Now you got your first blog running, i know you are probably asking yourself, how can i make money from my blog? the answer is definitely yes, you can make a lot of money from your blog if you provide enough value to your audience and you got a good number of them. blogging is like a business therefore all you simply do is to create a business around the value you offer to the public. So today, i would be giving you a host of ways that you can use to monetize (and off course, make good money off your blog) your blog even without having a million visits every month.
so just like usual, let us get started
GOOGLE ADSENSE
Google adsense is by far one of the preferred and easiest way to monetize your blog. Google Adsense is a program (ads network) operated by google that allows google to place ads of people and companies on your website. Google then pays you (the owner of the website) a larger share of what the companies pays.
Google adsense is so easy to implement as all you need to do is to apply on their official website and then they would assign a staff to manually review your website, if you website fits into the program policy without violating any terms and condition, your application will be approved and you will be able to place ads codes on your website.
Google will pay you based on the number of clicks the ads on your website gets.
AFFILIATE MARKETING
Affiliating marketing is fast coming to he best way to monetize your contents because the payout seems to be more encouraging while not necessarily affecting your user experience.
All you need to do is to sign up for the affiliate programs of products, tools and services you often mention and recommend to your audience and then insert your affiliate link mindfully in your target contents or blog post. If a reader clicks on your link, a cookie (also called a web tracker) is placed on their browser, so if they make a purchase within the lifespan of the cookie, you automatically earn an affiliate commission.
NOTE : A cookie lifespan strictly depends on the choice of the merchant, while some may be twenty four hours, others may be around sixty to ninety days.
MEMBERSHIP AND LOCKED CONTENTS
Do you think that the information you give out are too vital to be dished out for free? if yes, you should consider running a paid plan to sell your information in exchange for a monthly or yearly fee.
If you are using a blogging software like wordpress, all you need to do is install a membership plugin like memberpress, paid membership pro or S2members.
this scripts / plugins will automatically transform your website into a membership website and you will be able to charge your readers some dollars for access to your premium contents. your premium content can also include ebooks and pdf files as well as podcast.