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TOC:
00:00 Intro
00:30 The value of one blog visitor
04:19 Low traffic + high revenue niches
07:01 Reaching 10k/month
09:47 High traffic + low revenue niches
11:33 Monetizing low revenue niches
14:34 Building a YouTube + blogging strategy
So here's a question for you how much is One blog visitor worth is it five cents 25 cents a dollar twenty dollars well What if I told you that an article of Mine made over 29 per reader would you Call me insane probably a liar maybe Crazy well in this video I'll show you That it actually is true and I'm Covering exactly how to maximize the Amount of money you make with your blog But before we get started I want to Invite you to watch my free master class 80 minutes of free training how to grow A blogging business in the 2020s make Sure to click the link in the Description below sign up for that and Let's get into the topic for today so What is the value of one blog visitor Well it depends on many factors there's A lot of things that contribute to this So let's say somebody Googles something And they visit and land on your blog Well the revenue per visitor the amount Of money you make from that one reader Comes down to a couple different things So the keyword that you're ranking for So keywords are very different whatever They land on your blog from their intent Really matters the niche that your Keyword is in so if you're in finance it Might be different than in your pets or Food or something like that and then how Well optimized your article is for Monetization so do you have ads on your
Article is there affiliate links that's Their call outs exit intent pop-ups all Of those things but there's really those Main factors that determine how much Money you make for every visitor that Lands on your blog all right so let's Look at a couple different examples to Look at the difference in potential Revenue you can make per visitors for The first keyword that somebody Googles Could be gender reveal party ideas this Has a lot of search volume it's not very Competitive if you have a site that's About party ideas like 80th birthday 50th birthday 40th birthday gender Reveal there's a lot of search volume But it's not very you know direct when It comes to intent they're not ready to Buy something they might just search This article and it's probably made for Ad Revenue so you're going to make more Ad Revenue here than anyone buying Products and the RPM on this would Probably be around something like five Dollars so five dollars per thousand Visitors could be an average RPM for Something that's not very competitive Not very valuable from an affiliate Standpoint so you get a thousand Visitors to your blog you make five Bucks let's look at another example best Gold Ira company so this is one I rank For for a while page three page two Different ones it's pretty competitive
It's around gold individual retirement Account so if somebody wants to retire Put money into gold precious metals Things like that there's companies that Do it there's affiliate programs there That are quite lucrative now this is Transactional intent because people are Looking to actually buy something They're looking to compare these gold Ira companies so that means that it's For affiliate Revenue not just ad Revenue but actually you can make money By getting people to click through to The companies purchase and then you can Make like anywhere from five to ten Percent commission on the plan the Individual value of that retirement Account which can be a lot of money and Then Based on data from my site the RPM Here is 29 481 so you get a thousand Visitors to your blog and on that you Make twenty nine thousand four hundred Eighty one bucks so quite a difference There then if you don't believe me this Is my Augusta precious metals affiliate Dashboard for some of the all-time data I got 2347 clicks 157 leads 19 trades Completed and made two hundred and seven Thousand dollars in commissions on 2347 Visitors now if you do the math that's 88 444 for a thousand visitors it's About 88.44 per visitor to that article Overall this is a 5896 times difference in Revenue per
Visitor you'd make anywhere from half a Cent to 29.48 per visitor so that's a Huge difference 5800 times difference in The value of traffic based on the Individual keyword so it's a huge Disparity you could have a website with A thousand visits a month making 29 000 Visits a month you can have a website With a million visitors a month making a Few few thousand dollars a month so it's All very relative now this isn't typical Of my whole blog if we average it out It's probably more like a dollar 25 or a Dollar fifty per reader because I have Old recurring commissions my blog gets Between 80 and 100 000 visits a month Now down from its peak but still very Strong and all the recurring commissions Are coming in that way and you know it's Making typically between 100 and 150 000 A month in affiliate Revenue there's Some sponsorship deals CPC stuff as well But you know we want to know these Numbers and know how much money we're Making per visitor when we're blogging Because this is a business a lot of People talk about traffic and vanity Metrics but we need to understand like I Don't care about traffic I care about Revenue so I'm not just showing Basically I'm just showing you this that You know you don't need a ton of traffic To make a lot of money blogging you Don't need a ton of traffic you can make
