so how do the websites make money? In this video we're going to break down
exactly how various websites make money and I'm going to show you how five
different websites make different amounts of money depending on the life
stage of a website anywhere from $500 a month all the way to over a hundred
thousand every single month in some of my previous videos I've shown you my
personal earnings from my website so you can see that from jvzoo for example I've
made over a hundred and fifty one thousand dollars in affiliate
commissions whether the lifetime of promoting products on jvzoo I've also
made over twenty seven thousand dollars on zaxxar and hundreds of thousands of
dollars on other affiliate networks but what I really wanted to focus on in this
particular video is give you real-life examples from five other websites that
are going to take you from four various levels you know for a start a website
how much is it possible to earn and exactly how medium-size website and then
of course the very established websites what is their actual potential once
you've been blogging for a period of time so what's up guys my name is Greg
Kononenko you might also know me as the caffeinated blogger on this YouTube
channel I published regular videos regarding affiliate marketing free
traffic and blogging and my goal is to help you make a full time income online
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tutorials okay so this first website that we're going to be looking at made
five hundred and thirty dollars profit in August 2000 and 19 the way that I
found this information is there are some blogs a very small percentage of them
that publish their income reports for various reasons and they don't publish
income reports every single month but from time to time different bloggers
decide to share publicly how much they made from their blog how much traffic
they got etc so I managed to find this website lifestyle Queensland comdata you
and their most recent income report was from August 2019 they haven't published
anything since and this website is run by this lady her name is Sophie and she
has published some information about how much she actually made so
first of all her website is reasonably small website I looked at the XML
sitemap of the website and the blog has only got 49 posts on it so 49 posts is
not very much this is a relatively small relatively new website and that is of
course one reason why the blog is currently making the amount of money
that it's making as the blog is mature one is they get more content their
authority grows so this is sort of very much a start a blog but it gives you a
good idea that even with 49 posts you can actually make really decent money I
mean 500 dollars in a lot of countries for example where I'm from in Russia 500
dollars per month is amazing because in most places you can actually have a good
life just in 500 dollars a month so how does this website actually work let's
take a look at it this is basically personal opinion style blog where Sophie
publishes various articles and reviews on various products so this is the home
page and the way that she tries to target the visitors and get the visitors
to her website from Google is writing reviews for various products such as
best portable air conditioner Australia so for example if I enter this search
query into Google best portable air conditioner Australia Here I am on
Google and you can see as I'm typing best portable air conditioner so there
is an auto suggest that comes up here best portable air conditioned Australia
so this is a commonly searched term if I search for this lifestyle Queensland
will be there somewhere on page one and a lot of people will actually be
choosing to click on to these result and then land on Sophie's blog and after
they read the reviews so they will look at the information and read about this
portable air conditioner now you'll notice that there are actually ads on
here and if somebody clicks on one of these ads that are automatically
inserted so if you will make a certain amount of money maybe a few cents or you
know maybe a dollar or something like and then also you will notice that as
she's putting information about these portable air conditioners there are also
links to various places so this one for example if I click on it this will take
me to an amazon.com dollar store and if I buy now then
so theives the owner of this website will actually get paid a percentage
commission for a referral so this is an affiliate link and sophie is an
affiliate for amazon and essentially she'll she'll probably earn somewhere
you know from 2 to 8 percent of the price of the item that I end up buying
as a commission so you can see for example these DeLonghi Pinguino if I
open that up the price is six hundred and two dollars so even a five percent
commission sorry five percent well the a five percent commission will result in a
thirty dollar commission to Sophie to the owner of this blog so that's why
when we look at the actual breakdown of the income for Sophie's blog we can see
that affiliate sales were five hundred and forty eight dollars so vast majority
of her income was actually in it sales so pretty awesome results given that
sophie has just published forty nine articles and this income report is
actually from August 2019 it's very possible that Sophie is now doing even
better with her blog which is really really good for a small blog
all right so site number two that we're going to have a look at is this one here
two wandering Souls calm and they made seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars
in June 2019 they have not published any more income reports since June 2019 I
guess they've probably been having too much fun traveling and making money with
their blog these guys are doing a pretty awesome job and I mean you can't really
complain about this they're traveling the world and they're making excellent
money documenting all of their travels so that's pretty pretty viral you know
this topic that they've got and I'm sure that their followers love following them
as well if we go to their blog just to explore a little bit what they're doing
you will see that they've got the most recent update so for example on February
12th so too years ago they published this article
here they're currently in Tokyo and so they're taking photos and they're
documenting everything and then they're targeting various keywords so for
