ReviewHostingASP.NET – A lot of people make a blog just to write their thoughts especially since a blog is actually an online journal, but sooner or later everyone with a blog will realize that there is money to be made from their blog. In the beginning people were writing about all kind of topics, but with the evolution of internet and blogging many niche blogs started to appear. These are focused on a specific topic and aren’t personal anymore. In this article, we will present you different ways to make money from blogging.
Different Ways to Make Money from Blogging
Affiliate Marketing
This process can bring you a lot of money depending on the number of people who access your affiliate link and buy one or more products, this link sends people to a certain website. Depending on your blog’s niche, you can affiliate with online shops from specific domains such as IT, furniture, fashion and so on or general ones that contain different products from different domains. In the last case, you can choose a specific product or a specific product category you want to promote on your blog. Some websites offer affiliate link for services for example links to videos you uploaded and each visit of that video from a new visitor brings you money.
You can make visitors to click the affiliate link through different methods: showing a static or an animated image on blog, showing suggestions at the internal search engine, writing specific keywords, showing images and keywords in the newsletter people receive on e-mail and writing certain words on RSS Feed. For this method you need to have a lot of traffic and to attract visitors to enter your affiliate link and to buy products because your revenues are directly proportional with the value and number of sales made because of you.
Advertisements In Your Content
Ads are similar with affiliations, but usually they are dynamic images well made that attract visitors and you use them to sell virtual space on your blog. They are provided either by other website owners and in this case, ads are actually banners linked to their website or by service providers like Google AdSense in which case, ads analyze the webpage and the visitors, displaying something that suits the content of the page and the heart of the visitor. Ads provided by website owners bring you money depending on banner’s dimensions and your blog’s Google PageRank, but ads from services providers bring you money either from PPC – pay per click, either CPM – cost per mile or CPA – cost per action.
Advertorials are other type of ads, usually written by you or a guest on your blog and they are well done and focused on a product, service or company, also they are longer than usual articles and they contain specific keywords. Depending on their length and the blog’s traffic, you can receive more or less money.
Create And Sell Your Own Product
One of the most efficient ways to make money blogging in 2016 is to sell your own downloadable products such as webinars, eBooks, apps, wallpapers and so on directly from your blog. At the end of each article you can offer a complete and detailed version of the article under the form of an eBook in exchange for money or you can offer an app that makes exactly what you wrote. Recently, because technology is so popular, you can have a smartphone app and an eBook for everything from IT to gastronomy for example you can have an app with videos that shows you how to cook lasagna or and eBooks where the entire lasagna recipe is presented. Not only a downloadable products, you can also try to start your own online store, an online store is important to showcase your products. You can integrates your blogging platform with some e-commerce applications. For example, if you use WordPress, you can create your own online store using WooCommerce or if you’re using Drupal, you can try Shopify.
You need to put proper prices and to offer quality, especially that your products can be pirated and distributed for free by other persons. Also, you can use paid subscription for those who want to see private parts for your blog that contains something interesting like a guide or a premium article. You can see some tips to select an effective title for your article.
Provide Services Through Your Blog
If you have a blog about automobiles then you know some mechanics, if you have an IT blog, then you know some IT and so on, in this case you can provide services in the domain you write and also you can use your blog to promote yourself. Easiest way for you is to combine the original text you write for your article with a well defined one that contains information about your services and both of these texts need to be related so if you write about windshields then you should offer services regarding windshields and not microphones.
All these four ways can help you to make money from blogging, especially in 2016 when the number of online users and the need for content and information is constantly increasing. We have to tell you that becoming a successful blogger take years, hard work and patience. Being passionate about your blog is not enough, you need a great platform such as WordPress and a great hosting service you can rely on. If you need web hosting to support your platform, you can go to our hosting review section.