A substantial income from a few thousand Visitors a month if you do it right so What niches are low traffic and high Revenue let's talk about it well first Think of financial products with large Dollar values so think loans retirement Accounts and insurance so that gold Ira Example I showed you was a little bit Niche but retirement accounts can be Anywhere from a hundred thousand dollars Up to a million dollars and you get a Commission on that so Augusta precious Metals was giving us a 10 commission and We had a couple that were like a 500 000 Um retirement account so that's all That's a fifty thousand dollar Commission it's almost like you're a Real estate agent at that point without Doing any work so it's kind of nice but Think loans as well like so people take Out a hundred thousand dollar loan or Business loan then you can get a Commission on that dollar amount Insurance amounts all of that so those Are very high dollar value also luxury Goods so things like luxury watches Handbags things that are between like Five and twenty five thousand dollars Things that people still buy online and Check out those are actually really good And then courses and info products so Those can be up to like 50 commission so If it's a five thousand dollar course And you get a 50 commission you can make
Twenty five hundred dollars per sale on That so let's look at some examples real Quick so first is one in the gold Ira Space so this is a financial site gold Ira guide dot org it's really good it's Got all kinds of content gold IRAs Crypto IRAs all kinds of information About retirement plans but lots of Informational and transactional content On gold IRAs so it's a niche site Related to that how to roll it over how To do all these things investment Companies and it looks really good it's Covering a ton of topical Authority in That space another example here is Lux Digital they have an article on the World's best luxury watch brands so they Rank number two for best luxury watches They have a lot of good information on The brands again they have ads here as Well so you can have ads and affiliate Links in your post but when you go down Here you see their list and then you get To Rolex and you see that if you look at The bottom left corner there is an Affiliate link looks that digital slash Love Rolex for their affiliate link to Rolex and we know how expensive those Can be you know looking at some of the This one here the 449 000 for a watch so Probably people would probably want to Go to the store and actually check that Out before they check out but there's Like a five thousand dollar watch here
Seven thousand things that are good There Um so you can you know see how making a 10 Commission on something as good as a Luxury watch is very a very good Opportunity so another one here is a Course and that's the amazing selling Machine which is a popular one in the E-commerce space so this course costs I Don't know maybe five thousand dollars Or so but you can see that if you sign Up for the affiliate program here uh During their launch last June the Affiliates earned a million dollars so Somebody sold you know 800 589 000 worth Of promoting this course and they made 235 000 so around 50 per close to 50 Commission for selling courses so when We think about that we think high-end Finance luxury goods that are physical Products and then also high-end courses Those are things that you can rank for On Google and make a lot of money with Less visitors so there reach ten Thousand dollars a month with these Profitable niches you'd want to research Long tail keywords that are new and Emerging so it's kind of tough to rank For everything under the sun like best Credit cards things that have you know Been around for a really long time and Are super competitive but you can find New things maybe it's around crypto IRAs Or motorcycle insurance or boat
Insurance or RV Insurance things that Are you can find these with keyword Research tools like ahrefs I have other Videos on keyword research and exactly How to look for these things that you Can see here but you want to research These long tail keywords things that are Not as competitive and you want to Create five transactional posts in your Niche so five best you know product Reviews based on these products and then You want to blanket the topical Authority with informational content so The ones that make a lot more money like These finance and luxury goods they Probably require more informational and Topical authority to cover and blanket That Niche before you're going to start Ranking for it so you want to kind of Look at the competition see how many Articles they have in the space in the Niche and then try to you know see if You can get more articles on them they Have more topical Authority but you Create a keyword plan you put keywords Down the list and then once you have Your articles you want to optimize them For affiliate Revenue so I have another Video as well on the content assembly Line how to actually write these Articles and the templatize an easy way How to use AI tools to create them Immediately in one click but what you Want to have is four to five affiliate
