would you like to stay at home with your kids and make over 24 000
a month like some mommy bloggers do i bet it would be a dream life for so many moms across the globe
i'm a mom and a blogger myself and i'm forever grateful to those bloggers who shared
their income reports and inspired me to start my blog about three years ago now i know people get
easily offended these days and i've seen extensive debates in the facebook groups around this topic
of stay-at-home months and i've seen comments from men who didn't like the fact that they were
not explicitly included in the conversations about mommy blogs so just as a side note i
have nothing against full-time working moms and corporate jobs i also have nothing against dads
and some of them run great parenting websites okay don't get any of this personal the purpose of this
video is to review how pinterest helps websites in the parenting niche and the rest is your personal
choice and i'm not here to advise or just of any of these matters i want this video to be an
inspiration for you but not only that i will show you exactly how these successful mummy
bloggers get free traffic from pinterest and how they monetize their sites in the parenting niche
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video is a part of series in which i cover how pinterest works for different niches
i already published videos covering how pinterest works for food bloggers
for home decor and diy niche for fashion blogs and personal finance blogs and many many other niches
well i'll just give you a link to a playlist that includes all this niche reviews and the link
will be in the top right corner and also in the description below this video so i will start with
this blog called the realistic mama and her income report for october 2019 says that she made 24 000
and actually a little bit more if we look at her income streams she made about a thousand
dollars with advertising and then affiliate income made about eighteen thousand dollars
which is the biggest chunk of her income for that month she also sold a little bit uh of her ebook
and then she sold her organizer and also she sold about almost five thousand dollars in her courses
it's also interesting to have a look in chronological order
in at her income reports for different years so when she started in 2014 she made about
10 000 15 she made 79 so it's a pretty big jump from ten thousand to seventy nine thousand dollars
and then she's uh in 2016 she made 84 and from there her income grew really quickly and in 2018
she made in total over 367 000 i noticed that in many of her income reports she emphasizes that she
only works on her blog part-time about 20 hours a week so like i said a lot of moms would dream
to have this kind of lifestyle and this kind of income while working from home and spending time
with their kids if we look at the top menu of her blog we'll see that the main categories here
are motherhood which includes marriage kids family and also easy recipes and healthier lifestyle as a
category and also other categories on her blog are how to start a blog and income reports and then
she also has a store where she obviously sells her own products and mainly these are some printables
like organizers uh family organizer live planner and also 175 best date ideas now if we switch to
herp interest account we'll see that it's a pretty strong account with almost 5 million monthly
viewers and these are the posts that she's been saving from her site lately you will see that most
of them are actually in the parenting and mommy blog niche but there is one thing that i noticed
and which is not really good if you're trying to look at her account as a good example
uh there is a big mistake here it's a repetitive pinning because if you scroll down the feed you
will see that it's all the time the same five or four or five posts and um they are repeated very
close to each other these pins so it makes her feed look pretty repetitive but she definitely
heavily relies on pinterest for traffic because you can see here that she starts every blog post
with a pinterest optimized image it's a vertical image with a text overlay and then if you scroll
down to the to the blog post and she has several uh pins inside the post as well and you can see
that at the end of the post she is also inviting users to follow her on pinterest using this
quite big widget so basically you can just google pinterest widget builder and here you will click
on profile and then if you insert here your pinterest user url and you select the type of of
the widget that you want to add to your site here you can then grab copy paste the code from here
and insert it in the place where you want to have it on your site and now we're looking
at the income report by the blogger called casey croggings and that's actually the domain
of her blog it's an income report for for august 2020 so it's pretty recent and if we scroll down
a little bit we can see exactly what are the income streams i just zoomed in so you can see
that her affiliate income was 1200 dollars from us she made with ad thrive two thousand dollars
and youtube ads which i assume is because she has also a youtube channel she she made of 258
so the total income from ads on her blog was 2 452 and then she also has some products of her own and
she sells through etsy and made 200 there and also using her blog shop and tripwires she made 350
so the total as i said was 4 and 200 and now we can have a look at her pinterest profile
and you will notice something interesting that for 11 000 followers that she has
her profile is a very strong uh monthly viewership it's almost 10 million 9.3 million monthly viewers
and if you scroll down you'll see that she's saving lots of pins not only from her own site
but actually i opened the board that's called bestofcasescroggings.com.com so
these are the pins that she saved from her site so we can have a look at the style and also at
the categories and you will see here that she's using a lot of her original photos if you look
at this board you will see what are approximately the colors and what is the style of her pins she
is using this light and bright colors and if i look here at the description of the board though
i would say that it's a little bit risky to use this strategy and add so many keywords
in one board description that's because pinterest doesn't encourage at all keyword stuffing if you
go to pinterest's content tips on this page they specifically talk about keyword stuffing they say
as you write use complete sentences and make sure to include a call to action work relevant keywords
into your descriptions but stay away from keyword staffing and now i'd like to show you another
income report from a mommy blogger she actually is talking about her blogging stuff on a separate
blog that it's called the basics of blogging.com and here she's publishing her income reports but
they are the income reports for her parenting and her mommy blog pregnancy actually pregnancy blog
so the pregnancy blog she has it's called swaddles and bottles and here is how it looks
and the income report we'll be looking at is for december 2017 she made 11 000 in that month
and at that time she says that she has about 2.6 million monthly viewers on pinterest and
that's when she made 11 000 and it's interesting that in her income report she also goes over her
traffic sources and if we scroll down a little bit we'll see here that pinterest is her number one
source of traffic she actually explains why she's been so successful with pinterest she says that
because she understands pinterest algorithm this algorithm takes many things into account your
profile your activity your popularity on pinterest your website and most importantly those keywords
that's actually what i'm always talking about it's about pinterest seo i have a course called
pinterest seo traffic secrets but i also have a video that explains how to use seo search engine
optimization on pinterest and i will give you a link to that video in the top right corner and
also in the description below this video i find this income report very interesting because she
shows exactly how she made this money and with which affiliate programs and just with amazon
links in her blog post she made almost thousand five thousand eight hundred and ninety five
dollars she made just with affiliate links uh to amazon products in one month of december 2017.
