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So you want to know how to make money with a blog as a beginner blogger… You’re in the right place!
Read on to find ways on how to make money online with a blog that won’t require you to be glued to the computer all day long.
Making money blogging online does take some work, but once you learn all the steps you can take in order to make money, you will be making a passive income online.
Yup, making money even when you sleep!
How much money can you make from a blog?
That depends on many things, mainly it depends on how many different streams of income you set up. Obviously, the more streams of income you have, the better because that will generate a lot more money than with just one income stream.
In this post, I am going to be explaining how to make money with a blog, even if you are a beginner blogger. You might not make as much money as bloggers who have been at the game for a long time, but you definitely can start earning online in your first few weeks, as long as you have the correct strategies in place.
I do want to point out, though, that every blogger is on their own journey. A mistake I often see bloggers make is get frustrated that they’re not making money as fast as they’d like, and then quit.
Blogging has opened up a lot of doors for me and many bloggers I have connected with over the course of my blogging journey, and none of the wonderful opportunities I’d been given could have happened had I quit early on.
However, if you want to work on something that’s going to help you get passive income in the next few weeks or months, blogging is definitely a great place to start your online income journey.
If you’ve been at your blog for a while now and did not make any money yet, don’t be discouraged. Sometimes it takes an outside perspective for things to work.
I learned about monetizing my blog by reading other blogs and by taking courses. If you are looking for an in-depth guide on making money with your blog, check out this affordable guide on making money with your blog.
With all that said, let’s get into the post.
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How To Monetize Your Blog
Affiliate Marketing
This is one of the most effective ways of making money blogging.
Affiliate marketing is super simple. You team up with a company and advertise their content on your blog. You get your own custom link to their website, and if somebody clicks on your link and buys whatever product or service you spoke about in your blog, you will get a commission for selling that product at no extra cost for the buyer.
It is super easy to sign up for affiliate marketing, and there are many websites that offer their affiliate services to bloggers.
Here are some of the most successful affiliate marketing websites among bloggers:
- ShareASale
- NicheVendor
- Clickbank
- Amazon associates
- Bluehost affiliates
- eBay Partner Network
- Shopify Affiliate Program
Affiliate marketing is great because you can find products for literally anything you blog about.
Another thing I love about affiliate marketing is that it’s easy to make money from it even if you are a new blogger and don’t have a large following yet. I highly recommend you getting the beginner’s guide to affiliate marketing and sales if you want to learn more about how you can become a successful affiliate.
If you are a mommy blogger, head over to Amazon and link all your favorite baby buys in your blog posts. If you blog about lifestyle, you can link your favorite products in your posts and make sales like no tomorrow.
Amazon is one of the easiest affiliate marketing programs to get into, and you can start earning right away. If you’re interested in learning the correct ways of using your affiliate links to make money, this guide on making sales with Amazon Associates is going to be incredibly helpful.
Placing Ads on Your Blog
Having ads on your blog will get you passive income, meaning you set them up once and they will generate income for you without you having anything to them.
There are many ad networks out there. Some of the most popular ones are Google AdSense, Monumetric, and Mediavine.
Mediavine is the ad network I have set up on my blog, and they pay the best out of any other ad networks that I’ve come across. To get into Mediavine, you need to have had 50,000 monthly sessions on your blog.
I know that seems like a lot, but I got there in less than a year blogging with the help of Pinterest. I now get nearly 90,000 monthly blog sessions and most of them come from Pinterest. To put this in dollar amounts, that amount of traffic made me over $1,000 in just ad revenue last month.
If you don’t know how to utilize Pinterest marketing to drive traffic to your blog, you can check out my Pinterest marketing guide here. The regular price is $44, but readers of this post can get it for only $30 with the code MONEY. That’s a complete bargain for 100 pages of information. Get your discounted copy here.
Sponsored Posts
Many bloggers write sponsored posts and make a lot of money from them. Getting sponsorships can be difficult if your traffic is still very low, but you may be able to get gifted items instead.
When you feel like you have a considerable amount of traffic coming to your blog every month, you can either join blogging networks or reach out to brands directly.
I explained how I pitched to a brand successfully in my post on how to get your first sponsored post. If you’re new to sponsorships or would like some information on how to pitch to brands, I suggest you read that post.
Selling Digital Products
This is another way of making passive income through your blog. If you have an idea for a digital product, like an ebook, a printable guide, or anything of that sort, you can sell it using your blog!
I use Canva to create all my pins and graphics (even my logo was designed on Canva). It is super easy to use, and you can look up tutorials on how to use it on YouTube.
The best thing about Canva is that it’s FREE! You can upgrade to the paid version when you want to access some better images, but to start out the free version is great.
Once you create your digital product(s), you will need to advertise them. You can do that on your blog (either in your posts or as a pop-up), on Instagram, or on Pinterest.
The best thing about making your own products is that YOU are in charge of how much you want to charge for them!
Online Coaching
If you are knowledgeable in a certain field and want to teach others how to do what you do, you can do one-on-one online coaching.
You can either set up e-mail coaching sessions, or phone/Skype sessions.
A lot of coaches sell their sessions as a bundle, and you can make REAL good money from this. Again, you will be able to sell your services for as much money as you see fit for your time spent on them.
Online coaching will also need to be advertised, just as if you would advertise your digital products. I recommend using Pinterest, as it brings in the most traffic, as well as using SEO to get organic views.
If you’re new to SEO, my favorite resource for learning about keywords that rank on Google is Keyword Research for Bloggers which I recommend getting. It helped me double my organic searches in just ONE month.
