Remember that being a good content absorber but not a good creator is not going to help you in your goal of earning, you should be as good creator as well .
now what it means is that you absorb content from many sources like you tube ,blogs ,paid courses etc but when it comes to implementation on your blog you are always in a hurry, unless you produce something unique which is providing good value to your customers you wont have traffic in your blog, people visit and revisit a blog only when they get good value for there time and efforts which subsequently leads to money generation for you.
Besides this technically you should be sound enough to know how to get ranking for your blog, How to optimise a blog is an art which you will learn with experience over a period of time.
It takes time for search engine to register the efforts you are putting in on your blog, and once everything falls in place you start making money, its a slow process and consistency is the key.
Optimisation of a blog in a ongoing process, no blog is optimised to a perfection that nothing could be done on it, on page seo, off page seo with proper bank linking has to be updated everyday unless you start getting the desired result, just keep updating your blog and optimising it and once the traffic starts flowing in it will keep on increasing .