So you are having a blog but are you not earning what you deserve? Few days ago I wrote an article on
how to increase your earning from Google AdSense.
But only using AdSense you are not going to make an online living.
Every time you need to try some other ways to get enough income from
your blog. Today I’ll give you all the proven ways to earn from your
blog.
Today I was exploring something on one of the Google+ community and found a question asked by one of the member ‘
can anybody here tell me how I can exactly earn from blog. Please provide only real methods’.
So I decided to write a complete article on all the proven ways to earn
a decent amount from your blog. Overall your blog is your product. It’s
your business.
Thousands of bloggers are finding that blogging is a profitable medium.
Whether it is a few dollars to have a cup of coffee on weekends or it is
making enough dollars to stop your regular 9-5 job and continue
blogging as your full time opportunity.
How to make a money making blogging
Here I want to share an image that depicts almost all the ways a blogger
can earn from their blog and some other stuff. This visual
representation will help the beginner most.
Click on the above image to get clear view of it.
One thing that I want to make clear here is there are thousands of
bloggers who are trying their luck in blogging but only few got success.
I’m sorry to say this but this is the reality my friends. You need to
be extraordinary if you want enough online money, name and fame all. But
still there are many bloggers who is living through their blog so why
not you? If you have passion, you don’t want to do 9-5 job, want to be
your own boss, you can
start a blogand
can make far more money that you’re making from your daily jobs. But
before staring your own new blogs, I would suggest you to read
this article as whether you’re prepared to start it or now.
Hope you’re now prepared to start your blog. But remember making money
from blogs is not a day work. You need to work days and nights to make
money and somehow after few months you’ll be able to earn few dollars.
But those dollars will inspire you to work more and more and then by
this continuous process you can become a successful blogger. You have
already read more than 500 words and till now I haven’t share a single
method to earn. Someone is talking too much :)
Now without wasting time I’m going to share all the methods that all the
successful bloggers are using to get a six figure income. And I’m sure
after using these methods; you are going to be one of them. But just
remember to earn more you should have a
proper layout of blog, a
good name, enough and quality contents and you need to
avoid the initial mistakes done by many bloggers who fail to make money and finally close their blog.
Different Ways to Earn from Your blog
1.
Google AdSense: I’m keeping Google adsense at the top
in the list because of the trust and the recurring income. Google
Adsense is the biggest ad network in the world and many blogger
completely depends on AdSense for their income. Google AdSense is a
free, simple way for website publishers of all sizes to earn money by
displaying targeted ads on their websites. AdSense works on the
per-click or per-impression basis. Whenever anybody will clicks or view
on the ads, you will get money from the advertisers. The money that you
will get depends on the geographic locations, and the CPC. You will get
more money if you’ve received a click from US/Canada compared to Asian
countries. There are many type of ads are provided by AdSense like Text,
Images, Videos etc. But to earn more from your AdSense, you need to
know these
basic tips.
2.
Chitka: Chitika is a
display advertising network that can serve as either a complement or
alternative to other display ad networks, such as Google AdSense.
Chitika was founded in 2003 and very soon it became the alternative of
the Great Google AdSense. Chitika is having more than 350,000 publishers
currently and with this you can think of their popularity. You can
read all the details
Chitika publisher here.There
are many other display ad networks also but AdSense and Chitika are the
most famous. You can make decent income through these. Many blogger who
are either not satisfied with the AdSense or got banned due to some
reason tries Chitika.
3. Affiliate Program: Affiliate marketing is a program
where an advertiser or a merchant recruits a webmaster to place their
ads on the websites. Webmaster receives some commission whenever a user
clicks on those ads and perform the desired action. Suppose you have put
an ad from a company who sell a book. Whenever you visitor will click
that ad, they will get redirected to merchant’s site and if your visitor
will buy that book you’ll get some money as a commission for that sell.
This commission percentage depends upon merchant to merchant. It may be
starting from 4% to 60-70% also.
There are many affiliate programs available on the internet like the most famous
Amazon Affiliate program,
BlueHost Affiliate
and many more are there. The best about the affiliate program is, if
you can take your visitor in trust you can make many more than AdSense.
4. In Text Ads: In text ads are one of the most popular
for blogger probably after display ad network and affiliate marketing.
You have probably seen them all over the internet. They are a link with
double lines. Sometimes these ads are very beneficial for blogger’s
pocket but need to be used with full precautions. Because these ads
eventually irritates the user and in most of the cases, they leave the
blog and never return. So you these with cautions.
Infolinks, Vibrant, Viglink are considering as the giants in this field.
