You can make money online through blogging and it is not a secret anymore. Everyone is taking advantage of it to generate handsome passive income.
The Internet has the majority of peoples blogging and reading them daily. Indeed, Blogging is a rewarding hobby and a boundless way to convey your desire for a specific theme.
Your key motivation is to offer useful content for your readers. As that is the way you can create your professional prominence in your niche over time.
Furthermore, it is also a great means to make money, either as a part-time hustle or as a permanent occupation.
Blogging is a noble source of passive earnings, which entails that you can keep on gaining revenue from it.
Still, let’s not move in front of ourselves. Without hesitation, the most significant standpoint of blogging is making money online.
Yet, everything comes from generating this profitable outline by yourself.
Anyways, as it is important to make money through blogging for full-time bloggers, there are some effective ways to roll the ball.
Although, you should not blog with the aim of only making money through the blog.
It’s great to start by selecting a lucrative niche marketplace…
An established market that transacts with your personal desires, interests, and capability.
Among the newbie bloggers, Almost everyone assumes that running ads is the only way to generate regular income with their blog.
But that’s not the reality.
There are also some other effective ways that work like a charm.
Creating a reliable audience base is more vital than building a huge one.
And you won’t get the trust of your audience by spamming them with ads.
Once you have a reliable audience you can start building your email list and making money.
Let’s look at some of the simplest, and most effective ways you can make money online through blogging:
As you are reading this post, I’m assuming that you already have a live running blog. If not, read below or jump to chapter 2.
Set Up And Start Your Blog
If you are planning to use a free service, I would recommend the Blogspot platform to you. (However, there are some drawbacks of using free platforms.)
Here’s how you can get started with blogger.com.
If you plan to use a paid web hosting, you may need someone to set up your blog, or you can set up WordPress for yourself.
If you want to avoid the hassles, There is also a paid service available at WordPress.com. If you buy their service, you don’t need to worry about anything else but focus on writing.
I recommend sticking with the free version until your blog turns out to be successful. Yet there are no drawbacks in starting with a paid hosting. Instead, you get full control with it.
You have to pick a topic for your blog. What’s it about?
Many newbies start a blog that combines several of their interests. Yet this is not a good idea, I recommend keeping your blog as focused as possible to only one niche.
This will bring a lot of benefits to your website in the future. I’m not explaining this now but you’ll learn about this later on.
When you’ve picked a topic, you need to get a domain name which will be your website URL.
Brainstorm a few good options and then run them through a domain checker to see if they are still available.
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Once you’ve picked and purchased your domain name, you need to get web hosting.
Next, it’s time to install WordPress, which is the best blogging platform you can use.
Most of the web hosts offer an easy to install option from within your account AKA 1-click installer.
Now you want to upload a good-looking theme so your blog looks professional.
You can use the free themes available with them, or you can pay for a premium theme which gives you more control.
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Bring Traffic To Your Website
Once your website is ready and live, you need to bring a lot of traffic.
There are too many things you can do to do so, but here are the major ones that you must take care off.
If you already have a lot of traffic on your website or you know the drill, jump the main section i.e., chapter 3.
Paid Promotion/Advertising (Optional)
Paying for clicks and traffic on social media or in the search engines can be a great and easiest option to market your blog.
A lot of information about blog marketing covers organic options. While some of these can turn your blog into a popular destination.
The more likely scenario is that it will take time for you to build communities to promote your blog.
Paying for clicks and traffic on social media or in the search engines can be a great and easiest option to market your blog.
A lot of information about blog marketing covers organic options. While some of these can turn your blog into a popular destination. The more likely scenario is that it will take time for you to build communities to promote your blog.
With paid methods, you have the opportunity to pay for traffic and clicks right away. This is the easiest way to bring traffic to your site but it needs money as fuel.
But if you target your audience well on the right channels, you can build your audience with advertising quicker than the organic way.
Consider doing it to supplement your organic efforts if money is not a concern for you.
Here’s a link to detailed knowledge on using paid advertising:
Build Your Email List
Email marketing can generate lots of money. The important thing is to build a large mailing list of your visitors.
When people signup to become a member, you get their email address. When people join your weekly newsletter, you get their email address. And there are several different ways of collecting emails from your visitors that you can use.
