Just sharing a little insight to my fellow beginner bloggers. Started my blog in July last year. In November, I got accepted by AdSense and the first week of January 2025, I got accepted into Mediavine Journey at 7k monthly sessions. My traffic is on the rise, topping at around 350 daily sessions as of today.
I am going to be sharing what had been working for me.
Niche - Home Décor (most of my traffic comes from Pinterest, so do choose a Pinterest-friendly niche; it is easier to scale).
Pinterest Pins: max 30 per day
Pin Type: plain images get lots of saves, but pins with text overlay get the most outbound clicks (so starting from now I’m mainly capitalizing on pins with text).
Post Count: Currently at 70 (Although my first articles were terrible, as expected, I’m going in to fix and update them now).
My Blog Theme: Kadence (free version)
Hosting: Hostinger WordPress Business Plan
Earnings so far: $200 from Amazon affiliate program from August to December, $40 from AdSense 28 November to around 5 January (then switched to Mediavine Journey on January 7).
martin said:
Will be interesting to see the difference in earnings from AdSense to Mediavine Journey.
Yeah, that is interesting. My RPM with Journey is yet to stabilize but right now it is at $8 and seems to be rising. With AdSense, it was around $4 most days although it peaked to $8 during the holidays. Will do a full breakdown and monthly earnings updates.
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Interesting. Just read your post. I will just update on the progress and see if I experience any issues with them. I do like the customization ability that AdSense gave me. Will give it at least 4 months to make a fair assessment.
EvansBrown14 said:
Great man, please update your journey earnings too.
Will try and update average monthly RPMs and earnings each month. Right now my journey RPM is at $8 and rising. With AdSense, it plateaued at around $4 with a little bit more earnings during the holidays.
Chris said:
This is Badass! Have you any idea how I can implement Pinterest posts/pins for a blog that is for Resilience and mental strength? Thank you.
You can try the Pinclicks free trial and do some keyword research focusing on popular keywords in your niche. See if there is huge demand on Pinterest for your niche.
I want to learn about affiliate. How do you find them? My niche is gaming and doing spectacular so far with Journey. But I want to jump into affiliate. I don’t know how. I had prior experience with Amazon but couldn’t pull any sales.
@benoitmichel
With Amazon, I think it greatly depends on your audience. I use different tags to monitor which types of products are bringing in the most CLICKS money, and it’s mostly bigger ticket items meant for older audiences. My blog posts targeted towards teens do well traffic-wise, but the affiliate products do not convert much. You also have to figure out the best-selling products in your niche and link to those; you’ll have higher chances of getting conversions.
I have a question about Pinterest. If you upload 30 pins a day, what’s the best way to do it? Especially with pictures and descriptive texts. Do you really write a separate text + hashtags for every 30 pins?
@Hazel
I make the pins manually in Canva with my premade templates. I use ChatGPT to generate the descriptions and titles, but make sure you give it very specific prompts that make them appear more natural. I also try to alternate my links each day so that I don’t link too many times to one post.
I have a Pinterest account focused on non-fiction books with over 13k followers and more than 1 million monthly views. I created this account because I love reading, and I’ve posted some of my own content as well as content from TikTok. Do you think starting a blog mainly focusing on Pinterest would work or be worthwhile?