Income reports are a method used to tell other people on the internet how much money someone makes and how they make their money through "online world" methods. Income can be passive (like when an article posted years ago can constantly retain viewership because of it's timeless purpose creating money from ads) or it can be active where the method is short-lived or for the moment (sponsored posts, surveys, etc.). Many people develop these income posts to either give people hope and information for their own personal methods of making money or to simply drive traffic to their websites because a lot of people are curious about the ways in which a person can make money online.
I have did a bit of research and found a lot of bloggers that create these income reports and tell us the ways in which they have made their money. I will be focusing on income reports from the month of January in 2017. Within these examinations I am addressing the income made, how it was made, the traffic they receive to their blogs, as well as the topics of the websites. I am also providing my own thoughts within reviewing the information. I hope that the information proves to be beneficial to my readers as it was beneficial to me.
Bloggers that made less than $100 in one month online:
How much money did they make through blogging - $15.23
How money was made from blogging: Google Adsense
Traffic: 9054 views
Topic of the blog: Gaming
Things learned & thoughts: This blogger does have a substantial amount of followers. A following can be built with interacting on the social media sites of choice by posting a couple of times a week. So even though they are not making a lot of money, there is some untapped money potential there.
Bloggers that made $100-$500 in one month online:
How much money did they make through blogging - $135
How money was made from blogging: Wealthy Affiliate, Adsense (Site and Youtube), and consulting
Traffic: 1,007 site views & 164 Youtube views
Topic of the blog: Making money online and blogging
How much money did they make through blogging - $272
How money was made from blogging: Rebates, surveys, gifts, & selling clothes online
Traffic: Unknown.
Topic of the blog: Travel & Lifestyle
Comments: I wonder what website they sold clothes on and how they were able to attain free gifts.
How much money did they make through blogging - $189.27
How money was made from blogging: Most of the money was made from Adsense & Bluehost.
Traffic: 37,372 views
Topics of the blog: Blogging & finances (saving money, debt management, & making money)
How much money did they make through blogging - $216.40
How money was made from blogging: Most of the money was made from ads and sponsored posts.
Traffic: 4,484 views
Topics of the blog: Lifestyle (diy, food, budgeting, & income reports)
How much money they made through blogging - $219.83
How money was made from blogging: Sponsored posts, copypress, and adsense.
Traffic: 19,884 views
Blogs about: Travel, lifestyle, & blogging
How much money they made through blogging - $265.30
How money was made: dividends, lottery tickets, guest post, & cash back credit card.
Traffic: Unknown.
Blogs about: Making money online.
How much money they made through blogging - $387
How money was made from blogging: Social Fabric, Izea, Amazon, Instagram sponsored post, & other sponsored content.
Traffic: Unknown.
Blogs about: Lifestyle (blogging, diy, travel, health, food, family,saving & spending).
How much money they made through blogging - $486.76
How money was made from blogging: Pay per click ads (Google Adsense, Media.net, & MyFinance), direct ads, affiliate (iPage), & stocks (Motif Investing).
Traffic: Unknown.
Blogs about: finances (passive income, investing, budgeting, health)
How much money they made through blogging - $478.43
How money was made from blogging: Sponsored posts (Social Native, Linqia, miscellaneous), consulting, reimbursement, & ShopStyle collective.
Traffic: Unknown.
Blogs about: Lifestyle (beauty, fashion, blogging, reviews)
Bloggers who made $500 - $1000 in one month online:
How much money they made through blogging - $582.31
How money was made: Amazon affiliates, her own wig shopify store, & being a Fullscreen Youtube partner.
Traffic: Unknown, but she does have a decent following on Youtube.
Blogs about: lifestyle (beauty, fitness, & makeup)
Learned: She signed up for affiliates with her shopify store and made over $14,000 last year. This is something I am going to try soon myself.
How much money they made through blogging - $815
How money was made from blogging: Marketing services
Traffic: Unknown
Blogs about: lifestyle (pretty much everything)
How much money they made through blogging - $580.40
How money was made from blogging: Monumetric, Adsense, Hostgator, & Sovrn.
Traffic: 124,454 views
Blogs about: lifestyle (recipes, home, diy, & travel)
How much money made through blogging - $630.24 (net)
How was money made through blogging - Affiliate sales (Bluehost discount code, ElegantThemes plugin, ConvertKit, MyThemeShop), web design freelancing, & sponsored content.