now december is usually the month when people buy a lot of presents and that's normal to get
a lot more inc affiliate income in that month but actually it's impressive how much money you
can make with simple links to amazon products that people buy for their everyday needs and you don't
have to always link to some expensive courses to make decent amount of money with affiliate links
she also compares her income from january 2017 and december 2017 with ads on her site she had a
pretty big significant growth of traffic to her side in that month in december and so she made
four thousand dollars just with ads on the blog if we look at her pinterest profile we'll see 8.4
million monthly viewers if you have a quick look at her profile you will notice that it's pretty
focused on pregnancy topic and parenting and when i close up the pins i will see that all of them
are linked to her side and i wanted to show you this profile
specifically for this reason because there is a very common misconception about pinterest
maybe you've read it somewhere in outdated advice on pinterest marketing that you have to save about
80 percent of your pins from other sites but this is not true pinterest values us as content
creators so i actually recommend everywhere in my videos and also in my course that you should save
about 80 from your own site and only about 20 should be dedicated to content curation you as
a website owner are valued on this platform as a content creator and you know in general it's okay
to start exploring the topic and learning about pinterest from whatever information is available
on different blogs but eventually no one can guarantee that you will find
an up-to-date advice and that it won't cost you your account because some outdated advice about
pinterest would suggest you for example that you should save a pin linked to the same page about 10
times a day and that will boost your traffic to that post that's completely wrong it's not only
not going to help you boost traffic it can even get your account suspended pretty quickly that's
why i think it might be worth joining a paid program that has all the up-to-date information
like for example my pinterest seo traffic secrets course because you'll always get in it the latest
updates about pinterest and you won't be wasting your time searching for the right pinterest tips
and actually experimenting these bad tips on your pinterest account and risking to get it suspended
so if you want to dive into all the details about the up-to-date pinterest marketing strategies that
really work then i will give you a link to my course in the top right corner and also in the
description below this video and i also have to mention that the course comes with access
to my student-only facebook group for support and i personally reply to your questions there
daily so there is no a big delay if you have a question or something unexpectedly changed
on pinterest you can go into the group ask your question make a screenshot and i'll get
back to you within maximum 24 hours on the other hand if you're totally new to pinterest and you
don't even know how this platform could work for your blog or for your website or for your niche
then you should just check out my free pinterest master class i will also give you a link in the
top right corner and in the description below this video now let's get back to income reports and the
next one is from what mommy does blog and lina is sharing a lot of in income streams that she has on
on the blog and in the last incoming board that she published for april 2016 she made four hundred
and sixty four dollars of which uh 840 were made with her ebook and then she made one thousand and
one hundred dollars with sponsored posts and also she has about 2800 as advertising in her income
on her blog plus affiliate sales 2688 and now i'll show you really quickly her pinterest profile she
has 2.7 million monthly viewers which is slightly lower than i've seen on other previous accounts
but i think that although lena relies on pinterest seo which is great and it helps her account stay
relatively strong on on the platform i can tell that she's been using very busy pin design
for example if we look at this pin you will see that the background is pretty busy and so this
text overlay doesn't pop up so strong and the same problem happens with many of her pins actually
which i think that on pinterest it can hurt your um reach and you and the number of saves and
people simply cannot catch so quickly what your pin is about if we compare her other pins that
we've seen previously with this one that has clean and minimalistic design i think Lena probably
would get much better results if most of her pins were done in this minimalistic style if you have
any questions about blogging or driving traffic from pinterest let me know in the comments below
this video and before you leave here are my other videos that are perfectly complementary to what i
shared with you today you can check them out here and there and i'll see you in the next videos
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