Welcome to another blog income report, today I’ll share this blog’s income for October 2016. The reason I decided to share my income is that I highly recommend starting a blog to work your way towards a full-time online income.
I feel like the best way to show you it’s legitimate is by sharing my income each month. If you’ve missed any, here’re all the income reports I’ve shared.
As you look through this income report, please keep a few things in mind. I’ve been blogging for over two years; it took a lot of hard work to build a decent income. You’ll see some sites on this list I consider “extra income,” but I’ve made much more than just extra income. Most of the earnings come from referring others, not my doing things like taking surveys.
If you have any questions about the income I share, just leave comments below. Here’s my income for October 2016.
October’s Blog Income
Affiliate Income
Wealthy Affiliate: $541 (Blogging Training) Read Review
Panthera Network: $717.70 (CPA Network) Read Review
Transcribe Anywhere: $78.80 (Transcription Training) Read Review
Ibotta: $1,100 (Cash Back Shopping App) Read Review
Fusion Cash: $222.25 (Rewards Site) Read Review
Qmee: $15 (Paid To Search) Read Review
Swagbucks: $25 (Rewards Site) Read Review
bevRAGE: $36 (Alcohol Cash Back App) Read Review
Amazon Associates: $21.90 (Amazon Affiliate Program)
Earnably: $10 (Rewards Site) Read Review
Feature Points: $10 (Paid To Download Apps) Read Review
PaidViewpoint: $35.54 (Survey Site) Read Review
Instant Cash Sweepstakes: $9.49 (Poll Site) Read Review
CashCrate: $30.98 (Rewards Site) Read Review
Clixsense: $16.77 (Paid To Visit) Read Review
InstaGC: $10.15 (Rewards Site) Read Review
PrizeRebel: $7.16 (Rewards Site) Read Review
GiftHulk: $5 (Rewards Site) Read Review
Palfish: $37.50 (ESL Tutoring App) Read Review
Total Affiliate Income: $2,930.24
Ad Revenue
Monumetric: $833.82
Adsense: $21.18
Media.Net: $11.67
Private Advertising: $115 (See my Advertising rates here)
Total Ad Revenue: $981.67
October Income: $3,911.91
October Goals
My goal for October was $5,000, but I didn’t reach it, and my income went down a few hundred bucks. Honestly, I’m not surprised by this; I barely worked on my site, and I only posted content once a week.
I was busy with offline projects, so I was pretty much trying to keep my income stagnant over a few month period.
November will be back to normal with more content each week, so I hope to see some growth through the end of the year.
November Goals
My goal for November is $4,500. I think with the holiday shopping season coming up, I should be able to make more than I did this month, plus I’ll be posting more content again.
I would be ecstatic to see over $5,000, but since my income has been stagnant the last few months, I’ll be happy with $4,500 for the month of November.
Make Money With A Blog
I hope you enjoyed this income report, and please remember these are meant to inspire you to start your own blog and work towards making a full-time income with it.
If you’d like to learn more, visit How To Start A Profitable Blog.
I’ll talk about a training site I highly recommend called Wealthy Affiliate. I’ll also teach you how to start your blog without any training, but the training will help, of course!
If you have any questions, make sure to leave comments below!
Thank you for providing your income reports! They are really inspiring. I am wanting to promote affiliate products on my site too (I’m in the ‘make money online’ niche as well). However, my traffic is only about 3K per month. Do you suggest that I work on getting my traffic numbers up first and then put work into doing product/site reviews with affiliate links or should I go ahead and invest time in promoting my affiliate programs? Thanks!
Hey Amanda! Glad you enjoy my income reports. I recommend spending time updating your existing content with affiliate links. With 100 visitors a day you can still make money with affiliate marketing. Of course, traffic and creating content should be your main focus, but there’s no reason to leave money on the table because you don’t have affiliate links in your existing content.
Hope this helps, if you have any other questions, please let me know!
Brok