Last Updated on June 25, 2023 by Ajay Kumar
When you are just starting your blog it seems very frustrating to monetize it, with literally tons of ways to monetize your blog, you get even more confused about what way suits you the best.
Most of you start blogging to earn something from it, and to earn something from it you have to monetize your website. In simple words, if you are just starting your blog for fun and not for money then you might as well read further because extra money doesn’t hurt anyone.
If your main motive behind creating your blog is Earning Money (most likely it is) here are the Best Ways How to Monetize a Blog.
But first of all, I would like to tell you that should not try to monetize your blog until you start having at least 1k visits per month on your blog. I recommend you to keep your blog monetization free at least until you get 1k visits per month.
And once you start getting the traffic you can put in all your Monetization strategies and lift your blog from Zero to Hero.
Let’s just continue to the Best Ways to Monetize your Blog:
1. Advertisements
Simply Placing Advertisements on your Blog/Website is currently one of the best ways to Monetization. This method has been loved since very old times. From Printed Advertisements on NewsPapers to Spoken Advertisements on Radio, and then Video Adverts on TV, and now finally on Websites.
Generally, the 2 most used types are Display Advertisements and Native Advertisements. Display advertisements are just simply used to promote any type of product or service using visuals like Images, Video, etc
Native Advertisements match and blend the type of content where they are placed, which results in Higher Conversions due to higher click-through rates.
There are tons of online platforms to show these kinds of Native & Display Adverts on a site, some famous ones are Adsence, Media Net, and Ezoic. While Adsence doesn’t have any minimum traffic requirements while Media Net and Ezoic do.
2. Affiliate Programmes
Unless you have a huge amount of Traffic Per Month, you won’t be getting enough amount of Revenue from your Blog. But still, you can earn some money Using Affiliate Programmes. When side by side comparing both Affiliate Programmes and Advertisement networks such as Adsence, it turns out that Affiliate Marketing is more effective and beneficial.
It is very easy to get into an Affiliate Programme than an Approved absence account, Most Affiliate programs pay out more than any other Advertisements networks such as Adsence. Promoting Affiliate ads on your site gives out more income than showing advertisements does.
But it doesn’t mean you only show Affiliate ads on your site, it is always good to keep it 50-50, like creating content that promotes affiliate products for example: “Top 5 Best Washing Machine in India”, here, you’ll list 5 Washing Machines and give out an Affiliate Link to the product and then if someone buys it using your affiliate link you’ll get a commission.\
Some of the best affiliate Programmes are Amazon Associates, Affiliaxe, DFO Global, and CJ Affiliate.
Bluehost is one of the ways to earn affiliate income, you can advertise the services of Reseller Club and if someone buys the service, you get a commission. If you have a good size of audience you can earn quite well from it. Then there’s the Reseller Club which is a hosting provider you can earn affiliated income from selling their services as well.
3. Sponsored Posts
A sponsored post, also known as a promoted post, is a post to any community-driven notification-oriented website which is explicitly sponsored as an advertisement by a particular company to draw a large amount of popularity through user promotion and moderation to the most active or most viewed page on the website.
The model has become adopted by various ad-supported but community-driven websites as an addition, substitute, or replacement for other pay-per-click advertisement formats, such as web banners, text, and rich media.
There are a ton of agencies and companies willing to sponsor your website or blog, but it may take a time to find the right one for you, there are companies that even sponsor blogs with a low volume of traffic.
One thing to note is that whichever sponsor you pick, make sure that your blog’s niche matches with the sponsored post otherwise the post will not engage your audience and won’t get engagement.
Now, the sponsored post may be a review unit about the products from the sponsored company or a buying guide of products from the sponsored company.
4. Accept Donations on Your Blog
Asking for help from your audience is not wrong, this is a rather famous option to monetize a Blog.
You put a Donation section or a Donate Button on your website, and your audience supports you by donating some amount.
You can use WordPress Plugins, Third Party Tools, or PayPal for accepting Donations. This type of monetization idea is particularly more relevant for a Non-profit organization.
There are various plugins available on WordPress if you’re using WordPress, such as GiveWP, WPForms, Easy PayPal Donation, WP Crowdfunding, and so on. Then there are third-party services that you can use with a WordPress site or any other site to accept donations on your blog.
Buy me coffee is a third-party service provider, which offers ways to fund your work. Buy Me a Coffee offers an easy-to-implement, copy, and paste script that embeds a button on your website/ blog that can be used by your audience for donating.
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