FIVE WAYS TO MAKE MONEY FROM BLOGGING

Blogging is a platform to share your thoughts to the world. It is an area you show your expertise in a particular niche and how sound you are in the field.

Blogging however is not a get rich quick scheme. You have to work your way into making money from it. There are several ways to make money from it but here, we shall be looking at the five most common ways.

    Alert!  These are tested and trusted ways  to make money from blogging. however,  you must develop your blog first!

Started blogging since 2018 and I started making little money from it by 2020. Stay cool. I wasn't serious about it at all until late 2019.

The six ways are listed below.

1. ADVERTISING

This is the most common way to make money while blogging. You place ADs on your site, the more people click on it, the more money you make. There are two major types of Advertising.

•CPC/PPC ADS: CCP means Cost Per Click and it is the same as PPC which means Pay Per Click. A blogger in this AD platform is paid each time someone clicks on an AD.

•CPM ADS: This is an AD run as cost per 1,000 impressions. This AD pays a blogger a fixed amount of cash based on the number of persons viewing/clicking on the ADS. The higher the number, the higher your money.

Another very popular way of getting money from Advertising is through Google AdSense. Here, Google shares her AD with you and pay you in return. How ever, getting Google to give you her AdSense is not an easy task at all. You have to set up your blog to the fullest. 

In the case where a blogger cannot get Google AdSense, the blogger can make use of the following.

•Chitika

•Infolinks

•Media.net

2. SELLING PRIVATE ADS

The blogger can also decide to sell ADS privately in his own terms. He is free to tag any price per AD. He may do this in form of banners, Buttons and links. This is where relationship with other bloggers is necessary. If they don't have space for ADS, they can ask you to do it for them.

A blogger can also make money by writing sponsored posts for other companies or individuals. The sponsored post will be in the blog and will boost the publicity of the customer. The blogger can also make money by writing beautiful blog posts and writing 'brought to you by (the customer's name/company).

Many bloggers also take advantage of email marketing. They send mails to you selling their contets. They also use podcasts and videos.

3. INCLUDE AFFILIATE LINK IN YOUR CONTENT.

An affiliate link is a link to another person's product)services coded in your name in such a way that the person will know if someone bought a product through you. You will earn a commission from the product bought.

The first step here is that Advertisers will approach you asking you to post the affiliate link in your blog. You are then told how much is involved before posting it on your blog.

Alert! For you to be able to use affiliate links, remember you have to have a blog that drives tonnes of traffic.

You can also create affiliate links in another way. You create affiliate associated with Amazon associates. This has landed some blogger blocks of money.

4. SELL MEMBERSHIP AND DIGITAL PRODUCTS

Bloggers can also sell membershio for a particular period. Have you ever seen a site that tells you that you have to pay $10 monthly to become a member? Exactly! They are selling their membership.

Before you choose to sell membership, make sure you are offering a service that will be better than the ones your customers will get for free.

Let's say you are selling membership on a site that teaches digital marketing, make sure your digital marketing class is far better than the one they will receive when they get it for free. This means you have to do a whole lot of work.

You can also sell other digital products like;

• Online Classes/workshop

• Ebooks

• Images, videos or music people can use to create their own contents.

• Plugins

• Themes

• Apps

Don't rush to create these contents. Listen to your readers and know what they need . Think of what will happen to you if you create contents or products that people don't need.

5. USE YOUR BLOG TO BOOST YOUR CREDIBILITY AND A LADDER IN YOUR PERSONAL BRAND.

Branding is almost everything. Let's say you are a medical doctor blogging on health, you can build credibility from your posts and people will start to consult you.

This can give you great connections to get to conferences, co-authoring of books and so on.

There is no magic. Start building your own blog.