Traffic: 2,674 views
Blogs about: starting a blog and income reports
Learned: You don't need a lot of traffic to make money, but ranking high on Google's search engine helps along with using keywords.
How much money made through blogging - $793
How was money made through blogging - Affiliate sales (FlexOffers, Shareasale, Ebates, Bluehost, MaxBounty, & Comission Junction).
Traffic: Unknown.
Blogs about: Blogging, career, finances (saving money & making money)
How much money was made through blogging - $951.64
How was money made through blogging - Ad networks (Mediavine & PadSquad), sponsored posts, & affiliates (Amazon, Shareasale, & Etsy).
Traffic: Unknown.
Topic of blog: Lifestyle (Disney, weddings, travel, recipes, diy, fitness, & blogging)
Bloggers who made $1000 - $5000 in one month online:
How much money was made through blogging - $1,331
How was money made: Twitter chat, affiliate (Affiliate Window), advertising (monumetric & Google adsense), mentorship, & sponsored link.
Traffic: Going Awesome Places (54,000 views) & Travel Blog Breakthrough (5,794 views)
Topics of blogs: Traveling
How much money was made through blogging - $1,698.26
How was money made: Ad networks (Adsense, Media.net, Amazon CPM ads), Affiliates (Ultimate Bundles, Amazon Associates, other affiliates), & her own products (book & printables).
Traffic: 62,261 views
Topics of blog: Lifestyle (organization, blogging, cleaning & decorating)
How much money was made through blogging - $1,201.83
How was money made: Virtual Assistance, Sponsored Posts, Google Adsense, & User Testing.
Traffic: 5,370 views
Topics of blog: lifestyle (feminism, race, sex, culture, blogging)
How much money was made through blogging - $1,172
How was money made: Monumetric, affiliate sales (Bluehost, Amazon associates, shareasale), and selling her own product.
Traffic: 120,716 views
Topics of blog: lifestyle (diy, home decor, blogging)
Learned: Use Tailwind to gain more followers. Share and upgrade old posts as well.
How much money was made through blogging - $1,446.87
How was money made: Affiliates (Capital One 360, Ebates, Bluehost, FlexOffers, & Tailwind), survey sites (Ibotta, Vindale, etc.), blog management, & Google Adsense.
Traffic: 53,337 views
Topics of blog: making money online, blogging, life, loans
How much money was made through blogging - $1,967.57
How was money made: rental property, mystery shopping, matured savings bond, swagbucks, dividends, & selling books through Amazon.
Traffic: Unknown.
Topic of blog: finance
How much money was made through blogging - $2,389.73
How was money made: Amazon Associates
Traffic: 25,461 views
Topic of blog: The website she makes money from is a Health blog.
How much money was made through blogging - $2716.22
How was money made: Sponsored content, Google Adsense, Amazon ads, Kindle, Draft2Digital, Amazon, Google Play, & Tailwind.
Traffic: 227,901 views
Topic of blog: recipes and blogging
Methods of getting Traffic: Google, Pinterest, Food Gawker, Taste Spotting, Oh My Veggies, Twitter, Medium, & mailing list.
How much money was made through blogging - $2,458.80
How was money made: writing, affiliate sales, & social media management.
Traffic: Unknown.
Topic of blog: Writing and blogging.
How much money was made through blogging - $2,964.30
How was money made: AdThrive, Amazon affiliate, Amazon ads, Shareasale, Google Adsense, & Commission Junction.
Traffic: Unknown.
Topic of blog: Traveling
How much money was made through blogging - $3,205
How was money made: Sold her own product (ebook, online course, private help) & affiliate sales.
Traffic: 7,055 views
Topic of blog: Online marketing, blogging, & personal development
Things Learned: Set organized goals for yourself every month & market yourself.
How much money was made blogging - $2,300.15
How was money made blogging: physical products & sponsorships.
Traffic: 131,473 views (mostly from Pinterest)
Topics of blog: lifestyle & finance
How much money was made from blogging - $3,724
How was money made: Amazon affiliate & aliexpress.
Traffic: Unknown.
Topic of blog: It is not disclosed whether they have another website apart from this income report website or what the topic of their blog is.
How much money was made from blogging - $3,440.43
How was money made: Adsense, affiliate sales, and Indeed.
Traffic: The blogger has 4 blogs with variations.
Topics of blog: finances, job help, making money online
How much money was made from blogging - $3,385.00
How was money made: freelance writing, virtual assistant, & content editing.
Traffic: Unknown.
Topics of blogs: freelance
How much money was made from blogging - $4,821.
