How To Earn Money From Blogging

If you want to make money blogging, then you'll be happy to hear that it is not that hard to do.You might have seen earning reports of top bloggers and wondered how they are able to make money from blogging. Well, the fact is that you too can make money from blogging.

It’s not a rocket science.And it is pretty much possible. Of course, the amount of money you make depends entirely on your ongoing efforts to publish a great blog, grow your audience, and continually test new money making opportunities in order to find the best ways to match your audience's expectations for your blog and your own goals for your blog. With that in mind, check out these fairly easy ways to starting making money from your blogging efforts.

In this post, I’ll be sharing some ways of how to earn money from your blog. Try a few of them out and see which works best for you.

The Main Types of Blog Advertising Opportunities

Online advertising offers three primary types of ads bloggers can use to make money from their blogs.

• Pay-per-click: The advertiser pays the blogger each time someone clicks on the advertiser's ad.
• Pay-per-impression: The advertiser pays the blogger each time the ad appears on the blog's page.
• Pay-per-action: The advertiser pays the blogger each time someone clicks on the ad and performs an action such as making a purchase.

Ways to make money Online From Your Blog:

Advertising:

Advertising on blogs is one of the most common ways by which bloggers make money. So, you can earn money by placing Ads on your site.

CPC Ads and CPM Ads are the two popular types of Ads that you can use on your blog.

1.CPC/PPC Ads:

In CPC (Cost per Click or Pay per Click) Advertising Model you get paid whenever someone clicks on ad placed on your blog. These are usually banner ads that show up in your content or sidebar.

Google AdSense is one of the most popular networks for placing CPC Ads on your blog. By choosing Google Adsense, you need not be in direct contact with advertisers. You simply need to place an ad code on your site.

Google displays relevant ads that are related to your content. When viewers click on the Ads, you get paid. Earnings depend on some factors such as niche, geo-location, etc. It usually varies from $0.01 to $5+ per click. Sometimes it can also be higher than this figure.

If your blog has large audience base, then displaying Google Adsense Ads can be an easy way to make steady revenue. Plus, Google Adsense is easy to set up, and you don’t require any coding knowledge to implement it within your blog.

• Best Paying CPC/PPC Ad Networks

CPM Ads:

Similarly, CPM Ads which is “cost per 1000 impressions” are those types of ads which pay you fixed amount of money based on the number of people who have viewed ads. It is usually 1000 impressions meaning that when ad gets 1000 views you get paid. It can prove to be a good source of income for your blog. However, you should be getting large levels of traffic.

They are easy to set up. You just need to create a publisher account on CPM Ad Networks and add the code to your blog. You don’t require any coding knowledge.

When compared to CPC Ads, CPM Ads deliver low payout. It usually starts as low as $0.10 per thousand impressions, but can go as high as $10 per CPM. So, you need to have a large volume of traffic coming to your blog to make a decent income from CPM Ads.

For further know-how on CPC and CPM Ads, I would recommend that you should read my blog post – CPC vs. CPM Ads.

Affiliate Marketing:

Affiliate advertisements are one of the best ways to make money since a single sale will make you a lot more money than a single click on a contextual ad.

 Amazon Associates and eBay Affiliates are examples of affiliate advertising programs.

In Affiliate Marketing, you have to join an affiliate network through which you can find offers to promote on your blog. You get a dedicated affiliate link through which all your sales are tracked. When a user clicks on your affiliate link and buys the promoted product or service, you get a commission on the sale. It is termed as affiliate income.

• What is Affiliate Marketing And How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing

For promoting affiliate products on your blog, you can adopt different methods. The most common of them all is to write reviews of the affiliate products or services on your blog. In these reviews, you attach your affiliate link. When your reader clicks on this affiliate link and buys out the product, you earn a commission.

However, you should be careful in choosing the offers. In general, you should choose such offers which relate to your niche so that your readers may be interested in those products or services. If your readers find value in products, they will surely like to buy those products. So, Affiliate Marketing is simple and highly rewarding.

• What Is Amazon Affiliate Program- A Beginner’s Guide

Direct Ads & Space Selling:

Instead of tying with a third-party (such as Google Adsense) to broker your advertising deals sometimes it is better to work directly with businesses to promote their products.

For this, you can go for direct ad space selling on your blog. By direct advertising, you get a fixed payout from businesses who want to advertise on your blog.Many bloggers offer an option for visitors to purchase advertising space on their blogs.

You can try AdClerks, BuySellAds to secure some direct advertisements.

Businesses pay for getting ad space on your blog. They advertise their products on your blog and pay you in return. So, it is a win-win scenario for businesses and bloggers. Whereas businesses get access to your audience base to which they can advertise their products or services, bloggers get decent revenue for selling their ad space.

Plus, you need not be concerned with click thru rate or numbers of impressions as you get a fixed payout for the ad space on your blog.

Offer a Service:

Offering your expertise is a great way for making income from your blog. So, if you have spare time, you can offer services to businesses in your area of expertise.

For instance, you can deliver training or consultancy services to businesses. If you are a competent writer, you can offer writing services to so many businesses that are running their blogs.

Similarly, if you are good at designing, there are many opportunities for you to market your expertise.

You can promote your services on your blog and can demand a high rate for your excellent services.

Sell Products & eBooks:

If you notice, the business model of most top internet marketers has to do with selling eBooks.

For bloggers like you and me, it’s easier to create an eBook by using your existing blog content. All you need to do is pick a topic, compile an eBook on that topic, and put it on sale on your blog or on Amazon.

You can sell virtual as well as physical products on your blog. Virtual products include selling eBooks, courses, software, music, videos, apps, themes, plugins, domains, etc.

For selling physical products, you can create an online store and sell products online. However, for newbie bloggers, selling physical products can be a tough task. It is usually hard to set up. You have to deal with storage, shipping and things such as local taxes and distance selling laws. Plus, you have to focus on getting traffic and updating your website.

Paid Reviews:

Reviews (often called sponsored reviews) are an indirect form of advertising on blogs. A company might contact a blogger directly asking them to write a review for a product, business, website, etc. If the blogger is paid to write the review, then it is a form of advertising revenue. Some companies offer forms of review advertising such as PayPerPost

Businesses pay influential bloggers for writing reviews about their product. The paid review can be showcased on your blog, where your readers get an in-depth insight into the product or service.
However, you should come up with the honest review as your word matters to your audience. You can earn up to $500 per paid review depending on site traffic and reputation. The average rate for paid review is $100.
So, while writing paid reviews, you should be extra cautious and should not say good things about a brand just because they have paid you.

Here are few websites to find paid reviews/sponsored review opportunities:

• Sponsored reviews
• Famebit (For YouTuber channels)
• Izea Pay per post
• Tomoson
• Revcontent

Referral Income:

Most advertisement programs have a pay per referral program. Depending on the advertisement program you are using, you can look for referral programs and refer your readers to that program.

This will quickly add some dollars into your pocket.

Note: Make sure to only refer users to programs that work.