnings for the month.
Unfortunately, I didn’t hit my $350 income goal that I set for myself last month nor did I hit my previous month’s earnings of $289.75 even though I had more pageviews this month. I know that each month will fluctuate but I hope that next month is a little better in terms of affiliate conversions.
Note: I report these earnings in the month that I earned them, not when they’re paid to me because it’s much easier for me to track this way. I also only included money that I’ve earned directly from this blog and no other freelancing income.
Total February Earnings: $186.78
Google Adsense – $90
Affiliate Sales – $96.78 (a huge decrease from $204.94 earned last month)
Total February Expenses: $21.59
Most of these reoccurring expenses were paid upfront but I like to break down the cost of my expenses each month just so that it’s easier for me to see how much I actually earned in total with my expenses deducted.
Bluehost Hosting – $2.49
Namecheap Domain – $0.66
Tailwind – $9.99
Paypal Fees – $8.45 (to receive affiliate income)
Total February Net Income: $165.19
March Goals
For March, here are my goals:
Traffic: 10,000 pageviews (I fell short of 10,000 pageviews in February so I’m going to try to hit this number in March)
Income: $250 (I’m lowering my income goal for March as I didn’t hit my previous goal of $350 in February)
Posts To Publish: 8 (I only wrote 3 posts last month so I failed last month’s goal!)
Other Goals:
- Stay consistent with blogging (this is a hard one for me!)
- Improve my affiliate marketing skills
- Get enough pageviews to qualify for Mediavine next month (I do have another blog in Mediavine so I need less pageviews to get this site to qualify)
Blogging Tools & Resources
Here are my essential blogging tools and resources I recommend that helped me to make money on my small blog this month. I always believe in investing in yourself to gain new skills and blogging is no different in my opinion.
Bluehost
If you haven’t started a blog yet, you’ll want to sign up with a fast host that provides good customer service to ensure that everything goes smooth. Bluehost is my #1 recommendation if you’re just starting out. They have awesome, affordable plans that start as low as $1.99/month.
Follow my step-by-step guide on how to start your own profitable blog here.
Tailwind
Tailwind is a must-have tool alongside Pinterest if you want to be as efficient as possible and gain blog traffic relatively quickly.
It’s one blog investment that I didn’t bat an eye on purchasing because it allows you to schedule out your pins in advance and send traffic to your blog even while you’re asleep or out having fun. This leaves you time to do other important things such as marketing your blog elsewhere or writing new content.
Try Tailwind for 1-month free and see how it grows your blog traffic!
Pinteresting Strategies
Don’t want to invest in Tailwind? Well then, a great resource for you if you want to manually pin instead is Pinteresting Strategies.
This affordable course is jammed-packed with great strategies that will help you manually pin with great success and gain explosive traffic.
This course even has tips on how to optimize your Pinterest account which is so important in order to be successful on the platform so that is a great bonus!
Journey To The Center Of Amazon
Journey To The Center Of Amazon is an essential course to take to improve your Amazon affiliate earnings.
If you’re a beginner and haven’t started making money yet on Amazon, this course by Debbie Gartner is the course to take. It’s simple and easy to follow but filled with tons of information for both beginners and intermediate bloggers.
Read more about my review about this affiliate course here.
Easy On-Page SEO & Easy Backlinks For SEO
Easy On-Page SEO is one of the most affordable e-books to check out if you’re new to SEO that I highly recommend starting out with.
Debbie Gartner is a seasoned blogger who earns $20,000 a month from affiliate marketing by driving targeted traffic from Google with SEO.
She makes on-page SEO very easy to understand so if you’re a total beginner with no previous experience, this should be the very first resource you start with.
Another great affordable resource to learn from is Debbie’s Easy Backlinks For SEO, where she teaches 31+ ways to easily get backlinks to your site without having to do blogger outreach.
Save $20 by getting both the Easy On-Page SEO & Easy Backlinks For SEO bundle today!
Stupid Simple SEO
If you’re looking to bring quality traffic from Google search results to your blog, you need to check out Stupid Simple SEO.
This is one of the most comprehensive and in-depth SEO courses I’ve ever taken and have learned so many tips and tricks so far. I highly recommend you check out Mike’s course on how you can explode your blog traffic.
Check out his free masterclass today!
Canva
Canva is the program I use to create beautiful and eye-catching pins easily for Pinterest in just 5 minutes. I have the Canva Pro subscription and I love it because all of its features save me so much time.
You get a ton of features from having unlimited folders, premium fonts, the ability to upload your own fonts, transparent backgrounds, and resizing capabilities so you don’t have to spend a ton of time making new graphics for every social media platform that you’re on.
Check out my Canva review for more information.
Affiliate Marketing For Bloggers
One of my favorite resources to learn about affiliate marketing is Carly Campbell’s Affiliate Marketing For Bloggers course. In this course, she teaches you the strategies she uses to earn more affiliate sales from both your blog posts and email list.
You can read my full review on the course here if you’re interested in learning more and hearing my thoughts about it.
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