Having a blog.? So it is likely that you will be looking to make some money.Making money from your blog is a good decision, but do it correctly because if done unwell way, cause not only to cheapen your content but also lose the readers.
However, there are so many ways to make money.I have listed below so read and apply them to get revenue from your blog.
1-Sell your Custom Developed Theme
Selling your custom developed theme is a really quick and easy way to make money.If you are a theme developer then this a great way to for you.There are lots of marketplaces where you can sell your themes like Mojo theme and Theme forest.
2-Services/Products Paid Review
In this monetization method, you sometimes use a product or gain some service from companies after that you write a review about product or service.If you are expert in your niche and your opinion is trusted you can make money.Your payment will be cash or free products.
Always keep in mind you should use tricks to balancing between the giving the company ROI and the honest and useful information to your readers.
3-Monetized Widgets
In this method, you place widgets from affiliate program of products or services in which ads are displayed on your website for earning the commission.
An example of this is Amazon Affiliate Widgets, if your blog even not has the high level of traffic, then you can also earn from this, for a good return your blog article and advertising products or services should be matches each other.
An example of this is Amazon Affiliate Widgets, if your blog even not has the high level of traffic, then you can also earn from this, for a good return your blog article and advertising products or services should be matches each other.
Like most of the advertising strategies, this monetization method can cheapen your content so avoid displaying too many ads.
4-Creating Portfolio on Your Blog
In this method of monetization create a portfolio page on your site, in which you try to show that you are expert in your niche/field experience, it is the showcase of you in other words.
When you apply for a job/work you use this page as a reference.This is not a direct technique for making money through your portfolio page visitors can hire you for job/work.
When you apply for a job/work you use this page as a reference.This is not a direct technique for making money through your portfolio page visitors can hire you for job/work.
5-Sell Your Custom Plugin
Selling your developed custom plugin is similar to as you sell blog theme.This is an easy and quick way of making money.You need to list your developed custom plugin on the marketplace, some really responsive marketplaces are Code Canyon WP Plugin, Extended.
If you have leisure time then choose this monetization way, because developing a custom plugin from scratch is a time consuming and if you have not resources ideas for developing then this not good for you.
6-In-content text affiliate links
in this technique, you add a products or services links of affiliate network in your content. These links are often contextual and relevant to your topic. When someone visits your site, clicks on links you added to purchase a product or gain some services you earn a commission.
If you describe a product or services, how to use through a tutorial or review then you will get a good return for your website. Some affiliate network gives you a steady good money for you refer the customer. For your information here is a list of highly paid affiliate programs.
As you know excess of everything is bad, so avoid adding too much text affiliate links in your content because it can sometimes cheapen your content. In demonetization always choose the best policy that to be transparent as possible so the people could not judge you are promoting a product or services and understand that these are affiliate links for their help or information.
7-In-Content Affiliate Banner's
This method is similar to in-content text affiliate links. The difference is that in this situation you adds Affiliate Banner's or widgets in content. Banners or widgets are more visible then text affiliate ads.
Banner's are sometimes more effective than text links if these are relevant to your content and you can make good money from especially if you have fashion design niche.
Both methods in-content text and banner links can show that you are trying to make money from them and as a result, it down your content value putt reader's off and reduce readability.
8-In-image Advertising
In this demonetization method, the text ads from advertising network are displayed on your website images. When a user moves a mouse cursor on that image the text ad display on image nearly the text ads are relevant to the image. Reachli offers this advertising program.
This method is also simple and easy to set up on your site and can be work alongside the other advertising networks. A drawback of this tactic is that you can the loss of your images on social share networks like Pint rest and Instagram due to spammy looking of the images with text ads.
9-Write for other Blogs (Guest posting or Guest Blogging)
If you are a good writer then Guest posting or Guest blogging is the good and easy way to make money.
If you write regularly fresh content for your site and people read your content and then some other blog owners also request you to write for them.
it is also a good link building technique by which you can add some backlinks to your site for generating good targeted traffic to your site so you can convert them from visitors to costumers.
In this monetization method, you should need a huge number of followers and subscribers for your blog, they are looking to learn from your article or other helping stuff, in this way you have an opportunity to create a paid membership plan.
Once you did your visitors or learner will be pay fee for getting membership then can see your next extra content or other helping material.Paid membership can give you more money if correctly be done.