With an email list, it is easy to build a brand. You can recommend products, promote any events/workshops that you can be holding or even have a personal conversation.
Even more, you can do things to encourage people to keep coming back to your website.
The reality is that the more people come online, the harder it will become to get attention and generate online income. That’s why it’s so important to focus on building your email list so you can follow up with your visitors.
An email list is a powerful tool to build a relationship and increase sales.
I recommend you to use ConvertKit for your email marketing strategy. It’s the best Email marketing tool out there with lots of features like automation and integration with other productivity apps.
One of the most popular online entrepreneurs that use ConvertKit is Patt Flynn from the smartpassiveincome.com, you may have already heard of it.
If you need an alternative to ConvertKit then I would recommend you AWeber. Again, it’s used by Brian Dean, the founder of Backlinko.com.
And to create the beautiful & feature-loaded sign-up forms like pop-ups, sliders, sticky bar, etc. I will recommend Thrive Leads if you are using WordPress.
Other free alternatives with limited features:
Now let me suggest you some awesome reads that can help you achieve your email list goal:
- List Building: How to Build an Email List Fast – by Brian Dean
- 40 Brilliant-But-Easy Ways To Build Your Email List – via Vertical Response
Focus On Social Media Marketing
According to Wikipedia,
Social media marketing is the use of social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service.
To use this method to generate traffic, all you have to do is, share your blog posts to all the social media apps and websites you prefer or where your audience exist.
You can do it all by yourself but don’t forget to add social sharing buttons to your website for your visitors.
By having a social share button, you will increase the possibility of shares of your blog post to social media platforms. You will notice a significant increase in your website traffic via social media channels.
Remember! The more social shares you get, the more popular your blog post will be, the more traffic will be generated, the more you’ll earn.
The social share buttons on your website should be easily accessible and should look good without interfering with your main content.
The scroll-through buttons would be the best you can do. It stays on the screen even if you are scrolling through and reading the post. It makes things easier.
If you are on a desktop, you’ll also see it on the right side of this website. Those buttons on my website are built-in with the theme yet there are some awesome plugins too, which can do the awesome job for you.
You may have also seen it on the sites like Brian Dean’s Backlinko.com and NeilPatel.com. You’ll see it on most of the websites as it is super effective to generate social media shares.
The Social Warfare plugin is one of the best plugin available for WordPress websites to add social share buttons. I use them too. You can see them at the bottom of your screen and at the end of the post.
There are so many social share plugins available out there but none of them have such a good design and clean look. They also have some extra features like Frame Buster, Click-To-Tweet and Twitter share counts.
The “Click To Tweet” call-to-action on this page is also created using the Social Warfare plugin. It’s free to use yet they also have a pro version at a nominal cost to get some more features.
However, the free one is enough for most of us. Even I use the free version.
You should also advertise your website on social media platforms if you have some money to spend on gaining traffic and followers. Don’t forget to create Facebook Pages, Twitter Accounts, etc. for your website/business.
Here are some good references for you to learn social media marketing in depth:
- Social Media Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide – by Neil Patel
- How to Create a Social Media Marketing Strategy in 8 Easy Steps – by Evan LePage & Christina Newberry
Take SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Seriously
This is the most crucial part of your blogging career to bring organic traffic to your website.
And I will be very honest, doing SEO is not a piece of cake.
We all try to give our best to rank on the first page of search engines like Google, Bing, etc. And it’s obvious that not all of us can be on the first page at the same time. That’s where the race begins, and the race is called, “SEO (Search Engine Optimization)“.
As we are talking about making money here, I won’t go deep into it. It’s a vast topic to discuss in one blog post.
Although, I’ve planned to post a series of blog posts on “How To Do SEO?” soon. Be sure to subscribe to my mailing list to get notified of the posts.
Now let me give you brief information and tactics to at least join this race of SEO and to get some decent amount of organic traffic.’
There are two types of SEO: On-Page SEO & Off-Page SEO.
Off-page SEO consists of tactics like getting backlinks, content marketing, social media marketing, etc. which can be a headache for you if you’re a beginner.
So let’s talk about the On-page SEO which is comparatively easier than Off-page SEO.
If you are using WordPress, you must install an SEO plugin. This will help you out to do most of the On-Page SEO things easily.
