Howdy, I know if you’ve read about how to create a blog and now I’m presenting to you how to make money with your blog.
Creating blog isn’t the problem but what most people still lacking in blogging today is how to make money on blogging.
Many blogs has been abandoned due to the reason that they are not making cool money as they like.
Would you ever leave a blog that is fetching you upto 50,000 naira monthly? Though 50k is small but atleast is something.
Without much discussions, I’ll be diving into the main point. Why are you here? You want to make cool money online as a blogger.
But before I proceed I’ll like to share my experience on blogging with you.
My name is Abdulmaleeq Omotosho, undergraduate student at university of Ilorin.
I started my blogging career with the popular dot blogspot domain, I choose to attend many blogging online and finally I got to know about wordpress platform.
That’s where I’ve known that if someone is serious about blogging you shouldn’t even go for .blogspot domain name. Even if you’d like to host your blog on blogger platform you should try to buy premium domain name.
I think I’ve told you about domain name in the previous class? Good!
In the course of my research I got to know that many people have abandoned their websites because they don’t make money with it.
Well today you gonna learn 7 different ways to make cool money online with your blog.
Let’s just dive into the main point and see the seven different ways as promised.
Table of Contents
How to make money with your blog
Below are the 7 different ways to make money blogging:
- Google Adsense
- Affiliate Marketing
- Sponsored Advert
- Sell Digital Products
- Sell Membership on your blog
- Use it as a Content Marketing Tool for Your Business.
- Media.net
Now let’s take a look at these one after the other.
1. Google Adsense
Google Adsense is a type of advertisement network owned by google, and is often considered as the best contextual advertising network because its very simple to setup.
You would be given an html code which you will need to place on your html gadget and ads will start showing.
How does Google AdSense work?
Google AdSense works in the sense that you place ads unit on your website page and Google rewards you for every click or views you receive.
How much can i earn with 1000 views?
There is something called impression in AdSense, this is the total number of page views you have on your AdSense account.
Although, the best way is for you to have click on your AdSense account which google count as (cost per click)Apart from CPC, you will also earn from your CPM ad impressions.
Irrespective of any niche, the average CPM earning is $1 to $1.5 per 1,000 impressions. You can make $40 to $60 per day from 40,000 page views.
Can I make living with Google AdSense?
Why not, you can really make living with Google AdSense. According to what I’ve seen and believed, lots of people are making bastard money on social media with Google AdSense.
Examples are :Linda ikeji who is a founder of lindaikejisblog. This lady start blogging around 10 years back, she have achieved alot of things with this Google AdSense.Another example is Makinde Azeez, the founder at Naijaloaded.
This guy also make shii with Google AdSense. In short sha, if you really a serious one even though you choose to run partime blogging, you can can make good money.
Can i have multiple AdSense account?
No you are not permitted to have multiple AdSense account but some folks still manage to get more than two AdSense account.
This is how they do it;
They create a new blog, do every necessary stuff and apply with another gmail account and also provide another bank details that is different from their previous one.
But when Google AdSense get to know this they ban the account immediately and this can result in having non account again.
So it is advisable to maintain just account and put all the possibility effort to increase your earnings.
How To Join Google Adsense Program?
To join AdSense program, you need a email address. You know there are many email addresses website,
but this time around we only need google mail account which is also known as gmail. If you don’t have any you can get it here
The next step is to signup for AdSense account on their main website using that new gmail account you just created,
fill in all what they requested for and make sure you don’t type in wrong information because if you do so, you will have problem verifying your account.
If you don’t want to stress your self, you can leave it for expert to help you out with it. You can reach me on whatsapp, I charge affordable price.
2. Affiliate Marketing To make money with your blog
Another way to monetize your WordPress website is something called Affiliate marketing. This is my best way of earning cash through blogging.
I’ve been earning lots of thousand dollars on affiliate marketing for the past years. You also can earn big money if you plan it very well.
Literally, it is a marketing arrangement by which an online retailer pays commission to an external website for traffic or sales generated from its referrals.
This work well by recommending products to your clients through your affiliate links.
“most of my earnings are from affiliate marketing, direct ad sales, and sponsored posts”
Also, wikipedia defined it as a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts.
But Toshmoney defined it as a performance based network where a person who shares an affiliate links get rewarded with some cash for each person that either make a purchase, signs up, or carries out some action the affiliate program requires through your link.
