Make Money Writing: 9 Proven Ways to Monetize Your Blog
Are you looking for some proven blog monetization methods to monetize your blog to convert your ‘baby’ blog into a money-making blog?
I’m using some of these monetization methods to monetize Inuidea.com and slowly I’m implementing other methods too.
1. Blog Advertisements
This is the most easiest and popular monetization method available on the blogosphere.
As a beginner blogger, Google AdSense is the #1 ad network you can use to monetize your blog.
Related Post: How to Get Google Adsense Approval Fast With a New Blog
To generate more revenue using Google Adsense, once you reach 25K sessions, apply to Mediavine.
If you cross 100K pageviews, you can directly apply to AdThrive.
Looking for a Google AdSense alternative?
Try PropellerAds or Media.net. They are reputable, they also have a large number of advertisers, and their payouts are good too.
Google AdSense is easy to set up, but the amount of money you can earn from AdSense is limited. So, directly selling banner ad space can be more profitable.
It takes more work to manage directly selling ads than Google AdSense. You’ll have to negotiate the pricing, come up with an agreement, and take care of invoicing.
However, using a WordPress ad management plugin such as Ad Inserter can make the process easier.
I recommend you use AdSanity, it allows you to manage Google AdSense as well as your own banner ads.
Many bloggers hate blog advertisements because they can make your site slow and ugly. It also distracts your visitors and affects your site design.
However, there are many profitable ways to monetize your blog without AdSense and blog advertisements that don’t affect your site design and don’t distract your visitors.
Keep reading to learn more about these blog monetization methods.
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2. Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is a proven way to make passive income by monetizing your blog’s loyal audience.
I’m a big fan of affiliate marketing and I often write about the power of affiliate marketing on my blog.
If you’re a beginner blogger, instead of waiting for Google AdSense approval, you should try affiliate marketing to monetize your blog from day one. After all, it’s one of the best ways to monetize your blog without AdSense.
Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission by promoting other people’s and companies products. You earn a commission for each sale that you make through your unique affiliate links.
To make money from affiliate marketing, all you need is a loyal and target audience.
Write high-quality content, use affiliate links, drive targeted traffic, build a loyal audience and see the magic.
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You can join affiliate networks such as ShareASale, Viglink, and Impact to get hundreds of relevant affiliate programs to promote on your blog.
Check out my in-depth affiliate marketing guide to learn more about affiliate marketing as well as get to know about the top 29 affiliate programs you can join to maximize your revenue.
3. Email Marketing
The money is on the list!
The line is so true!
Email marketing is vital if you want to start a money-making blog in 2022.
One of the most powerful methods for making money from your blog and building a strong bond with your readers is directly through email marketing.
By using your engaging email list you can market your blog posts and market your own products and services along with affiliate offers directly through email.
Top bloggers use an email list to market their blogs, monetize their blogs, and grow their online business.
I’m using Mailerlite, a beginner-friendly email marketing and automation tool that lets you create beautiful and professional email forms that fit with your branding.
Mailerlite’s free plan lets you have up to 1000 subscribers. It’s a great alternative to MailChimp because of its easy-to-customize features.
1000 targeted subscribers are enough to market and monetize your blog as a beginner blogger.
After that, you can go with their premium plan that offers more features, or you can use other email marketing services such as Convertkit, Aweber, etc.
4. Sponsored Blog Posts and Reviews
As you grow your blog and your brand, you can collaborate with individuals, brands, and companies. They can contact you to write a sponsored post or a review post for their products.
Also, you can directly contact the individuals and companies you want to collaborate with. Tell them how you can help grow their business using your reach.
It becomes easier to get sponsorship when you are working on a specific niche and if you have a target and engaging audience.
Read more: How to Become an Influencer Marketer [My Experience — Infographic]
5. Sell Digital Products
You can effectively sell any type of digital product on your blog as long as it’s valuable to your readers and relevant to your content.
Digital products can be a combination of videos, eCourses, eBooks, downloadable guides, resources, PDFs, images, audio files, software components, SaaS, and others.
You can use SendOwl to sell digital products on your blog. They let you set up your own shop on your blog and an affiliate program for your shop. The best part is that SendOwl makes the checkout process really fast, secure, and easy. You can also use Gumroad and Buy Me a Coffee to sell digital products.
