Make Money Blogging

Although there are dozens of different ways to monetize your blog it’s actually only a few core methods that help you earn a healthy income from your writing.

Affiliate marketing

The most popular method of monetizing a blog is to leverage your affiliate marketing abilities. This is especially useful when you are starting out and you don't have your own products or services that you can sell. All you must do is to develop content that will ultimately promote whatever the affiliate Is offering to your readers. Most writers use something like amazon or dell affiliate services to help monetize their affiliate marketing.

Advertisement

Most people believe adding some pay per click ads is a great way to earn large sums of money for your blog, but unless you already have massive amounts of traffic somewhere on par with 10,000 + visitors per day then the income will be marginal at best. If you want to make money on pay per click advertisement then you need to have at least 100000 unique visitors to your blog per day, dont worry its usually it takes about two years to build up an audience of this magnitude if you are dedicated to blogging. If you are active in your community or online you can offer adspace on your blog to business owners or managers that you know personally. Some of your best advertising dollars can come from folks you are already acquainted with.

Email marketing

This is one of the most powerful methods for monetizing your blog. If you want to be successful with email marketing you will need to build your list of clients for your email. Leveraging the power of your email list will allow you to have a set group of readers who you know will likely look at your content when you disseminate it. This also allows you to keep up with metrics because most email marketing platforms allow you to track whether or not readers are opening the emails and how many clicks the emails are getting. If you have a big enough email list then you may even be able to sell advertisement space on your emails to companies interested in marketing.

Sell Ebooks

Ebooks offer a pretty quick path for one to make money from their blog. If you develop an Ebook that has content aligned with your blog then it is likely you will convert on at least 5% of your viewers. Ebooks are relatively simple to create, and if your teaching a skill that many people struggle with, it is likely that your ebook will produce a nice profit. Since you are a blogger you will easily be able to promote your ebook to a variety of readers that patronize your website. you can also negotiate affiliate deals with other bloggers so that they can drive traffic to your ebook sales to earn more income. If the ebook that you write is of good quality then it can build its own following which will then lead to the growth of your blog and your writing career.

Sell Digital Profucts

As a blogger creating digital cartoon is what you do, so it would make sense to sell digital products in order to make profit for your blog. You can easily sell any type of digital information from your blog as long as it is in correlation with the niche that you have chosen. Some bloggers choose to create webinars and markets some sort of coating service that they have created. Since you are an expert on what you write about then it makes sense that you should try to sell in-depth knowledge to those who seek to learn and become like you. If you do this right you can become a guru that people pay big bucks to hear from.

Sell coaching services

If you're selling digital products then you should definitely consider creating coaching services that can teach your readers how to achieve some of the things you are an expert in. A big part of blogging is teaching, so imparting your knowledge upon your readers can be a lucrative business especially if you create helpful and easy-to-use coaching services. For this specific monetization method you may have to do some research because in some states being a life coach requires licensing. Getting licensing is not a bad thing because with a licence it legitimizes your service even further.

Sponsorships

Getting sponsorships is a great way to make money for your blog, but you first need the traffic if you're going to make money from it. you can create sponsored post as long as you label them as sponsored it is frowned upon to create articles and try and pass them off as organic when in fact they are not. sponsorships can be a double-edged sword because some companies that you may choose to work with may not be supported by your readers and could even cost backlash, so make sure you do your research on companies that offer sponsorships.

In the end the main thing you will need to monetize your blog is Patience and perserverance. these traits will make it so you are able to withstand the times when it allseems pointless and you feel like you wasted money building this blog. Trust me it get better as time goes on, staying consistent will help create readers and readers will eventually become buyers. To all my fellow bloggers may you Live Long and Prosper.