example top things to do in Tokyo Japan is an actual keyword that they probably
will eventually rank for in Google if not for this one and for a lot of their
other keywords that they are writing about they will be ranking in Google so
if somebody searches in Google for top things to do in Tokyo Japan they'll come
to their blog and as they're reading this blog here they will be clicking on
various things for example on this ad so this is a media vine ad and if somebody
clicks on this ad then this website these two guys that run this website
will make money from somebody clicking this ad the big advantage of course that
they've got is that they're able to take their own photos and then post about
their own experience so that's that adds a lot of authenticity to their content
however you can if you do decide to start a travel blog at some stage you
can totally do it without actually having to go into the place because you
can find a lot of these photos online for free and you can use them so if you
search Tokyo Japan in Google and then you go to images and then you go to
settings and then you go to advanced search you will be able to filter by
usage rights here and choose this one feel free to use share or modify even
commercially advanced search and that's going to give you a ton of photos that
you're able to use any way you want you can actually stick them on your blog and
you can write about the same topics that these guys are writing of course the
sort of downside will be that you won't be able to have you in those photos but
you can still totally write about the same topics that these guys are writing
and get traffic and make money from a travel website now let's take a look how
they've actually made the money because they've posted some information here
about their earnings and you can see that their pageviews are almost 300,000
per month so the traffic is not actually that huge they're getting about 10,000
pageviews per day this is not a crazy amount of traffic you know it's totally
doable for somebody to achieve within sort of
12 to 15 months that kind of pageviews you can see that vast majority of their
traffic is actually coming from organic Google search now this is their income
so you can see that most of their incomes eleven thousand out of about
seventeen thousand came from affiliate marketing now I feel it marketing we
talked about that in the first website is basically where you decide to promote
some other product or service for a percentage Commission you get a special
referral link and you stick it onto your website you can see that they are
promoting some goods from Amazon some from booking.com I go to so all of the
travel booking sort of websites which totally makes sense then they also made
almost six thousand dollars from media vine ads so those ads that you can see
here for example in the top right a lot of websites use them and I'm actually
thinking of trying out media vine for our fitness blog as well so I'll keep
you guys updated on that in about a month's time once I've actually had a
good run with media vine what kind of results I'm getting there and then
they've also made one hundred and fifty bucks from sponsored posts so basically
their income is totally passive they're just out there traveling the world and
their website is actually making them the money which is pretty cool their
blogging expenses are only two hundred bucks so pretty much all of that money
that they're making is their profit website number three that we're going to
take a look at is this website here show me the yummy calm and their income was
forty six thousand just over forty six thousand and this is an income report
from December 2016 now I know that this is very old it's three months old
however show me the yummy have not published any more income report since
then I guess once again as people get busy and they switch focus you know
producing any kind of content actually takes up time so they've probably chosen
to focus on their business rather than produce this income report
nevertheless it's very interesting to take a look at this because this is in a
different niche it's in the recipe niche and yummy food niche and a lot of people
of course that are watching this are probably interested whether you can
actually even make money significant money with the recipe type blog and you
absolutely can so let's take a look first of all at how show me the yummy
structure and what kind of content they post so this is their home page and you
can see that so about recipes they also have
workshops which we'll talk about a little bit later the interesting section
on their blog is if we go here into income and we open that up we can see
their growth so they started the website in November 2014 and they made around
$28 and then you can see the growth of the blocks that have been growing by 10
20 30 % per month pretty consistently and over the course of between November
2014 and December 2016 so in just two years they managed to grow from earning
less than a hundred dollars per month to earning almost fifty thousand dollars
per month and it's very very possible that they actually ended up making even
more money per month you know in the last three years because they would have
continued growing they just haven't actually published any income reports
the type of content that I've got here is mostly recipes and various dishes
it's pretty standard looking sort of recipes here if we're going to one pot
fettuccine alfredo pasta whenever someone Google's forward there
is a high chance that they'll be seeing show me the yummy in the Google search
results then I'll get onto this page and then they will of course click ads
they'll buy different things that are linked to from this page so if we look
at the breakdown of actually how they made money in December 2016 you'll see
that ad thrive brought them fourteen thousand and AD thrive provides these
ads that you can see on on these various pages so for example this is a net
thrive ad so this is it's similar to Google Adsense if you are familiar with
this you insert a little a little line of code into your website and it starts
showing these ads automatically you don't actually need to manually insert
these ads anywhere now interestingly show me the yummy com actually showed us
the number of pageviews for December 2016 so if we do a very quick
