My Blog Yearly Income Report: 2014

Shoutmeloud 2014 Report
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From last few years, I have shared monthly income & traffic report to motivate you and to show if a blog can really be main stream income source for you or not. Because by the end along with your passion, having money in your bank account is what matters to get on with your day-to-day life.

Transparent income report
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This time I’m sharing this one year report of income and traffic to give you an idea how much one can earn from a blog. Do remember “If I can do it, you can do it too”. For this post I can’t give a detailed breakdown for the income source, since I’m using my bank statement to count my earnings and expenses. But for the sake of record, I will share the major earning and expense source, so that you will have a better picture. Do remember, this earning source is from my multiple blog under ShoutDreams blog network.

Here are the blogs:

Even though there are numerous blog, but a majority of my income source is due to this blog only. So I will be sharing traffic report from ShoutMeLoud only, and income source from all the blogs. This report consists of traffic, earning and expenses from 1st January 2014 – 31st December 2014.

Traffic report from ShoutMeLoud in the Year 2014

Here is the stats graph from Google Analytics for the year 2014:

ShoutMeLoud 2014 traffic
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Total page views for the year was 4,700,971 and you can see the traffic difference increasing from October 2014. That was the time when I started publishing less, and started focusing on editing my old posts to make them evergreen. You can learn more about the techniques I used back then here.

Here are the top traffic source for the last year  (Use this data to start tapping traffic from sources you been avoiding)

Major blog traffic source
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While checking the overall traffic performance from the referral source, I realized that traffic from linking site is better in terms of conversion than the social-media traffic.

Takeaway here is, you should focus more on getting links (Mentions) from relevant blog sites than social-media. At the same time social-media traffic is important to keep your visitor’s meter running.

Another important factor that I want to share is how much traffic I got on Desktop, Mobile and on Tablet devices. I’m hoping to see noticeable difference in 2015 and you should definitely have a responsive web-design and a mobile optimised theme for your website.

device category
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So this was all in terms of traffic for ShoutMeLoud for the year 2014. I wish I could have shared the traffic report from other blogs, but for now I’m just keeping it for ShoutMeLoud.

Though overall, by the year-end I was able to save about 13 lack after paying all the taxes and expenses (About $20,500).

Since blogging is my only source of income, you can calculate and decide if blogging is a decent professional in terms of money or not. Recently I read this book called “Rich Dad & Poor Dad” and I would recommend you to read the same. This book will give you various ideas on thinking beyond just making money, and how to earn money from your savings.

One of my biggest mistake in the earlier income report was not to calculate my expenses and for January income report (will be published on 1st February), I will also be calculating my overall expenses.

I hope this report will give enough data to decide a good career option for yourself. Do consider creating one such report (If not for public, for yourself), as it will help you to find out the red flag in your income and expenses.  If you are a blogger, I would like to know how much was your net income for the last year. If you find this report useful, do share it with others on Facebook and Twitter.

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A Blogger, Author and a speaker! Harsh Agrawal is recognized as a leader in digital marketing and FinTech space. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud, and a Speaker at ASW, Hero Mindmine, Inorbit, IBM, India blockchain summit. Also, an award-winning blogger.

45 thoughts on “My Blog Yearly Income Report: 2014”

  1. Ashish

    Hi Harsh,
    I appreciate that you are bringing out the information that majority or almost all bloggers would like to keep secret. This will encourage many other bloggers to give more and earn more!!

  2. Aiwharya

    Hi harsh, this is really an inspirational post for me.
    Thanks for sharing this with us:-)

  3. Prasad Np

    This is really great article and gives a lot of insight on traffic, social media, sources of income etc. I guess ultimately it all boils down to how much traffic the blog gets and then scientifically use that to generate income. I am sure lots of us will benefit from this.

  4. kaviyarasu

    Hi,
    Nice post.I started blog on june of 2011.I don’t know online earnings that time.Now I also want to share my income 2014.Rs.681.First income rs.382 from rs.420.Charged by paypal. Second income rs.299 from gosf(aditya birla my universe). Not big but unforgettable moment for me the first income because my cash only came out 75%.After some struggle i took cash without damage.
    Your article encouraging me to earn more money.
    Thank you.

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      @Kaviyarusu
      I can imagine your feeling as first earning is always so special. Even my first earning was like you when I earned $10. What I feel special about first earning is, it gives confidence and trust towards online earning. Best of luck to you and do sign up for Gravatar.com so an image (Profile picture) will appear when you comment.