The plugins I would recommend you are Yoast SEO and RankMath. You can install one of them and configure them properly to get the best result.
While Yoast SEO is one of the best and trusted SEO plugin out there, RankMath is also too good and it’s completely free for now. With RankMath you get a lot of premium features of Yoast SEO for free, so it’s a big deal.
That’s why I’ve recommended this one too. I’m also testing it with two of my websites and it’s quite good.
Always optimize the following things to get the best result of your blog post from search engines:
- Make sure your site loads as fast as possible
- Your site should be mobile-friendly (responsive)
- Use meta tags & description
- Keep the URL structure short and clean (yet meaningful)
- Optimize the title of the blog posts for higher CTR
- Use Headings
- Use keywords the smart way
- Use a bullet or numbered list whenever appropriate
- Use images, videos & info-graphics wherever possible
- Link to your own contents and also to other websites within your content
- Avoid low-quality thin content
- Make sure it’s not out-dated, keep updating whenever needed
- It should be easier to read and consume
- Use social sharing buttons and CTAs
Considering you don’t have enough knowledge about SEO, you may not understand most of the things on the list above. But you gotta learn all of these things and Off-page SEO to win the game. So I’m listing some of the best resources below where you can learn everything about SEO.
Here we go:
- SEO Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide – by Neil Patel
- On-Page SEO: Anatomy of a Perfectly Optimized Page – by Brian Dean
- How to Rank #1 in Google (New Step-by-Step Case Study) – by Brian Dean
- The Advanced Guide To SEO – by Neil Patel & Sujan Patel
Start To Make Money Online Through Blogging
Like I said at the beginning, there are several ways you can use to make money online through blogging.
Now let me list them and explain for you. I have also categorized them for better understanding.
A) Monetizing Content
In this section, we will discuss the methods that you can use to make money with your existing content. For these methods, you don’t need to create any products or things.
Let’s discuss them…
1. Use a Contextual Ad Service
Once your blog has some quality contents and generating a good amount of traffic, you can start displaying ads on your site.
Some of the most popular contextual ad services are Google Adsense, Media.net, etc.
They generate ads in the amount, size, and placement you specify. Contextual ad services display matching ads chosen for the topics you write about.
The more readers who click on the ads shown on your site, the more money the advertisers will pay you, pretty simple!
Adsense is one of the best contextual advertising networks that I can recommend to use on your site. I’m using it too.
It’s so easy to set up Google Adsense on your site.
All you have to do is copy and paste a JavaScript code on your website.
If you are using WordPress, you can also use WP Advanced Ads plugin to make it even easier.
Google will then show ads from advertisers that are a match to the content on your website. Adsense will make sure that your website visitors are seeing relevant ads.
Don’t worry that your niche won’t be able to draw quality ads to your site.
Google Adsense is one of the biggest ad networks on the Web. So you should always get healthy enough clickable ads to attract your readers.
They are smart enough to show ads on your website that are relevant to the content or interests of the person.
So often this can enhance the user experience on your site and the ads can be helpful.
Contextual ads or Google Adsense performs best if you are doing event blogging or you get a lot of traffic.
Be aware that most of the free blog hosting services only allow their own contextual ad services. Sometimes they don’t even allow to show your ads.
And they may also shut down your blog if you use one that is not acceptable by the hosting company.
That’s where the paid hosting is a perfect lifesaver, as you have full control over it.
If you are using a paid hosting then you should research and choose one that shows appropriate ads. Most of us go with the Google Adsense anyway!
When you use third-party contextual ad services, keywords are the most important. Since they display the ads based on the keywords you use.
Remember! Insufficient keywords may result in ads that don’t match your readers’ interests.
So always focus on writing good quality contents with higher paying keywords.
Pro Tip: Do not use too many ads on your website. In doing so, you will make your visitors unhappy and you'll get a huge drop in your website traffic.
2. Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing works in conjunction with several other online advertising mechanisms. This is the case because affiliates often use these platforms for marketing purposes.
Some of the mechanisms include SEO, E-Mail Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Display Advertising, and Content Marketing.
With affiliate marketing, you get paid for linking or recommending products or services.
If someone purchases a product as a result of clicking on your link, you get paid a small commission.
The product or service owner will pay you either a percentage or a flat-rate commission.