In this tactic, you earn money in two ways, first from membership fee and secondly from selling products/services or affiliate links, but this method is some difficult and has high barriers.
Before setting up you should read and article A great article on Pro Blogger will teach you why most paid membership scheme fails.
You can make money by selling your whole blog, if you are not interested, to write the further posts in your blog you can sell it through a third party including Flippa, SiteIndeed , or Digital Point Forum or to get an offer personally or through an Email or phone call.
If your blog has a lot of Traffic and valuable back links or really an old It can a worth of even about $100,000 or above.Once you sold your blog, you will not get revenue in future but before selling you get its value from multiple sources for offering cast.
In this monetization method, you sent posts promoting goods or services to your RSS subscribers.If you have a WordPress site here is a tutorial that will teach you how to do this strategy.
If you blog has large subscribers list then you can earn a lot of money.A great benefit of RSS feed sponsorship is that you do not need to post anything directly on your blog and it shows to followers readers.
In this tactic, you add banners through third party advertising network like Fusion Ads or Buy Sell Ads to your RSS feed.Banners advertising is easy to setup as compared to RSS feed sponsorship.
If your site is based on Wordpress then it will become even easier by installing a plugin.RSS feed banner advertiser has a benefit that new readers are not exposing to ads even when they become your subscribers.
Any monetization method within your RSS feed needs a sizeable subscriber's list if your subscriber list is small, then there needs of the struggle for making a good return.
This can be setup through an advertising network so it is the easy way of monetization method from your blog, it involves when someone visits your site an audio ad become playing, but if visitors want not to lesson they can be stopped it at any time.
Here is a drawback of this is that many people not want to lesson audio advertising when they visit someone website, anyhow if you apply this method check your blog bounce rate and weigh up the trade-off between monetization method and your user experience.
In this monetization method, you create a page for placing useful resources links.Through, this you sell the place for links to other website owners.For example, if your blog is about travel, so travel companies will pay you for placing their links on your resource page.
It is easy to setup and takes a little time, you can sell multiple placements on the page to make good money.But remember selling links on your page is against Google's TOS, the Best practice is that you try to wrap links in your content instead of static links that can be dropped over the past 18 months, so you need to find an advertising partner for driving traffic.
You can sponsor some product or services in your podcast for making money, many bloggers did this on their blogs some bloggers gives full reviews of products/services on the podcast.
In your podcast you can easily mention your sponsor before between or at the end, you can add the relevant sponsor to the content of the podcast.
It is not always easy to getting the sponsor, and if you have some little listener then you can not get the good return, also its look some cheesy to mention sponsor within your podcast.
If your YouTube channel has good following /subscribers, then you want to look at some ways of monetizing it, you should get someone to sponsor your channel unless in-video ads showing on video damage user experience and give you low return.
YouTube channel sponsorship is very profitable, even using it as an in-video AdSense ad.In this monetization method of sponsorship, you have full control over what is displayed on your channel and add more value to your subscriber website that gives a discount on their products/services.
In this, you need an engaging community and lot of subscriber to getting the good return.
If you are expert in your niche and your opinion is valuable to your reader's then you can setup forum where the user pays for to acquire membership or pay for to specific area.
If you create a premium content for your blog due to this you have a huge potential to making long-term revenue.You can set up weekly/monthly/or yearly membership package.In this strategy, you not only make money from your membership plan also has the lot of opportunities to sell products, services, or other affiliate links.
But here is a drawback of the content barrier's because you can lose your readership unless you are offering valuable premium content that is not available for free on the web.
In this monetization method, you create an article about products/services on your blog for payment.The links within these articles should be no follow.
If your audience and advertising partner are same to what they are looking for then you can earn a pretty penny from this method.But a lot of companies are looking to purchase advertorials will prefer you not show that its is an advertorial and also do follow links.
In this method, you offer consulting service over the phone call for pay per minute.If you are expert in your niche and can teach or solve the problems to someone then you can earn good money.
A website Clarity.fm where you can apply as a consultant within your niche and set up your phone call rate and even can get a widget for your blog, It is easy and more profitable if your application is accepted for long and you can advertise your consulting service or offer via your blog.
But be in mind you need authority/credibility within your niche before applying on Clarity.
This method involves that an author writes a guest post on other blogs for money, and add some do follow links which are against Google term of service.
