Blogging as primary income

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quasimus

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Hi All,

Most seo's do blogging next to their job as a side hustle. I was wondering if there are people that do it the other way around. If so whats your split? I'll start 80% day job(data consultant) 20% blogging & content sites (mainly affiliate as income model)
 
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Working on both the job and blogging income stream seems like the safer option to me when there is enough income from these sites then slowly more time can be spent on them rather than switching prematurely.
 
Keeping the job as the main income makes sense until the blog starts giving consistent money.
 
quasimus said:
Hi All,

Most seo's do blogging next to their job as a side hustle. I was wondering if there are people that do it the other way around. If so whats your split? I'll start 80% day job(data consultant) 20% blogging & content sites (mainly affiliate as income model)
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I think blogging can become a primary income, but treat it as a gradual transition rather than quitting the main job too early.

Once the site income is consistent for several months, it makes more sense to shift the split toward blogging.
 
How does one monetize by blogging? Is it mainly through ads?
 
Keep grinding dude, one day those ratios will swap (sooner than later) and you'll be 80% on content and blog income, and 20% on the job.

Tell us more about your content and affiliate operation? What kind of sites, and products?

Also what does a data consultant do? What do you make of the current Asos and Snowflake data hack? 10k+ companies affected.
 
RavenMuse said:
How does one monetize by blogging? Is it mainly through ads?
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Plenty of options, ad partnerships, google/mediavine ads or affiliate commissions. You could even sell your own digital products like e-books about your niche. I mainly do affiliate commissions.
 
quasimus said:
Plenty of options, ad partnerships, google/mediavine ads or affiliate commissions. You could even sell your own digital products like e-books about your niche. I mainly do affiliate commissions.
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Oh of course! Thanks for the info
 
Panther28 said:
Keep grinding dude, one day those ratios will swap (sooner than later) and you'll be 80% on content and blog income, and 20% on the job.

Tell us more about your content and affiliate operation? What kind of sites, and products?

Also what does a data consultant do? What do you make of the current Asos and Snowflake data hack? 10k+ companies affected.
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Haha, that would be awesome. This summer it was 30% just from content. Hope to get there some day. It just feels way more satisfying to earn from something you own and build yourself vs hourly wage.

I own about 10 blogs. 95% of revenue comes from 1 blog. From that blog about 10% of all pages generate 90% of the revenue. In other words just 7 pages are currently responsible for all my revenue from content.

Regarding the data question;
Well, the data landscape is very broad. I currently work on dashboards as well as some data engineering. Mainly Airflow and Superset, hosted locally. Which is something my clients prefer over cloud-based. Not too familiar with the hack tbh, as I don't work with Asos or Snowflake.
 
Blogging as an income source is achievable but requires some time to generate adequate traffic and income that can take place of a normal job.

Affiliate sites might also have a lot of volatility therefore it is important to have another income source at the beginning when do you think you will be ready to make blogging an income source?
 
I’m slowly moving toward blogging as my main income, but still keeping other work on the side for now, its a safer balance.
 
quasimus said:
Hi All,

Most seo's do blogging next to their job as a side hustle. I was wondering if there are people that do it the other way around. If so whats your split? I'll start 80% day job(data consultant) 20% blogging & content sites (mainly affiliate as income model)
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it would take quite a lot for me not to hang on to the job, just as a fallback. i would see the blog in the same light as a little company until the figures show me differentlly. what would matter to me is not having one good month, but rather the stability of traffic nd earnings despite the rankings.
 
im the other way round, 100% day job and the blog is maybe 5% and im a year in so not much to add on the split. but one thing i learned the hard way is that the months are not the problem, its what you do in them. i spent my first 6 months only writing and the blog did nothing, it only started moving when i finally built some backlinks and the posts got indexed properly. so if i was planning the switch i would count the months from when the links started, not from when the blog started lol
 
Most who make money from blogging the main thing usually start the same way you are, then slowly shift once the sites pull in consistent money.

Common split once it works is more like 70-80% blogging and 20-30% client or part time work, just to keep cashflow steady.
 
I know people blogging about what they do for their day job, so they’re basically hitting two birds with one stone.
 
The part about 7 pages making most of the revenue stood out to me. Are those pages all in the same niche or using the same affiliate program? If they are, that seems like the main risk before putting more time into blogging.
 
if you want to do only blogging you want to give just 2-3 hours a day!
 
There was a time when blogging was actually simple and it was much easier to rank in Google. but it's quite difficult now and not as easy as it was before.
AI Overviews have changed things, especially for informational content. you can spend a lot of time writing a good article, get it ranked, and still get fewer clicks because Google is answering the query directly.

so I would say blogging can work, but I would not depend on it as the only income source from day one. It takes more time, better content and usually more effort on SEO to get the same results we could get years ago.
 
quasimus said:
Hi All,

Most seo's do blogging next to their job as a side hustle. I was wondering if there are people that do it the other way around. If so whats your split? I'll start 80% day job(data consultant) 20% blogging & content sites (mainly affiliate as income model)
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Went full tym back when the port folio was covering expenses along with a buffer but seriously, the pressure is much more now than with a regular day job. The market changes too quickly to depend on only one source of income.
 
I’m still more on the day-job side too. Around 70–80% work, 20–30% blogging/affiliate. I’d only flip it once the site income stays consistent for a while.
 
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