Blog Income Report for May 2020: How I Earned

Blog Income Report for May 2020: How I Earned $80,188 This Month

Last Updated on August 23, 2020 by Adam Enfroy

While most Blog Income Reports are from bloggers who started 5+ years ago, here’s one for my blog that launched 17 months ago in January 2019.

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Let’s dive into my blog income report.

1. Blog Income in May 2020: $80,188

May brought new highs for my blog in terms of traffic and revenue. Website traffic increased from 414,389 sessions in April to 444,461 in May. My blog’s revenue increased from $74,484 in April to $80,188 in May.

As many people have asked, this revenue is from organic traffic and I spend $0 on advertising.

I’ve seen a lot of blog income reports recently that state revenues of over $100k, but they don’t disclose how much they spend on Facebook and Google Ads, which can often be upwards of 70% of their stated revenue.

While I spend money on my freelance assistant, content creation, and tools, I spend $0 on advertising and this traffic is all free via Google organic search.

Let’s move on to my blog’s income streams.

Affiliate Marketing Programs:

Overall, I brought in $63,373 from 64 different affiliate programs – a 6% increase over April 2020.

This is a 2,180% increase compared to May of last year (when affiliate revenue was just $2,906).

Some software categories rose and some fell, but overall I increased my affiliate income by $3,590 in May.

Here are all the companies I generated affiliate revenue for:

3dcart

Mediavine

Academy of Mine

AccuwebHosting

Acorns

Adobe

Amazon Associates

Automizy

Aweber

BigCommerce

Bluehost

Buzzsprou

Canva

Captivate

Castos

ClickMeeting

Constant Contact

ConvertKit

Corel

Demio

Easy Webinar

ExpressVPN

Final Draft

Fiverr

FlexJobs

GetResponse

Gist

GoToWebinar

GreenGeeks

Hostinger

Hubspot

IPVanish

Kajabi

Knack

Leadpages

LearnDash

Learnworlds

LinkedIn Learning

LiquidWeb

Livestorm

Namecheap

NordVPN

PodBean

Podia

Resume IO

SEMRush

Sendinblue

Shipbob

Shopify

Simplecast

SimplyBook

Site123

Siteground

Skillshare

Skylum

Spreaker

Swag Bucks

Teachable

Themeisle

Thinkific

Transistor

WebinarJam

WebinarNinja

Wix

WordPress.com

Other Revenue Sources:

Digital Product Sales: $4,515

SEO and Link Building Consulting for 3 B2B Clients: $12,300

Total revenue in May: $80,188

Expenses in May 2020: $6,089

Besides my fixed expenses, the only ones that increased were my new subscriptions to Brandstrong for graphic design and a bonus I sent my awesome freelance assistant. Here are my expenses for May 2020:

Freelancer $2,200

Content $1,540

Fiverr $399

CS Software $350

WP Engine $290

BrandStrong $259

CPA $245

ConvertKit $210

Ahrefs $179

Development $155

Elementor $74

BigCommerce $64

Adobe CC $56

G Suite $38

Cloudflare $30

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Total expenses in May: $6,089

Profit: $74,099 (92.41% Gross Profit Margin)

Here are some interesting blog financial statistics and other leading indicators:

MoM Revenue Increase: $6,124

MoM Revenue Increase %: 8.26%

Passive Revenue: $67,888

MoM Passive Increase %: 10.86%

Passive % of Revenue: 84.7%

Revenue Trailing Quarter: $178,932

Revenue YTD: $294,166

Gross Profit YTD $270,867

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Now, onto some traffic stats and a May recap.

2. Traffic for May 2020: 444,461 Sessions (+36.3%)

Overall in May 2020 compared to April 2020, I increased my blog traffic from 414,389 to 444,461.

Compared to last year (May 2019), sessions increased by 1,235.8%

Traffic May 2020

With a huge May 2020 Google Algorithm Core Update being released, I saw a slight dip in week-over-week traffic some days but still increased my overall traffic in May. Here are my monthly traffic metrics so far, dating back to January 2019 when I launched my blog:

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2019

January: 1,147

February: 2,055

March: 7,672

April: 16,920

May: 34,261

June: 46,355

July: 76,926

August: 105,056

September: 133,391

October: 141,348

November: 143,705

December: 178,021

2020

January: 248,910

February: 231,524

March: 303,960

April: 414,389

May: 444,461

4. Email Subscribers for May 2020: +3,654

As of May 2020, I have over 25k subscribers on my email list.And as this part of my business is about 5% of my revenue, I’m ready to start opening it up to other revenue streams. In the next few months, I plan to launch an in-depth video course on blogging like a business, including keyword research, SEO, using WordPress, and affiliate marketing.

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But for now, just know that I’m adding around 150 email subscribers per day and my list is now over 25k.

5. Tasks Completed in May:

Created a new logo for my site.

Published 8 new blog posts.

Added new infographics to my posts on how to start a blog and the best web hosting.

Published guest posts for WP Dev Shed, The Digital Project Manager, New Breed Marketing, and Boingnet.

Increased my Alexa Rank from 15,444 to 13,432.

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That’s it for my Blog Income Report for May 2020.

The purpose of these new blog income reports is to showcase that with the right strategies, it doesn’t take years to make a substantial income.

Thank you so much for reading – I’m very grateful you found your way here.

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Last Updated on August 23, 2020 by Adam Enfroy

Adam Enfroy

Adam Enfroy is a full-time blogger and affiliate marketing expert. Join Adam and 500,000 monthly readers here, on AdamEnfroy.com to learn how to scale your influence at startup speed. Before starting this blog, Adam managed digital marketing teams for large SaaS startups and reviews the best software to run your online business.

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