As an affiliate marketer for a company, you will be creating the content that draws the attention of the potential customer.
The links that you include in your content will take this customer to a product website. The products sold on the website should relate to the content that you are producing.
Including affiliate commissions in your blog monetizing strategy can be very effective.
You do not have to give up your content strategies as mentioned in the Google Adsense section. You can incorporate both into the same blog.
Yet, you must pay attention to the number of outbound links that your blog readers are willing to accept. Too many links on a single content can be destructive.
There are also search engine penalties for including too many links in a too-short blog post or article.
As I mentioned, one of my favorite ways to make money online is by promoting products as an affiliate.
Like Amazon is a marketplace of physical good sold on the internet; there are also many marketplaces of digital products and services.
One of the most popular digital product marketplaces is Clickbank.com. Yet, it’s not the best one in my personal experience.
I like ShareASale a lot. It is my most favorite affiliate marketplace on the internet.
The new emerging affiliate marketplace named PartnerStack also looks awesome to me.
You can search these marketplaces for products related to your niche and promote them on your website.
You can do this in several ways such as writing product reviews, banner ads, email marketing, etc.
By the way, you can join the affiliate programs from the official websites too. The only reason I recommend using marketplaces is that it makes everything easier.
If your niche relates to physical products sold online then the Amazon Associate Program is the one you need to join right now.
Again, if your niche relates to online or digital services, the commissions tend to be higher than that of physical products.
Ranging anywhere from 10% to 50% or even higher.
As an example, if someone is selling a digital product for $500 with a 50% commission – you can earn $250 per sale.
This is much higher than commissions on physical products due to the profit margins.
Pro Tip: Join multiple affiliate programs and promote only those products and services that you believe in, you use them personally or have a complete knowledge of.
3. Sponsored Blog Posts
Sponsored blog posts are a commonly used technique to make money for most of the bloggers.
Yet, it’s not so easy to get sponsors unless your website has a lot of traffic and quality content. So, first of all, you need to focus on creating high-quality content and bringing traffic to your website.
In this method, either you approach a brand for sponsorship or the brand approaches you. Then you write quality content for them and they pay for your work.
Let me explain it to you with an example:
Suppose you’re writing an article on “Top 10 Dedicated WordPress Hosting Companies For Big Businesses”. Then you may approach WPEngine or they may contact you to sponsor that post.
WPEngine is the best dedicated WordPress Hosting for big businesses, so they won’t mind sponsoring this post as they will definitely want to show off their business among their competitors.
Sponsored blog posts are nothing but mentioning a brand or company in your blog post for some extra bucks in your blogging career.
Pro Tip: Consider contacting businesses in your niche via email or contact form to get sponsored by them. Make sure your blog post or niche has relevance to the business you're approaching.
4. Paid Reviews
Paid reviews are somewhat similar to the sponsored blog post. In sponsored posts, you mention or write a few paragraphs for the brand or business you’re dealing with.
But in a paid review, you have to talk about only a particular product, service or brand in your whole article.
This method is also not easy as well but it’s definitely easier than the sponsored blog posts.
You must have quality website traffic, quality content or a huge fan following base to leverage the benefits of this method.
In this method, mostly the brand or business approaches you but you can contact them as well. The number of approaches and amount you earn depends on the niche you’re blogging.
Niches like technology, software, computers make the most of it.
Learn to write perfect review articles and be genuine with it for longevity. False review or information can disappoint your visitors and ultimately you will lose their trust in you
Pro Tip: Blog in a single niche to get the attention of brands and businesses for paid reviews. Use different blogs for different niches instead of mixing them in a single blog.
5. Publish Direct Ads
This can be the best way to monetize your content using display ads if your website is already popular.
As you will be publishing ads on your own website, you’ll have full control over it. You can decide the price and things you like.
Show ad spaces on your website and place a link there. Something like, “Your ad here”. If someone is interested in advertising on your website they will know and click on it.
You can also add contact forms and email id for the advertisers on your website. Make a standalone page for the details of advertising that you accept or to convey other details. This will give your advertisers some short of confidence.
If you use WordPress then it will be very easy to sell ads on your site with automation. For doing so, you can use the WP Advanced Ads plugin, AdSanity Plugin, or BuyAndSell.com.
