How to monetize a website: 4 Ways to make money blogging

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Monetizing your blog is necessary from the moment you start writing content on it. Especially if you started blogging as a side hustle due to the amazing posts you read of bloggers alike making passive income from it.

You are on the right track, however, you need to know how to go about it, or else you might start feeling like it is a waste of your time and resources.

When I started, though I never saw it as a waste of time it was a slow start. I don’t want you to have a slow start as I did so this step by step guide is here to help you out. Stay tuned!

First step to monetizing your blog

Is to understand what monetizing your blog is all about. And how there are a lot of ways to make money blogging. Like I know affiliate marketing is talk of the town however there are bloggers making a lot from other ways.

I know of bloggers that 90% of their blog income comes from ads and the remaining 10%  may be affiliate marketing. The secret is they might not tell you, probably ’cause they want to sell something else. Talking about secrets you might want to read this: Secret blogging tips: for new bloggers

Or 5 blunt truths about blogging no one tells you

Therefore monetizing your blog means putting products of monetary value to you on your blog and it could be done in many ways.

Second step to monetizing you blog

Is to choose a niche and stick with it. Choosing a niche is not a challenge because you can easily pick one that you find interesting or have some experience. However, sticking to that niche is a challenge for every blogger because to stay focus is not an easy task.

If you are on platforms like Pinterest, it is quite glaring that the most trending pins are all about blogging then fashion. You could be tempted to switch it up a little, it’s okay to read about blogging to improve your blog but try your best to stay focus.

The good news I have for you is every niche can be monetized, all you have to do is learn what way works best for your niche. If you want to go for a niche you have no idea how to monetize drop a comment I will gladly tell you how.

Sticking to a niche make you better at it thereby increasing your chances of making more money with that niche.

Third step to monetizing your blog

Know how to go about it. It is very easy once you learn a few things. I will share with you what I know works. Seat tight and absorb it

So they say start putting affiliate links from the word go, yes it is a good idea but what they aren’t telling you is the type of content that could actually make you money. You could read 5 blunt truths about blogging no one tells you

Just writing about a beautiful product is not good enough or recommending what you use that is necessary won’t make you money.

However, what will make people buy that product is if you tell them how to use it or show them how it worked for you in achieving a certain thing.

Next time when you want people to sign up for amazon affiliate through you, show them how it works and how they could make money from it as you do. Showing proves makes your persuasion easy.

Fourth step to monetizing your blog lies in your niche.

At this point I’ll give you hints on how to go about the few niches in my head but if I don’t mention what your blog is all about drop a comment with your question and I promise to answer it.

A list of niches and how to make money from them

• healthy living: This one is broad, from diet to weight loss, to fitness and health itself. Even yoga can be found here. You could sign up for affiliate networks that have a variety of products from what I listed and promote. So you understand affiliate networks give you access to a lot of affiliate programs. Instead of finding companies one after another, you can just find one good network and get access to all its affiliate program.
• yoga: Apart from telling people how to go about yoga. You can create premium membership for your subscribers where they get online yoga videos from you. Let’s call it online yoga classes. Meaning you are coaching your subscribers from the comfort of your home and you are getting paid for that.
• book review: I am a book lover and I’ve read a lot of them. However, I rather stick to reading than reviewing but I guess we are all not the same. Some want others to know about our opinion regarding a particular book. I assume you follow up with your favorite authors and know when a book is yet to be launched. Being the one with such breaking news will gain you traffic already. Then also make sure as soon as the book is out you have it available on your blog through affiliate programs like Amazon. Who told you blogging was a piece of cake ha!.
• movie review/ critic: Almost the same applies to movies as books. Ask Netflix if they have an affiliate program. So that the next time you are talking about a movie from them and someone wants to become a paid viewer. They will go through you, and you get some commission.
• lifestyle: Are you talking about everything you got going for yourself and you think it could be of help to someone. Frugal, traveling, fashion, income, mom, single mom, DIY, single, married, bachelor, debt-free, broke like me, weight struggles, spending, budgeting. Like you can tell it all when your niche focuses on lifestyle. You can become a life coach for the things you had success with and get paid. Or sell crafts you made if you focus on DIY. If you want to promote what you sell on your blog then you need a shop I recommend Shopify for your online shop.
• Finance: Write ebooks on how people can manage their finances and sell them. If people can buy books in stores talking about money and finance. What makes you think they won’t buy your book online. Just make sure it is excellent and publicizes it as your life depends on it. Well if not your life, your time deserves some reward. Your blog is to get people familiar with how great you are through your content.
• business: Maybe you don’t know, but people do pay people to make a great business plan for them. So if you are good at that, you can put your service on your blog and let readers know you can help them out with what you are teaching them.
• photography: I love photography, not like there is no competition out there but it one of the easiest. You could sell your own images on your blog.
• online marketing: Sometimes all you need to be an online marketer is a free course on google that teaches you all. Sounds funny but it is true. And when you are done with the courses, put yourself out there and see if someone won’t pay you to grow their business online.
• graphics and design: Stencil, Canva, and Picmonkey have great affiliate programs. Since you are great with images and designs show people how to create great images and see if they don’t get you more money in your bank account.
• fashion: Straight to the point with this one. Gain a lot of followers on social media and the seconds someone asks you where to get your outfit to point them to your bio. Just make cool cash looking good.
• social media: When it comes to social media, affiliate programs are the best. For instance, you use tailwind on Pinterest for scheduling your post. Tailwind has an affiliate program. Sign up for it recommend it to your followers and make some cash.
• religion: Being a part of amazon associates is probably what you need here. You could recommend Christian books from renowned writers and even DVDs. When purchases are made you get more money in the bank.