This method also most profitable for money and traffic to your site. but most reputable blogs are not allowed to do this strategy, so it is not easy to find the good authentic site to pay for the guest post on.so you can make a good return.
If your blog is most popular and you have an active engaging followers/subscribers then you can make money from companies by running paid survey/polls to your community.
In this tactic most companies need a good quality data eg, people name and their email addresses, so you can charge a premium to companies by providing them your subscriber/followers data.
There are also the lot of software that you can use to run paid survey program.This means you need for some invest in software to get more insight to your blog follower/subscribers and social follower emails.
Again if you are expert in your niche and a successful blogger then you can reach other blog owners to offering consulting service on how they can get a better performance for their blog's.
In this method, you have a lot of opportunities to build the relationship with other blog owner's and can through a more traffic to your site for next revenue.
But you need a lot of time for preparing all the resources and advising to one by one for their problems and questions.
If you have a creative mind and abilities to create things or content from scratch or offer a lot of free resources to your reader's and you are not able to afford its cast,then getting donation from your reader's /visitors an easy way to set up this method can give you lot of money,here is an example of a man Niels Bosma's website created SEO tools plugin for excel.
Getting donation is easy if you have a WordPress site then just install this donation plugin and in minutes you will get PayPal donation.
But you need to do for your reader/visitor's other than writing content for getting the donation.I have seen many sites getting the donation from peoples but they not doing anything special for their readers, so it shows some cheeky and personally.
In this monetization method, you sell links on your blog sidebar because the most blog has a sidebar on each page on the site.
It is the easy and quick method you can implement on your blog in minutes and it is based on monthly or yearly packages.
If you have an authority website and you get a good stream of traffic then this can give you a pretty amount every month.But this tactic is against Google terms, so before implementing know about the Google Penguin Updates.
This monetization method is most seen within marketing niche/field.In this tactic, you advertise your personal services on blog page offering eg, consultation, web design, or other online marketing services.
If you create a personal blog where to show that you are expert in your niche based on knowledge and experience, then can make a good money from selling your services on the blog.
Many bloggers make a lot of money from this way because they are the industry expert and they build trust with their clients through their content.
If you are selling services on your blog then your reader's might be thinking that you are orientated too sales with your content, and it is difficult to balancing within your content and services.
Many blog authors write ebooks, to giving away free their user's for getting email addresses, social share, backlinks or for selling directly on their blog.
You earn a lot of money by selling eBooks on your blog.This can show you as an expert in your niche, you can also get the sponsor for your book for further monetization.
But you need to invest some money in advertising your ebook.If you don't have money to promote the ebook then not take a risk making a return on your time.
In this monetization method, you write an article about the products or services of companies or someone for promoting them and get sponsorship from them.These articles also include links to companies or individual.
For example, a mobile phone company will sponsor a blog post about the latest models and post might feature some of their models.If you have an authority website and get lots of visitors/followers then you can earn a good amount of money.
Companies or individuals will want to pay more to you for featuring their products or services.
Here are some drawbacks of this method that this can cheapen your content and as a result, your turned off, and may often they will not come back because this show that you are promoting products/services of someone.
It is a way to earn money from your blog, Through to set up an online shop section offering products or services.If your blog has a niche that is very product oriented and you get more visitors to your blog then you might want to try coming traffic into direct sales.
If your blog is about home appliances then you might want to store some things in your online shop and you will likely to talk about your products or services in your content.
This will lead you extra cash as a result.But be in mind setting up is not so easy or quick way because you will need to source product developing an online shop within your blog need to invest some money.
Selling your web pages is another way to make money from your blog, if your web page has a premium content and tons of good quality links pointing to it then you can make money by selling this page.
If your web page is a really old post then you might not miss it from your website.There are many website owners pay a good amount for those pages that have high-quality relevant links.
But remember in this way you can lose control of that page on the site, also for a good deal there is need a lot of trust between both seller and buyers.However, It is selling links strategy which is against Google Webmaster Guidelines, Try it at your own risk.
There is also some software that you can use for this both Paid and Free.Some paid software are Infinite Webinar, Cisco, WebEx, Adobe connect, and free are Skype and Google + Hangout.
In this method you can earn a good money from your blog community, subcriptionWhen you got a lot of sign up people you charge a premium for this webinar to earn some serious cash.
There are some blogs that offer subscription packages based on weekly/monthly or yearly for their log term revenue.For a webinar, you need to offer some very valuable information and to do a lot of work for promoting and hosting the webinar.
