10th Year Anniversary of this Blog and its Returns

I think the earliest form of content creation is writing blogs.

This was during a time when there was no YouTube, no Instagram, no Facebook, etc.

I recall some articles advocating writing blogs for a living in those days.

Inspired by the above, I started this blog in 2015.

Below are my earnings each month versus the number of articles I wrote.

 

Earnings each month versus the number of articles written.

In general, the more articles written each month, the higher the earnings.

In fact, the correlation of articles written each month vs. earnings is 0.63, which can be considered a strong correlation. 

Here's how monetization works in Blogger - every time a visitor clicks on an ad, you make some money. When it accumulates to 150, you can cash out the money.

You can also see from the above chart that my total earnings are much less than the required 150 to cash out, even after 10 years.

However, no regrets writing this blog as it helps me to chronicle my FI journey every step of the way. 

So I will continue documenting my FI journey on this blog!

My learnings:

• The more articles you write, the higher the earnings
• It is tough to make a living by writing blogs
• If you want to jump on a trend, jump in right at the start of it, not at the end - but this is not easy, as everyone is likely preoccupied with one thing at any point in time (kids, work, caregiving, etc.)