15 ways to monetize your blog

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What are the ways to monetize your blog? For bloggers, maybe the continuous output of blog posts is just their hobby. In fact, blogging is also a way to make money online.

Making money blogging is now a lot easier than it used to be. If you have your own independent blog (if you don't already have one, see the article How to Build a WordPress Site on SiteGround), and you're putting out a lot of content, but haven't made any money yet, it's time to do some changed. But how to change the problem that blogs cannot be monetized?

In this article, I will share with you 15 ways to make money online by blogging. Next, let's get to the point.

Affiliate Marketing

If you're wondering how you can make money with your blog, you should look at affiliate marketing as a way to make money. The painstaking translation will then use an article to describe in detail how to make in-depth use of affiliate marketing to achieve online earning.

Affiliate marketing is one of the most common ways for bloggers to make money. Affiliate marketing is the promotion of products or services of other companies or businesses. The webmaster earns a commission every time someone purchases a product or service through an affiliate link posted by the webmaster.

Assuming your commission is $5 per transaction, the webmaster will earn $500 if 100 people make a successful purchase by clicking on the webmaster's affiliate link.

The easiest way to promote products on your blog is to apply for affiliate programs such as:

ShareAsale
Amazon Associates
Commission Junction
Ali Mama

Then we need to register an account on this type of affiliate marketing website, and then find the product we want to promote. In fact, there are affiliate marketing programs in almost every industry, such as fashion, catering, education, and health.

However, if you want to engage in affiliate marketing, it is best to choose products and services that are related to the blogging topic. Select products or services related to the sub-industry, and then recommend these products or services to people in the industry, because they are more likely to buy such products or services.

For example, if your blog is about fitness, you can promote fitness-related products such as sportswear, jerseys, sneakers, fitness equipment, and more.

If you have your own affiliate marketing website (Xingguo Translation will also teach you how to build an independent affiliate marketing website later) and you already have traffic, then you can use the OptinMonster plugin to get more affiliates on your website Marketing benefits.

Earn Google Adsense Advertising Fees

When it comes to making money blogging, your first impression is probably making money through advertising. The easiest way to monetize your blog is to use Google Adsense. Google Adsense is a project by Google to display Google ads on numerous websites. When site visitors click on ads, webmasters can earn money.

Advertisements displayed on blogs are also very targeted, generally categorized and promoted according to the content of the website and visitors. For example, Xingxinguyi is a blog that focuses on sharing cross-border entrepreneurship, foreign trade website construction, cross-border information, cross-border making money, and cross-border marketing. Therefore, the advertisements received above are very targeted, as shown in the figure below.

Also, adding Google Adsense to your website is very simple. Once set up, these ads will automatically appear on web pages.

Moreover, webmasters can also track the receipts of Google ads by themselves, and know which ad slot on the website attracts the most clicks. Here is a WordPress plugin recommended for everyone, which is MonsterInsights.

sell ad space

While Google Adsense is easy to set up and make money, there are limits to how much you can earn. Therefore, webmasters can consider selling advertising space on their own websites.

Sell your advertising space yourself, and control the price yourself. As a result, webmasters can set a flat fee for advertising on their site. Webmasters can make more money by charging a flat fee, which is easier to manage than tracking click information.

To find businesses or companies willing to buy space on your website, you can create an ad page on your website or use a platform like BuySellAds to get in touch with these companies or businesses.

But selling ad space directly is more difficult to manage than using Google Adsense, because webmasters need to negotiate prices with each other, formulate terms and agreements, manage invoices, and of course other details.

But if you use the tool AdSanity, it will be more convenient to manage the ads on your WordPress site. Webmasters can directly insert advertisements into their own web pages, and then track browsing clicks.

Write a product review

Making money by writing reviews is similar to how you make money from sponsored blogs.

The so-called writing reviews to make money is to buy a product and try it out, and then write some product reviews in the blog post. Webmasters can make money by writing reviews.

However, in general, webmasters should choose to write reviews for products or services that are closely related to the industry segment they are blogging about. For example, if your blog is mainly about budget, then you should choose budget software or related app to write a review, which is more meaningful than writing a review about vacuum cleaner.

You can also contact the various product brands directly, or use a platform like PayPerPost to connect with organizations that are willing to pay you to write a review.

