Picture this\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You\u2019re a full-time blogger with your own website, working from wherever you want\u2026 whenever you want. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your website earns over $50,000 per month, every month, and allows you the kind of lifestyle you used to only dream about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sound too good to be true? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For many bloggers, this is simply their reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michelle of Making Sense of Cents regularly earns over $100k\/mo with her blog, and she\u2019s far from the only one!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether your goal is $5k\/mo, $30k\/mo, or more, it\u2019s doable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first step to achieving these numbers is learning how to do it \u2013 so it\u2019s a good thing that you\u2019re here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every single blogger making any kind of money from their blogs are using the strategies listed in this article. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u2019re a beginner blogger or thinking about getting started,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0be sure to save this post! Here are 8 ways to make money with your blog or website that are being used by successful bloggers everywhere:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Making money from advertising is one of the most common ways to earn money from your website or blog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Partnering with ad networks brings in passive income that increases as your blog traffic increases. Ad Networks display ads from their partners on your website in the form of banners at the top, bottom, throughout blog content, and in the sidebar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can get paid by displaying ads from ad networks in two main ways: <\/p>\n\n\n\n For beginner bloggers, the most popular network is Google AdSense. In order to make decent money with advertising, you need a lot of traffic. However, once you apply and get your ads setup, you don\u2019t have to worry about it again\u2026 this is what makes it passive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Google Adsense doesn\u2019t have minimum traffic requirements but they also pay the lowest. As your blog and blog traffic grow, you will be able to apply for higher paying ad networks like Monumetric and Mediavine. Monumetric requires a minimum of 10k sessions per month and Mediavine requires a minimum of 50k sessions per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can make money with your blog or website simply by recommending products to your readers that you use or believe in. This is called affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money with your blog or website, and if done correctly, it can be very lucrative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What kind of products can you recommend with affiliate marketing? Pretty much anything! Almost any company you can think of has an affiliate or referral program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, Amazon has an affiliate program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Say you buy a book on Amazon and you loved it, so you recommend it on your website. Someone sees your recommendation, clicks your link to Amazon and purchases the book for themselves. Amazon then pays you a small commission for sending them a new customer, and it didn\u2019t cost your reader anything extra! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money from your website, especially if you don\u2019t have any products of your own to sell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Commissions for affiliate products vary widely depending on the niche and type of product you are recommending. As a general rule, physical products pay the least in commissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Digital products like ebooks, softwares, and online courses typically pay the highest in commissions \u2013 I\u2019ve seen commission rates of up to 70%! That may sound crazy but it\u2019s absolutely legit. Digital product companies can afford to pay higher commissions because they don\u2019t have to keep inventory or deal with shipping, and they only had to create the product one time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bloggers make money with affiliate marketing by writing product reviews, product tutorials, including them on their resource pages, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once a website has a lot of traffic, companies and advertisers reach out to the website owner and ask to purchase ad space for their products. This is called direct advertising. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With ad networks, the ads are random and come from partners of the ad network itself. With direct advertising, the ad stays the same. The ad can be in the form of a banner, a button, or a link. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Depending on the agreement, the advertiser may pay you a one-time fee or pay you monthly for direct advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sponsored content is where a company pays you directly to publish an article on your website about their product \u2013 and it\u2019s typically written by them as well. Sponsored posts can be a major money-earner for bloggers, especially if you develop a relationship with the companies and feature repeat posts by them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Another way to earn money as a blogger with sponsored content is by publishing posts to your blog\u2019s social media pages about the company or product, or running paid traffic directly to the sponsored posts on your blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The more readers or followers you have, the more you can charge for sponsored content. Once your blog becomes established, you will have companies reaching out to you for sponsored posts, but you don\u2019t have to wait for that to happen! You can join influencer networks like Acorn Influence<\/a>, Find Your Influence<\/a>, IZEA<\/a>, and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Selling your own products on your website is an amazing way to monetize your website. With your own products, you get to keep all the profits from the sale instead of just getting a percentage for commission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The types of products you can sell on your blog varies depending on your niche, but popular ideas are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Digital products like ebooks, courses, and printables are the best options for selling your own products on your blog. This is because they only require you to create them once, and you can sell them over and over again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When you have your own products to sell on your website, you can create an affiliate program for them to bring in additional money. In the same way that you can be an affiliate for other companies, you can have affiliates helping you sell your products in exchange for paying them a commission. There are plenty of services online to help you setup and manage this like Gumroad, SamCart, Clickfunnels, Teachable, and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you have a skill or talent that you could sell as a service through your website? Many bloggers do this, myself included. Depending on your areas of expertise, there are a wide range of services you could offer. Popular services that bloggers sell are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n And so, so much more. Selling services is the quickest way to transition from a full-time job to working for yourself (if that\u2019s your goal), and adding your services to your blog is a no-brainer. Technically this is considered freelancing or contracting. You aren\u2019t limited to just selling your services on your blog, but if you\u2019re getting traffic there, it doesn\u2019t hurt to add them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Membership sites are a great way to monetize your blog or website because they typically charge a recurring subscription fee. This is a great option to add to your website if you want to create a members area that you keep updated with new, helpful content for your subscribers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This format is great for course creators to use as an additional content area for your customers, or in lieu of a course. With a membership area, instead of giving the whole course up front, you can drip content out slowly. Dripping content out every week or every month will keep your subscribers engaged (and more importantly, subscribed and paying you), and also gives them time to work through the content instead of rushing through a typical online course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a high-level way to serve your customers and also ensure you have a recurring income stream in the process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a less common way to make money with a blog, but I see it being done often! Adding a section to take donations or a \u201cVirtual Tip Jar\u201d on your blog is a way for your subscribers to toss a little coin your way and show their appreciation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is popular on travel blogs and how-to blogs and typically is the result of readers asking how they can support the blogger \u2013 not the blogger just asking the readers for money! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you build a relationship with your readers and subscribers, many of them will want to support you for what you\u2019re doing. And even if no one has asked you yet, it doesn\u2019t hurt to add a link to a virtual tip jar in the footer and on the about page of your website, you may be surprised! There are many ways you can set this up \u2013 you can use PayPal<\/a>, Patreon<\/a>, Ko-Fi<\/a>, or Buy Me A Coffee<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n These 8 methods are the main, if not only, ways bloggers make money from their websites. Everything bloggers are doing to make money from their blogs will fall into one of these categories somehow, but don\u2019t let this overwhelm you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It can seem like a lot at first, and if you\u2019re trying to do everything at once then it certainly is! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Focus on one thing at a time before moving on to the next monetization strategy. The easiest to get started with it AdSense. It\u2019s not going to make you a thousand-aire overnight, but it is a good way to get a little trickle of income coming in\u2026 even if it\u2019s for no other reason than to inspire you to keep going. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Blogging isn\u2019t a get-rich-quick thing and it will never happen overnight. Don\u2019t give up. The most important thing you can do for yourself on your blogging journey is to just KEEP GOING! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Which of these topics are you going to focus on first? Let me know in the comments!<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Picture this\u2026 You\u2019re a full-time blogger with your own website, working from wherever you want\u2026 whenever you want. 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2.\u00a0Affiliate Marketing<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
3. Direct Advertising<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
4.\u00a0Sponsored Posts<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
5.\u00a0Sell Your Own Products<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
6. Sell Services<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
7. Memberships<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
8.\u00a0Donations<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Focus On One Method At A Time<\/strong>\u00a0To Make Money With Your Blog Or Website<\/h2>\n\n\n\n