First of all, I have to apologize for getting the July income report out SO late. It’s been a whirlwind summer of travel and between this and Going Awesome Places, it’s definitely been tough to keep up. The good news is that the podcasts are going again and I’m catching up on these reports as well. So winding the clock a little, I had a chance to dig into how July’s performance was. While it wasn’t as good as I had hoped it to be, money still trickled in...
Alright today I’d like to introduce to you a super simple tool. It probably won’t change your life but if you’re leveraging Google AdSense to display ads on your site, you may want to check this out. Google account confusion You’re probably thinking that you can easily go to and yes you’d be absolutely correct. But if some of you are like me, the primary Google account you’re usually signed in with normally is not the same as the account that’s tied to Google Adsense. As a...
Hey everyone! Welcome to the March 2015 income and traffic report for Going Awesome Places and Travel Blog Breakthrough. Well another month’s gone by and it’s another month that I’ve continued to crack the $1000 threshold. Through this report, I hope to give you insight on how exactly I make money with the hopes that it’ll spark some ideas. I also talk about my traffic numbers to give a sense of what kind of traffic is needed to make the money that I do. My...
I’ll tee up this income report as my most successful month yet! A lot of things are starting to click so hopefully you guys’ll pick up on a few things to help with your own blog. As most of you know, I started doing these income reports back in October and I think out of everything on the site has been the most successful and insightful for readers. I really want to show you guys that it IS possible to make money blogging. The key is really to shift your mindset and start...
Happy New Year everyone! 2014 marked a great year of progress and I’m so grateful for all of you that have stuck by me along this journey. I’ll share with you a quote from a fan that I just got today that really made my day. A big thank you for your travel blogger toolkit series, they are THE most useful thing I have read over the last few months In reading that, it really brought me back to my original purpose of helping all of you out. It’s all about pushing that needle...
So you’ve done a lot of travelling and you want to write a travel blog. What do you write? How do you write it? What style should it be in? These are all questions that I honestly didn’t think about when I first started but looking back, there was a huge inflection point in traffic when I changed my mind set about what type of content suited my niche. What I learned So as most of you know, I started off blogging after I quit my corporate job and travelled all around...
