Food bloggers are a community of highly creative, highly driven individuals who are both competitive and supportive. We've compiled a list of publicly available income reports available on food blogs around the internet.
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Our goal is to provide a road map for new and early stage bloggers, so that they have a plan and goal to work towards rather than stumbling blindly through a sea of half-truths and articles written by people with no credibility.
Income Source
There's a lot written online about "making money food blogging", but none of them provide a comparison of various income generating methods. Is it better to focus on Google ads? An ad network? Which ad network? Are affiliate incomes worth it? Sponsored posts?
Individual bloggers have broken this down by monetization method in their income reports, but until now no one had looked at them as a whole to see which are best.
Here we'll break down the income for each blogging method relative to overall income and compare that against the traffic level, so that you can get an idea of what do expect, and at what point.
There's a lot of variations between blogs however, and this is a very broad look across all the data we could find.
Not all food blogs are the same - some specialize in certain niches (eg. gluten free), which may be more valuable for certain advertisers - for example, nutrition coaches or companies selling gluten-free products. Did you know that Doritos are certified gluten free? This can be be
This "niching" simultaneously decreases the appeal to the broader market, which may decrease the number of advertisers bidding against one another.
Food Blogger Reports
- A Clean Bake: How I double my blogging traffic and income with half the work
- A Pinch of Healthy: How I turned my food blog into a career