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Make Money BloggingHow much do bloggers really earn? We read 38 published income reports to find out (2027 edition)
Revenue per 1,000 pageviews, income by stream and expenses, taken from 38 published blog income reports, each one linked.
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Blog SEO
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AI Citations per Answer: Conductor’s US Benchmarks vs Our Blogging Sample (31 October 2026)
Conductor puts Google AI Mode at about 7 citations per answer and says 57.8% of AI Overview citations sit outside…
- Can AI Give UK Businesses Accurate Marketing Prices? We Re-Ran 220 Answers
- Which UK Businesses Does AI Recommend? What 160 Google AI Mode Answers Show
- The Citation Lottery, 87 Days Later: 65% of July’s AI Overview Citations Are Gone
- What eight AI search experts say about getting cited, checked against our own data
Blogging Tools
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Best Form Builder for WordPress Bloggers in 2026: Pick the One That Keeps Your Entries
Most "best WordPress form plugin" lists rank on features: templates, drag and drop, integrations. We rank on one question first,…
- Typeform Alternatives for Bloggers: Five Form Builders With Bigger Free Plans (October 2026)
- Zite vs Softr vs Airtable: Who Pays for the People Who Log In (October 2026)
- Fillout vs Tally: Two Generous Free Plans, Priced Side by Side (October 2026)
- Fillout vs Jotform: Free Limits, Paid Limits and the Currency Question (October 2026)
We run the studies ourselves
All 42 studies →We Asked Google the Same Question Three Ways. Only 14% of Its Sources Survived.
We asked Google's AI Overview 19 blogging questions in three different wordings each. Only 14 percent of cited…
We Checked Who Wrote the 951 Pages ChatGPT and Perplexity Cited. On 195 of Them, Nobody.
Quick answer: We took every page ChatGPT and Perplexity cited across 100 blogging questions, retrieved 961 of them,…
We Counted the Statistics on 161 Page-One Blogging Pages. Seven in Ten Cite Nothing.
We checked every statistic on the 161 pages ranking for 40 blogging questions. 71 percent of 576 claims…
The AI Citation League Table: What ChatGPT and Perplexity Cite When You Ask Them 100 Blogging Questions
We put 100 blogging questions to ChatGPT and Perplexity and logged every source. ChatGPT cited nobody on 48…
Blog Setup
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Substack vs WordPress: page one is written by companies selling self-hosting, so we did the fee maths ourselves
Substack keeps 10% of paid subscriptions. A WordPress site with Kit's free plan breaks even at 33 readers paying £5…
- How to Make a Lead-Magnet Quiz for Your Blog (Step by Step, Free to Start)
- How to Start a Personal Finance Blog in 2026 (Page One Has No Finance Bloggers on It)
- How to Start a Food Blog in 2026 (The One Niche Where Real Bloggers Still Rank)
- How to Start a Fitness Blog in 2026 (Every Ranking Guide Has Something to Sell You)
Make Money Blogging
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How to Monetize a Personal Finance Blog in the UK (2026)
Banks, public bodies and comparison sites held 67 of 79 page-one results for ten UK money questions. How a finance…
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One Kit, Every Channel: How Small Businesses Build a Brand That Looks Bigger Than Its Budget
Looking established is less about spend and more about reuse. Build one small brand kit, a logo, a palette, a…
Blog Traffic
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How to Get Your First 100 Blog Visitors (Without Waiting on Google)
Google takes months to send traffic to a new blog. Here is how to get your first 100 visitors by…