Am giving you all these definition so that you can know what affiliate marketing really is, because all what you will learn on affiliate program here today would be purely based on:
How you can make at least $1,000 monthly using affiliate marketing as google AdSense alternative for bloggers and those want to make money online.
Google Adsense on the other hand is one way to make money online, but it largely involves you having a very high traffic before any reasonable returns can be made.
Below are some list of affiliate program you can join now with that your WordPress website that pay fast :
Apart from engaging in affiliate marketing of the above links, you can also invite people to join their affiliate program and you earn some amount for inviting your friends to join their affiliate program.
The secret behind affiliate marketing is that you need to write good/quality content, because you don’t expect those that didn’t gain anything from your article to buy things you recommend for them.
You must be informative!
To learn more on how to operate all these, kindly visit this link!
3. Sponsored Post or Advert
Sponsored posts are articles that a blogger or website owner is paid to publish on their website by companies, blogger in the same niche and brand related.
The sponsored posts is otherwise called guest post. People from your niche would contact you for sponsored posts when they see you’re driving in lots of traffic on your blog.
And the best way to earn from sponsored posts is to rank well on google search engine, and have articles that worth imformative. A well details one.
How Can I Find Companies That Will Pay For Sponsored Post?
To find sponsors who are willing to pay for posts and reviews on your website or blog, you should start with small scale brands and companies.
Another good source of sponsors is to promote local business. Talk to local business personnel around you, highlights the advantages behind using digital marketing for their products.
Let them know they will over throne their competitors if they can make use of internet to advertise their products and services.
You can also get sponsors is by the use of sponsorship market website like cooperatize, payperpost, sponsored Reviews etc.
They all can find you sponsors by performing a middleman function, leaving you to concentrate on the writing.
4. Start Selling Your Own Market On Your blog
Another great way to make money after you:ve create a WordPress website is to start selling your products and services.
It just work well when you’re getting all your traffic from search engines because this ll show your website is well known.
If you’re an active reader of this blog, you should have come across my article where I’ve gave a detailed explanations on how to start mini importation business in Nigeria.
You can start mini importation business as your side hustle business together with your blog.
But to make good sales, you need to write review article on those products and services you’re selling and recommend your readers to buy from you by stating out some vital reasons.
Just try and start one small businesses.
5. Sell Digital Products.
What are digital products? These are things you can deliver online through your blog.
One of the best way I’m making cool money online is digital products.
I have lots of clients in many countries which am working for, these clients am talking about give me work to do online and I earn money in replace.
What are the works they gives me?
Firstly you need to define your own niche before you can start monetizing through this method.
Like for example you can create website very well, people will contact you for this work and pay you for it.
How do you get clients? Its very simple, the best way to come across this is by writing article on website related topics. Like for example:
You can decided to write how to make money online then you add blogging to your list and give reason why you want your readers ti start a blog.
From here you ask them to pay you for the work.
I think you get it right? That’s how it works.
6. Sell Membership on your blog
Do you known what is called membership in blogging? Probably NO!
This is another method in which bloggers make money through their blogs. Some bloggers don’t like google adsense and others they only want to make cool money.
To create a membership website you’d need what is called membership plugin. This is a wordpress plugins that really work for membership functionality.
You can as well use Buddypress plugin. I think I’ve teach you how to install a plugins on wordpress? If you still don’t understand you can follow this link to know more.
7. Work on freelancing webscom
These are website where you work for money. What type of work do they offer?
They offer series of work, but the most expensive work you can get there is Blogging.
As a blogger you can make figure 8 on these website.
Below are list of freelance websites where you can make good money.
- Www.upwork.com
- Www.freelancer.com
- Www.fiverr.com
You just need to signup there and start bidding for work.
How To Promote Your New WordPress Website On The Internet?
There are many ways you can promote your new WordPress website, but I’ll only list out the best one here:
- Social media
- Email lists
- Guest post
- Social media
You can promote your blog on social media like Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, LinkedIn, and so many more. All you need is to sign up and create account then start working on it.
- Email lists
If you could remember, I mentioned WPForms as one of the essential WordPress plugins, so you need to install it right away and get everything ready to collect user data, create email lists and send them email link on the new post you just published.
- Guest Post
This is another way to promote your new website on the internet, it work in a superb way. You reach out to bloggers in your niche and beg them for backlinks or you should write them a comprehensive article and link it to your new website.
If their readers enjoy the article, they might become your reader as well.