I probably mentioned the popular ones, well they were the ones that popped into my mind. Drop a comment and I will respond ASAP if your niche wasn’t mentioned.

And this are my simple steps to monetizing your blog. 

Now that we have the steps out of the way. I have four easy ways you can monetize your blog even if you just started yesterday.

4 Easy Ways to Monetize your New Blog

1 Placing Ads

Placing adverts on a blog seems to be the easiest way to monetize a blog. But not my favourite because you need so much traffic to start earning something reasonable.

2 Affiliate Marketing

This is my favorite because affiliate marketing is your best and faster chance of making money as a new blogger. You do not need thousands of pageviews to make money with affiliate links. All you need is a good content giving people solutions to their problems with links to products that can help out.

I made my first $250 dollars blogging through affiliate marketing with a blog post that got less than 200 page views. Learn the simple way I did it.

With an email list you can make affiliate sales too.

Tips to grow your email list and make sale:

1. Give a freebie. Yes! freebies are the fastest ways to grow an email list and with your email list, you could be making a lot of money. Never mind your free beginning set your eyes on your paid future. Read this new blog post to know how I did it and how you too can.
2. Sell products directly to your email list.
3. ConvertKit is the best email marketing platform I know for now. You can start free.

3 Sponsored Post

This is when you get paid to publish content on your blog or to mention a product in your blog post. A sponsored post is an easy way to monetize your blog because things have changed in the blogging world.

Now you do not have to wait for brands to find you but you can go to them by signing up on influencers platforms or networks. A good place you can start with is ValuedVoice. However, there are many out there.

The best thing about sponsored post is this, you can name your price and brands will pay you as long as their products reach the right audience through you.

4 Creating and selling your own products

This is not the easiest but the most lucrative. It is not easy because it takes a lot of time to create products that will solve a problem and you cannot forget the competition you have to beat.

However, putting all of that aside selling your own products is another easy way to monetize your blog. You can create ebooks, courses, masterclasses, and services such as coaching.

Resources

At the end of every post I always recommend resources to help you see results with my tips.

The best part about me is that I am extremely frugal and I believe blogging cheap is possible. Hence I only recommend resources that are cheap and will give you results that will make you thank me.

The resources I will be recommending today is 1K Blogger by Lidiya. This course will show you exactly how to grow your traffic, attract brands to pay you for sponsored posting and make your first $1000 as a new blogger while having a full-time job.

For all the things this course has to offer it is extremely cheap. Grab this course while the offer lasts.

Conclusion…

You have made the best decision by deciding to start a blog because blogging can help you gain financial freedom. However, monetizing a blog is not always easy. But putting the tips in this post to action can give you results sooner than you expected.

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