If you have started or planning to create a blog, there is a high chance that you have questions in mind on how to make money from it?

There are many ways to make money from your blog.

However, most bloggers are not earning even a single dollar from what they’ve worked hard for. Still, there are those who triumphed and transformed publishing online to passive income.

Turns out, blogging is not a fairytale story. The process of blogging is simple but is never easy.

You’ll need to consider checking several items on your checklist before you can monetize your blog, this includes the number of website visitors, social media followers, rank on search engines, quality of contents, and trust of followers.

Blog (including its contents) is a product. You’ll need quality articles (product) and visitors (clienteles) to make money from it.

Quality contents, traffic, and trust of followers are the three things you’ll need to have to make your blog monetizable. If you’ve got these, let us proceed to learning about the 7 pro tips to make money online through blogging.

Ad Networks

Have you heard of Google Adsense? This is the most popular ad network in the world. You sign-up for an account (wait for approval), you put their code on your website which will allow them to show advertisement, and you get a revenue per view and per click on the ad.

Other popular ad networks are Media.net, Infolinks, and Adsterra.

Ad networks is one of the most popular and perhaps the easiest way to implement strategy to make money out of your blog.

But this is also one of the monetization options that provides a very low revenue. The price per view and click is minimal, and reaching their minimum withdrawal threshold will take years if you have a small blog.

Most people nowadays would not click on an ad network’s ad.

Anyhow, this option only asks you to put advertisement codes on your website and you won’t do anything at all. Pretty straightforward if you want to focus on writing quality contents and would not bother promoting products on your website.

Private Advertising

Private advertising is a higher-paying alternative to ad networks. Instead of ad networks placing advertisements on your website, there are companies who are willing to pay an advertisement spot on your website, and they pay higher than ad networks.

Communications started either by the company or the blogger would start the transaction. Common blogs who receive private advertising offers are those who are on specific niche like the company, and the blog has significant traffic.

This is not usually offered to general niche website (unless blog is extremely popular).

Agreement on payment is fixed, usually on monthly or annual contracts; hence does not depend on clickthrough or views.

Become an Affiliate

Affiliate marketing is among the top ways bloggers earn a lot of money. This refers to a performance-based marketing strategy where an affiliate earns a commission for promoting a product of another company.

A creator or company would use a unique tracking link which the blogger will share in their platform, and when a person purchases through the link, the affiliate earns a percentage of the sale.

Most bloggers have become affiliate marketers. They do this through reviews, recommendations, or mention the product in their articles.

Affiliate marketing offers the ability to make money while you sleep, and blogger will continuously commission if consumers purchase a product through the link.

Brand Sponsorship

In affiliate marketing, you choose a product and ask the company for an affiliate link to promote it. On the other hand, the company chooses you to promote their product in brand sponsorships.

A company would offer you a commission to provide a review or mention of their product. Commonly, they would provide you a premium (if digital) or send you the product to test the material for review.

In brand sponsorships and affiliate marketing, you are providing a review to guide your followers on which product to buy. Your followers would willingly support the product if they have trust in you, hence maintain honesty in reviewing products so as not to erode your supporters.

Sell Your Own Product

You can also create your own product and sell it on your blog. Products can either be digital or physical.

Digital products include e-books, worksheets, planners, audiobooks, software, creative assets, and others. These types of products often have low startup costs and a passive income potential.

Raket.ph is a suggested platform to sell digital products in the Philippines and use your blog to promote. Option to do it right on your blog through WooCommerce is available.

Physical products, on one hand, are tangible, touchable items. You can sell t-shirts, mugs, phone case, and more with your logo in it.

Subscriptions

Another way to earn money through blogging is through subscriptions/gated content/subscriber only contents.

This refers to a recurring payment model where users must pay to access exclusive content, services, or physical products online.

Here, instead of customers having to purchase a product, they pay recurring fees to access a select or all the products.

Subscription-based models can be content-based (premium media, examples: Netflix, Spotify, Masterclass, Medium.com), service based (software licenses, access to forums with experts), product-based (replenishment of consumable items), and hybrid models (combination).

Sell Services

Your blog can help you earn by selling services. Services referred here are advice based on your expertise, your blog will help catapult your credibility and help attract clients.

For example, you could write about social media management and content marketing. Develop a name under the brand by creating compelling contents. Ensure to put your contact details on your blog.

Other services include medical, legal, search engine optimization, leadership, cybersecurity.

Individuals or companies, having seen your blog as portfolio as it shows you’re knowledgeable on the specific niche, would likely send a message to seek advice.

Final Thoughts

Blogging is a new industry that was created along with the digital age. Individuals and companies can create contents and become easily available for reading globally through the internet.

This innovation has helped many individuals earn income from their own home. There are many ways individuals can make money through writing their thoughts and publishing on their blog.

Despite that, many would not experience withdrawing money from this venture. Far from the easy money that is being shared online, blogging also requires planning, execution, knowledge on writing and the blog niche. Simple but not easy.

There are many ways to earn, but many would want to have the luxury of earning through blogging as well – bringing strong competition.

Are you willing to take the effort and make a profitable blog venture?