15 ways bloggers make money blogging!
One common question I get from starters is how bloggers make money blogging. I’m not ignorant that most people who want to generate income blogging start off on a wrong footing. Now, there is so much polluted materials out that. If you are not vigilant, you may get fooled.
In as much as the question of how bloggers make money looks very basic, there are lots of folks out there tearing their hair not knowing what to do or where to start. I have had several friends on Facebook tell me please Enstine, take a look at my blog and tell me what to do to start making money.
I want us to understand here that while your blog is the huge channel through which much can be tapped, there are a couple of opportunities off the blog.
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As a blogger, there are several ways you can make money blogging. Let me first of all underline here that as time goes on, new money making opportunities are popping up from every corner. However, there are standard ways to make money as a blogger.
How do bloggers make money blogging ?
I want to approach this question from two angles. I’m sure this will make us really understand where we are going:
A – Make money directly on your blog
B – Make money off your blog
B – Make money off your blog
A – How to make money directly using your blog
Let’s look at different ways your blog can directly generate income for you. That means without the blog you cannot make money using these methods –
-> Advertising
Advertising is really a cool way to generate income from your blog. I want us to further break this down so we get a clearer picture;
1 – Advertise your own products:Now this is surely more straight forward. If you are an author, your blog will be a great avenue to advertise your own products. To boost sales, you may want to cut down prices or offer special discount to your blog readers.
2 – Advertise Affiliate products: I often say you don’t need to be an author to make money online. Affiliate products are products that pay you a commission per sale. What happens here is simple. You get to platforms like ClickBank, Commission Junction, eJunkie, JVZoo, etc and get products that you know can pay pretty good commissions. For the most part, you’ll get banners and other sales tools to use on your blog while you make the money.
3 – Google Adsense Ads: While Google adsense is an important source of income, I often advise bloggers not to be in a hurry. The downside of this advertising model is simply that it takes your visitors away from your blog so quickly. Google does not allow publishers control over how to set the target window of adsense links. That means visitors who click the adsense links will be completely taken away from your blog and that’s not want we want as bloggers.
We want our visitors to hang around our blog for as long as possible to increase time on site and maybe reduce bounce rate. Anything that does not favor this should seriously be given a second thought.
4 – Sell banner space: Now, this is another winner! While not making your blog stuffed with banners, you can make a decent monthly income selling different banner spaces on your blog. The more your traffic, the more impressions you get per portion and the more you can charge. Some blogs charge up to $250/month per 125×125 ad space.
5 – Sell links on posts: While this can be very rewarding, it makes you an enemy to search engines. Google seriously frowns against link sales so you do this at your own risk. A quick tip will be to make the link anofollow so you don’t pass on the juice to the buyer’s url.
6 – Special events: Some bloggers with very popular blogs get paid huge sums to announce special events on their blogs. This may go along with special videos aimed at spreading more information about the event.
7 – Publishing paid guest articles:Guest posting is a common activity in blogging where bloggers develop content for other blogs. While some bloggers scramble to have free articles published on their blogs, others charge for it. There are plartforms today where you can meet advertisers who are ready to pay you to have their articles on your blog.
– > Product reviews
Product reviews is another income channel that brings in quite handsome amounts of earnings. There are two ways bloggers review products and get paid.
8 – Paid product reviews: This is quite simple! Product owners pay you a certain amount of money to have you write a review post about their products. You get paid once – generally from $100 upward per post.
9 – Affiliate product reviews:Bloggers may not want to sit back and wait for vendors to pay them before creating a review post. Another smart step is to review relevant high converting products on their blogs and link to them (these products) on their affiliate links. Any sale that is made through that review post generates commission. The beauty here is that this will keep generating commissions for as long as the post gets traffic (referral and/or search engine).
B – How to make money off your blog
Now as a blogger, you can also make money carrying out activities off your blog. Let’s see some of the things you can do outside your blog and earn some money;
10 – Paid to speak at events: Most bloggers with authentic success stories are speakers during blogging events. Of course, they get paid to speak on specific topics and share their knowledge with participants. That’s another way big or pro bloggers make money.
11 – Paid to set up blogs: If you have a little knowledge in setting up a blog, you can always have business. New blogs are published daily so one of the ways to make money as blogger is help beginners set up their blogs for a fee
12 – Paid to guest post on other blogs: I mentioned above that you can charge a fee for content posted on your blog by other bloggers or SEO firms. In the same manner, you can be paid to post content on other blogs. That’s how it works.
In this post, I show you how I was paid $100 per post I submitted to another blog. There are several of such opportunities where you are paid to submit content
13 – Paid to mentor: It’s becoming increasingly clear that to succeed online, you need a mentor else you’ll have to learn the hard way. Most successful bloggers get paid to coach younger bloggers to success.
14 – Contest and Win: There are many cash prize contests and giveaways online today. All you need is enter, follow instructions and you could just be a winner. For the most part, bloggers make use of their blogging power to earn more points and stand a better chance to win.
15 – Paid to Tweet: To be a successful blogger, you have to be active on social media. Bloggers with a considerable social media base get paid to tweet to their followers on Twitter. This also goes for Facebook. You may want to join Sponsored Tweet to earn money from Twitter
How to generate more income from your blog.
How much money you make from your blog depends on a number of factors, one of which is targeted traffic. With a proper monetizing strategy, the more relevant traffic you get, the more money you make.
Focus on getting more traffic to your blog from search engines, social media and blog community sites like BlogEngage, BizSugar and a couple of others.
Now, I know you are interested in how bloggers make money blogging. That’s why you read this post to this last paragraph. So share your thoughts with me in the comment box below. Are you a blogger? Do you make money blogging? What are the challenges your are facing in this activity?