To use the ad selling features you need the pro version of the WP Advanced Ads or the “Selling Ads” extension.
Pro Tip: Direct Ads can increase your revenue by more than 200% but to use direct advertising you must be on a specific niche.
B) Sell Digital Products
1. Create E-books And Information Products
Regular blogging is the ideal training ground for creating e-books.
Still, it’s one of the most popular forms of information products – sold by online entrepreneurs today.
Consider your blogs as free information that you offer to readers to show your expertise. With time, they become your fans and are ready for more in-depth material.
This is your opportunity to make money by presenting your e-books for sale alongside your free blog.
Make sure that the e-book builds on your blog output, don’t rehash what they have already seen.
Later on, as you become more established and your archived material becomes more extensive.
Poll your readers to see what topics interest them in learning more. What topics of eBooks they’d buy from you.
Again, you can sell an eBook for a much higher price than a regular book and enjoy a much higher profit margin.
Pro Tip: E-Books & other digital products are easy to sell which generates good revenue for getting you started. Also, it's easy to create and distribute. One should definitely give it a try.
2. Courses
This is one of the most profitable methods to make money online for creators like you and me.
Whatever skills or expertise you have, you can use them to create online courses.
It could be video lessons, text, graphics, audio or mix of everything. Whichever you prefer.
Now I haven’t created any online courses yet but I’m working on it. So I’m not the one who can teach you this at the moment but I’ll do it as soon as possible.
By the way, I’m using Thrive Apprentice to create my own online courses!
I’ll be launching courses for Blogging, Podcasting, Freelancing & YouTube.
Alternate platforms:
Pro Tip: It was never been easier to share what you know and teach others. And guess what it's not only easier now but you can easily also make money out of it.
3. Webinars
This is similar to the previous method but in this one, you’ll interact with your customers live which makes it more trustable and thus results in a great conversion rate.
No doubt that this one will make you more money than the previous one too.
There are a lot of tools that you can use to host webinars but you can do it with any of your favorite platforms.
Even tools like Zoom, YouTube, Facebook can be used to host webinars.
Almost everyone is taking benefit of webinars nowadays. Be it an individual or a giant company, they are all doing it. And you should too!
Pro Tip: Webinars are like superpower when it comes to conversion rate. It's so good that everyone's doing it. And you should too!
C) Sell Online Services
1. Freelance
If you can do any work for anybody then it can be a quick way to generate income from your blog.
Either you can create your own portfolio on your website and the freelancing mechanism like ordering and delivering the job.
Or you can join the best freelancing platform out there on the internet.
Both ways you’ll need a blog or website to drive traffic to your gig or sales page or to show your authority or credibility.
If you know me already then you may know that I’m also doing freelancing like an agency with my team.
I highly recommend you to use Fiverr for freelancing and it is the same platform that I use.
Pro Tip: Want quick money from your blog or online? Freelancing is the fastest way to make thousands sitting at your home.
2. Consult
Consulting is also one of the quickest options to earn money from your blog or even social media accounts.
I’ve seen a lot of digital marketers and SEO specialist doing it. Just bring the client to your website and make it conversion-ready.
You can use services like Leadpages to create amazing sales funnel that converts.
Once you get the client do your best job and ask for feedback and testimonials for building your portfolio.
And then, of course, show off your portfolio to get more orders.
Pro Tip: In this busy world, everyone is alone even after having a lot of peoples around. Be with them at the present moment, help them out. It is profitable.
3. Become A Tutor/Coach
If you have some knowledge or skills that you want to teach people then that can be your online business too.
Use your website to bring students and to display your portfolio or skill and once you get your students you can proceed any way you like it.
You can use live call apps like Zoom or Google Hangout for the purpose.
Again you can also use Thrive Apprentice, LifterLMS, etc. to keep your study materials and to make some more money.
Pro Tip: Teaching is one of the most respected job out there. And guess what? It can be done online too!
D) Make A Directory Website
1. Job Board
Don’t want to do a lot of jobs yourself blogging? Well, you don’t have too! If you’ll approach this way to make money.
You’ll only need to maintain your website regularly and you may also need a powerful server later with high storage capacity.
You can create a job board on your website using a plugin like WP Job Manager and make money out of it.
