Personal blog is starting to increase in traffic unexpectedly

So for a while I've had a personal blog that I write about my projects that I either am currently working on or have worked on in the past and sometimes a break down of a popular programming algorithm and in the last 2 months my impressions have almost tripled.
Which honestly sounds like a good problem to have but I feel kinda weird about it cause i only made it to show to potential employers so I could be like hey here is the types of things I make. I don't even monetize this site. 0 ads. 0 affiliate links. nothing. The only reason i even know the view ship data is the service i use to host it tracks it.
Now i feel like i should monetize it but i also feel like that betrays the intention of what its meant to be.

How much traffic exactly ?

I got about 30k last month. which for this little project is insane

PoisonedYeti said:

I got about 30k last month. which for this little project is insane

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Are the topics you post about all related in some way? Have you targeted any keywords at all, based on search volume or anything else? If not, that's really weird.

PoisonedYeti said:

I got about 30k last month. which for this little project is insane

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You will make about $100 per month with ads with this. Do you think it is worth it ?

Programming niche, 30k UUs (assuming it's tier 1 based) will net you around $600 per month (pure AdSense)

seomaster5 said:

You will make about $100 per month with ads with this. Do you think it is worth it ?

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if you're making $100 with 30k traffic, you're doing it so wrong.

Sanctioned said:

if you're making $100 with 30k traffic, you're doing it so wrong.

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then what's the best way to profit from this kind of traffic ?

tommy.k said:

then what's the best way to profit from this kind of traffic ?

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ads. What I am questioning here is the RPM. 30k users and $100 rev, means your ePMV is at $3, which is a joke.
With some basic optimization, you can get it up to $15 in the programming niche, with tier 1 traffic.

Sanctioned said:

With some basic optimization, you can get it up to $15 in the programming niche, with tier 1 traffic.

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but in this niche I bet most of them already installed some form of adblocker
how to mitigate that ?