How To Earn Money From Blog
A blog can be both a great starting point and also the best way to develop your own following. And, if you have good writing skills, you'll probably enjoy blogging as well. So there's no limit to what you can do with a blog – from start-up to run your business or even run one of the many online businesses that work in this field to get extra income. Here are three ways for bloggers to make money.
#1 Create Your Own Website
If you can't seem to imagine yourself becoming a blogger without owning your website then you're not alone. I've already written a few reviews on my site so it works fine for me but let me tell you now: it isn't hard by any means to create a blog. You can use free or paid tools to build your blog like WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr etc, and you can do so much more than just write about reading, watching or talking about anything related to technology and life online such as TV shows, movies, games, music, news articles, videos, photography etc.
When you have a blog, you get an opportunity to monetize that blog by selling ads to other websites. This is called AdSense and these ads appear on the top of the page beneath "Ads" (for example) while still showing "Learn About...". It works by taking some of your readers' information and putting this together into an advertisement and adding value to all who use Facebook or Google. The idea behind this is that people are using social media platforms as their primary source of information so they want advertisements that show them relevant things that will interest or attract them to click further and purchase the product or service that they are offered.
There are lots of different AdSense programs out there so you need to create websites for every program you'd like to create your own. Some examples of categories are "sports", "food", "fashion", "science", "health", "home improvement", or "travel". There are lots of options that you can pick from so don't think too hard about which ones you prefer but keep an eye on our directory to see what is currently available and which is not.
A few of the most popular ones include Display Ads (Google Adsense), and Shopping Adsense, Search Advertising, Online Videos ads, Social Media ad advertising, Guest Posting, Sponsored posts, Promoted Posts and many others. What you choose depends upon the type of content your blog has written and the market that your blog is targeting. If you're looking to start writing about sports then you might want to choose between sponsored posts and guest posts as your content would always be targeted towards those types of topics. For more specific niche posts such as fashion, health and beauty which would usually fit the category name you want it under, you might want to consider SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). This would help your blog rank above other blogs within your audience that might not have a lot of traffic coming from search engines as well.
#2 Start Using Affiliate Marketing Programs
Affiliate marketing programs works very similar as the adverts mentioned earlier – you'd create links to products and services via another internet user to promote them back to your site which is where it displays your affiliate link. But instead of being able to add adverts to certain pages and offer some form of advertorial experience for people, affiliates simply offer their products to their followers.
In order to become affiliated with a particular brand or an organisation, you must first reach out to them and get permission for them. Once that permission has been granted, they would review your application and decide whether they want to accept you as an associate, and would then let you know how much you would pay for each job / order and how much time or effort would it take to complete the task. After doing the research on various companies and their offerings, you would contact them through email and try to prove yourself and convince them that your skills and abilities fit the position or the role that they are offering. They would go on to say whether they need to go ahead with the process and that you have to provide proof that your blog could match the requirements set out by them. The cost for creating a custom landing page, setting up hosting, running your blog, getting all the necessary plugins installed and everything else would be listed on your account.
So with this little bit of background information, let's start writing about how to earn some real money as a blogger. Just remember to set your prices for your posts accordingly and look for publishers with actual websites who are willing to put time and effort into crafting quality content. Don’t forget to give away some of your work along the journey as well to gain commissions as well. Be careful though – you need to look for someone with a solid grasp of grammar and have a fair understanding of computer software so they can read your post correctly. All in all, don’t underestimate the importance of SEO and having high traffic. However don’t forget to stay authentic – don’t claim to be something you aren’t, and don’t oversell yourself either, otherwise nobody will believe you are the boss – especially when you’re not even close to anyone. As you said, success doesn’t come easy…
#3 Sell Courseware & Audio Products
Did you know that the biggest thing to make on any digital platform is to sell courses? Whether it be technical, creative or education, courses are the foundation stone for future knowledge and will allow you to master whatever you have taught yourself for. When people are ready to learn something new and grow their career as a result, then these courses are definitely worth exploring. We have thousands and thousands of video tutorials available on YouTube – they have lots of variety and are extremely useful wherever learning can come in handy to improve or gain knowledge. If you want to make a living out of teaching, it's important that you have the right training tools in place to help you produce engaging lessons and deliver world class results.
One of the best way to achieve success on Youtube is through Udemy. These are courses created by experts who publish on their youtube channel as well as other sites. These courses can range in price, depending on the course that you are going to teach, so it is absolutely viable for you to sell at the same price. Most will have their own unique website where you can find more information about the course such as the course description, syllabus or even past student feedback. There are plenty of opportunities to increase your earnings and make more money, so it is important to know what your objectives are and the outcome that you want from each course.
Another area that could be quite lucrative is producing audio content on your podcasts and other live audio clips for your podcast. Podcasts are slowly finding favour amongst audiences and they serve to supplement content when we are unable to attend physical events. This is made possible after many years of experimentation involving podcast editing with Adobe Audacity, and with this being implemented on a number of podcast-related pieces such as Digital Marketing 101, Becoming a Better Entrepreneur and Creating Great Content. Producing a podcast is essentially making recordings for your subscribers to listen to through your app either directly on your smartphone or through a website or other app. It has become popular for its versatility, and there are various apps to suit all purposes with some more intuitive options than others. This allows you to create a truly immersive listening experience and makes you more appealing to your audience.
Conclusion
I hope that you can have gained some insight as to how you can actually make money from your blog or perhaps an individual blog as well. Make sure to stick with your blogging and if you are thinking of starting your own thing, I encourage you to do so and look at the list of sources I've used here for advice. Good luck! Let us know in the comments section below your thoughts regarding starting and growing your own blog and, ultimately, making a profit from it.
