10 April 2014

5 Simple Ways to Make Money from Your Blog

Today, blogging is a very popular online activity that also helps blog website owners earn money through a lot of ways. Some ways are just simpler than others. It is, however, important to point out that blogging does not make money overnight. Whether you have set up your own blog just recently or just starting out blogging by creating a new blog, it will take some time before you will see any money coming your way.

Once you have set up your blog, written some helpful blog posts or/and other content, you will be getting some traffic to your blog. Promote your blog using various blog traffic building techniques to attract more targeted traffic to your blog. Then use various blog monetisation techniques and strategies to make money from your blog. Here are 5 simple ways to make money from your blog:

Join an Online Advertising Programme

If you want to make money blogging, then joining an online advertising programme (program in US English) is one of the easiest ways to make money from your blog. What you basically do is join an online advertising network or more and then put contextual, text, impression etc ads on your blog.  For example, Google AdSense is a very popular online advertising network used by bloggers and webmasters from all across the world to monetise their blogs and websites.

Google AdSense allows you to insert a small advertising code in your blog once Google has approved your Google adSense Publisher account. Then, Google will show relevant ads on different places on your blog pertinent to the content published on the blog. PPC, standing for Pay Per Click, is the most popular online ad Google AdSense runs.

When any visitor clicks on a PPC ad placed on your blog, you get paid a certain amount of money. Google also offers CPM (Cost Per Thousand, where Thousand stands for the Latin word Mille) ads when you get paid for every thousand impressions of any page or post with an ad your blog generates. Other notable advertising netowrks include Chitika, Bidvertiser, Kontera, VigLink, and more.

Become an Affiliate for Businesses

Becoming an affiliate for businesses is one of the best ways to make money from your blog. It is also a simple way to make money with your blog. You simply promote the business of a person or company on your blog and get paid when your blog visitors perform any specific action as specified by the person or company you have affiliate account with. Affiliate marketing program is a performance based online marketing program.

There are generally three ways an affiliate program can pay you.
  • An affiliate, such as you, will get paid when any of your blog visitors click on ad of your affiliate partner displayed on your blog. 
  • If a visitor clicks through an ad and then land the affiliate partner's website and make a purchase you will earn a certain amount for the sale or earn a commission on the sale. 
  • If the visitor does not make any purchase but perform any other action, such as sign up for newsletter or fill out an online form on the affiliate partner's website, you will get paid.
Generally, affiliate marketing programs pay on PPS (Pay Per Sale), also known as CPS (Cost Per Sale), basis.

Write Content for Others

If you enjoy blogging on your own blog, you can also blog for others for a fee. If you write quality blog posts on your own blog, other professional or new blog owners might contact you to write blog posts for them in return for payment.

You can also put up a "Hire Me" or a similar kind of page on your blog and write about your freelance writing or/and blogging services you  can offer to other bloggers, webmasters, or clients on the whole. But, you must write high quality and helpful content on your own blog first if you want to make money from your blog by advertising your freelance writing and blogging services and then getting paid when you are hired to write content for others.

Sell Your Services

Many blog website owners use a blog to offer their online freelance services. In addition to your content writing services, you can also offer other services you are good at providing with your targeted audience or customers. Are you good at creating web pages or websites? Can you provide social media consulting services or design a blog or website professionally? 

If you can offer one or all of these services or more, you can educate your blog readers or visitors about your services. If they hire you for any service, you will get paid for providing them with the service.

Sell Advertising Space on Your Blog

If your blog is popular and attracts a large following and traffic, then you can sell ad space on your blog to individuals or companies directly. You can email to your potential customers to offer this service for a fee.

You can also choose a third-party website or company to find customers that will be interested to put ads on your blog. With a large amount of traffic and strong social media presence, you can charge interested companies a good price to host their ads on your blog.

Final Notes

There are money to be made from a blog. There are many great ways to make money from a blog. The above-mentioned 5 simple ways to make money from your blog are ideal for beginners and expert bloggers that want to earn extra money or even a living from a blog.

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