You must have heard that bloggers are making millions every month. Blogging is perhaps the best profession to make money online, although it is not that easy. In the previous posts, we have already discussed the benefits of blogging and how to start a blog on WordPress. If you are interested in becoming a freelance blogger and making money from blogging, you have come to the right place. In this post, we will be sharing the best ways that will help you make money from blogging.
Blogging is an extremely reliable and effective way to create content and earn money from it. An online blog gives you a platform to share your thoughts and other useful information with readers all around the world. And if you have a great blog, you can easily make money online. Over the past few years, blogging has become one of the most profitable professions in the world. During COVID-19, many people who lost their jobs started blogging as their new profession.
Just like many others, you might also have a question in your mind –
- Can I earn money from blogging?
- What are the various ways to make money from blogging?
- How much can I earn from blogging?
- What should I do to earn money from blogging?
How to Make Money from Blogging?
Before we can discuss how to make money from blogging, you must be wondering how much money you can actually make from your blog. Well, earning is never fixed. However, many bloggers are earning anywhere from $1000 to $2 million a year. How much money you can make depends completely on the below factors –
- The niche you are picking…
- The amount of traffic your blog gets…
- How dedicatedly you learn and implement…
- The digital marketing practices you are following…
Besides, there are various factors that decide how much money you will make from your blog. Now let’s get familiar with the best ways to make money from blogging –
Advertising Network
If you are a beginner and looking for the simplest way to make money from blogging, you should definitely consider using advertising networks (aka ad networks) like Google AdSense (offered by Google) and Media.net. Although there are various other ad networks available to use, your goal should be getting your blog approved on AdSense or Media.net because these two are the most popular and best ad networks of all time.
If your blog is getting more than 300 views per day, it will be easy for you to get your blog approved on these ad networks. They show ads automatically on your blog, and that is based on the context of your article and the user interest. This is the most popular method of blog monetization, and new bloggers often use it to make money from blogging. If you use this method, it will give you recurring income. And there is no need to worry about the user experience because these ad networks show a high quality of ads.
Direct Advertising
Google AdSense is undoubtedly the best advertisement program for bloggers. However, it has a few limitations. One of the biggest limitations is that Google will pay you for clicks or impressions on the Google ads you will display on your website. On the other hand, if you manage to get direct advertisements, you can replace the Google ads with direct ads. With direct advertisements, you can make money from blogging more easily. The best way to start direct advertisement is by using different ad networks and then adding a new page called Media Kit (aka Press Kit) on your blog. Or, you can consider adding a page something like – Advertise with us.
Refer to this article for useful information – How to Sell Direct Advertising on Your Website. Besides, to manage your ads, you should consider using the Advanced Ads plugin.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and profitable methods to earn money from blogging. Most of the bloggers these days are using this method. So if you have a successful blog, you can also make money online with the help of affiliate marketing. Even a single sale through affiliate marketing will help you earn more money than a single click on a contextual ad. In affiliate marketing, you need to promote the products of any other people or company, and you get a handsome commission in return. Read Neil Patel’s – Affiliate Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide.
Native Advertising
If your blog covers news and jobs related information, native advertising is the best method for you to make money online. Native advertising is basically a concept of creating ads that match the look, feel, and function of the platform on which they appear. Native ads look so natural on a web page that viewers feel the ad actually belongs to the page.
If you are familiar with Google AdSense, you should know it also offers native ads. Besides, you should consider using these popular native advertising platforms – Taboola, Outbrain, and Mgid.
Paid Reviews (Sponsored Posts)
Paid reviews aka sponsored posts are a great way to boost your monthly income through blogging. But many bloggers often overlook the importance of doing paid reviews. What they usually do is that they write reviews for the products related to their niche on their blogs and make no money from that. But on the other hand, if they write a sponsored post, they get paid for that.
If you have a blog that is quite popular with users, there are high chances that people will contact you to write a review about their products. You can easily earn $10 or more for just a small review post on your blog. Refer to this article for useful information – Paid Reviews Guide | How to Make Money.
Sell Digital Products
Besides adding ads to your blog and writing sponsored posts, you can make money online by selling digital products through your blog. If you are not interested in advertising other people’s products on your blog, then this is the best way to earn money from blogging. The digital items include images, videos, music, eBooks, apps, plugins, themes, online courses, and much more. Refer to this article for useful information – How to Sell Digital Products.
Note: Whatever digital products you are making and selling through your blog, make sure they meet your readers’ needs. So before you can make any digital product, listen to your readers first.
Offer Your Services
There is one more way to earn money from blogging, and that is offering your services to your readers. You can offer various services based on your professional skills, such as content writing, digital marketing, website designing & development, image and logo creation, and much more. So depending on the skills you are good at, you can easily market your professional services through your blog.
In this way, your readers will come to know about your profession, and they will surely contact you to avail of your services. You can easily earn $2000 per month or more by offering your professional services. Besides, you can also sharpen your skills when you get more use cases.
Read 8 Ways To Effectively Promote Your Services Through Blogging.
Conclusion
Today everybody wants to make money online, and blogging is perhaps the best way to way that. However, it is never easy to make money from blogging, especially if you are a beginner. In this article, we have discussed the most effective ways to make money from blogging. These are a few highly recommended methods that will help you make money online.
Besides, you can also follow your competitors and other people in your industry. Just try to find out what they are doing and how. And then you can start from there. Which method you will start with, let us know in the comment section.
One Response
Nice tips on how to make money blogging.
I have been blogging for well over a decade and your spot on with your tips in your blog post.
You have to come up with quality epic content that is optimized for the search engines in todays day and age 2021 to start gaining some traction, and keep at it regularly to start seeing some great results.
That is the key.
Good post just putting my 2 cents out there.