How do you monetize a blog?
This is a question a lot of new bloggers and even established ones ask. Although the answer is not that simple, there are a few things that have proven effective for many bloggers.
In order to help you get an idea, we’ve created this guide.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is a way to monetize your blog by partnering with companies that relate to the niche of your blog. You will promote their products in your blog for a fee or commision of the sales, depending on the agreement.
For example, if you run a travel blog, you will want to offer hotel discount codes or partner up travel accessory companies.
If you write a blog on the benefits of CBD oil, you can try to partner with a company that sells CBD oil. You can include a direct “buy CBD here” link.
Write an Ebook
Established bloggers are successful by marketing themselves as authorities in the community.
If you know you’re an authority and have tips about blogging or your niche to share, you should create an ebook.
You can sell and promote the ebook on your blog. Remember to market and make the content attractive.
Sell Blogging Courses
You’ve worked really hard to learn everything there is to learn about blogging, so why not monetize from those skills?
To bring in more dough into your blog, you can offer blogging courses or any other type of course on a topic you’re good at.
You can make it easy for them to sign up on your blog and take the course.
Use Your Blog as a Portfolio
As a blogger, you have to develop and grow your writing skills to in order to produce great content. However, you don’t have to limit those skills only to your blog.
You can offer your writing services to other publications and get paid to do so. You will be able to use your blog as a portfolio to showcase the quality of your work.
Banner Ads
These are exactly what they sound like. You can place banner ads on your page and get paid by companies to have the ad placed on your site.
Google AdSense
You can monetize from your blog by taking advantage of Google AdSense. By displaying Google Ads on your site, you’ll be able to monetize in one or two ways.
You monetize if the page gets impressions or clicks. If your page gets a lot of traffic, Google will pay you for every 1,000 page views.
If you choose to get paid based on clicks, Google will pay you $0.01 or more each time someone clicks on the ad.
Monetize a Blog Today
If you want to monetize a blog, try a few of these tips. It will take a lot of hard work and patience, but the results will happen.
Use banner ads, write an ebook, use affiliate marketing, or teach an online course.
Want to learn more blogging tips? Check out our blog for more.