Making money while blogging is a goal for many, and its very achievable for most. It does take time, effort and dedication in order to work your way up to this. Not only are you creating a blog, you’re creating a business. As soon as you decide that you want to earn profits from the work you put into it you become a business owner or entrepreneur. The possibilities are endless and the amount of money you can earn really depends on you and how much time you are willing or able to invest.
Find a Topic
You need to find a topic that you enjoy which you can base your blog about. You could blog about a hobby or a passion of yours or something you want to learn more about, often people blog about topics they aren’t experts on but this can be a good thing! If you’re constantly learning more you will be more interested in the topic and able to write more and share what you know! Not everyone knows everything about a subject, there is always room to grow.
How Do Bloggers Make Money?
How does a blogger turn a blog into a business? Can you really earn money from blogging? The answer is YES, depending on the person and the time and dedication put into the blog.
1) Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing is by far one of the more popular choices and the one many would recommend you start with or eventually move towards. If you’re not familiar with what affiliate marketing is, essentially you recommend products or a service using a referral link and if a sale is made you will receive a commission. The amount you earn from each commission is different but it could be 50-70% of the sale.
Affiliate Marketing can be a very passive income once you create good quality content around products you can strongly recommend to someone.
2) ADS
Using an advertising network is another popular way to monetize blogs. Using advertising networks can make some good money but you also want to be careful not to over saturate your blog with tons of ads and popups everywhere. Nothing is worse then going onto a website and being bombarded and spammed with advertisements, it makes it look tacky and no one wants to stick around!
One positive are ads are easy to setup and once they are placed on your blog you just have to produce content and increase traffic to your blog.
I recommend Google Adsense and Adthrive if you’re interested in using an advertising network.
3) Sponsored Posts
When your blog starts racking up with pageviews and traffic you could look into sponsored posts. A sponsored post is when someone pays you so that you can allow them to make a “guest post” on your blog. Sponsored posts are a great way for other bloggers to look for similar niche blogs and get a link back to there blog which is basically sharing the traffic. The best part is all the traffic will be quality and targeted users!
4) Offering Services
Providing services to another business is a great way bloggers earn money. You may think you’re not an expert or good enough at something to offer a service, but you do! You may be better then someone else at something and that creates value in that skill. Perhaps you’re not a great writer, but you love graphics and you can create great logos or Pinterest images, this would be a service you could sell!
5) Digital Products
Another great method of making money using your blog is creating digital products. When you create your own product you are able to market, and sell it however you please, you have full control of how you sell it!
Ebooks are a great way to product quality information guides that can help other people!
Learning workshops or online courses provide you another method of teaching others and selling what you know. If you’re extremely educated on a topic you can use that to your advantage and monetize it.
How Long Does It Take to Earn Money?
The million dollar question! How long will it take to earn money on your blog? The answer is it depends! If you put a lot of effort and dedication in creating good quality content and advertising the pageviews will eventually come. Once your blog has traffic on a daily basis it won’t be long until whichever method you chose to monetize your blog with will start to convert sales!
Some bloggers earn money there first month blogging, others it could take a year or more. You just have to put time and be consistent and eventually it will work out in your favor.
Create Quality Content!
When creating a blog post you need to write quality content that users can learn from! When someone types in a question into a search box they are looking for a detailed direct answer to there question. You want to engage the reader and make them feel satisfied to the question they have, when they see the information and products you use and recommend they may feel more inclined to accept the recommendations you make if you have good quality content.
Just look back at this post, we’ve already covered that you need to find a topic you enjoy and want to write about. We also looked at 5 popular ways bloggers are making money today. We also answered the question about how long before you can make money blogging. You don’t want to write a few hundred words and then post ads everywhere when you didn’t provide enough information to really have an impact on a reader.
How Do I Start A Blog?
If you’re thinking about starting a blog or you are having trouble setting up your blog I have a detailed guide that you can view. Click here for free tutorial!