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So you want to know how to make money blogging… You’re in the right place!
Making money blogging online takes 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!
This post is going to contain all my best tips on making money using your blog, so be sure to pin this so that you can come back later in case you want to refresh your memory!
PIN FOR LATER!
Now, making money blogging can start happening in your first month, or in your 2nd year or longer- there is no magic time frame.
If you’ve been at your blog for a while now and did not make any money, don’t be discouraged. Sometimes it takes an outside perspective for things to work.
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Here are my top tips on how you can make money online using 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 which offer their affiliate services to bloggers.
Here are some of the most successful affiliate marketing websites among bloggers:
Affiliate marketing is great because you can find products for literally anything you blog about.
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 blogging, Bluehost is a great affiliate program. Here is my referral link if you would like to set up a blog through Bluehost.
If you blog about lifestyle, you can link your favorite products in your posts and make sales like no tomorrow.
There is something there for everybody in the affiliate marketing world.
Placing Ads on Your Blog
You can have ads on your website in order to make some extra money. The way the ads work is similar to the affiliate programs, where if somebody buys something that is advertised on your website, over time, you can make good money from it.
Some websites that allow ads to be placed on your blog are:
Google Adsense
Media.net
Monumetric
Mediavine
Monumetric and Mediavine require bloggers to have a minimum of 10,000 monthly sessions (Monumetric), and 50,000 monthly sessions (Mediavine) before you can sign up with them.
If you are struggling with your views, Pinterest Perfect is for you. Pinterest is an amazing search engine where you can pin your blog posts and gain so much exposure! My most popular pin has been viewed over 20K times! Hello, blog traffic! All the strategies I used to make that happen are in my ebook, Pinterest Perfect. Grab your copy here!
Also to boost your views, you can also use an SEO boosting website like this one and pay for the service to make your content reach more people, for example, by making your blog get a better Google ranking.
Sponsored Posts
Doing sponsored posts can get you serious cash through your blog. The way sponsored posts work is pretty simple. A brand gets in touch with you with a product/service they want you to promote on your blog, and you negotiate a price for writing the blog post.
It is important to note that sponsored posts do not have to only be about the product you are promoting. For example, if you are writing a sponsored post on a new planner that is coming out, you can include the planner in a post such as “My Tools To A Productive Day”, or something of that sort.
Also, make sure that you mainly only review products you have used, otherwise you could lose your readers’ trust, and you don’t want that.
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 totally 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, but I’ve never seen the need to do that.
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.
If you want to learn more about making money using your blog, Blogging For Profit has information on choosing great topics, how to make your blog different to the rest, keyword research for Google ranking, how to monetize your blog and lots more!
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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.