And don’t forget to advertise your website otherwise it may fail.
Pro Tip: With a job directory website, you can help others to find jobs or to hire people. And ofcourse yourself too! Do it for free in the begining for better marketing.
2. Business Directory
Like the above one, this one too may not require a lot of work but only powerful hosting and advertising.
What you’ll be doing here is that you’ll be listing the businesses around your locality or targeted city/country and then make a profit out of it.
You can use advertisements or your pages, feature a business in return of money, or even ask for money to be registered to the platform once your website gets popular.
This is one of the tactics that I’m using myself with my local website and it works.
There are plugins available to create a business directory but I would highly recommend you to go with a theme particularly built for business directory or use Formidable Business Directory Plugin.
The plugins available are disappointing.
Pro Tip: Businesses are searching customers and consumers are searching good businesses. With helping them both you can make money and a better experience for them.
3. Event Calendar
This is one of the ideas in my plan list. I haven’t done it yet but I know it will work.
That’s because people or event managers keep contacting me to publish their event details on my local website and social media accounts.
They are also ready to pay. So definitely it’s a business.
If you have some ideas like this then you can do it. Good luck!
Pro Tip: The more tickets you can sell for a event the more chances of your growth. Don't just accept all events. Accept those events for which you can sell a lot of tickets.
E) Membership Website
1. Private Content
This one may not happen overnight but it is definitely one of the best methods you make money out of your blog.
You must have authority on your niche for this to work otherwise it may never work.
Why should someone pay you for your content if you are just a random person right?
That’s why you need to build a brand before you apply this method which can take years. So be patient and wait until the right moment and hit it hard at the right time.
Needless to say that your private content should be extremely valuable.
You can either use a membership plugin to create a membership website or use Patreon to create your private content.
By the way, if you are interested in supporting me or want to access my private content you can join me on Patreon here.
Pro Tip: Focus on building your brand or influence. Later it will help you sell anything you want and your superfans will even pay you for nothing just to support you.
2. Private Forum
The private forum will work exactly like the above on but in this, you don’t need to create content yourself only.
You and your members will actively participate in forums to create content or to help each other with anything.
Like the private content method, your forum must have valuable content or very helpful or experienced peoples.
Pro Tip: If you and/or your team is expert at something and it can be useful for others, create a private forum and test if people are paying for it. If it works continue...
F) Become WordPress Expert
If you are already using WordPress, you might know or learned a lot of things that can help other WordPress users. So why not utilize that as a business? Let’s dive in.
1. Develop Themes
If you are a web developer or know coding languages like PHP, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, etc. then you can build themes for WordPress users and sell them through your website.
You can also sell them on the WordPress marketplaces like Envato and market through your blog.
If you don’t know anything about building themes but still want to use this method then you can hire freelancers to create themes for you and then you can sell them.
2. Develop Plugins
Similar to the above one, if you have the knowledge to create WordPress plugins then you can use that as your revenue source.
You can hire developers to create the plugin and then you can market and sell the plugin to make a profit.
Although, let me tell you that this is not one of the easier ones as it is very difficult to maintain a software/plugin with time and to make it compatible.
Hire developers who are expert in it or someone who can give it all to keep running and improving the software or plugin.
Pro Tip: Plugins or software can be golden egg in your income portfolio but it requires maintainence. So work with a great team. Working solo can be too difficult with softwares.
3. Sell Graphics
Are you a designer by profession? Or maybe you like it so much.
Anyhow, you can use this talent of yours to make some wholesome money from your blog.
You can create infographics, logos, vector arts, illustrations, background images, etc. and sell them online through your website or you can also join websites like Dribbble or Fiverr.
However, I always recommend having your own website. It makes things much easier and profitable. And of course, you’ll have full control over it.
Pro Tip: Designing things is an art. And arts are priceless. Take advantage of it to make more and more money. Remember! You're selling emotion here.
4. Sell WordPress Services
One thing that I’ve noticed after using WordPress since the last couple of years is that it always have problems every now and then.
And not everyone is able to fix them.
So why not you do it for them and make some money online sitting at your home.
When you use WordPress for a couple of years you already become more than sufficient to solve a lot of problems. And a bit of learning from here and there will get the job done.
Create a portfolio website or blog just like freelancing platforms like Fiverr and market yourself to get orders.