Turn your blog into a paid membership site

As a webmaster, have you considered turning your website into a paid membership website?

Your most loyal fans are generally willing to pay to read the content you produce because your content is so useful to fans that it conveys knowledge and value.

The so-called paid membership website is to hide all or part of the content, and website visitors can only access these content after paying.

Access users can pay a one-time fee for reading rights, and of course, the webmaster can also charge a monthly subscription fee. In this way, webmasters can earn long-term income.

If you use a paid membership WordPress plugin, webmasters can easily convert the original blog site into a paid membership site.

Here, I recommend MemberPress plugin and Zhi12 website for reference.

Setting up the MemberPress plugin is easy, and the plugin offers a lot of content access rules. Webmasters can decide what kind of pages or content their visitors see, and they can create beautiful pricing pages.

Create a private forum

You can also create a private forum site where visitors must pay to view certain content or access certain content. In this case, there is no need to turn your entire WordPress site into a paid membership site.

Forums are basically pages on a website where members can discuss different topics and get some information.

Forums are a great way to enhance interaction between forum site visitors and administrators. And if the forum can implement the paid subscription function, the webmaster can continue to earn income.

Webmasters can use forum plugins to create a private forum website, of course, the platform is still the WordPress platform.

Publish eBooks

Selling e-books is also a common way for bloggers to make money, and a great source of passive income.

Passive income, also known as after-sleep income, is income that can be earned with little effort by market value. When writing an ebook, you only need to write it once, and then you can market it to readers online without interruption.

However, there is a premise that the content quality of the e-book is attractive enough, that is to say, it can generate value.

Most importantly, an ebook must have an influential target audience.

However, you can also scrape your most popular blog posts into an e-book, which your fans might like more.

Afterwards, Careful Translation will share with you how to create an eBook. Next, let’s take a look at other ways to monetize your blog.

Sell other digital products

In addition to ebooks, webmasters can also sell templates, printable materials, WordPress themes or plugins, video tutorials, audio recordings, and even PPT templates. If you have a skill and you have digital products for fans, you can sell those digital products to your fans.

If you want to sell digital products on your WordPress site, you can do that with the Easy Digital Downloads plugin.
Easy Digital Downloads is a plug-in that includes shopping cart, customer management, coupons and other functions. It is a special plug-in for selling digital products.

Online courses

If you yourself have some special skills or knowledge to teach your followers, you can also turn your expertise into online courses that readers pay to learn.

You also don't have to be an expert level task to sell an online course. As long as you know a topic in particular, you can sell courses on your blog.

For example, if your blog is about cooking, you can sell cooking lessons or ingredients on your website.

Webmasters can also install some Learning Management System (LMS) plugins to create their own WordPress site for selling courses online. Careful translation will also tell you how to create an online course website in a subsequent blog post.

Paid Webinars

Paid webinars promote your blog and showcase your expertise to your fans.

Webinars are similar to live video training or online courses with a Q&A session at the end. It's also one of the ways you interact with your website visitors.

If you already have other ways to monetize your blog, you can also use webinars as a free way to promote your product or service. You can also sell tickets for webinars if the information you want to share is of high value.

If you want to know how to run a webinar website perfectly, you can learn about webinar marketing.

online tutoring

If you have a certain skill yourself, you can tutor others online. Online tutoring is also one of the ways blogs can monetize.

Generally speaking, online tutoring is very similar to the consulting industry, and is generally charged on a one-to-one tutoring model. For example, if you're really good at blogging, you can coach you on how to get traffic (see 13 types of content that can help you get more traffic), or how to build your own in a short amount of time Email contact list.

The industry behind the blog determines the type of coaching. Say your blog is about fashion, then you can help your followers develop their own style.

Make money by providing gig services

Using your own blog to show and promote your skills to website visitors, and then pick up some small jobs from visitors, is also a way to make money online.

To provide gig services, you don't need to spend time and money to produce products in advance, you just need to provide your own services online and sell your skills. Many people also regard gig service as a kind of freelance, and some freelancers even belong to full-time gig service providers.

You might think you have few skills to offer your audience and fans, but you are wrong. As a blogger, you are already a creator and you can provide writing services for businesses and corporations. I have to say here that many freelance writers start by writing blogs.

