Interested in how to make money from your blog? Well, making money
blogging is DEAD! I’m sure you’ve heard that before, right? Just like
we’ve heard that this industry or that industry is dead and it’s time to
move on. Well, I can assure you that making money from your blog is
getting easier and easier. Today I am going to go over 10 different ways
you’re able to make money from your blog, starting today! No need to
wait months upon months in order to start generating revenue, you can
(and should be) monetizing your blog now.
Monthly Advertisements
One of the main ways blogs start to make money is by selling advertising
space on their pages. You know, the 125×125 sidebar ads you see
everywhere? Yeah, those are the ones I’m talking about. There’s a reason
everyone is using them – because they work and they make you money.
The beauty of it is, with a place like
Buy Sell Ads
to run your ads through, you can virtually sit back and watch the ads
get purchased and run without requiring you to do anything. You could
also sell advertising directly on your site with an “advertise here”
page letting the visitors know how to pay you for the ads, which works
well because you don’t have to pay a % of your profits to Buy Sell Ads,
although you’re going to have to do more work (add their advertisement
to the page, remember when to remove it, etc).
Pay Per Click Advertising
The next most popular way to make money with your blog (it’s even
the most popular for some sites) is with PPC advertising. The most popular way to run PPC ads is through
Google Adsense.
With Adsense, you’re able to pop some code into your website and let
Google pick out the proper ads that match up to the content on your
pages.
Then, every time someone clicks on the link in the ad, you get paid.
Pretty simple right? Yup, and thats why most people use Google Adsense
when starting out.
Digital Downloads
You can see this type of money making method in use on websites that
sell ebooks or other digital download products (ie: WordPress themes,
premium design resources, textures, etc). This works great because its a
more passive way to earn income from your blog. Once you set the link
up for people to pay & download, you never have to touch it again
and it can make you money over & over again.
To streamline the process of digital downloads, I’d recommend checking out
e-junkie.
With millions of users and the ability to sell your products for as
little as $5.00 per month, e-junkie is the perfect solution to have
someone pay (to your PayPal account) and instantly download your files.
Affiliate Promotions
Here’s a method of making cash off of actual products that you can
promote on your blog without actually needing to make the products
yourself. Becoming an affiliate for someone else allows you to make a
cut of the earnings when you send them traffic and sales.
For instance, you can sign up and promote WordPress themes from
Elegant Themes, Books at
Amazon, Audio files at
AudioJungle,
etc. It’s a great way to mix up your earnings through your blog and if
you’re promoting quality products, your visitors won’t mind a bit.
Donations
Another way to make money from your blog is to push out tons of
useful, free content and just ask for donations. You may not get
donations from every visitor (in fact, I’d bet that you don’t) but you
will get people who feel like you’re providing too much value to just
take it and run & they’ll donate to you.
You can do this by setting up a PayPal donate button in your sidebar
or at the end of your articles. Let the visitor click the button and
then choose what amount they’d like to donate to you.
Lost & Taken is a website that provides tons of useful texture downloads for free and has a donate button at the end of each post.
Membership Packages
When you run a blog, you can always set up a membership area with various membership scripts like
amember or
wishlist member
that allows you to post your regular content for viewers to check out
for free and then also offer up that “extra special content” that the
user has to pay for. You know, the downloadable source files for
tutorials, ebooks, free themes, etc.
Chris over at
SpoonGraphics
is a perfect example of how you can turn your blog into a membership
package machine. Chris regularly posts up “premium” content that is only
available to it’s members, while the rest of the blog remains free and
open to the public. This generates interest because he always has
amazing content, so you just
KNOW that the membership package is going to be worth it.
Sell Your Services
If you run a blog and also work as a freelancer, the odds of you
being able to make some cash from your blog by offering your services is
pretty great. For instance, if you run a blog that teaches people on
how to make money from their blog and you also design blogs, why not
promote your design services right on your blog? People who are
interested in that topic should also be interested in the importance of
having a killer design for their own blog.
You may also want to showcase writing you do for blogs if you’re
looking to write blog articles for other websites. This shows that you
can write on a variety of topics and also puts your name up their as an
authority who knows how to write content that generates traffic.
Reviews
There are a couple of different ways you can go about building a blog
that generates money through reviews. First, you can toss in some
product reviews of related products to your blog topic and let your
readers know that they’re paid reviews. The
App Storm websites run by Envato does this pretty well.
Another way to do this is by building an entire blog around product
reviews. You see these a lot with web hosting company review blogs and
others in that market but there’s no reason you couldn’t venture out
into a music review website, movie review website or something
completely different.
CPM Advertising
If you’re building a website and relying on lower quality traffic
sources like Stumble Upon or other places that generally send visitors
who don’t click ads or buy products, then CPM advertising is probably a
perfect solution for you. What CPM advertising is, is a payout for every
1,000 ad views you generate. So, if you can get 10,000 visitors to each
post from Stumble Upon, but they’re not clicking on any ads, it might
be time to switch to a CPM advertiser like
Casale Media or
Tribal Fusion.
Consulting & Coaching
This is a bit different than the services we mentioned above because
here, you’re basically offering up your time instead of a service. When
you run a blog and become an authority on the topic, odds are that some
of your visitors will turn to you for advice. Instead of giving
personalized advice away on a regular basis, why not offer consulting to
them for an hourly fee?
Michael over at
Remarkablogger
turned his blog into a consulting machine and generates income from his
website by offering personalized consulting & coaching to his
visitors while still regularly pumping out awesome content. Why can’t
you? If you’re an authority on your blog topic, you can –
and should.
What methods do you use?
Out of the above list, which methods are you currently using on your
blog? We’d love to hear from you in the comments section below.
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