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Blogging is one of the best and easiest ways to make money online by working from home. There is no doubt that you are also interested in making money online. However, the big common question is how to make money by blogging, and what is the best way to monetize a blog. Also, most people still think only advertising is the way to make money from a blog. But it’s completely wrong. Even many bloggers who make a good amount of money have proved that there are a lot of methods to make money by blogging. So we decided to explain how to make money in each particular way on your blog with proofs.

profitable ways to make money by blogging with proofs
Top 5 ways to monetize your blog

Now, we can explore the best five ways to make money through a blog and the amount of money you can make from each monetization method. So you can decide what is the best one for you according to your status, which is beginner, intermediary or expert.

1. Advertising on Your Blog

When you get started blogging, it might be the biggest dream to get approval from Google Adsense. Yes, me too. Advertising is one of the easiest and popular ways to make money by blogging.

Also, it is a legit and great way to make money from a blog without many struggles and capital. That’s the main reason that many bloggers choose advertising to make money through their blogs.

But there are so many ad providers for publishers in addition to Google Adsense. Such as;

  • Media.net
  • Propeller Ads
  • Popads
  • Chitika
  • Infolinks
  • Revenuehits

And more. We cannot recommend a particular one from the list, but the Google ad network is the best and demanded one among the ad providers. As we know, Google makes $121 million per day alone with ads.

Advertising is the best way to make money by blogging

Having an idea about these industries will help you to choose a good category for your blog if you are willing to monetize your blog via Google Adsense.

How to monetize my blog by advertising

To get started earning by advertising on your blog, you need to be qualified by the ad providers. So you cannot make a blog today and get Adsense approval tomorrow. It will take time to fulfil ad providers’ requirements.

According to Google Adsense, they required quality content over quantity. Also, they review your content to check if it follows their guidelines. And they usually take 3-5 business days to complete the review. But in some cases, it will take 2-4 weeks.

The process is the same as well as for other ad networks. (might be some minor differences)

In my experience as a blogger, I got my Adsense approval after applying three times because I didn’t know how to measure the content quality they required, so I had to write 30 blog posts to get approved from Google Adsense. 

But there is no exact amount of blog posts required. Some bloggers have gotten approved for just 2 or 3 blog posts. The main thing you should do is make high-quality content than existing ones.

How much money can I make by advertising on my blog?

Well, this is the most curious question among all the beginners who started their blogs recently. But having an idea about how much money can you make by advertising on your blog is very important for your future plans and continuing blogging.

If you are a google ad publisher, you can use the revenue calculator to calculate your annual revenue by page views. I don’t think other ad networks provide a feature to measure the revenue like this.

However, most ad networks have based on CPC, which means cost per click. In other words, Google or any other ad networks pay for the publishers when the user clicks on an ad in your blog. So that’s why keyword research is a vital part of blogging because you can check how much they pay for each keyword.

Also, your ad earning depends on a few more facts like;

  • Selected ad network
  • The category of the blog
  • Monthly page views and sessions
  • Target audience

And if you want a large amount of revenue by advertising, there are some third-party platforms to increase your ad revenue by showing the most relevant ads to users, such as Mediavine, Ezoic. Most bloggers already using those platforms to boost their ad revenue and make a good amount of money than other bloggers.

Indian blogger Amit Agarwal example for how to make money by blogging
-Amit Agarwal-

For inspiration, Amit Agarwal who is a Google developer and great blogger makes an estimated $60,000 alone from Google Adsense. Also, he is India’s first professional blogger who went on to build a highly profitable blog called labnol.com.

Statics of his blog:

  • Alexa Traffic Rank: 7,739
  • Monthly Visitors: 4,480,000
  • Domain Authority: 86

2. Start Affiliate marketing

The second way to make money through a blog is affiliate marketing which is very famous among bloggers.

How does this work?

Affiliate marketing is another marketing scheme that pays its affiliates for sales and traffic.

Affiliate marketing is another way to make money from a blog

To better understand, let’s get a quick example.

Think about a shop in the village. If someone buys a product from that shop and refers another one to buy from the same shop, the shop probably will make a sale. And when all are doing the same as the first one did, the shop will definitely increase its sales. But the first person and others who recommended the shop are getting nothing from it. Simply, it is affiliate marketing.

The only difference is you will get a commission for referring others in the digital world. So you can get paid for every single sale that users make by going through your affiliate links. That’s how affiliate marketing works. 

Already, there are so many bloggers who use this method to make a passive income through their blogs. And yes, you will be another one:)

How to monetize my blog by affiliates?

To monetize your blog by affiliate links, you should find the most relative affiliate programs to your blog. Because selling books at the fish market is nonsense.

Finding a relative affiliate program is not hard, and it is like help for other businesses. Even many people do their own affiliate blogs that only promote affiliate products and services. You can check our Pinterest affiliate marketing guide if you prefer to get started with affiliate marketing.

You can find many more affiliate programs on the internet, but here are some popular and best affiliate programs all the time.

Whatever your niche is, one or more of the list is definitely relative to your blog. For example, if your blog is about pets, you can use Amazon products of dog belts or something like that, and if you are doing a digital marketing blog, you can use web hosting providers’ affiliate programs.