Till now you’ve read around 1100 words
and still many methods are yet to come. So why don’t you share this
article with your buddies first.
5. Text Link Ads: If you’ve very good traffic and good
reputation in your niche, this ad can be worship for you. Text link ads
are not but it is a link of any product/website that you have put on
your site. Be careful while putting this as it seems to be relevant and
the wording should be in such a way that it should match with the
sentence, if used in article.
6. Sponsored Reviews: Many companies can pay you the money
if you are ready to write a good and genuine feedback for them on your
blog. What you have to do is just use that product and provide a genuine
review. By providing genuine review neither you’re cheating your
readers nor the advertisers. And by this way many companies can pay you
decent amount. Generally companies pay in the range of $20-$500 for a
single review and it depends on your blog reputations.
7. Sponsored Post: Like sponsored reviews, you can get
sponsored posts also. Many website/companies can pay you if you will
write a post they want. What this usually looks like is a post created
for specific website, target keywords, links back to their site or to
get good audiences who is similar to your blog.
8. Direct Ads: This is the most profitable way to earn
from blog but one of the most difficult one. Here either you’ve to pitch
the advertiser to do advertisement through your blog or if you’ve good
reputation you can get a call directly from advertisers. Then you’ve to
explain about the available slots and cost to them. They best way to
deal with this is to have a media kit or Advertiser page on your blog.
Simply provide the URL of that page and you’re done.
9.
Premium Content: The perfect example of premium content is
SEOMOZ site.
SEOMOZ is considered as the best site for basic SEO and so for some of
the content they charge. You can also do the same thing but you should
have the content of that standard so that people will have to pay. Just
lock the part for which you want to charge with the password and ask
users for the money. You can simply ask for the money by
PayPal. And once the user will send you the money provide the password of locked content.
10.
Theme/Template Selling: If you’re good in designing,
you can design your own themes or templates and can sell in premium
category. This can earn you a bigger amount. A premium theme/template is
getting sold in the range of $10-$200. Either you can sell through your
blog or you can also sell through the themes market
ThemeForest or any other such sites.
11.
Domain/Site Flipping: If you’re good in marketing and
have decent knowledge of domain name and Websites, flipping can earn you
the best. For domain what you’ve to do is buy a
good domain and sell it using some marketplace like
Flippa or
websitebroker. In fact
TricksRoad is also in the process to open a market place free of cost and very soon you’ll find this live.
And for the site flipping, you have two options-
- If you’re very good in design and development then build your own
site, do some SEO and bring some traffic. Then use some money making
technique like AdSense, In text ads etc. and when you see that site is
now complete sell that using above market place.
- Else buy a good website from above market place itself and do some
required changes, increase some traffic and sell it at higher price.
12. Sell Services: Sell those items in which you’re good.
Suppose you’re good in designing offer design service to your customers
and you can earn decent money. Similarly if you’re good in making
plugins, writing etc. you can provide these services to your clients
through your blog.
13.
Freelance Work: You’re a good blogger. You know the secret as
how to bring traffic.
You know how to make blog/website/product a brand. Then why don’t you
make money by providing theses service for few hours. Isn’t this
interesting? Yes. Register on some freelancing sites, prepare a strong
profile and earn. You can use
Fiverr,
Elance,
Freelance and any such sites.
14.
E-Book Sell: Suppose you’re in blogging since couple
of years and you’ve earned a lot of experience and tips. Club those in a
simple e-book and sell. Keep the prices depending upon the quality of
the book and the ability to solve reader’s problem. You can take the
help of
WP E-Commerce to sell your book.
15. Membership Site: If you’ve written a good lesson,
lecturers, and videos about something, you can start a membership site
where you can teach the people those secrets by charging little money.
16. Paid Surveys and Polls: If you’ve good reputations in
the market, you can even earn for the surveys done at your site. Many
companies want to know the mood of public and for this they do
surveys/polls by the use of external vendors. You can be the one and can
charge decent dollars for this.
17.
Event Speaker: For an event speaker you really have to
be best. Not all the blogger get this offer. You have to be one whose
words influences others, whose recommendations have trust and values and
if you’ve these quality, you can be the next event speaker.
Darren Rowse and
Harsh Agrawal are few among the famous event speakers.
Final Words
Above were the most famous and real ways of earning, a blogger can ear
and can live a life with online income. I’ve tried to cover almost all
the possible ways to earn but as no one can be perfect so there must
some ways through which one can get better earning. Please let me know
those methods in the comment so that I can include in this article.
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