How To Make Money From Blogging

January 25, 2019January 25, 2019 Joyce Chidiadi 8 Comments 20 affiliate programs for bloggers, blogging, how to make money with your blog

Including 20 affiliate programs that will increase your blogging revenue.

You can make money blogging. Blogging can be your online side hustle, for some people blogging becomes their full-time source of income. As part of my weekly series on how to create online side hustles, I have explained in clear terms different ways you can make money from your self-hosted WordPress blog.

Read: How To Start A WordPress Blog and Benefits of Blogging

With blogging, you can make some cash to get by or you can make a ton of money depending on the system you put in place on your blog. Just like anything else, researching and constantly learning about the best practices of blogging will determine how much you earn. Don’t get me wrong. Blogging is not easy. You have to put in a lot of work. In the beginning, don’t expect to earn a lot but keep working consistently on your blog to build great content and traffic. There are a lot of resources online to help you solve every single problem you may encounter with setting up and getting your blog up and running. YouTube University is one sure place to find answers.

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Set Up Your Blog For Success

Before you can make money from blogging, you need to have a blog. Are you looking for a step-by-step guide on how to set up your blog? Click on this red link below to learn how to create yours.

FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ON MY ARTICLE ON “HOW TO START YOUR OWN BLOG” here.

After setting up your blog, create at least 10 to 15 posts, publish them. Promote your blog by word of mouth to your friends, family and social network and on social media. You may consider running some Google ads or Facebook ads to draw more traffic to your blog. Why is traffic to your blog important? This is because your traffic statistics will determine if companies will approve your application to be affiliated with their products. These companies love to see numbers. More traffic = More money (if done the right way). Now let’s dissect the different methods you can use to make money with your blog.

Ways To Make Money With Your Blog

1. Affiliate Marketing

As defined by Wikipedia, “affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts”. So you can review or explain how to use a product or service from another business to your readers. If anyone of your readers buys the product or uses the service through your personalized link to the product, the company pays you a certain percentage or a flat rate for bringing customers to their business. Your readers will not pay you any money for buying the product through your link, only the company you are an affiliate to will pay you.

There are many affiliate programs you can sign up today as a content creator (blogger, Youtuber, social media influencer…). All the affiliate programs cannot be exhausted in this post. However, most affiliate programs are niche dependent. This means that you may sign up for affiliate programs related to your type of content but it doesn’t mean you can’t sign up for other random ones. Let’s get down to the list of some of the affiliate programs you can use to generate money on your blog and how to search for affiliate programs from different businesses.

Popular Affiliate Programs Bloggers Use To Make Money

To sign up for these affiliate programs, some of the companies have different requirements. Read their requirements to know if you qualify. Traffic statistics are important to some companies while some others don’t care if your blog is just brand new. Get started. Click on any of the links above to sign up. Promote your link in your posts.

If you are using any product you really like, search on Google for that product and add affiliate program at the end of the product or company name, if they have referral programs, then sign up and start making money.

2. Display Advertisement

When you sign up as a publisher on an advertising network, you get paid when your readers click an advertisement or purchase a product advertised through your blog. Below are platforms you can sign up for display ads on your blog

Google AdSense: This is one of the easiest ways to start making money on your blog but the proceeds are usually very meagre unless you have a lot of traffic on your blog. Google has also become very strict in approving new websites that want to join the AdSense program. You must make sure you have set up your About and Privacy Policy page on your blog. If Google rejects your Adsense application, don’t worry. There are still other networks you can sign up for display ads.

InfoLinks
Media.net
MediaVine – This publisher network is for blogs with a considerable amount of traffic. For your blog to qualify for display ads from MediaVine Publisher Network, you must have at least 25,000 sessions per month (Not page views) to get you approved with all of their ad partners. The revenue from this network is better than Google Adsense and others.

3. Sell Your Own Product Or Service

If you have a product or service, you can a checkout platform to your blog to capture payments on your blog.

4. Sponsored Advertisement or Posts

You can charge a business a fee for their product or services to be displayed on any part of your blog. Most bloggers charge different rates for companies to display products on their blog’s header or sidebar or footer. However, more established bloggers can have this flexibility. Bloggers who are just starting out can also use this method. This also applicable sponsored posts. Companies pay you to have their article published on your blog to get it to more eyeballs.

5. Offline Engagements

When you have established your blog and maybe it becomes a brand name and popular, it can be a platform where people and businesses can invite to speak in conferences or high profile event while you get paid to do this. isn’t that wonderful?

6. Free Gifts and Review Products

You may start receiving free products from businesses requiring you to test or use their products and share your experience with your audience. Some of these products, you can sell or use them.

This post is for new bloggers looking for ways to generate income with their blogs. let me know if this article is valuable to you.

What other ways do you make money as a blogger? Share yours in the comment section.