Alternatively, you can find other types of freelance work, aka odd jobs, such as graphic design, social media management, back bookkeeping, website design, and more.
If you are working for a foreign individual or business and they generally ask for invoices, then I recommend using FreshBooks. In addition, I recommend you another platform. This platform needs to hire a website registered by both parties at the same time, and it is Thotmad.

Ancillary product realization

When people go to concerts, they often see people selling band T-shirts on the tables outside the concert hall. In fact, we can also use similar methods to make money.

In fact, many bloggers will sell T-shirts, hats, phone cases, or other merchandise with blog logos or slogans related to their blog.

For example, the blogger Evie Chapman, her blog is about coffee, and she sells some coffee-related products herself.

If the content on your own site is high quality, fans are more than willing to buy gadgets to support you. Later, I will also tell you how to build a website dedicated to selling customized products, and how to build a website for drop shipping. In either case, you don't have to manage inventory yourself, or courier items to buyers.

If you want to buy some custom t-shirts, drinking glasses, pillows, socks or other similar products online now, you can try Printify. You can design your favorite style online, upload your own logo, place an order with one click, and pay online.

Accept donations or tips

If your readers really like your content, sometimes your visitors may also support you financially if you add the ability to accept donations or accept tips online.

When you're providing high-quality, valuable content to people for free, it's understandable to ask for some financial support. Even sites like Wikipedia are asking web users to donate.

If you already have your own blog, if you want to accept WeChat or Alipay tips or donations, you can choose to log in to the Zhi12 website, and then use their tipping function plugin, or use the tipping link.

Friendly Tip: Create an Email Contact List

One more thing you need to do if you want to make money with your blog is to create an email contact list yourself.

If you have an email contact list, there are many benefits, such as the following:

Increase affiliate marketing revenue
Expand eBook sales
Get more people to sign up for webinars
Sell more personalized gadgets
Other advantages

If you use email marketing, you can market your products directly to readers. In general, the subscribers on the mailing list are particularly interested in your content, so these people are also the biggest potential customers, and they are likely to sign up for your courses and buy your e-books and other small goods.

So how do you create your own email contact list? Use Mailchimp to create pop-up subscription windows.

How to realize the new blog site?

Anyone who is new to blogging wants to know how to make money. But know that anyone can blog and make money from blogging.

Actually you don't need a lot of traffic in the beginning, you need some readers for the knowledge in the beginning. Of course the income will be small at first, but as your blog grows bigger, so will your income.

Many of the methods mentioned above are traffic-dependent, which means that the more traffic to your website, the more money you make. Afterwards, Xingxinguyi will also write articles on gaining traffic for you to read, but here you can first understand the SEO section of Xingxinguyi.

If you want to rely on your blog to make money, it is recommended that you start by coaching others and providing freelance services to make some income first, after all, you will have very few clients to start with.

Which blogging sites are best for making money?

Choosing the right blogging platform is very important if you want to monetize your blog.

Many newbies are keen to choose a free blogging platform like https://www.wordpress.com/, because after all, it is free and saves money. But a free blog is difficult for you to monetize through a blog site.

We recommend that you use http://WordPress.org as a platform where you have complete control over your website, which means you can choose from many monetization options to monetize your blog. There are many differences between the two platforms, you can check this article WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org comparison, and then you can also refer to "Teach you to build a WordPress website on GreenGeeks that pays for knowledge and monetizes content" article The article builds a blog site by itself.

Which types of blogs are the most popular?

Research data shows that the most profitable blogging segments are credit cards, loans, finance, mortgages, and several others. But for most people, it seems unrealistic to make efforts in these areas.

Therefore, we should choose a field with more potential for development, and preferably a field that we love.

We are motivated to blog when we are interested in a field. And this interest will also be passed on to readers through the blog, strengthening the interaction between the website and readers.

The 15 ways to monetize blogs mentioned above are suitable for almost all sub-sectors, and we don’t have to force ourselves to write some dispensable topics.

How much does a blogger earn per month?

The money bloggers make actually depends on many factors, such as how the webmaster monetizes his blog, which segment the webmaster chooses, and how much energy he puts into blog writing.

Blogging is not a get-rich-quick method and we need to invest a lot of time and effort before that.

How to make your blog more and more perfect?

Making money from blogging sounds great, but if you just

When you start to get in touch with this way of making money online, you must be thinking, "Where should I start?"