HOW BLOGGERS MAKE MONEY ONLINE

Almost all bloggers start their journey to make money out of it, a passive income source where you just work for a few hours on your blog and you get full-time income from it.

As new bloggers are coming up daily, ways in which bloggers make money online is getting more and more diverse.

And it would not be wrong to say that no one can say for sure how much money you can earn from your blog.

Potential of a blog to make money online is greatly influenced by so many factors and as you continue on your blogging journey you are bound to discover more and more of these factors.

And if you fail to follow certain strategies, you are not gonna make a single dime out of your blog, and on the other hand, if you monetize your blog in the right way, the amount of income you can achieve is awesome. (Believe me! Six-figure bloggers are rocking this blogosphere)

All in all, the best tip I can give to you about how bloggers make money online is that from the very first day they treat their blog as a business.

Treat your blog as a business from day one, plan, stick to it, and pay careful attention to each aspect of your blog. If you follow this principle you will get success.

As I mentioned before that the number of ways in which bloggers make money is much diverse.

But for any monetization stream to work for you, you need to have at least some good amount of blog traffic coming to your blog.

No monetization methods will work if your blog traffic sucks.

Also since most of the blog traffic coming to your blog will mainly be from search engines like Google or social media networks like Pinterest or Facebook, you need to implement a technique that will make your income source not dependent on them.

Meaning, suppose your Pinterest account got blocked or Google penalized your website for some unknown reason.

Then all your blog traffic is just gone like whoosh!

To prevent this, if you start building an email list from the start, after some time, you will have an engaged audience which not only listens to you through your blog only but also interacts with you through email.

In this scenario even if you have a temporary problem in your blog traffic source from social media or other sources, you still will be left with a list of engaged readers and they will be still reading your emails and you can easily monetize through sales funnels.

So my advice to you is to start building an email list as soon as possible, don’t be afraid, just start it and have few welcome email series ready to introduce yourself and send weekly emails letting them know of what’s new on your blog.

Now let's talk about major ways in which most bloggers make money online.

As I mentioned before, there are various ways in which you can monetize your blog but in this post, I am only including a few of them, the most popular and most profitable ones.

Advertisements

This is a common and popular method to monetize your blog.

How this works is, basically you signup with an ad network which then provides you with a code.

You insert this code into your blog and whenever any visitor comes to your blog they will see advertisements and you get paid for it.

For this method to work you need to have a huge amount of traffic coming to your blog.

And that is the reason that this works better for most food and beauty blogs.

There are various agencies like Mediavine, Adthrive that seem to be working very well for many bloggers and allowing them to make a good amount of passive income from their blog.

However, these kinds of agencies generally have requirements that your blog needs to fulfill for example to get accepted for Mediavine your blog should have monthly 25,000 sessions.

My advice here is to avoid going for Google AdSense since I have heard so many bloggers cry about it and it just makes your blog look like a mess and you hardly earn a dime.

Better is to build your traffic and once you are eligible, apply as soon as possible for Mediavine.

Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is the simplest way to earn a decent amount of income from your blog.

And if done right the are many six-figure bloggers who have a major portion of their blog income coming from affiliation.

Let me first explain how this works.

The process starts with signing up as an affiliate for any product that you use and like.

Then, that product owner provides you with an affiliate link.

You use this affiliate link in your post.

When any of your readers clicks on that link and purchases that product you get a commission.

As simple as that.

Now you might be thinking that it is pretty simple to earn from affiliate marketing.

Well, it’s not.

Multiple factors come into play when you start affiliate marketing.

First of all your need to identify such an audience that is actually struggling from those problems that your product can solve, completely.

Next, you need to attract those niche audiences to come to your post so that they can read the benefits of your affiliated products and decide to purchase it.

Here the first part in itself very difficult to complete, the second part is way more difficult than the first, making it much harder to do the whole affiliate marketing thing.

But the good news is that many bloggers are making six-figures and do all these processes in a very systematic way.

If you want to get started, here is my post on Affiliate Marketing For Beginner

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Sponsored Blog Posts

This monetization technique has become popular in the past few years.

The idea here is that instead of you going out and signing up with an affiliate network site, you directly work with the company.

They either contact you or you sell yourself to them and then they agree to pay you for writing a review blog post about their product.

This way they promote their product and earn money through your blog and you get paid directly.

This method works well for those in the lifestyle and beauty niche.

Once you can get a decent amount of traffic coming to your blog, such companies will contact you.

However, if you feel like there is a particular product that you love, and suits your audience, and you think that your audience will love it then you should definitely contact that company.

An important thing to understand here is that you should never promote products just for the sake of making money.

No matter how much tempted you are, always focus on putting out what’s helpful for your audience.

Sell digital products

Till yet whatever ways I described above, which are used by many successful bloggers to make money online, are dependent on others to generate income.

But this method makes your blog income stream independent.

In this method, you create a stunning digital product that your audience is looking for and you sell it to them yourself.

In all the methods mentioned above this, you get a small portion of profit in terms of commission.

But in this method, you decide the price of your product according to how helpful and valuable it is for your audience and all the money is yours to keep.

After starting your blog and having some experience of a couple of months on it and gaining more knowledge in your niche, you can start working on creating a small digital product.

Although it does require a couple of months for you to create such a product, it will truly make your blog income passive, when combined with evergreen sales funnel.

To get started.

First, decide on what major problems your audience is struggling within your niche.

To get some idea about this look for most popular posts on your blog, check blog comments, check Facebook discussion groups.

Once you have a solid idea of what your audience is looking for, create a product that solves those issues completely for them.

Your product can be an eBook or a checklist or stylesheet or whatever.

It should completely satisfy your audience.

But this does not mean that you should be afraid to try out an idea, there are many bloggers whose first product that they created was a complete fail.

But they didn’t stop there, they kept on going till they created the product which is the utmost helpful for their audience.

So once you have enough knowledge about your niche and you have an idea of what your audience is looking for then go for it.

Create a stunning product and start making money online.

Provide Services

Nowadays many bloggers are providing different services and in return making a decent amount of money online.

This method has grown popular in recent years only.

Some bloggers provide service as in does blog setup for you, creating images for your pin, does content management for you, does Pinterest account management too.

If you can showcase what skills you have, you can practically provide any kind of service.

Since the demand has increased, so have the chances of fraud in it.

Many people did not get paid or were made to work more than paid.

So, Always have a contract with the client, it's your safety net, don’t work without it.

And also know the value of your skills, never undervalue yourself, check the market, and compare yourself with it.

Sell E-Course

This is the advanced level of selling a digital product.

Creating digital products like eBooks takes a lot of time and effort.

But creating an e-course is a masterpiece on its own.

Selling digital products will give you an idea of what is working for you and your audience.

It gives you validation, gives surety that any product around that particular topic will be loved by your reader.

Once you have a successful product, your next ideal step should be to create an e-course.

These courses are usually priced high and so, the content inside should be equally valuable.

And this is the reason that creating an e-course is not suitable for beginners.

Because beginners still have to learn more and achieve more.

Once they have achieved something they can use that to showcase their authority and knowledge through their e-course

If done right this is the method that could make you a six-figure blogger.

Conclusion

Being a blogger there are plenty of opportunities to make money online.

Most of the time bloggers are afraid that they will fail.

Don’t be.

It’s okay to feel such but if you won’t move forward no one in this world can help you.

You need to put in enough effort to make it work for you.

This fear of failure will make you stuck in a particular phase only, like will this niche work for me, or is this post valuable enough.

You won’t know unless you try it.

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