In this monetization method, advertise someone brand/product/services via a banner's or text links in your newsletter for in return money.
You can also sell sponsorship.If you want to get a better return then you can offer various sponsorship packages weekly/monthly/or yearly.
In your mailing list that can include being a topic/category sponsor.It is not easy to get a sponsor at the first time unless your mailing list is large but also sometimes the revenue potential is not so pleasant.
In this method, web page instead of selling web page you rent out your page to someone for a limited period of time, so they can redirect the page to their site or add some backlinks to their site profit margin is high, and is a quick and straight forward to setup,but both parties need an agreement for better result.
If you run a news blog you can get a sponsorship of your written column or specific category pages from advertising companies for making money.
Some major news website offers this kind of advertising because in this way they market only to the reader interested in the type of content which related to their business.
In this way, you will be able to deliver the relevant traffic to the advertiser which should give you a better return on investment for them.
If you write regularly fresh content for your site and people read your content and then some other blog owners also request you to write for them.
it is also a good link building technique by which you can add some backlinks to your site for generating good targeted traffic to your site so you can convert them from visitors to costumers.
10-Paid Blog Membership
Once you did your visitors or learner will be pay fee for getting membership then can see your next extra content or other helping material.Paid membership can give you more money if correctly be done.
In this tactic, you earn money in two ways, first from membership fee and secondly from selling products/services or affiliate links, but this method is some difficult and has high barriers.
Before setting up you should read and article A great article on Pro Blogger will teach you why most paid membership scheme fails.
11-Sell Your Blog
If your blog has a lot of Traffic and valuable back links or really an old It can a worth of even about $100,000 or above.Once you sold your blog, you will not get revenue in future but before selling you get its value from multiple sources for offering cast.
12-RSS Feed Sponsorship
If you blog has large subscribers list then you can earn a lot of money.A great benefit of RSS feed sponsorship is that you do not need to post anything directly on your blog and it shows to followers readers.
13-RSS Feed Banner Advertising
If your site is based on Wordpress then it will become even easier by installing a plugin.RSS feed banner advertiser has a benefit that new readers are not exposing to ads even when they become your subscribers.
Any monetization method within your RSS feed needs a sizeable subscriber's list if your subscriber list is small, then there needs of the struggle for making a good return.
14-Pay Per Play/ Audio advertising
Here is a drawback of this is that many people not want to lesson audio advertising when they visit someone website, anyhow if you apply this method check your blog bounce rate and weigh up the trade-off between monetization method and your user experience.
15-Adding Links in Resource Page
It is easy to setup and takes a little time, you can sell multiple placements on the page to make good money.But remember selling links on your page is against Google's TOS, the Best practice is that you try to wrap links in your content instead of static links that can be dropped over the past 18 months, so you need to find an advertising partner for driving traffic.
16-Sponsored mention within Podcast.
In your podcast you can easily mention your sponsor before between or at the end, you can add the relevant sponsor to the content of the podcast.
It is not always easy to getting the sponsor, and if you have some little listener then you can not get the good return, also its look some cheesy to mention sponsor within your podcast.
17-YouTube Channel Sponsorship
YouTube channel sponsorship is very profitable, even using it as an in-video AdSense ad.In this monetization method of sponsorship, you have full control over what is displayed on your channel and add more value to your subscriber website that gives a discount on their products/services.
In this, you need an engaging community and lot of subscriber to getting the good return.
18-Private Forum Membership
If you create a premium content for your blog due to this you have a huge potential to making long-term revenue.You can set up weekly/monthly/or yearly membership package.In this strategy, you not only make money from your membership plan also has the lot of opportunities to sell products, services, or other affiliate links.
But here is a drawback of the content barrier's because you can lose your readership unless you are offering valuable premium content that is not available for free on the web.
19-Advertorials
If your audience and advertising partner are same to what they are looking for then you can earn a pretty penny from this method.But a lot of companies are looking to purchase advertorials will prefer you not show that its is an advertorial and also do follow links.
20-Pay Per Minute Phone Call Consulting
A website Clarity.fm where you can apply as a consultant within your niche and set up your phone call rate and even can get a widget for your blog, It is easy and more profitable if your application is accepted for long and you can advertise your consulting service or offer via your blog.
But be in mind you need authority/credibility within your niche before applying on Clarity.
