How much do we make from a travel blog and how

This post could probably be called the same - how much we could earn from a blog. Because, I tried some methods, but I didn't like them for one reason or another. But more on that later..

In his article How to make money while traveling online I have listed all the ways of making money that are familiar to me, which all boil down to advertising and making money on traffic. They started asking me what I tried and how much we are earning now. In order not to answer in the comments, I decided to write a post with specific numbers and at the same time talk about my position regarding earnings on the blog..

The content of the article

Background

It so happened that while blogging, I often forgot about monetization. Although this is a very important topic for many bloggers. That is, I got carried away by writing articles, photographing, commenting and traveling, which turned out to be much more pleasant than thinking about how to make money on a blog. Perhaps that is why I have not devoted much time to this this year. And this is what largely explains our small earnings. But more to the point.

How much do we make from a travel blog and how

How much can you earn on a blog and how much we could earn

  • Yandex.Direct brings 800-1000 rubles per month.

    • Attendance is growing, and this figure is also growing. The envelope is not very large. As I understand it is not normal, there should be more, at least twice. Many people advise you to try Google Adsense. Somehow I'll do it.

    What I like about this type of advertising is that it is passive income. Money just drips and that's it. But! You need a lot of traffic, which means that the project must either be in demand and interesting, or contain a decent amount of content (thousands of articles) written for search engines.

  • I'm just trying this method. There are few statistics so far. I guess there may be other numbers next month, it all depends on whether advertisers like to place ads or not..

  • Placing guards on the most popular exchanges (Gogetlinks.net, Getgoodlinks.ru, Blogun.ru, Rotapost.ru) brought in 3000 rubles in 2 months. Direct sale of guards not through the exchange brought 1500 rubles for the entire time.

    • I have been working with stock exchanges for only 1-2 months. I post the guards directly now, but rarely, as suggested. Perhaps I will muster up the strength, I will do it again. I know examples when people earned only 15,000 rubles a month on guards, but for this you have to work. You need to write articles and post links in them. A link in our blog now costs about 200 rubles, so consider for yourself how much you can get. Alternatively, you can reduce the price to increase the number of offers, well, to place more often.

    I didn't really like to post the guards. This method is similar to the usual routine work. And most importantly, if you sold a link, then your TIC and PR falls, which means you need to buy links to your blog (otherwise the price for posting a guard will fall), that is, part of the income will go to maintain positions. What does this mean to me? A big waste of time, both on placement and on the search for normal sites on the exchanges to buy guards there.

    There are also free methods of raising TIC and PR, but for this you need to be SEO, and poke around in this constantly. Therefore, this is more suitable for seo blogs - «I write about how I make money on the site and raise positions».

  • Placing articles from the Miralinks.ru exchange brought 9000 rubles in 4 months.

    • Not a bad way, as posting articles is more expensive than posting guards. Now we take about 500 rubles for this. However, again, I do it sporadically. I am not very interested in this type of earnings. The rake is the same as in the case of the placement of guards. I sold links, so I need to buy links.

  • Placing banners through Rotoban.ru brought 900 rubles in 3 months.

    • I tried it, but there were not many people willing to place banners, only 2 people in 3 months. Therefore, I gave up this type of advertising. Plus, it annoys me if something flickers on the screen, and I think I'm not the only one.

  • Travel affiliate programs (Aviasales.ru, Roomguru.ru, Booking.com, Agoda.ru) have brought literally 300 rubles so far.

    • But they have been on the blog since mid-March. Only now have my hands reached me to try them. From the reviews, I realized that just posting a search form or links to search for hotels and tickets on the blog will do little. Therefore, there is still need to think.

  • Affiliate programs not related to the tourism theme - have not tried.

    • And, probably, if I try, it will be without reference to this blog. Either on another project with a relevant topic, or just as traffic arbitrage.

What conclusions did I draw

So how much can you earn from blogging? Now we could earn 10-15 thousand a month. From the point of view of an ordinary blog, this is normal, from the point of view of top bloggers, of course, very few, there are completely different amounts.

It's not enough just blogging if you want to make good money. You need either an original idea and a different approach for a blog, or a more serious and useful project where people will add materials themselves. Well, or as I wrote in the article How to make money while traveling online you can sell your services or goods, then the attendance will no longer be so important, but the target visitor is important.

When I started a blog, I knew absolutely nothing, neither about blogs, nor about wordpress, nor about making money. But all this was terribly curious to me. Having spent a year in this in everything, I realized what I would like to continue to do and what not.

As practice has shown, the standard earnings for a blogger by selling links and building up my positions (TIC and PR) are not so interesting to me as to be engaged only in them. But the process of writing articles, photographing, traveling, a free life left an indelible mark on my soul.

Parting words to all beginners

Most likely, many who are just starting to learn the topic of online earnings will have to go through a similar path, the path of trial and error, and select for themselves the niche that they like best.

If you started blogging, then you have to learn a lot of new things, to master many professions. And this is great, because then you will have a choice..

While blogging (or creating a website), you will be able to find out those things that you could not think of before, both related to possible earnings, and simply useful. You also get the opportunity to meet the right people who can become your companions, employers or clients..

And in conclusion

Not everything in this world is measured in money. Remember this ...

We have lived a year as we could only once dreamed of, and now we do not regret anything. We were able to realize one of our old dreams, and come up with new ones. We have acquired many new acquaintances, both real and virtual. Many different thoughts and ideas came to us regarding the creation of other projects..

Thank you, to all those who have been with us all this time, thank you, our friends and readers!

P.S. The links in the article are referral, and if you register using them, then I can help you work with exchanges. If you erase the referral number, you will still register under someone higher, and he will not be able to help you.

UPDATE. The situation changes when you come to grips with making money on a blog. New statistics on earnings can be seen here - the best travel partner, finstrip for 2012 and finstrip for 2013.

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