      1. Nickk

        I am still waiting for my first earning!! Not applied for adsense yet , getting an average of 25 visitors daily.
        I have query : I have around 15 post on my blog. Should I buy a Domain/Hosting now ? ( I am asking this because I am not sure If am doing it the right way or not , Does my blog has any future or not…. I am blogging because it’s my passion )
        After buying Domain , When should I apply for adsense. ?
        Looking forward to get some help from you.
        Thanks for sharing a lot with us.

        1. Amit Aind

          I too Have Same Question.. May be Harsh will Answer.. 🙂

  5. Shahbaz Ali

    Hi Harsh!

    You have done it. you dream definitely come true. this is motivational for new blogger and other who’s want to start blogging.
    Thanks for sharing!

  6. kaushik

    Harsh,
    Its really really nice to see u make such efforts like calculating all streams and representing in detailed format.
    U are right.. a blogger should be transperent to his audience.

  7. Arkads

    Thnx Harsh,

    This article really inspires beginners who to make living on blogging… i am glad i am a part of your audience team… your zeal to help other to fulfill their own dream is appreciating…
    Thnx Once Again…
    Viinod

  8. Firoz Ahmed

    thanks for sharing all these things with your visitor, you always works for Newbie bloggers as a “Motivational Machine”…

  9. Janmejai

    You spent too much on hosting,you lost around 100K INR here.
    And earned a lot from semrush.

  10. Shailendra Mishra

    Well, First of all congratulations for another hard earned happening and succesful year Harsh! I have followed quite a few topics of your blog and I must praise the high quality delivery of nice tips and tutorials.

    Good Wishes for the year ahead! 2015!

    -Shailendra

  11. Shantanu

    Hey you Rocked bro !!
    Thats Incredible ..

  12. Krypto Mehedi

    Harsh, Thanks for being an inspiration for everyone. As a regular follower of you and your writings , hope i will achieve that

  13. Aditya

    Really Inspiring For The Upcoming Bloggers Thanks For sharing

  14. Rajat Gaur

    Your Google analytics data shows that Shoutmeloud gets over 4 million page views in a year. Is that really correct? I don’t think an Alexa Rank of under 3000 is possible with that many page views. Also, Webtrafficspy (shoutmeloud.com.websitetrafficspy.comshows) that Shoutmeloud should get over 4 million page views in a month (not year).

  15. ankit pathak

    Hi Harsh first of all thanks for sharing! clearly not hiding anything 🙂

    That was a bad experience i may say for a blogger for such a lot of expenses But i think you should focus on something which is free or minimal costly and can earn you a decent amount. As i am making around 50k monthly but i made all profits with just expenses of 2-3k.

    Well best of luck!

  16. Rahul Nair

    It’s always a motivational feeling that I get when I go through your monthly sheets. My earnest gratitude to you for the transparency.

    As you mentioned, keeping a note of your expenses is also important. For every individual there comprises an Inflow, an outflow and then your inventory when it comes to finances. Maybe you could share some of the excerpts from the book you’ve recommended, or some of your personal tips when it comes to managing your money well.

  17. Umapathy

    Hi Harsh,

    I appreciate your boldness to share your yearly income report here. I have seen several people who hesitate to do it. Good to see the amount you earn from your blogging network.

    I run three blogs and my main source of income comes from affiliate programs. Income from adsense is decent and but not much compared to affiliate programs.

    I see that cydiaguide is a microniche site for iPhone. I am planning to create a microniche site. What is your opinion? Can we make enough money?

  18. Prabhudatta Sahoo

    Thank you Harsh, for sharing this. It really helps keeping the blogging mojo active in some ways because down there all we need is the amount we get for our work and it is really something. Thanks again for sharing this with us. Happy Blogging! 🙂

  19. Sribathi

    Dear Harsh,

    Sharing is caring. You done it. Everybody’s dream is this. But there needs a proof, guide and encourage. That is you. Thanks Bro,….

    -Sribathi

  20. Abid Omar

    Hey Harsh,

    Thanks for publishing the great and inspirational post on SML! You did an awesome job last year and I liked the way you shown the income source. Also I’m a huge fan of SML app. All the best for your future 🙂

    Regards,
    Abid

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