calculation here they made 14,311 on air thrive if we divide that
by the number of pageviews we get this amount so they made just over two cents
us I assuming this is US per visitor so four multiply these by 1000
then for every thousand visitors that they have on their website they're
making $20 for every thousand visitors and that is on a recipe blog guys this
is not a weight loss blog or hair loss blog or money blog this is a niche that
everyone says it's very hard to make money in if you're running display ads
as you can see here this is a twenty dollar RPM revenue per thousand visitors
that they're getting with AD thrive just in this niche alone now other things
that they are doing is sponsored content and freelancing so they are publishing
some sponsored sponsored posts on their blog potentially promoting other
people's products etc and getting paid per post I assume and another
significant boost was show me the yummy digital food video workshop so they
created their own product where they're teaching other food bloggers on how to
create videos in this niche and that made them twenty thousand dollars that
also gives you an idea that once you have got a year or two of experience in
your field in your blog you can actually start teaching others how to do the same
and as you can see selling your own product actually can result in a very
significant boost in revenue as well there were a few other items here in the
income report but they are much smaller Amazon Associates etc and their expenses
as you can see are very low relevant to their income it's just two thousand
dollars that they spend per month on running their blog so these last two
blogs that we talked about fall into the medium-sized category the travel blog
and the food blog now this blog that I want to talk to you about made one
hundred and four thousand dollars in a single month so this blogger makes over
a million dollars per year which is a massive amount of money if you consider
that to make this kind of money in a corporate world or in a job is very very
difficult you'd have to be a fairly high-level executive in a big company to
actually be making this sort of money we have to be you know a very expensive
neurosurgeon or something along those lines with stressful hours etc this a
blog is making sense of sense calm and it is run by this lady here you can see
her photo her name name is Michelle Schroeder gardener and
she publishes very detailed income reports her blog is I think
approximately 80 years old from memory something around that maybe seven eight
nine years old and her knee she is kind of finance and how to make money online
her blog does get a lot of traffic but that's because she has been publishing
content consistently high volume of content for the past eight years a lot
of her content is actually out sourced I've been following her for a period of
time she travels the world with her husband you can see the photo here and
they a lot of the time they actually leave on a yacht they used to travel
around in an RV and I think now they're traveling around the world in a yacht so
the way that they make the money is through a variety of sources so you can
see the breakdown of the income here by the way I'm looking at September 2018
income report with the most recent income reports for 2019 and 2020 that
she's been publishing there are no breakdowns there so her income has
actually gone up a little bit but I just wanted to show you this one even though
it is like a year and a bit old so that you can see the breakdown of her actual
income so she made sixty-five thousand dollars from affiliate marketing and
vast majority of it through the Bluehost affiliate program so because in a lot of
her pages she actually recommends for people to start a blog and then she
links them to this tutorial on how to start a blog and then in this tutorial
for how to start a blog she recommends for people to sign up to Bluehost which
is the hosting that she also uses so similar to how for example my videos I
recommended people to use side ground she recommended for others to use
Bluehost and clearly she is sending hundreds of sales to Bluehost
every single month and that's why her affiliate payouts are so huge for
Bluehost affiliate program then there are also survey companies and various
other things that she has mentioned in various pages on her blog post and she's
getting commissions from all of that as well now she also has her own course
which you can buy and I've bought an action and it's a really good course
making sense of affiliate marketing this is a course on blogging so she
teaches everything that she does herself on her own website and she sold $24,000
worth of her course in that particular month so you know selling twenty
thousand dollars worth of your own product per month is amazing it means
that she has sold over 100 units of it because her course price is around $200
once again if you look at it you can see that her first income report was six
hundred and seventy two dollars in May 2012 so she stuck with it she didn't
quit and she managed to grow her blog consistently year after year as you can
see here 6000 and 2013 11 in in 2013 12 in 2014
23 in 2015 and so forth you can actually kind of follow her journey which is
really cool she's been very open about all of those numbers well we've looked
at a ton of profitable websites so you now should have a pretty good idea how
websites actually make money so what out of all of these well I want to leave you
with a few things one is making ten thousand dollars a month is absolutely
possible in a variety of different issues you don't have to be in a finance
niche or credit card or fitness niche you can do this in a variety of
different issues it does take time though don't expect to be successful
with the website in the first month that you start blogging for example having a
niche website but the good thing is that after you've done this consistently for
a period of time and you've got the traffic coming in it is actually
absolutely passive you can take off and not do anything for two months and the
traffic that comes onto your website they'll click ads they'll buy products
that you recommend and you really can have that passive income once all the
traffic is set up if you guys do want to check out my course that teaches you how
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