Links per company section so you see if You say Rolex you can link you know Rolex in the header a couple mentions in The text and then a button so you want To optimize it that way with four to Five affiliate links per company block Which all blocks look the same and then You can have buttons and content blocks So I recommend something like Cadence The Cadence theme in Cadence blocks is Really good to give those little you Know call out boxes and things that are Eye-popping and easy to click on and you Also want exit intent pop-ups on these Like highly transactional valuable Keywords you want to have exit intent Pop-ups that go to your affiliate link So you can you know when someone's about To leave their cursor goes up to the top Of the screen you can use a tool like Convert box and you can say hey before You leave check out this awesome deal For Augusta precious metals you know Start today click a button and you can Capture some of those visitors as well To get more affiliate link links it's All about getting people funneled Through your site as quickly as possible And then making purchases and then you Know you got to think about when do paid Ads come into play so some companies There's big ones top 10 type sites Consumer sites consumer reviews Consumers Advocate Forbes even does this
But they actually pay for ads when it's Very valuable so a lot of people bid on These gold Ira keywords we did it for a While we actually made a decent return On it but it got really expensive like 30 to 40 50 a click so some of these are Expensive but this is the one time where I recommend like it could make sense as A business model to run ads but it's an Entirely different business model than Blogging you need to master Google ads Optimize conversion landing pages with Top 10 boxes and all of that so you see A lot of Brands bidding on these Keywords because they are very valuable And can generate leads for companies and Make higher commissions so we covered The expensive stuff now let's talk about Niches that are high traffic and low Revenue so this is what I call like Mindlessly reading with no intent to buy Anything so the truth is to make the Most money blogging you need people that Actually want to purchase something Through an affiliate Link versus is or Even like sign up your email list take An action rather than just mindlessly Reading and viewing ads because ads are Like the last resort of monetization so Like food and recipe blogs if you Google Chicken soup recipe you're probably not Going to go to that website and buy Something like a pot to make the chicken Soup and that doesn't make sense but you
Will scroll through all their ads and Their life story and how they're nine Years old and they first learned about Chicken with their grandfather and how They were teenagers and then they made Their first chicken soup and yada yada Yada for another 20 minutes and you'll See all their ads because that makes Them more money the more you scroll the More ads that you see the more ads that Are served make more money however what Do you think about this a lot of the Internet is just informational content We want to read so like travel lifestyle Stuff informational content inexpensive Hobbies like how to knit maybe or how to Tie your shoes or like things that are Not transactional at all so those are Like you know reading with no intent to Buy some personal development stuff is Also like that so like psychology you Just want to read the article not Necessarily buy a course or anything Like that so some examples again gender Reveal party ideas living room ideas You're just browsing around for stuff It's the top of the funnel where you Don't know what you want yet that's the Whole point of these informational ad Base posts they're really high volume Which is good but you know you need a Lot of traffic to make money with them But you're not ready to buy something if I search living room ideas I don't know
What couch I want I don't know if I want A modular sectional a dresser you know a TV stand whatever how to knit a blanket How to screenshot on a Mac on a very High search volume on that but someone's Just basically looking for quick Information and to leave so some of These you know these are high traffic You need a lot of traffic for low Revenue so what you can do here though It's not worth you know not pursuing This you can research low competition Keywords with a lot of search volume so Look for things that are like 10 000 Searches a month plus even 5 000 plus Some keywords are like 50 100 000 a Month plus and then look for keyword Difficulty scores with the tool like Ahrefs under 10 or 20 whatever that is For you you want to get your traffic to 10 000 visits a month and then look at Joining an ad Network like zoic ad Thrive or mediavine so I'm still in Mediavine some of these have Requirements for traffic and stuff but You can look that up some of them don't I definitely wouldn't join AdSense right Away it doesn't make sense I have a Story about that where you know I joined I was making like a dollar a day and it Was just wasting so much of my time so Again we teach in blog growth engine in Our course in our community that you Want to get from point A to point B as
Fast as possible so it doesn't make Sense to try to monetize your site when You have like five visitors focus on the Content strategy keyword research and Link building getting these articles to Rank then you focus on monetization Later you can figure out your niche's RPM so that's Revenue per thousand Visitors so let's say you uh have ten Dollars RPM so it's kind of typical Standard across the board like I had a 25-ish when I run mediavine ads that's Because I write more on the software Space and it's a little bit more High-end than some of the other low Competition ones but if it's 10 then you Need a million visitors a month to make That 10K if my math is correct so it's Quite a bit of visitors so you realize Like shoot I mean I could make two Thousand uh two hundred thousand dollars A month with 2 000 visitors ranking for Something or I need a million visitors Just to make ten thousand dollars a Month so very different that's why People always talk about traffic a lot And it's like traffic traffic traffic But so you're making money and it's a Real business it really varies very Widely and there's another way you can Do this so you can convert these Informational articles into Transactional articles to make more Money so let me show you an example of
