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Want to make money blogging?
Making money with your blog is definitely a long-term income strategy. It is not a get rich quick scheme like some people think. It can be frustrating if you’ve been doing it for a while and your peers are making much more money than you are.
Here are 3 ways to make money blogging – let’s help you to monetise your blog.
To make money blogging, you need to consider a few different things:
- Content
- Traffic
- Planning
Content is the most important part of any blog so ensure you are creating good quality content. Do your research. The phrase ‘content is king’ is so true. Without any good content, it will be difficult to monetise your blog.
Top Tip: Create a content schedule or set up an editorial calendar to help you plan your content!
Traffic is also incredibly important if you are thinking about monetising your blog. Now you don’t have to have millions upon millions of pageviews but you do need to get eyeballs on your content. If you rely on ads to make money, then you will need higher traffic than you may if you are selling products.
Have A Think: How do you increase your traffic? See what posts are your best for traffic and expand on those.
Whilst content and traffic are very important, planning is also so important. If you are writing with no rhyme or reason and hitting publish, your blog may flop! You need to have a consistent vibe for readers to come back to.
So how can you make money blogging?
Ads
Making money blogging from ads needs some traffic. You can charge for ad space manually – some companies and even other bloggers would be willing to pay. This is a great way to monetise whilst waiting for the right amount of traffic for ad networks.
Ad networks are much less work though and there are a few different ad platforms you can use. Ezoic are a great place to start because they have a lower traffic threshold of less than 10,000 pageviews per month.
For Mediavine, you will need at least 50,000 sessions per month. A platform like AdThrive requires 150,000 sessions. Whichever you choose to go with, pay attention to what ads you place on your blog. You have full control so ensure they are ads your audience will want to see. Make sure to take a look at your blog as a visitor. Make the changes you would like to see if you don’t like what the ads look like to begin with.
Affiliates
Many bloggers make a ton of money just from affiliate earnings alone and affiliate marketing is something you can do from the very start. Get a good 10-15 quality blog posts published and then start to think about what products you would like to promote. What do you use on a regular basis? What do you think your readers use?
There are many affiliate companies to use include Shareasale and Awin but don’t forget you can also utilise the Amazon affiliates program too. It doesn’t pay as much as other affiliate programs but has many more products so is a great resource.
Top Tip: Only promote products you truly believe in. Don’t promote any old junk.
Products
Creating your own digital products are a great way to make passive income. You can sell eBooks – Gumroad is a great resource for this – and you can sell eBooks, cheat sheets, monthly memberships or even courses. There are so many different possibilities and after a little bit of legwork, they are mostly passive. Create them the one time and then sell them over and over again.
No matter what path you decide to take, make sure you are delivering value to your audience so they come back time and time again.
If you liked this, you might like 5 Digital Products To Sell On Your Blog.
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