How to Make Money Blogging in 2022 ($200k Per Month)
If you want to learn how to make money blogging, you need to ditch the cookie-cutter advice you’ve been reading.
“Expert” bloggers tend to give you generic advice about writing about your passions, staying consistent, forming good writing habits, and creating great content.
Then, a few years from now, you’ll finally have enough website traffic to monetize your blog with affiliate programs, Google AdSense, online courses, podcasting, or selling digital products.
The hard truth is, it doesn’t have to take you years – blogging advice is just outdated.
To make life-changing money from your blog as fast as possible, you need to think like a CEO and treat your blog like a business, not a hobby.
I started this blog in January 2019 to track my progress as a brand new blogger using everything I learned in the startup world.
And as you can see from my Blog Income Reports, I now make over $200,000 a month from this blog that I started three years ago.
I hope this guide gives you some fresh ideas and updates your tactics for the 2020s and beyond.
There’s a reason that 95% of bloggers fail, and it’s not why you think.
The current myth is that bloggers fail because they aren’t “passionate enough.”
“Push through failure to succeed,” they say.
Google “why bloggers fail,” and you get the same answer from the #1 result: bloggers fail because they aren’t passionate enough.
I officially reject this notion.
The real reason bloggers fail is the same reason that any business fails: it’s not profitable.
Take my passions, for example.
I’m passionate about a lot of things – drumming, flying airplanes, traveling, astronomy, distance running, personal development, Detroit-style pizza, etc.
However, if I wrote an endless amount of blog posts about one of these topics without making any money, I’d burn out 100% of the time.
Additionally, some bloggers claim, “I’m not in it for the money” or, “It’s just a hobby.”
Hobby bloggers are just new bloggers that don’t know how to make money yet. In any creative digital field – whether it’s design, web development, photography, copywriting, or video editing – there are beginners and experts.
And since most bloggers start as beginners by writing about a passion and try to figure everything else out later, they’re destined to fail.
Before you get started, you need to do some research and see if people search for the topics you want to write about – and they are monetizable.
The two main types of monetizable keywords are “best” list posts and “how-to” guides.
For example, in the case of the “best” list posts:
- In travel, this could be “best travel insurance” or “best travel backpack.”
- In finance, it could be “best savings accounts” or “best Roth IRA.”
- In tech, it could be “best VR headset” or “best PS5 exclusives.”
