$30,000/Month Vegetarian Recipe Blog

Check it out at LiveEatLearn.com 👈

Sarah Bond started the site in 2015, when she was still in her early 20’s.

She has since started a couple of others…

• Brew Buch – kombucha blog
• Bone Appétreat – dog food recipes 🐶

Sarah revealed in a recent interview…

All of the sites are currently monetized primarily through display ads on Mediavine, as well as some affiliate marketing on Amazon.

Live Eat Learn typically brings in about $30k per month with ad revenue, followed by Brew Buch with about $2k, and Bone Appétreat with about $200.

Most of the traffic (77%) to Live Eat Learn comes via search engines, and the site gets “a little over 1 million page views per month” 📈

Sarah puts a lot of time and effort into creating content…

I publish new content on Live Eat Learn about 5 times per week. That’s usually 2 new recipes, 1 how-to post, and 2 informational articles… 

I’ll batch create recipes, so I’ll typically spend a day testing and shooting multiple recipes.

As for writing, while I used to use writers for fleshing out the posts, honestly I’ve been using AI lately to help with writing. It’s sped up the process significantly.

If I had to guess, I would say one recipe article, start to finish, takes 8 hours.

Here’s a recent recipe she published: Healthy Broccoli Casserole 🥦

IMO, what really makes Sarah’s content stand out are the nice custom photos and videos for each recipe.

She’s published 300+ videos on her YouTube channel, but they seem to mainly serve as a complement to her written posts. 

And there’s good evidence that embedding videos in your content helps with SEO 😎

Sarah’s work schedule…

I work a lot, typically 40 to 60 hours per week. With that said, I make my own schedule and can work from anywhere!

Last year I spent a week working from a boat off the coast of Croatia. And I’ll often take random days off when something fun comes up. Gotta enjoy the perks of the job!

Pics from her Croatia trip here 🇭🇷

And while Sarah does post a lot of content to social media, she’s quick to point out that social isn’t core to her business…

You don’t need to have a social media following to have a lucrative business online. I prefer to build up my websites with loads of useful evergreen content that will provide years of passive income, rather than putting all my time into an Instagram reel with an 18-hour lifecycle.

So if you were looking for someone to tell you that you don’t have to post to Instagram or TikTok or whatever new app they make tomorrow, permission granted.