I also provide this service, but currently, I’m providing it through Fiverr only.
I’ll add the services to my company website soon.
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G) Sell Physical Products
1. Drop-Shipping
Drop-shipping is selling a product from your blog without actually holding the inventory for the product yourself.
There are warehousing and inventory companies that you can use for drop-shipping. One of the biggest giant warehouse company I know is Amazon. They call it the Amazon Fulfillment Program as far as I know.
These businesses will pay you to write about their inventory, usually in the form of a commission.
Again, Affiliate yourself with the sellers that related to your niche.
Making money through blogging requires a thought out topic.
If you have an existing blog with a very small audience, make sure you have not dived into a too competitive niche.
If your niche is still untouched or not too competitive then that’s great.
Otherwise, there’s nothing wrong with starting a second blog that will be more successful in attracting the audience.
A blog marketing itself, and making money through a variety of methods described in this post.
These factors will determine the amount of money you make.
Estimating the exact income that you’ll generate through your blog is not possible.
Yet if your niche has the potential and you are able to generate traffic then it can make several thousand a month.
Making money blogging can take a lot of persistence, but it pays off in the long-run.
Make sure you follow these tips to give yourself the best chance of earning a large income from your blog.
This will not happen overnight, but most bloggers find that the work itself is rewarding enough to continue on the journey.
Recommended Platforms:
Pro Tip: Dropshippinig is here to stay. If you want to do it, do it. Pay close attenion to markeitng and advertising.
H) Donations
1. Accept Donations
Not sure you can sell something? Or maybe you don’t want to sell anything.
But you can still make money online.
How?
Accept donations.
You can either use Patreon and ask your fans to become a patron or use a donation plugin on your website.
Or you can even use PayPal link to ask for donations.
I personally use Instamojo. It works really well if you are from India. For international users, I use PayPal and Patreon to ask for donations.
Pro Tip: Ask your fans to pay as low as they can. Taking baby steps helps you grow more and it is more likely that they'll pay bigger amount next time. If possible, let them choose the amount.
2. Ask To Buy Your Affiliate Products
Sometimes it doesn’t feel right to ask for money right?
Well, you don’t have to if you use this method.
All you have to do is, ask your fans to buy their own things or necessities with your affiliate link.
Then don’t have to pay any amount to you as you’ll get a commission from the profit, not from the pocket of your fan.
And as they are buying their own stuff, you don’t feel guilty too.
Trust me if you have a good image out there with your audiences then it really works wonders.
How do I know that?
Because I’m using this same tactic since 2017 and it is giving me results. More than I expected!
Wanna payback to me for this valuable post?
Feel free to use any of the way that can help me!
Conclusion
So there you have it. I have uncovered almost all the methods that can be used to make money online using a blog. Now it’s up to you which ones you would like to use on your website.
Do you have any other idea than I listed here? Or which one you would like to use first? Let me know in the comments below.
I think this is a very well written post. It has listed almost all the possible ways of making money online. I’m working on some of the methods myself and I believe anyone can make money online these days because geography is no more a barrier. I would love to read more articles like these.
Thank you for the valuable feedback. We’ll keep on improving the post overtime so that it is always up-to-date and has the latest methods of earning online.
very good and effective post, no doubt if anybody follows above points can earn a handsome some amount from internet….
Thanks, I hope it helps others to make money online through their blog or online business.
Hey Bishnu,
Thanks for sharing these ideas. It has been a long time since I visited your blog and it looks really cool. It looks like you are using Thrive Themes for your website. Congrats brother!
Regards,
Nirmal Kumar
Yes, started using Thrive Themes recently. It’s great. I’m loving it too.
Well structured article
Now I know ways I can make money from my blog
I only thought it was only AdSense that could pay me enough money
But now I have learnt a lot today
Thanks so much for this
Glad it helped!
Nice methods. But I think Private Forums won’t work as a monetization method.
It works but it’s not foe everyone. For example, Pat Flynn as a private forum that you access with SPI Pro subscription. And he’s making a lot of money with it.
Hi Bishnu Bro,
This is really a helpful article. Thanks for sharing such a great post with us. Keep Inspiring and sharing such articles with us.
Thanks!
Thank you for your kind words Pravakar!