Make Money With a Blog as a Developer
Tags: career
Published: 2022-06-06 02:57:40

I have a blog with 1 million impressions over the last three months, and I want to start monetizing it. Let's see how other successful developers make money from their blogs and learn from them.

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### [Josh W Comeau](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/)

Josh has one of the best quality dev blogs out there. He usually writes about front-end development. If we look at some of his articles, there are mentions of a course called css-for-js-devs. He can make one million in revenue by selling 25 hundred premium packages. According to SimilarWeb, Josh's blog gets more than a million visits a month - he sure makes tons of money from the course. He has extreme expertise in the area, and his blog with the course is a work of art. Also, he gracefully collects emails, then builds trust with quality email content, and eventually can sell a product to his subscribers.

### [Flavio Copes](https://flaviocopes.com/)

Flavio Copes has a blog with tons of content, and he gets one million visits a month. He has Carbon ads on his articles, but they pay around one dollar for thousand expressions. Almost everybody in tech uses an ad blocker - only around 20% percent of people will see those ads. Most likely, Flavio makes only a few hundred dollars a month from those ads. The real money should come from his cohort-based courses. He doesn't disclose prices on landing pages, but they should be 3-digits. Flavio brings visitors to his email list by giving away access to the list of ebooks in exchange for an email.

### [Kent C Dodds](https://kentcdodds.com/)

Kent C Dodds is a legendary React influencer. His blog has more than 400 thousand monthly visitors. Kent's two premium courses have 3 figure price tags. Besides that, he has courses on EggHeads, which works similarly to Skillshare - you pay for a subscription and get access to all of the content. According to Kent, most of his revenue comes from the EpicReact course. And sure enough, he also has a newsletter. We start seeing a pattern here.

### [The Pragmatic Engineer](https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/)

Here's another popular blog with 600 thousand monthly views. But there is something special about Gergely - he has a paid newsletter with thousands of paid customers with 150 dollars yearly subscription, and it's a reasonable price when you sell to engineering managers. Gergely also has a few solid books and a job board. He's one of the most prolific tech content creators out there, but also he has deep expertise.

### [Ahmad Shadeed](https://www.ishadeed.com/)

Another blogger is Ahmad Shadeed, with 300 thousand monthly visits. He also has Carbon ads that don't bring much money. He sells a book on CSS and has a free newsletter.

We saw a few blogs today, and they all share a similar model. You make a post that people can find on Google, then you try to collect an email, and eventually sell a digital product. Real money is made on high ticket three-digit educational products, as we saw with Kent and Josh. But it takes expertise, track record, passion for a subject, and consistency of effort. Since the most reliable way to make money from a blog is to sell courses, it's better if you like creating content.

You can also create content online without turning it into a business.
The content will highlight your track record and expertise. It will set you apart and help you with a better job or co-founding opportunities. I always lived in post-soviet countries, and my educational content helped me get remote jobs that otherwise could be quite a challenge.