{"id":22833,"date":"2022-09-21T06:42:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T06:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.straycurls.com\/?p=22833"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:53:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:53:43","slug":"6th-month-blogging-income-report-for-art-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.straycurls.com\/6th-month-blogging-income-report-for-art-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"6th Month Blogging – Income Report for Art Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
Howdy, howdy howdy.<\/p>\n
In late February (early March) of 2022, I started a brand new baby blog.<\/p>\n
The baby blog is in the art\/drawing niche. (Name to be revealed later)<\/p>\n
Initially, I assumed it was pretty low-competition so I thought it would be a cinch entering it.<\/p>\n
But there is only so much research you can do before you start a blog.<\/p>\n
Once you start a blog, and you start writing about different topics, you begin to actually get a good understanding of the niche and who’s dominating it.<\/p>\n
I realized that there are HUGE drawing blogs that have paid artists to create 10-20 blog posts for them daily.<\/p>\n
I cannot even in a million years compete with that.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t matter if the drawing is crap, they’ve managed to push out tons and tons of posts that have covered drawing almost every possible thing.<\/p>\n
This means, that there is very little wiggle room for me to make my mark.<\/p>\n
Now, I know that my art is slightly unique and I have 1 advantage – I don’t sound like a robot.<\/p>\n
I’m an actual human being that does my own drawings and breaks down those drawings for kids and adults in a very simple way.<\/p>\n
I also write like how I talk – this I’m hoping is my number 1 advantage.<\/p>\n
But only time will tell.<\/p>\n
Because as you all know, it takes at least 6-8 months (sometimes more) to actually start seeing traffic growth.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n I started this blog for 3 reasons:<\/p>\n And in this post, I want to talk about my earnings and traffic in my 6th-month blogging.<\/p>\n This will give you a relatively good idea of how much a new blog earns within 6 months in the creative niche.<\/p>\n Before I proceed, please read these posts if you’re new to my blog:<\/p>\n Alrightey, that being said, let’s move on.<\/p>\n But first, here\u2019s a free blog planner from my side so you can keep up with my weekly newsletters (I provide lots of helpful nuggets of wisdom related to blogging).<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n This post includes affiliate links to products I truly (from the bottom of my heart) recommend, meaning at no extra cost to you, I may earn a small percentage which I will use to buy my poor dogs food. <\/p>\n In August (Month 6), I wrote a total of 15 blog posts for the new website and in total, I had 97 blog posts on the website.<\/p>\n I was averaging 15-20 posts each month.<\/p>\n I did want to hit 100 posts by month 6 but life got in the way – I was traveling non-stop and I did infact get burned out – hard.<\/p>\n Here’s my traffic for the whole month of August:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, here are my stats for Month 6:<\/p>\n You can see that the traffic is pretty steady throughout the month and I was getting approximately 100 users per day which averaged at about 120ish pageviews per day.<\/p>\n It’s definitely not great, but it’s alright.<\/p>\n I also want to break down where my traffic came from:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As you can see above, nearly 70% of my traffic comes from Organic search – which is great in my opinion.<\/p>\n 16.2% is direct – this is from my very tiny email list that clicks onto links in the newsletter. I’m currently on Convertkit’s free plan<\/strong><\/a> so I’m paying nothing for this email list.<\/p>\n And 11.4% is social which is almost entirely Pinterest.<\/p>\n Funny thing – I don’t use Pinterest at all except for posting 10 random pins a month.<\/p>\n But I noticed that Pinterest started picking up quite well at the end of August.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This means it takes about 6-7 months for Pinterest traffic to pick up.<\/p>\n I haven’t noticed this kind of pick-up in other niches. Perhaps because this niche is very visual and artsy? Obviously, some niches do much better than others when it comes to Pinterest so this is a very important thing to note.<\/p>\n Aside from that, I’ve been using the Pinterest Keyword Tool<\/strong><\/a> for every pin I pin. It really helps me find keywords and also see what are the best pins in a particular topic:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n\n
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\n<\/em><\/p>\n6 Months Blogging Income Report for my New Niche Blog<\/h2>\n
Organic traffic for month 6:<\/h3>\n
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Pinterest traffic for month 6:<\/h3>\n