That so here's an article on my site uh Related to the gold Ira stuff that I was Writing so it's what are precious metals And how to invest in them so the target Keyword is what are precious metals just A simple informational piece of content A little funny meme here but then Internal links go to the transactional Post so all of your informational Content should be linking to that info To the transactional post so that when They're ready they can go right to the High value post and buy from there so Informational content should feed into Those transactional articles that if They're ready to buy they can and you Can also use things like exit intent Pop-ups call outs boxes things like that To get to really like boost your revenue From these informational articles or Sidebars or things that really get People's attention here's the truth so You can and should do both so whatever Niche you're in you should Target the Most valuable possible keywords that'll Make you the most affiliate Revenue they Might not be super high volume but they Can make you a lot of Revenue you should Also Target those high volume Informational pieces of content so you Have the balance of both you can make ad Revenue over here and affiliate Revenue When you balance it all out you're Making a lot more money per visitor now
You're not making 88 per visitor for Every single article that's crazy and That's like my best example that's Pretty not very common but you can make A good balance when you have affiliate Links and you have ads and you can run Both so go after transactional and Informational blog posts to make both ad Revenue and affiliate Revenue and then Once your content strategy is running You can also use YouTube to increase Visits to your blog so that's something That I did about three years three and a Half years into my blog I had my course Blog growth engine completely finished And we started building out our YouTube Strategy similar to vlogging you can Make a lot of money with just a small YouTube channel so you can make a lot of Money with a small blog you make a lot Of money with a small YouTube channel The key is monetization so I used to Think this like which is more valuable a YouTube viewer or a Blog visitor if you Ask me this question two years ago I Would say well absolutely a Blog visitor They're Googling something with high Search intent and then they're visiting An article that's way more valuable than A YouTube visitor now I'm not so sure I Think they're actually pretty equal and It really depends depends if you're on YouTube and you're just talking about Like some random Niche and you know
You're only making ad Revenue then it's Not worth it but if you're selling High You know High ticket informational Content or you have an education Education business on YouTube then a YouTube viewer could actually be more Valuable than a Blog visitor so I just Want to show you something real quick so Like for YouTube this this is maze data So this video is probably coming out Later but this is May's data we had uh 594 000 views 9.9 K new subscribers 8700 In ad Revenue so not bad like for ad Revenue wise it's pretty comparable to What you would get from a Blog Um I would say a little bit maybe a Little bit lower than what some ad Networks could pay you but ultimately What this does is it drives a lot of Traffic to our bloggrowthengine.com site Which is really good we got like 30 000 Sessions in the last 30 days you can see Most of them are YouTube referral so uh 13 000 are just straight from YouTube And what that does is that actually Generates sales for our educational Product for blog growth engine for Building our community and our coaches And hiring coaches and all that so when We actually take a step back and look at The math of this we can have a Blog that Makes over a dollar per visitor if You're in high ticket you know affiliate Categories or software or recurring
Commissions or something like that we Can also have a YouTube channel that if I do the math on this conservatively Makes over or 50 cents per visitor which Is kind of crazy to think about when Most channels are making maybe a couple Cents per visitor so the key here is That you can make a lot of money with a Small audience it's not about going Viral it's not about having a million Visitors to your blog you don't need That stuff you just need the right Strategy based on the right keywords the Right types of you know blog posts video Content and then you monetize it in the Correct way and it all goes back to Intent so you just have to know how to Monetize content effectively which is What we're basically the best in the World at so if you're interested in Learning more how to build a blogging Business in the 2020s make sure to click The link in the description of this Video and in the top comment make sure To check out that page see what it Offers Watch the free Master Class put Your email in it's all good and please Like the video I hope you found this Useful let me know if you have any Questions and I will see you in the next Video