My Best Blog Post Made $850.47 So Far. I Wrote It In 2 Hours.
Exploring the changing economics of WordPress blogs
Calculating the money-making potential of blogging comes down to averages: average views per post, average earnings per view, average lifespan of a post.
It’s the outliers that bring up the averages and make blogging worth it.
Let’s explore the earnings from my programming blog. Feel free to take a look at my all-time highest earning post: Material-UI makeStyles, useStyles, createStyles, and withStyles Explained
The Numbers Behind My Best Post
We’ll examine the numbers shortly, but first some backstory:
I stumbled onto blogging about Material-UI (now MUI) at the onset of the pandemic in Spring 2020. The docs were pretty good, but sometimes simple things were hard to figure out. I was scared about my job security, so I started a side project.
My first good technical post was about changing the border color on an MUI TextField. After seeing this post bring in traffic, I focused on MUI and targeted keywords with little competition.
The best combination is high traffic keywords with few other articles on the internet covering the topic. Everyone using MUI (v4…
