Here’s How You Can Start Making a Money From Your Own Blog

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There are over 400 million blogs in the world today and the number keeps growing. However, not all blogs will succeed. Many bloggers give up when they fail to build an audience or make money, but those that keep going and learn lessons on the way will turn into successful bloggers.

Whether you want to start a blog as a hobby and make some money on the way or want to blog full-time, monetizing the blog is the ultimate goal. Most beginner bloggers aren’t able to make money until they’ve reached a certain amount of traffic and attracted loyal readers on the blog. Once they do, the monetization options are endless.

You can work with Google’s AdSense network or other advertising networks, do sponsored posts for brands, and sell online courses and digital products.

Curious to learn how to make a living blogging? Keep reading to discover the best blog monetization tips and how you can implement them into your own niche.

Google AdSense

Google AdSense is possibly the most popular way to make money with your blog when you’re starting out. This is Google’s own display ads network program that uses your blog’s ad space to display ads to your visitors.

Depending on your traffic and niche, Google will display relevant ads and when people click on them, you make a small commission. This is a convenient platform for many beginners because Google does all the work for you. You don’t have to negotiate or contact advertisers – you just ‘lend’ your ad space to them and Google acts as a middle man.

The money you’ll make through Google AdSense isn’t huge, but it’s good enough for a start. As your traffic goes up, you can move onto other advertising networks or sell ad space directly to advertisers for a higher fee.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is one of the fastest ways to make money from your blog. You can become an affiliate for companies like Amazon and use their links and make a commission whenever you make a sale. You can also join other affiliate marketing networks.

Let’s say you have a lifestyle blog and wrote a blog post about the best 10 books you’ve read recently. You can add affiliate links to each book, and even the bookshelves you have at home, reading accessories like bookmarks, reading lamps or reading devices. This is one example of how you get paid to blog about your life.

Earning a passive income this way will make you money even years after the blog post has been published.

Sponsored Posts

When your blog has gained traction and you have a good number of followers and traffic, brands will approach you to work with you. They will pay good money to be featured on a blog post and reach an audience they wouldn’t have otherwise.

This is how many people live exclusively on a blogger salary and earn thousands of dollars per sponsored post. However, you should be careful with this type of paid content: it has to resonate with your audience without being pushy, and it has to be useful for them.

Don’t make the mistake of posting several sponsored articles in a row and keep the content authentic. Otherwise, your audience will sense your agenda and you’ll lose them for good.

Online Courses

Blogging is a full-time job and you can’t be successful if you don’t learn the tricks of the trade. It’s a process that never ends, and in your blogging journey, the valuable skills and knowledge that you gained you can now sell in the form of an online course.

You can create short courses for the best blogging tools you use, tips for attracting readers and traffic, building a community or making it big on social media. You can also create courses related to your niche. For example, if you have a fashion blog, you can teach people how to sew their own clothes, design their own clothes or find their signature style.

Longer courses can be more in-depth and offer step-by-step instructions for a topic such as making money blogging or starting a blog from scratch. Courses are a great way to make passive income and will literally make you money while you sleep.

Digital Products

Many bloggers use their blogs as a platform for selling digital products. If you have experience and knowledge for a particular topic or niche, you can write an ebook and sell it on the blog. You can also create guides, worksheets, checklists, memberships, premium content, exclusive resources, tools, apps, and plugins.

You can sell digital products outside the blog as well and use them as tools to attract more traffic to your blog.

Sell Ad Space

If you gain a good following, you can sell your own ad space on the blog to advertisers. You no longer need to use AdSense or other similar advertising networks.

Advertisers will come to you and buy the ad space they want, and you can host their ads for a monthly fee. Depending on your blog traffic and ad placement, you can make thousands of dollars per direct display ad.

If you’re a serious blogger who cares about the audience and the quality of content you produce, keep the ads to a decent amount. If you clutter the blog with too many ads, readers will start feeling sold to and start leaving.

Also, keep the ads within the niche you’re blogging about. You want to help the advertiser make sales by displaying their ads to a highly targeted audience.

Now You Know How to Make a Living Blogging

Whether you’re a new blogger who is just starting out or you’ve been blogging as a hobby, you can earn a great income when you master the tricks of the trade.

These tips will help you learn how to make a living blogging and earn a full-time income in no time.

Thinking about launching a blog for the first time, but don’t have a lot of money? Check out this article where we talk about starting a successful blog with a small initial investment.