How To Earn Money From Blogging
Nine Ways To Make Money Blogging
by: Fernando Hal (cheatad.com)
Making money from blogging is almost a cliché now. Everyone wants to get a piece of it. Almost everyone with Internet access thought about it, or at least heard about someone doing it. Some brave enough to actually take the plunge get varying degree of success, some with mediocre result earning pennies, while others earn enough to dwarf salary of professional bankers.
If you are among those wondering how to make money from blogging, or you have actually started in your journey but wondering if you can earn more, here are nine ways to earn money blogging:
- Content Advertisement
All you need to start monetizing your blog is to join a content advertising network, get the code and paste into your blog. The advertisement network will find suitable ads for your blog and display it without needing your intervention. Content advertising is mostly based on CPC (cost-per-click advertising) and are generally paying lowest, but is the easiest to get into and start earning if you are new to blogging.
Try: Google Adsense, Infolinks, Chitika Premium Ads
- Feed Advertising
Similar with content advertising is the feed advertising. They generally work the same, get the code, and paste into your RSS feed source code. The difference is that feed advertisements are displayed on your blog RSS feeds.
Check out: Feedburner Advertising, Pheedo - Text Link Advertisements
Pioneered by Text Link Ads, text advertisement networks work by selling to advertisers the chance to put a text link on your blog. While there are occasions where the text advertisements are related to your blog topic and thus might match your readers interest, text link ads are generally thought to be solely for linking value of search engine optimizations. It is thus frowned upon by search engines like Google and Yahoo.
Link: Text Link Ads, Link Worth - Private Ad Sales
When your blog has reached a good readership, a better model for earning from your blog is through privately arranged advertisement deal. You can set and negotiate your own price, and dictate whether it will be on fixed price basis or CPM campaign.
Useful: BuySellAds, Google AdManager - Affiliate Sales
Most of Internet’s highest earning bloggers get a big chunk of their revenue of affiliate sales. It means you are promoting for someone else’s product in your blog and get paid if your visitors end up purchasing the product based on your recommendation. Usually there will be some tracking mechanism for the referral, for example via a referral link.
Info: AzoogleAds, Clickbank, LinkShare
- Paid Blogging
Another good-paying way to monetize your blog is via paid blogging. It is generally similar with affiliate promoting, except that you are paid in a lump sump payment instead of based on successful sales. Your blog must have a good readership to earn well in paid blogging, as the payer (advertiser) can be quite choosy in assigning who is blogging about their product.
See: ReviewMe,
PayPerPost
- Ghost Blogger
If you are a good writer but can’t be bothered by all the blog maintenance and marketing work, you can write on behalf of others. After you have proofed the quality of your writings, you might be invited to be a regular writer in a blog, and get well paid for it.
Getting job: GetAFreelancer, RentACoder
- Selling Products And Services
Many bloggers actually use their blog as either additional or sole a marketing channel for their product and services. You can sell services such as Wordpress installation and server configurations, or products like premium Wordpress themes and widgets. Blogs selling latest fashionable clothes and accessories are also quite popular.
- Offline Income Streams
This is the ultimate income source for earning money from blogging. When you are popular with very high blog readership level, being established as authority in your blog topic, a celebrity in the blogosphere, you’ll get a lot of options previously not available.
Being invited for a speaking engagement could mean a 5 figure pay for few hours work. Product endorsement for a major brand can propel your popularity to a new high as well as ensuring good income stream for at least next few months. Consultation jobs comes when you have established authority in your topics.
Heck, you can even write and publish books knowing well that your readers will grab them as soon as the books are available on book shelves.
Disclaimer: some links contain affiliate code.
How about you? What are your methods of earning money from your blog? Let us know !
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hi..i hv created the blog and try to add adsense…but the reply from google adsense is we’re unable to accept you into Google AdSense…..We did not approve…
pls guide me…….
In the past I would tell you ways to try cheat Google into accepting your site. But after some experience now, I would instead suggest you to improve your site first instead. There must be reason for Google to reject your site. If your site does not break any of their terms, most likely it is because Google think it is not good enough yet. Even if you put Adsense on it, the most you can earn from such site is probably only few dollars a month. Improve you site, get more visitors and then try apply again with another email address.
Very Recently, there has been a good deal of inquiries by the
FTC against bloggers and website promoters
for not publishing their advertising revenue, or potential
connections with ad networks.
What are your thoughts concerning how this could potentially effect
the blogging world?
As in all innovations, there ought to be some time for self-regulation, after which the authority step in. In this case mentioned, actually it is most directly related to sponsored reviews, where bloggers are paid to review certain products or services. Even before FTC step in, we have seen that the biggest of sponsored reviews networks (e.g. reviewme.com, sponsoredreviews.com) has required bloggers to disclose that the sponsored reviews are indeed paid for. Only the shaddier networks actually forbid the reviewer from disclosing the fact.