Every time make sure to view from the users’ side.

How much money bloggers make by affiliate marketing?

Affiliate programs also like ad networks. They pay for performance which means you get paid only when a user perches a product or service via your affiliate link.

To do so, you should build the users’ trust by your words and convert them to buyers.

You can see the below commission rates of the above affiliate programs that I mentioned earlier.

  • Amazon Associates – 1.0% to 10.0% commision(depend on product category)
  • Etsy – 4% to 8% commision(base on product reviews)
  • Skimlinks – 1% to up to 80%+ commission
  • Bluehost – $65
  • Dreamhost – $15 to $200(depend on plan customer choose)
  • Hostinger – 60% commission
  • Udemy – 15% commission
  • Skillshare – $10 per sign up

Sometimes, you cannot imagine how much money can you make by blogging. Check this out!

blogger who make money by affiliate marketing
-Michelle with her husband-

Here we found a blogger who makes $1000+ per month alone affiliate marketing. Michelle is who owns the makingsenseofcents.com which covers personal financial tips and wealth facts.

However, according to her reports, she has earned $30,240.00 from Bluehost by referring others.

Her blog statics:

  • Alexa Traffic Rank: 74,608
  • Monthly Visitors: 182,000
  • Domain Authority: 55

3. Selling products on Your Blog

As a blogger, you might be willing to monetize your blog in a different way. At that time, you can use this way to monetize your blog, but this will not be easy as other methods.

Selling products is one of the top leading ways to make money by blogging and it will make awareness through your content. So if you are selling something on the internet as a business, we can consider it an e-commerce business.

But you have to know a lot about marketing, consumers and production.

Also, you may have seen so many e-commerce businesses such as Etsy, Amazon already using blogs for their websites to drive traffic to market their products to millions of people. Yet, it helps to build a massive targeted audience through your blog.

How to get started making money by selling products on my blog?

Having basic knowledge about e-commerce is worth it to go ahead in this path and continue to grow your blog as a business. 

To get started, you must know what the alternatives are. Basically, there are two kinds of products that allow you to sell on your website or blog.

  1. Physical products
  2. Digital products

Choose the best one for you based on your knowledge and experience. After choosing the products, you should list them on your website.

You cannot list the product as the regular way you posts your articles on your blog. So you must use some special plugins and platforms to convert your blog to an e-commerce website. Below are the best ones that offer incredible features to optimize your online shop.

  1. WooCommerce (Plugin)
  2. BigCommerce (e-commerce platform)
  3. Shopify (e-commerce platform)

If you are a WordPress user, you can use the WooCommerce plugin to list your products and optimize your blog as an e-commerce website. And if you don’t have a blog yet, you can start blogging and selling on e-commerce platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce.

Furthermore, it’s not essential to be a physical store to get started selling online on your website; because today, we have the dropshipping concept that allows you to sell any product without even touching it.

How much money bloggers make from their blogs by selling products?

Today, e-commerce is a massive industry that has spread a wide range of the internet. Even people like Jeff Bezos and Jack Ma became billionaires through e-commerce.

So you may get a simple idea of how much money and career you can gain from it. It doesn’t mean you can be the next Jeff Bezos at once, but the limitless patience and solid determination will probably drive you there.

When we take the world’s largest e-commerce website, Amazon, they make around $638.1 Million per day. However, you don’t need to think that much big.

If you do not have physical inventory or products, you can start selling digital products, which does not require many features such as stocks, importers and exporters. For instance, if you are a marketer, you can sell eBooks about marketing guides through your blog.

blogger who make money by product selling
-Alex and Lauran-

For example, Alex and Lauren have made $71,887.77 in 2021 January from their blog by selling digital products alone. According to their reports, they mainly sell online courses and ebooks on their blog called createandgo.com.

Their blog statics:

  • Alexa Traffic Rank: 53,314
  • Monthly Visitors: 60,500
  • Domain Authority: 34

4. Make Money by Providing a service

Another professional way to make money by blogging is by offering a service for your users. Also, existing online service providers use blogs to drive traffic and make more clients around the world.

Providing service is selling your skill through the internet as a legal service that helps people soul their problems. 

For example, if someone visits your blog to read how to make a branded logo design while you provide logo design service on your website, the user will most likely get your service instead of struggling to make it himself.

So this is one of the best ways to monetize your blog if you have skills in addition to blogging. And it doesn’t matter if you don’t have skills. You can still hire professionals as per your niche. Yet, building a group of members to provide various services through your blog will help you reach a massive customer base.

How to earn by providing services on blog?

As I mentioned earlier, you do not have to have skills to make money by providing services on your blog because you can hire some experts as it requires. Many bloggers already making bucks by providing services on their blogs.

Providing services means there you should get paid from your customers through your blog. So you will need those plugins that I mentioned for selling products again to make your blog e-commerce friendly because you are ready to sell something.