21-Paid Guest Posts
This method also most profitable for money and traffic to your site. but most reputable blogs are not allowed to do this strategy, so it is not easy to find the good authentic site to pay for the guest post on.so you can make a good return.
22-Paid Surveys/Polls
In this tactic most companies need a good quality data eg, people name and their email addresses, so you can charge a premium to companies by providing them your subscriber/followers data.
There are also the lot of software that you can use to run paid survey program.This means you need for some invest in software to get more insight to your blog follower/subscribers and social follower emails.
23-Advise Other Blog Owners Within Your Niche
In this method, you have a lot of opportunities to build the relationship with other blog owner's and can through a more traffic to your site for next revenue.
But you need a lot of time for preparing all the resources and advising to one by one for their problems and questions.
24-Donation
Getting donation is easy if you have a WordPress site then just install this donation plugin and in minutes you will get PayPal donation.
But you need to do for your reader/visitor's other than writing content for getting the donation.I have seen many sites getting the donation from peoples but they not doing anything special for their readers, so it shows some cheeky and personally.
25-Sell Sidebar Links on Your Blog
It is the easy and quick method you can implement on your blog in minutes and it is based on monthly or yearly packages.
If you have an authority website and you get a good stream of traffic then this can give you a pretty amount every month.But this tactic is against Google terms, so before implementing know about the Google Penguin Updates.
26-From Your Own Services
If you create a personal blog where to show that you are expert in your niche based on knowledge and experience, then can make a good money from selling your services on the blog.
Many bloggers make a lot of money from this way because they are the industry expert and they build trust with their clients through their content.
If you are selling services on your blog then your reader's might be thinking that you are orientated too sales with your content, and it is difficult to balancing within your content and services.
27-Selling eBooks
You earn a lot of money by selling eBooks on your blog.This can show you as an expert in your niche, you can also get the sponsor for your book for further monetization.
But you need to invest some money in advertising your ebook.If you don't have money to promote the ebook then not take a risk making a return on your time.
28-Sponsored Posts Within Your Blog
For example, a mobile phone company will sponsor a blog post about the latest models and post might feature some of their models.If you have an authority website and get lots of visitors/followers then you can earn a good amount of money.
Companies or individuals will want to pay more to you for featuring their products or services.
Here are some drawbacks of this method that this can cheapen your content and as a result, your turned off, and may often they will not come back because this show that you are promoting products/services of someone.
29-Sell Products Directly On Your Blog
If your blog is about home appliances then you might want to store some things in your online shop and you will likely to talk about your products or services in your content.
This will lead you extra cash as a result.But be in mind setting up is not so easy or quick way because you will need to source product developing an online shop within your blog need to invest some money.
30-Sell Specific Webpages on Your Blog
If your web page is a really old post then you might not miss it from your website.There are many website owners pay a good amount for those pages that have high-quality relevant links.
But remember in this way you can lose control of that page on the site, also for a good deal there is need a lot of trust between both seller and buyers.However, It is selling links strategy which is against Google Webmaster Guidelines, Try it at your own risk.
31-Host Premium Webinar
If your blog is most popular and has a lot of follower's /subscriber's that are very engaging with you and you are seen as an expert in your niche then hosting a private webinar is a good option to make some extra cash, but you need to invest some money.There is also some software that you can use for this both Paid and Free.Some paid software are Infinite Webinar, Cisco, WebEx, Adobe connect, and free are Skype and Google + Hangout.
In this method you can earn a good money from your blog community, subcriptionWhen you got a lot of sign up people you charge a premium for this webinar to earn some serious cash.
There are some blogs that offer subscription packages based on weekly/monthly or yearly for their log term revenue.For a webinar, you need to offer some very valuable information and to do a lot of work for promoting and hosting the webinar.
32-Getting Email Sponsorship
You can also sell sponsorship.If you want to get a better return then you can offer various sponsorship packages weekly/monthly/or yearly.
In your mailing list that can include being a topic/category sponsor.It is not easy to get a sponsor at the first time unless your mailing list is large but also sometimes the revenue potential is not so pleasant.
33-Rentout Your Webpage
34-Column or Category Sponsorship
Some major news website offers this kind of advertising because in this way they market only to the reader interested in the type of content which related to their business.
In this way, you will be able to deliver the relevant traffic to the advertiser which should give you a better return on investment for them.
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