Why Some Blogs Earn MUCH More (4 Important Factors)

[@baz914]

I've noticed a lot of forums recently ranking above some of my blog posts as a result of the core update. First time ever I've been negatively impacted. I don't use AI, I write good content by hand myself following your advice in your course. I also use KZbin and personal knowledge for a lot of my research so it's completely original. I'm not too worried though as usually the cream rises to the top.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I have a eye on forums at the moment to see if it’s a general change that sticks - Thanks for sharing! hopefully you get the traffic back!!

[@baz914]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek Fingers crossed! Thanks Morten 👍

[@ramccall]

I agree, location is very understated in my opinion just due to the fact that you get half as much in RPM's anywhere outside the US. One thing I've always been curious to see is how to find the high earning topics from your earning dashboard and use that to dive deeper to find even more based off of your current data. (this might be for something in the community). As an example, for several of my sites, a certain handful of articles covering a wide array of topics are earning a substantial amount per month. How would you go about picking apart each of those articles to find more topics that have the same earning potential.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

It’s hard to say without seeing the site but I look for products, types of articles, and try to write a few test articles to see if I can grt similar results!

[@mexari]

I'm discouraged and demotivated after seeing this video. What i feel is there is no good money if i don't get US traffic and also unless I have 100k sessions a month. I don't know how I can target US traffic with my site...I couldn't find anything anywhere on this. My blogging income dreams died just now with this video. But thanks for making this video.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Sorry to hear that! How come you cannot target US traffic? your English looks fine to me from your comment alone!

[@littlebitsofbliss]

Great video! Do you recommend Google Adsense when we don’t have enough page views for other ad agencies? Also, when you recommend embedding videos, do you mean through an ad agency, or simply embedding our own KZbin videos on our blog? I do have a KZbin channel but haven’t included related videos on my blog. Thank you!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

you can upload your own videos to Ezoic, Adthrive, or Mediavine and use them that way. I don't recommend Adsense, it pays so little - get into Ezoic instead ;)

[@littlebitsofbliss]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek thank you!

[@toscachannel3884]

Hi .. I have 3 months old blog with parenting niche that already has more than 100 post articles. How does long it take to get good traffic? Is there any minimal article post to get at least 500k PV per month?

[@biking-viking-claus-andersen]

I have a Danish site and an English site. The Danish one actually has the best EPMV, earning 31,99$ per 1000 visitors, while the English one only gets 13,79$. They both cover roughly the same topic, by the way. But I simply have less competition on the Danish market, meaning that people tend to stay longer on my Danish site. Plus my English site also gets a fair bit of visitors from countries such as Malaysia, India, Philippines and Brazil, where the EPMV is lower.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

interesting! Hmm, definitely keep posting on that DK site then :D

[@storeycopy]

Thanks for the awesome video Morten! My RPM is about $9 (Month 8) and just started serving ads 2 months ago. I needed that reminder to get video ads going!! 🙏

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Great! yeah, video is a game changer!

[@thetrendymovies739]

Hey Morten, I have a question. I have a website in which I write in Arabic (language) and it gets about 25k visitors a month but EMPV is very bad .5-.8$ .Can I have a sub dictionary in English in the same domain ( about the same niche which is movies and Tv series) will it rank?

[@socialvideoplaza]

Hi Morten. Very interesting video. Now when I think about it, ad rates are much higher for sites than KZbin videos. What site/service do you use for your community and course? Are you happy with them? I'm in the process of creating course myself thanks!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I use Discourse.org for the community and LearhDash for the course - very happy with it! And yeah, those YT earnings are definitely low ;/

[@socialvideoplaza]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek appreciated, thanks

[@PratikAmbukar]

Morten, For topic research, is google location change settings not work good as compared to VPN?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Nope, you need a VPN!

[@villageidiot8617]

Ads revenue fluctuate a lot, thanks for the video.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Yes they do... Thanks

[@pfuhad3760]

Can you please make a video listing of some good niches to start. I saw your video on finding low competition video and it is awesome . But a detailed video would be awesome

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

well if I do that they won’t be good niches for long as everyone will jump on them 🥴

[@pfuhad3760]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek 😃

[@damascus4015]

I'm planning on starting a niche site soon. How many pageviews a month should I expect for an underserved topic in the pets niche? (once the article fully matures ofc)

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

oh, the pets niche is VERY saturated - it'll be tough to find underserved topics there. Also, there are no general rules, it varies on too many factors.

[@damascus4015]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek yeah you're right that it's super saturated. It literally took me an hour to find just 2~3 underserved topics using your method

[@ezra5788]

@@damascus4015 I have a blog in a fairly underserved topic in the pets niche. There is no absolute guarantee on how many pageviews a post will get. I have posts on my site than get 500+ pageviews a month, and i also have posts that get less than 20 pageviews per month. It's all chance and luck really. You can write a really good post, and it only gets 30 pageviews per month. And you can write an average post and it gets 1k+ pageviews per month. You have no guarantees.

[@damascus4015]

@@ezra5788 thanks for the info 👍🏼 Well that's just the harsh reality of blogging I guess. Also how long roughly did it take for your underserved topics to come off the sandbox?

