How Many Pageviews Do You Need to Make Money Blogging
As a new blogger, I always wondered how many pageviews you needed to have to make money blogging. But when I spent time on Google trying to find the answer, I came up with nothing. And I spent a ton of time searching.
It was frustrating, to say the least.
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The confusion with pageviews and income.
There’s a lot of confusion over how many pageviews you need to make money blogging. And for good reason. It’s hard for someone to give you a hard and fast number (but I will… bear with me) because there are so many variables that come into play.
I call it the “Do you know what you’re doing?” factor.
That means that if you have no idea what you’re doing or how to blog as a business, you could have hundreds of thousands of pageviews a month and be making just a few hundred dollars a month.
On the opposite spectrum, if you’re very experienced and know exactly what you’re doing… You could have 50,000 pageviews a month and be making $10,000/month from blogging easily. There’s even a cheat sheet called The First 10 Steps to a Profitable Blog that walks you through the things you have to get right in order to actually make money at this. You can get that cheat sheet for free here.
The truth is, it’s not the pageviews that matter, it’s how you use them. But there’s a minimum number of pageviews where you should absolutely be earning a full time income (hold on…. we’re getting to that!)
The variables that affect how many pageviews you need to make money.
There are four main questions you need to ask yourself that affect the number of pageviews you need in order to make money.
- What kind of foundation have you set?
- Is your content, titles, and graphics engaging?
- Does your blog have a crystal clear focus?
- Do you have a newsletter list?
- How do you make money?
- Ads?
- Sponsored posts?
- Affiliates?
- Your own products?
- Is your audience engaged?
- Does your audience care what you think?
- Do they trust your opinion and seek your advice?
How many of those questions you answered yes to determine how much income you can make from the pageviews that you have. The fact of the matter is that someone can make $5,000/mo with about 30,000 pageviews a month while someone else struggles making $500/month with 200,000 pageviews.
And that’s where most articles on the subject leave you. With a brief overview of why pageviews and income don’t always correlate closely.
But those articles drove me nuts when I was new.
So, we’re doing you one better.
At 100,000 pageviews a month, you should be blogging for full-time income.
How many pageviews you need to make a full-time income blogging.
If you have more than 100,000 pageviews a month on your blog (total pageviews, not unique) you should be blogging full-time (i.e. earning more than $3,500/month from your blog).
That doesn’t mean that the second you hit that 100,000/month pageview mark that someone will send you a check. It means that if you’re already at 100,000/month and you’re not pulling in full-time income then you’re doing something wrong (which is pretty common and isn’t a testament to your business sense or character at all).
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