6. Sell Your Services
It’s one of the best ways to make some active income as a freelancer. If you have an in-demand professional skill you can make huge money by selling your services online.
As it’s not passive income, it requires a lot of time and effort to make money by selling your services.
By using the internet you can make money doing almost anything from anywhere in the world.
The Internet is full of opportunities and freelance jobs are waiting for you. All you need is a skill. If you already have an in-demand skill, that’s great!
But in case you want to learn new skills, you can use resources such as blog posts, YouTube videos, and other resources to learn a new skill for free.
If you want a straightforward and organized course, you can use Udemy or Skillshare to get premium courses to learn a new skill without any hassle.
As a blogger, you can use your blog to promote your services to gain clients.
On your blog, you can show off your writing skills, and design skills or you can write about your other skills in your blog posts.
This way you’re using your blog as your portfolio and you’re continuously marketing your skills as a freelancer.
If you love to write, you can become a freelance writer and offer your writing services to blogs and companies who want high-quality articles.
Apart from selling your writing services, you can offer your services as a:
- Graphic Designer
- Virtual Assistant
- Digital Marketer
- Photographer
- Illustrator
- Web Developer
- Owner of any in-demand skill.
As a beginner blogger, it can be hard to get clients using your blog. So, start working with clients on Fiverr, 99designs (as a designer), and other freelancing sites.
7. Create and Sell Online Courses
It’s probably one of the best ways to make money blogging.
People love online courses because online courses are organized, straightforward, and actionable.
An online course is a passive income source for niche experts and teachers.
So, if you are a niche expert and If you have a skill that you want to teach your audience, you can share your knowledge by creating online courses.
You can host your online course on your WordPress blog using LearnDash, or you can use Teachable to host and sell your online courses.
Also, you can use Udemy or Skillshare to host and sell your online course with their existing audience.
8. Sell eBooks
Writing a best-selling eBook requires some knowledge and a bit of time investment upfront, but it can be a great source of passive income that works month after month.
The earning opportunity is huge.
For example,
Taylor Pearson sold over 5,000 copies of his book ‘The End of Jobs’ in four weeks and in 2015 had made over $60k from just that book.
With Amazon, it’s pretty easy to self-publish your eBook and make money from it. Just follow Amazon’s book writing guide and start writing your first book.
If you don’t have the required time or skill to write an eBook by yourself you can easily hire a ghostwriter from Fiverr to do it for you.
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You can also design your book cover yourself using Canva and Snappa or you can hire a professional designer from 99design or Fiverr to do it for you.
Before you begin writing, make sure you validate your idea and pick a profitable niche.
Also, don’t forget to promote your book through social media platforms, bloggers, and influencers in that niche.
If you can sell a few hundred copies the first week of launching your book, Amazon will take over your eBook and start promoting it for you.
By the way,
If you want to sell your eBook on your blog, you can use SendOwl to create a shop on your blog. They also allow you to set up your own affiliate program. The best part is that SendOwl makes the checkout process really fast, secure, and easy.
9. Accept Donations on your blog.
Once you add real value to your visitors and help them learn something valuable using your blog or personally help them for free to do something, slowly some of your blog audience become your loyal audience.
And many of them are also willing to help you happily. All you need to do is ask for the help you want from them.
When you have a loyal and engaged audience on your blog, you can monetize your blog by making it possible for your audience to make donations.
To accept donations on your blog you can use a plugin such as GiveWP, Charitable, and Donation Manager for WordPress to set up a donation system on your own.
On the other hand, you can use popular crowdfunding platforms such as Buy Me a Coffee, Patreon, or Ko-fi to manage your donors and earnings without any hassle.
Final Thoughts
Life is a journey!
Blogging is a journey too and becoming the best takes a lot of effort and time.
Look what others are doing. Learn from them and learn from their mistakes. Also, don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Overall it’s the best way to learn something new.
Learn from your mistakes!
I hope you enjoyed reading this list of blog monetization methods.
Now I’d like to hear from you:
What are your favorite ways to make money blogging?
Let me know in the comment section below right now.
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