How to Make Money from Your Blog?

Now that you know how to start a blog, write compelling content and promote it, the next step is to learn how to make money blogging.

But do not get misguided by the thought that you need to have everything set up in order to start monetizing your website. 

You can monetize your blog from the very beginning. Do not keep it for later when you have more content and traffic to start monetizing. 

Even if you make only a small amount in the initial few months, that little money motivates you a lot to keep going.

Else, if you struggle a lot with creating content while not making any money, you will get highly demotivated. You will feel burned out. You will start questioning yourself if blogging is worth it.

Trust me, I have been down this path once. It’s very important to start monetizing your site from the beginning. The amount of money you make does not matter in the first few months. 

But making even a single cent will motivate you to continue with your efforts and do better.

Now that we have established the importance of monetizing the blog from start, let’s see how to actually make money from your blog!

1. Affiliate Marketing (For Beginner & Experts Both):

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced blogger, affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to monetize your blog.

In this method, you will promote an affiliate product through your blog and make a commission on the sales generated when people click through your links and buy the products. You can be an affiliate promoter for millions of products and services.

From Amazon, ClickBank , Booking to credit card providers, there are several high-paying affiliate programs that you can promote using your blog. More the traffic your blog has, the more your affiliate earnings will be.

2. Display Advertising (Beginner & Experts Both):

It is the method of making money by displaying advertisements on your website. Depending on the ad network you joined, you will earn per the number of ad views or ad clicks. Google Adsense and Mediavine are two popular Ad networks you should join.

This is one of the easiest & best methods of making money from your blog because you only need to focus on one thing – getting more traffic to your blog.

3. Sponsored Posts (Authority Bloggers):

Paid sponsorships are the third major method of monetization. In this method, brands will pay you for sponsored content like product reviews. You can charge the brands depending on your audience size, relevance, and interests.

4. Starting an E-Commerce Store (Added Income Source):

By adding an e-commerce store to your blog, the readers can buy products relevant to your content directly from your site. 

Think of running a travel blog. And now think how useful it would be for your readers if you also had an e-commerce store from which they could buy the travel gears and products you have reviewed and recommended. It would be highly valuable right!

By integrating an e-commerce store, you are essentially converting your readers to buyers.

Other methods of monetization include:

1. Associated YouTube channel
2. Coaching/Consulting service
3. Selling your own online courses, e-books, and digital products
4. Membership websites & forums/communities (with paid membership plans)
5. Getting donations

In my opinion, if you are a beginner blogger, affiliate marketing and display advertising are the best methods to get started.

Once your blog starts getting enough traffic and is an established website in your niche, you can look into creating and selling your own products and services which will generate more profits for you.