The amount you can make varies hugely as it depends on what way you are making money if it is through affiliate marketing or allowing ads to run on your website.
In this guide, we look at the different ways you can make money from a blog so you can start making money from your writing and turn your passion into profit!
Ways To Make Money Blogging
Choose Your Niche Wisely
When you are deciding what to blog about, check out the competition online first. If there are already hundreds of people doing the same thing, making money will be a difficult feat.
Focus on one small niche that you have knowledge of to make your blog stand out.
The amount of traffic you receive on your page will also be benefited by choosing and sticking to a specific niche. Visitors to your blog will know what to expect and this will see them return time and time again.
This will help your page to rank higher on search engines and help to grow your blog, which will then bring in monetizing possibilities.
Write Sponsored Reviews
If someone wants to buy something now the first port of call is to Google it and so most companies will pay bloggers to write reviews about their products to help boost sales.
This is a great way to make small lump sums until eventually, you can charge more due to the number of visitors you have on your site.
When writing a sponsored review it is important, to be honest, and to avoid landing yourself in hot water.
You could also approach independent stores in your local town and offer reviews on certain products which may result in getting the product for free to then writing about it.
Sell Advertising Placements
Once your blog has grown a certain amount, companies that have products related to your niche will be willing to pay you to place advertisements on your blog to hopefully generate sales.
Advertising networks, such as Mediavine, AdThrive, and of course Google AdSense are a great way of starting with this. From there you can begin to approach and negotiate with companies individually.
Become An Affiliate Marketer
Joining an affiliate marketing program is another brilliant way to monetize your blog, and the best part is often you can start out with no need to provide statistics on how many people visit and read your blog.
Networks such as ClickBank, AWIN, and ShareASale are all reputable affiliate marketing networks that will give you the opportunity to browse available programs in your industry.
Through the networks, you can monitor your success and also decide to leave or join a new program giving you the opportunity to make even more money.
Sell Digital Downloads
Digital products that can be downloaded give you the opportunity to earn passive income, meaning you literally will make money while you sleep.
Digital downloads that are known to make money are:
Ebooks
Workbooks
Online courses
Printables
Having your products at a good price will boost the amount you can make.
Just make sure that the products are related to your specific niche so that visitors to your site continue to see reputability on your blog which makes them more likely to buy your products and continue to read your blogs.
How Much Can Bloggers Earn?
The potential earnings through a blog are virtually unlimited. The more established bloggers across the world wide web could be making upward of $30,000 per month.
The money-making from a blog doesn’t end there, you can make money from selling your blog too if you decide it is no longer something you wish to pursue.
Your Niche: Consider if you are writing about something that has high valued products? For example, a blog related to software could be very lucrative as most companies pay bloggers through a recurring commission.
This means that a blogger could earn multiple small sums per month as long as a customer made a purchase having read their blog.
Monetization Strategies: How you plan to make money will also impact how much money you can make.
For new bloggers, it can take some time to start making money as you may not want to post something that goes against your core values, and this then would result in a lost opportunity for income.
It is worth holding tight to your values as eventually someone will agree with what you hold at your core and opportunities will come around for you.
How Long Until You Start Making Money?
The chances of making money on your first day of blogging are very unlikely.
In the beginning, it should be a hobby, then over time, it might develop into a side hustle, and eventually, it could be your job but there is no set progression route for blogging which makes it difficult to say a set time period that will get you to success.
Having digital downloads on your blog from early on is a great way to start generating traffic and cash which will help you then charge companies to place ads on your page.
The amount of effort you put in will also impact how long it takes to start earning money. Effort equals profit for early blogs.
Hi, my name is Justin Shaw, I started my career with a Masters in Computer Science but found writing to be my forte'.
I'm now the Principal Tech writer for GshiftLabs.com as well as a few other well known publications. I help make the complex world of Tech-Jargon easy to understand.
