How Much Traffic Do You Need To Monetize Your Blog?

It might be less than you think

Back in 2014 I started my blogging career with a very simple concept. I wanted a blog catered to programmers and web developers in which I would essentially just answer questions all day long. I wrote daily, published weekly, coded nightly and did it mainly as a hobby. For the first couple of years, I made zero dollars.

I also ran it with zero ads of any kind during this time, so the lack of finance was really my fault. I was against ads back in the day. The internet should be free and for the people. At least, those were my initial ideals.

After 200–300 articles and a few thousand dollars in hosting, domain, email and API costs, ads started to sound like a really good idea. So let’s start there. Because there are many ways to start to earn income with your writing online, but just how much income will vary greatly based on a myriad of factors.

AdSense

Google’s ad platform, AdSense, is probably the go-to method for any beginning blogger looking to make extra change. And by change, I mean that literally.

AdSense does not offer the highest RPM (Rate Per Milli) when compared to other methods of monetization. That’s essentially the amount of money that you can make per 1000…