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If You’re Struggling to Make Money Blogging, Read This:

It’s not as hard as you think and you’re probably overcomplicating things.

Evan Kelly
4 min readJan 4, 2024
Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash

I started and quit a bunch of WordPress blogs over the years.

More than I care to remember.

For some reason, I could never make them work.

The only successful WordPress blog I ever managed was focused around a very targeted keyword in the relationship niche with the word “coaching” stuffed in the URL.

That business made me a ton of money.

But only from the coaching aspect.

Sales from a few ebooks I had written were paltry.

And the occasional affiliate link I pasted amongst the content never generated much more than the price of a Starbucks coffee.

No matter how hard I tried, I don’t think I ever cracked 100 visitors per month.

Eventually, I stopped posting articles completely and relied on word-of-mouth referrals and email marketing to attract clients.

The truth is I sucked at SEO.

And if I’m being honest, I still suck at SEO.

I don’t care about it.

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Evan Kelly
Evan Kelly

Written by Evan Kelly

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