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    You are here: Home / The Food Blog Experiment / My sixth + seventh month blogging

    My sixth + seventh month blogging

    Published: May 4, 2021 · Last Update: May 5, 2021 · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

    My SIXTH Month Blogging Income Report


    My sixth + seventh month blogging report

    Hi to all my beautiful people.

    I’m back with another blogging report, this time I’ll be doing March + April instead of just one single month because I’ve been hella busy lately (you’ll see what I mean in the next paragraph) but I’ll go back to doing regular monthly reports after this one.

    The amount of news I have to share with you guys this month is beyond ridiculous so let’s get started!

    As usual, for those of you who are new here: hi, I’m Bianka & you can read my previous blogging reports here: month zero, first month, second month, third month, fourth month, and fifth month.


    What happened lately!

    • I decided to move abroad so I’m currently in the process of selling all the stuff I don’t use & scheduling recipes that are best made where I am right now.
    • I started freelancing. Like, WOW. I remember thinking “how do all these food bloggers freelance as food photographers? My photography just isn’t good enough” just a few months ago and now I’m doing it. Note that I’m freelancing very occasionally at the moment because I just started out and I’ve been “experimenting”.
    • I reassessed my blogging schedule so now I’m sticking to 1 new recipe/week instead of 2. I just can’t keep up with 2 new recipes/week while occasionally freelancing, batching content for my move, and selling my stuff/decluttering my home. Right now I have 6 months worth of content ready to be posted though so that’s great. I’m so happy I worked my a** off at the beginning of this blogging journey!
    • I stopped caring about Pinterest and Instagram. This may sound bad and it may be (in a way) but honestly, social media is just so draining, especially Instagram. Right now I’m focusing on good content and SEO, Pinterest is growing (it’s a slow but steady growth) on its own so that’s great.
    • I barely worked on the blog – AGAIN, but this time I felt a loss less guilty about it as I took the opportunity to step back, reassess my strategy, focus on content, aaaaand watch my organic traffic grow (yes, as time goes on, organic traffic does get better).

    🗒 BLOGGING GOALS REVIEW

    • 7914 pageviews (terrifying) – SUCCESS: I reached 8328 pageviews in April (April 1-April 30) without working on the blog and I’m so grateful!
    • Add affiliate links to all my top posts – FAIL.
    • Make 1 affiliate sale… please?! – FAIL.
    • Send out a newsletter – FAIL.
    • Post at least 10 recipes – FAIL.
    • Get 10 links published – FAIL.
    • 200k monthly viewers on Pinterest – FAIL: I reached 190k.
    • Complete Unit 03-04 of Foodtography School – FAIL.
    • Post 3 IG posts/week + 4-5 stories/day – FAIL.

    Again, this might look bad but look, the main thing I’m interested in at the moment (traffic) is growing so I’m good.


    👽 THE BOT ATTACK

    Damn Spicy (or should I say GA) went through more bot attacks lately: one on March 23 and one on April 21 so I had to subtract roughly 1000 pageviews from March and 1100 pageviews from April.

    These bots attack are a minor annoyance but I haven’t found a way to prevent them or filter them out.


    📊 GOOGLE ANALYTICS

    Here is March:


    my sixth month blogging report


    And here is April:


    my seventh month blogging report


    Avg. Time On Page is growing too, it’s now sitting at 4:05 and I couldn’t be happier!

    The average Avg Time On Page for the food blogging industry is around 2 minutes, anything above that is really good news!


    📊 TRAFFIC

    March:


    March organic traffic


    April:


    April organic traffic


    Love the growth in organic traffic.

    People say organic traffic starts taking off around month 6 so I’m excited for that!

    Some people don’t see *ANY* organic traffic for their first six-eight months blogging so I’m really grateful for the organic growth I’ve been seeing.


    🤍 YOUR FAVORITES lately

    • Greek Lemon Rice Recipe
    • Sticky Teriyaki Tofu Rice Bowl
    • Chinese Eggplants With Spicy Garlic Sauce
    • Vietnamese Fried Spring Rolls
    • Baked Feta Cheese with Tomatoes
    • Spiced Somali Rice
    • Meatballs In Beer Sauce
    • Russian Piroshki 
    • Custard Cream Horns
    • Homemade Tapioca Pearls aka Boba Pearls

    These have been pretty similar lately and it’s partly because I haven’t been posting a lot of new recipes and partly because my traffic is growing so a new recipe won’t be able to get up to the top posts of the month as easily as it used  to, even if gets a boost from other referrals!


    👆🏻MAY BLOGGING GOALS

    • 10k pageviews (yes, I went there)
    • Post 1 recipe/week for a total of 4 recipes.
    • Get 4 links published.
    • 200k monthly viewers on Pinterest.
    • Complete Unit 03-04 of Foodtography School.
    • Batch more content.

    As you can see my goals changed a lot lately.

    I didn’t include affiliates, newsletters, and social media (aside from Pinterest but I’ll let it do its thing) as I want to be more intentional instead of hustling in all areas and obsessing over stuff.

    So that’s where I’m at.


    Well, lately my blogging reports have been a bit weird!

    In February I met a guy that basically made me forget I even had a blog so my Feb monthly report was embarrassing.

    In March/April I decided to move abroad and sell all my stuff and experiment with freelancing, so I had to reassess what blogging meant to me and where I wanted to focus my energy.

    Let’s keep it moving, I guess.

     

    All my love,

    Bianka

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