After customizing your blog, you can make content related to the service you are willing to provide. It might be a service that you are an expert in or be multiple services.

you can charge subscriptions from your clients if you offer a long term service. For example, if we take a hosting service provider like Hostgator, they have generated $100 million revenue in 2012 according to Wikipedia records. 

how to monetize a blog by providing a service

Keeping your blog smooth and clean, the users will more likely tend to get your services. If you always influence users to buy your services, it will course to lose your potential customers.

Instead of screaming like “Get our services”, you should explain “Why your service is worth it than others” on your blog.

How much money can I make by offering services on my blog?

The money you earn from your blog by offering services will always depend on how many clients you have and how much cost your service.

If you need to boost your revenue by offering services, you can make quality content that drives interested users to your blog. So you can easily convert them to consumers due to their interest in the particular service. 

But, here is one of the best examples for bloggers who make money by providing services on their blogs.

example for bloggers who provide service through their blog
-Neil Patel-

Digital marketer Neil Patel makes over $381,772 per month by marketing his service through his blog. Also, some of them come from other methods we mentioned above. However, most of his fortune comes from neilpatel.com and Ubersuggest which he uses to offer his services as a SAAS.

Statics of his blog: 

  • Alexa Traffic Rank: 1,754
  • Monthly Visitors: 6,340,000
  • Domain Authority: 90

5. Offer Members-Only Content on The Blog

Another best and effective way to monetize your blog is converting your readers into subscribers who pay a monthly fee for your content which we call membership websites. This strategy is not for beginner bloggers who are willing to make money without much traffic and web authority.

You can learn some 18 killer ways to drive traffic to your blog.

Building a massive audience interested to read your content every day is way harder than you imagine. It definitely takes a lot of years. That’s why this method is not suitable for beginners, but if you are an intermediate or expert who has more experience and more content on the blog, you can make money while blogging through it.

But you will face another problem when you are going to offer membership. Content everywhere, so your content might be free on another website or blog. Then it doesn’t make sense and you will not generate an income through it because people will leave your blog and embrace free sources.

To make it not happen, you must create unique and high-quality content that anyone hasn’t created yet. Also, those content should be essential for people to read; if not, why they should buy a monthly subscription?

So many news and media websites charge a monthly subscription fee to access their content. Because something like pieces of news is important to everyone.

how to monetize a blog by charging subscription

You can see how Forbes charge monthly and annually from their readers for their articles.

How to make a subscription-based blog?

It’s essential to build the audience before you get started to charge from your readers. And make sure you have tons of quality and unique content on your site.

After being satisfied with your monthly traffic and their reviews(comments), you can start the process step by step. First of all, you have to have to hire technical experts, marketing experts also developers to manage the website correctly. As I mentioned, it will take a few years to become a successful business.

You can follow these five steps to create a membership web blog.

  1. Discover Your Niche
  2. Select Your Content Offers
  3. Choose Your CMS Platform
  4. Determine Your Subscription Plans and Pricing
  5. Set Up Membership Levels

Furthermore, maintaining such a kind of website is another big complicated thing. So you will definitely need a great team to continue blogging and make money consistently.

How much will generate a membership website/blog?

A membership or subscription-based website can make millions of dollars per month if it has quality content and a massive audience.

Yet, the pricing plan and peoples interests also affect the revenue you generate. But the most important thing is content quality. It doesn’t matter even you like to start a pets’ blog, if you can provide all the content that people looking for, they don’t think twice to be a paid member of your website.

Today, there are some large blogs that use this method to make opportunities for other small bloggers. So they use that money to pay their employees to make more quality content and build the blogging industry.

news and media website that make money through their blog
-Forbes News and Media website-

For instance, Forbes.com is one of the top-notch news and media websites in the world makes around $6 million per month. Also, the website was registered more than 2 decades ago. Yet, the website worth has been estimated at around $43 million recently.

Statics of Forbes:

  • Alexa Traffic Rank: 226
  • Monthly Visitors: 104,000,000
  • Domain Authority: 95

Additional ways to make Money by Bloggin

Accept donations

This monetizing method is not popular, but you can make significant money by placing a donation button somewhere in your blog. It allows satisfied readers to send donations for you through your blog. You can use this option to make money at the beginning when you started blogging even without any other options available.

If you are a WordPress blogger, you can use particular plugins to create donation options in your blog.

However, the higher the quality of your content, the greater the chances of the reader making a donation.

Sell private ads

There are so many ways to make money in the blogging industry. Here is another practical way that many bloggers earn money through their blogs. But this will not easy if you don’t have enough traffic and authority, because you have to contact ad providers directly.

Also, platforms like Mediavine give the opportunity to users to place their ad on the website that they visit. So bloggers need to get a partnership of the platform.

Sponsored Content

Sponsored content works like advertisements and it comes in the form of videos, tweets, articles, Instagram posts, Facebook posts, and many other paid formats. Most of their purpose is to drive traffic than sell anything.

However, advertisers will find your blog when you drive significant traffic to your blog, so they will contact you if you have a contact page on your blog. You can approach the process if you are able to publish their content on your blog. Some of them will provide exact matching content and some are not.

Don’t let your blog content quality decrease. If you publish content that is out of the niche, it might be affecting your blog rankings and traffic. So make sure to agree with quality and relative advertisers who care about your efforts too.

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