Have you ever thought about how you can actually make money from a blog and what are the easiest ways to make it happen? Well, in this article lets get to know about two of the most basic and easiest ways to make money using a blog.
1. Affiliate Marketing
The first and the most easiest way is affiliate marketing. The method is quite simple, you just have to sign up for some affiliate programs or affiliate networks. Once you are accepted in the program, you will be given access to the hundreds of products to promote. Each product has its unique affiliate link that you can use it on your blog/website.
Make sure you have a blog/website dedicated to product selling so that you can get high quality targeted traffic. Whenever someone gets to your blog/website and buys some product by clicking on the affiliate link you will earn commission for that. For example, if you are promoting some health supplement product you should write a detailed review about that product in your blog post and provide your affiliate link in the same blog post.
Following are some of the most used affiliate programs you can sign up for.
- Amazon Associates
- ClickBank
- DigiStore24
2. Implement Advertising On Your Blog/Website
Another great way to monetize your blog/website is by displaying advertisements on your blog. However, before applying for any ad networks, make sure your blog/website is already getting decent amount of traffic. Even if your blog or website gets approved from any of the ad networks and you do not have decent amount of traffic, it will not earn you anything except few cents here and there. Whenever visitors from your website click on the display ads you earn money. So, if your website is relying solely on ad revenue, then you gotta find ways to attract huge amount of traffic to your website.
The amount of money per ad click depends on various factors such as what niche your website is based on and what countries your traffic is coming from. If your website is about Insurance, Finance & Investing, Tech & Gadgets, Traveling etc you will get high paying ads on your website which would pay more. Also, if the visitors of your website are coming from tier 1 countries such as United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia etc, you will get high cost per click (cpc) ads which pays more.
Following are some of the most used ad networks by the bloggers/publishers.
- Adsense (No minimum traffic required to get approved)
- Media.Net (Requires majority of traffic from USA, Canada and UK for approval)
- Mediavine (Requires minimum 50,000 monthly page views to get approved)
- Adthrive (Requires minimum 25,000 monthly page views to get approved)
- Ezoic (No minimum number of page views required to get approved)
Above described ways are the most basic and easiest options a beginner can make use of to earn money through blogging. However, there are still other ways one can actually make blog or website profitable which most of the pro bloggers or companies use. We shall discuss those ways in a different article as this article is meant to be beginner friendly.