How was money made: Amazon and Mediavine ads.
Traffic: 589,194 views
Topics of blog: health, fitness, & yoga
How much money was made from blogging - $4,832.91
How was money made: contract writing, ad networks, sponsored posts, product sales, & affiliates.
Traffic: 416,053 views
Topics of blog: lifestyle (working mom, home school, finances, family, & blogging)
Thoughts: I kind of wish I knew how she is able to get contracts writing for other websites.
How much money was made from blogging - $4084.20
How was money made: personal products (online courses & ebooks) & affiliate sales.
Traffic: Unknown
Topic of blog: blogging and making money online
How much money was made from blogging - $4,821
How was money made: Amazon and Mediavine Ad Network.
Traffic: 589,194 views
Topic of blog: babies, blogging, & surveys
How much money was made from blogging - $3,297.77
How was money made: affiliates and ads(Sovrn).
Traffic: Unknown.
Topic of blog: Lifestyle (business, health, life, & money)
Thoughts: I kind of wish this blogger addressed what affiliates she used since it makes her the most money.
How much money was made from blogging - $4,855.34
How was money made: affiliates (Bluehost, Tailwind), survey sites (Vindale Research & Offer Juice), AdThrive, Google Adsense, Pinterest Coaching, Acorns (investing) and sponsored posts/mentions.
Traffic: 160,158 views
Topics of blogs: employment, blogging, & surveys
Bloggers who made $5,000 - $10,000 in one month online:
How much money was made from blogging - $5,362.89
How money was made: Sponsored posts, AdThrive, Shareasale, & BBTV.
Traffic: 281,258 views
Topic of blog: lifestyle (recipes, travel, diy, health)
How much money was made from blogging - $6.911
How money was made: Ad networks, sponsored posts, affiliate incomes, & digital sales.
Traffic: Unknown.
Topic of blog: lifestyle (diy, home decor, recipes, entertaining, printables)
Questions: I wish more information was discussed along the lines of what actual networks or websites were used for the money made. I also wonder about how much traffic she is getting to receive this amount of money within a month.
Bloggers who make $10,000+ in one month online:
How much money was made from blogging - $16,683.77
How money was made: digital marketing, Personal Capital, online surveys, LendEDU course, Bluehost, blog coaching, staff writing, & sponsorships/sidebar advertising.
Traffic: Unknown.
Topic of blog: loans and blogging
How much they made - $13,362.07
How money was made: AdThrive, Amazon, Linkshare, rStyle, Shareasale, & Bluehost.
Traffic: 774,000 views
Topics of blog she makes money from: beauty/fashion blog
My concerns: I wish I could actually see what the blog she makes money on looks like because it would be more helpful.
How much they made - $19,073.25
How money was made: monumetric ads & her own products (Shamanic training program, group healing, subscription program, & online shop (books, meditations, recorded classes).
Traffic: It isn't mentioned.
Topics of blog she makes money from: Shamanism (I need to do research on it)
My concerns: This is pretty awesome that people are interested in centering and protecting their energy to the point where she can help people as well as make money off of it. It's pretty cool.
Total for the month - $157,131.95
How money was made: Affiliate earnings {Convertkit, Blue Host,Lead Pages), book sales, niche sites (adsense, product sales), podcast sponsorships, software and apps.
Traffic: Unknown
Website Topics: Making money online, establishing a website/business
Total for the month - $23,250.53
How money was made: WarriorPlus, Click Bank, Hostator, ListSpark, AWeber, Adsense, Amazon, coaching, & digital products.
Traffic: 152,786 Youtube views (unsure about website views)
Website Topics: making money online
Thoughts about Traffic: It seems like a lot of bloggers give credit to Pinterest for bringing them in traffic, as well as signing up with Tailwind or Boardbooster. Ranking high in keywords on Google seems to be a great way of getting more traffic too.
Thoughts on how people make money online: Most bloggers use affiliates and it helps them make a decent amount of money. Also selling your own product whether it be an ebook, an online course, or even owning your own store is what makes a decent amount of bloggers a lot of money too regardless of a huge amount of traffic.
Who I hope to see more income reports from: I would like to see more bloggers and Youtube vloggers in the book, fashion, beauty, and app creator field because it would be very helpful to see the ways in which they make money as well.
After reading this, what are your thoughts on the ways in which bloggers make money online?
Do any of you guys make money online?
Or know of any other methods to make money online?
Leave a comment down below and tell me your thoughts.
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