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I hope this post helped you find at least one way of monetizing your blog with your current traffic. Making money blogging is definitely possible for most blogs, and the sooner you start working on them, the better.
Don’t forget that for even more in-depth information on making money blogging you can check out the Building Your Profitable Blog ebook!
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This is a really helpful post, thanks 🙂
I’ve seen so many people recommending Pinterest for blog traffic recently – I definitely need to dedicate a few hours to it soon and get to grips with it!
So glad I found your blog, about to have a binge-read for sure 🙂
I’m glad you found it helpful! Pinterest is a godsend in the blogging community- definitely read up on some strategies you can use to increase traffic from it!
Thank you thank you thank you! I definitely need to build my audience first but this will be my port of call when it’s the right time!
That’s amazing to hear! Best of luck!
Thank you for this post, I am definitely checking out the ad section ,I only thought there was only google adsense but I am definitely checking out the rest.
Google Adsense apparently doesn’t pay out as much as the rest do! Definitely check out the rest.
I sooo needed to read this! Thanks for sharing all these great tips, somethings I need to atart implementing! X
You are most welcome! I hope it helps!
Great post thank you so much for the tips! I’m going to look at the Pinterest Ninja course! I need to learn more about it!
You will love all the information in the course!
Great post!! Thank you for sharing!!
Great advice! Words cannot explain how much I’ve loved this article.
Thank you for the kind words!
Very helpful blog post. I am a new blogger so i think i should invest some time in bringing the traffic and after that i will try all of these money making ways.
That’s a good approach. Best of luck!
Great tips! I have just started to make more use of Pinterest. That definitely seems to be the best forum to get blog views.
Absolutely! Pinterest is amazing for directing traffic to blogs!
Very informative, great tips. Thank you
My pleasure!
This is such an awesome post! I plan to monetise my blog in the future, but for my first year of blogging, my intention has been to grow my site, learn, network with other bloggers and get some sort of following. But, these tips are are awesome for monetising your blog! I’d love to sell a service, I’m just not sure what lol…
I think it would be cool if you did one-on-one coaching on how to apply makeup for beginners/for different occasions!
Great share .
This is another great post ❤️ All of this is such useful information, especially for me, who is approaching one year blogging and is looking to step up my blog in the coming months.
I’m so glad! Is there anything else you would like me to write about? 🙂
This has so much helpful information!! Thank you!!
My pleasure!
I will forsure try some of these, I just really need to find a product I trust first. Also been focusing on pinterest but it overwhelms me. Great Post thanks you xox
If you’re finding Pinterest hard, grab your free copy of my Pinterest cheat sheet that’s in this post! I think that could help. 😊
Thanks! This is helpful info.
Lots of great ideas here! I’m still working on building up my following so my monetization strategies will start paying off, but there are for sure things I haven’t tried yet on this list!
Thank you for reading! I hope you found something new here 🙂
This was a really helpful post, thank you. I’m slowly starting to monetise my blog as I went self-hosted last year – I’m going to start with affiliate links. x
– Charlotte / https://charlottesspace.com
That’s the best way to start monetizing your blog. Best of luck!
This is a great post. Thank you for all the blogging help! I’ve saved this one for later.
Al x
Happy you liked it!
Bookmarked. This is something I’m implementing for my new site changeoftomorrow.com
I’m very happy you liked it!
Great post! I’m quite new to blogging and I hope in the future I’ll be able to earn some money from it!
Best of luck to you!
This is super helpful! I didn’t realise there were so many ways to make money with blogging. Thanks for sharing 🙂
You’re very welcome!
These are some really helpful tips. I never realised there were so many different options for making money through your blog.
Oh absolutely! 🙂
Thanks for sharing – I LOVE practical posts like these
You are very welcome!
I love this post so much. I have your Pinterest guide and honestly it hass worked wonders for me, I’m definitely going to add these to my list of things to do!
Love, Amie ❤️
The Curvaceous Vegan
I’m so happy you’re finding my Pinterest guide useful!
This is such a great post! I have found it really informative and helpful!
I’m so glad you did!
These are the ways I earn money too! Although I am working towards getting a paid sponsored post rather than just a gifted basis!
-Kyra xxx
I prefer those too, 100%! Sponsored is the way to go. 🙂
I’m at the point where I can monetize on my blog and need all the help I can get. Thanks for sharing!
You’re very welcome!
Super helpful post! I’ve just started dipping my toes in monetizing my blog over the last couple of months and have so far seen no results from it. It’s a bit disheartening, as much because I want to help out those I’m using aff links for, but I know to just keep going and find the best way that works for me. This has got some really great advice and useful tips – thanks!
Lindsey | https://aramblingreviewer.wordpress.com/
It can take some time to start making sales but don’t be discouraged! You’ll get there 🙂
This was really helpful – thank you! I’ve started taking blogging more seriously and want to start looking into making money from it too!
Tash – http://www.agirlwithview.co.uk
Best of luck to you! You can do it!
I didn’t know you were able to sign up to be a bluehost affiliate! I knew people were just thought they had to be approached or something. Thank you for this!
You can sign up to be an affiliate pretty much everywhere! Most websites will have an affiliate sign-up somewhere on their websites.
Thank you so much for this very helpful information. I just started my blog and hope to make money from it. This was very helpful
We stopped by to read your “How to make money online post” and found ourselves clicking on the next post and the next post and the next post. Love your style and we appreciate all your help. We found this post particularly helpful as we slowing think about how to money-tise our blog! We feel we are still very new and its great to get tips from people like yourself and other experienced bloggers. Thank you for all you advice x