[@ezra5788]

@@damascus4015 I started ranking for some keywords after only 3 - 4 months, but It took roughly 10 - 12 months for my site to really take off and start getting good traffic.

[@jwalasinghrajput8904]

Why Game Niche site RPM is very low ($2-3) for USA?

[@mostlycardboard]

When you talk about the page view thresholds for ad networks, do you mean total view to date, or views per month?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Per month. Thanks for asking!

[@affiliatemanager]

Love your videos and the efforts you put into them. Well done 👍

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks a ton, Mikael - appreciate it!! 😅🥂

[@KayOveGabrielsen]

Hi Morten, you need to sit closer to the mic or use a lapel mic. There are a lot of echo. Good video by the way 👍

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thx, forgot to turn on the mic 🙃 so it’s the sound from the camera’s mic (which is bad!)

[@blackinsomniacoffeeusa8603]

Defiantly think some newer bloggers lowered the numbers just to see results but it is not easy either. You can’t just post below average content and wonder why the earnings are $2-8 per 1000.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

True!

[@wesleyoaks]

Nice video and you're spot on. Hate to see so many getting less than $10 tho.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

yeah, me too!

[@LofiWurld]

I bet the real majority is 15-20 but a lot of people still use only Adsense which isn’t the best so I understand it.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Yeah, Adsense is crap!!

[@netgensey3209]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek lol i disagree... may be used to, but with the changes google has made, you would be surprised what a little innovation could lead you.

[@PratikAmbukar]

As you said, Some niches are saturated and finding underserved topics will get hard within 4 to 5 years. Then is it ok to start blogging?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Get started as soon as possible! ;) I see many people getting started with success - though there are more hickups with Google being all over the place with updates!

[@PratikAmbukar]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek Yes, suppose I got successful at starting, but what about future Morten?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Once you get it up and running, you’re in the game! You can get ahead of others that start over the next years. You’ll develop authority and links to help you grow even if you are forced to move to more competitive topics.

[@PratikAmbukar]

@@PassiveIncomeGeekThanks Morten.

[@shanawarmirza9071]

Hi Dear, Thank you so much for so much valuable content you're making... I was watching your video on underserved topic. I just want to ask to one question: How will I write the quality content on topic which nobody has written on. In simple words, If i want to write on a topic which no body has written on then definitely I'll have to do research before writing but how will I do research because there is no content available on Google for that specific topic. Then what will I write. Please answer...

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

You can research in offline books (go to the library) and have unique research (at least online) or research using YT and forums.

[@shanawarmirza9071]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek Thank you so much. One more thing please. If there are only 1 or 2 websites on the topic which i want to write on. And rest 8 websites are not exactly on point. Should I write on that topic? Because I think it's still underserved topic i may get 2nd or 3rd position in the serp. What do you say? Dear. Please answer

[@abdulbasit2802]

@@shanawarmirza9071 based on what Morten teaches, you shouldn't start a brand new site with topics that's already written. Start with 20 undeserved topics and then you can now start writing others.

[@michaelstephenvargas8821]

So helpful. I neglect the monetization side for a couple of months and started writing like a maniac. After clearing my head, I realized so much have changed on my niche and the affiliate/ad game. I was surprised that video ads can now be easily implemented on a site. I swear a couple of months ago ezoic don't even have a video player.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

It’s actually a while back Ezoic inplemented it. I talked with them about it at Pubtelligence in 2019 and soon after they started inplementing it! but it’s much better now and more visible/pushed.

[@PratikAmbukar]

Morten, Suppose in 2022 you are 24 years old, will you take Blogging as a career?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

YES!!

[@cammiejackson4810]

I’m pretty sure your poll results would be skewed by people who haven’t even started sites clicking on the lowest RPM so they could see the results

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

You think? that would explain why!

[@japandebunked]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek Yeah, sorry. My blog is only a month old, but I voted cause I was interested in the results. Maybe you could add a button ”Just here to see results“, next time? Sorry for messing around with your poll. Thanks for your content😊

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

No worry - it makes perfect sense! 💙

[@chonq]

That’s the reality. You and other people who teach niche site blogging are the outliers not the norm. Hard to believe for you but it’s the painful reality for many of us.

[@dinorossi6611]

What would bloggers do without good ol' USA? Go broke.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

haha true right now!

[@YourKabbalahCenter]

My site is about cars (200 posts) started on July 2021. I work with Ezoic and have EPMV of about $16. Till last month I had about 1500 pageviews/day, but after recent Google's core update it dropped by more than 50%!!!! to about 650-700 PV/day...really frustrating...anyway, I initially thought that my EPMV wiil reach to a level of ~$30......

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

So sorry to hear that! I hope it comes back, the updates are still super new so Google may run "after-shocks"!

[@eliezrolerdo1632]

Sorry for your loss man!

[@sharon9476]

I'm experiencing the same issue with my website about 2x fish garden.

[@YourKabbalahCenter]

@@eliezrolerdo1632 It is only money, my friend 🙂

[@YourKabbalahCenter]

@@sharon9476 Not sure what did you mean...2xfish garden?... Is this your niche?