First Blog Income Report: $371 in January 2021

Here is my first blog income report (of a really really small Blog in 2021)!

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This moment has been a long time coming.

Welcome to my first ever blog income report! 

I’ve spent years combing through so many blog income reports. Each one gave me a little more hope than the last. 

I know I haven’t made much money blogging yet, but I want to give you hope if you feel stuck!

Some bloggers grow faster than others and that’s completely okay. I know it’s hard, but try to not compare yourself to other bloggers.I did for the longest time but I realized my blogging journey is going to look different than everyone else’s and so will yours.

I’ll show you how I made money with a tiny blog in 2021 in my first income report! Don’t forget to pin this for later!

Why I Started a Blog

You can skip ahead to the good stuff if you want, but I wanted to talk a little bit about why I started a blog in the first place.

I’ve always loved writing. I’d write out stories and all kinds of stuff as a kid. In 2016, I started a little blog on Blogger as a hobby. I was in college at the time, so after a year I just slowly stopped posting.

This last year I started missing it, so I started looking into blogging again. Only this time, I saw income report after income report.

I thought maybe just maybe I could do this for fun AND make a little extra money.

I did all the research, got a self-hosted blog, and I’ve kept it up ever since.

By the time I graduated college, I found out that I really didn’t like the career I had chosen, like a lot of people.

That’s when I decided my ultimate goal is to make blogging my full-time job.

I’m not there yet, but I’m slowly getting closer and closer every day.

There are tons of reasons you should start a blog, even in 2021!

You can read more about how to start a blog in 2021 here.

Don’t forget to pin this for later!

First Blog Income Report: $371.95

My Blog Traffic in January 2021

My blog traffic in January 2021 was 13,277.

In December, my blog traffic was 6,820.

That’s over a 90% increase in blog traffic. 

You can read about how I grew my blog this much this fast in my post about my new Pinterest strategy.

89% of my traffic in January came from Pinterest.

My Email List in January 2021

I had 272 email subscribers in January. 

52 new subscribers signed up in January. I haven’t created any new freebies, but I’m still sending out an email once a month.

First Blog Income Report Breakdown

My total blog income in January 2021 was $371.95.

• Affiliates- $355
• Google Adsense- $16.95

If you want a further breakdown of my affiliates, here’s where they came from

• Bluehost– $130
• Robinhood*- $215
• Ibotta– $10

The way Robinhood works is that when someone signs up, you get a free random stock. The free stock I just so happened to get was Microsoft and worth $215.

You can also get a random free stock when you sign up for Robinhood here.

Blogging Expenses

The only blogging expenses I had this month was Canva Pro.

• Canva Pro– $12.95

Blogging Goals

For the first time in a while, I achieved my blog traffic goal and even more!

My traffic goal for January was 8,000 and I got 13,000!

At the beginning of January, I joined the Amazon Affiliate program, so my goal is to make at least one sell in February.

If I keep up the blog traffic, I plan on looking around at different advertising programs.

My traffic goal for February is 14,000.

One of my biggest goals in the coming months is to learn more about SEO so I can diversify my traffic. The majority is coming from Pinterest, but I want to work on getting more organic traffic.

Ready to Start a Blog?

Even though I may not make as much as the big bloggers, I still love it and have a long way to go!

With that being said, if you put in the work, you can make money from home blogging too!

So are you ready to make one of the best decisions of your life and start a blog?

You can read more about how to start a blog in 2021 in this post, but here’s the basic rundown.

• Pick a blog niche and name
• Get self-hosting through Bluehost
• Design your website
• Start writing posts!

Best Blogging Resources

I didn’t make a penny until I started investing in resources to help me grow my blog and learn how to monetize it.

Here is a list of all of the blogging resources I’ve used to get me where I am in this first blog income report.

BlueHost– You’ll need a hosting plan to start a blog that makes money. I’ve been using Bluehost for a couple of years and it’s one of the cheapest on the market.

Canva Pro– I recently got Canva Pro for more images and fonts to use on Pinterest and my blog because the free ones are overused.

Pinteresting Strategies– After I started using the strategies in this course, my Pinterest monthly views shot up to over 2 million a month.

First Blog Income Report Final Thoughts

I didn’t want this to come off in any way like I’m bragging. I was just so excited after years of blogging for fun to finally make a little extra money!

Reading blog income reports were what made me hopeful after I realized I chose the wrong career.

I hope you found my first income report helpful. Don’t forget to pin this to Pinterest!