There is a blogger who is a member of this site who claims to make over $900 k per annum blogging. I find it hard to believe.
Here is the link:
http://www.makingsenseofcents.com/
Maybe she will respond to the thread and explain. Basically it says she makes it all from affiliate links.
Yes, I earn around $100,000 from my business, which consists mainly of blogging. I share everything on my site in very thorough detail - I don't hide anything and I have no secrets.
A quick read of the "blog":
-Lots of boilerplate repetition and "income reports".
-Lots of MLM-esque (ok, just MLM) "affiliate marketing" stuff.
-Many ads.
There is basically no context whatsoever that is not self-referential or promoting the "affiliate marketing" angle.
Just FYI for everyone. Don't waste your time.
-W
Ok, I've always wondered about the economics on this - I'll take it at face value that the author of the blog is not blowing smoke and that she truly does gross 100k per month. Based on her income reports, she has to drive a massive amount of traffic to her little corner of the internet to get the advertising fees and (likely-expensive-although-in-fairness-I-didn't-check) sales on her affiliate marketing course.
If she had rich, engaging content, created over the span of years (see: Financial Samurai? Go Curry Cracker?) I could see someone getting those page views. And those two have been writing for literally multiple years, producing well-researched, data-intensive, illuminating content.
But explain this to me - recent titles on the makingcents blog include "the best way to set goals in 2017" and "I still wear shirts that have holes in them." WT actual F?
Are people merely going to the blog (and driving up advertising revenue and course sales) purely because of the income reports? I am reminded of a term I read on the comments section here a long time ago - the fictive dream. People go to the MMM site (and, presumably, the makingcents site), because it has a shit-ton of revenue, and they have this dream that they, too, can get a shit-ton of revenue if only they emulate successful blog content (or, presumably, wear shirts with holes in them?). But how does one get from, say, $0 in monthly revenue (where nobody will listen to what you're saying about monthly income reports) up to 100k in monthly revenue (at which point people start buying the dream you're selling)? The comment section there is one person after another thanking the author for proving that it can be done, for giving them inspiration, for living the dream.
Someone explain this to me like I'm five - off the top of my head, the most-highly-compensated bloggers seem to just be shills for marketing courses or they gradually evolve their blogs into "here is how to make money blogging! be like me!". I am reminded of the old saw about selling shovels during a gold rush.
Is there something more to this that I am missing? I just can't grok that someone can sell 30k worth of affiliate marketing courses in a month UNLESS what they're really selling is the dream that the reader, too, can hit the jackpot.
I think I'll start a blog and just claim that I have 50k in monthly revenue from side projects, and if you pay me $19.99 you'll get the secrets, too! In no time at all, I'll have 50k in customers, ne?
If the author truly is stacking 100 large each month, hot damn, well done, you have somehow tapped into the motherlode, and congrats. I just don't get it - someone please explain in words that a five year old would understand what exactly those blogs provide.