If you love writing, you are most likely maintaining a blog right now. According to the American Psychological Association, blogging is a great tool to combat anxiety, stress, anger, and all sorts of negative emotions that you experience. In other words, having a blog is great for your mental health!
We’re definitely recommending everyone to blog. You don’t have to be a very good writer to start a blog. Practice makes perfect, they say. The more you blog, the more your writing improves as long as you keep your mind open to learning. What you need to begin is a passion for writing, and perhaps a drive to earn money from it as well.
You’ve read it right! You can evaluate a capital investment on your talent, and your love for writing to earn passive income. But what are the methods through which you can monetize your blog?
Different Methods for Earning Money from a Blog
According to the website SaveTheStudent.Org, you can monetize your blog through the following methods:
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- Affiliate marketing
Affiliate marketing is the most common source of income for bloggers as well as their video counterparts, the “vloggers.” The way affiliate marketing works is very simple. You sign up for an affiliate network and obtain affiliate links to products.
After that, you develop content around these products and insert the link. You earn money every time one of your readers clicks on the link and makes a purchase.
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- Google Ads
Aside from affiliate links, you can also earn money from hosting advertisements on your website. That’s why you can find ads from many websites nowadays – that’s how they earn money to support their upkeep.
How do you earn money from ads? There are two ways. One method is similar to affiliate marketing, which means you earn a commission for every click of the ad. Another way is to get paid for Impressions, which is when the ad appears on your content. However, the payout in this mode is for a set number of Impressions and not for each appearance.
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- Sponsored content and guest posts
Sponsored content is simply content that you write for someone else. These are usually reviews of a product or service. In other cases, some brands, or at least their marketing arm, will pay for publishing space. They take care of the content for you, and all you have to do is publish the article for them.
You may have to work harder on building your blog’s audience before you can start earning through this route. You won’t get offers unless you’re an established authority in a specific niche.
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- Digital products
Finally, you can use your blog as an advertising space for your digital products. Are you currently writing an ebook, or developing an online tutorial series? Promote them in your blog! You can add an opt-in page as well.
The opt-in is where readers can volunteer their contact details (usually an email address) to get access to free content. What you get is a mailing list that you can use in email marketing, which is another means of monetizing the Internet.
Remember, the most difficult part of the journey is always the first step. With your love for writing and innate talent in the art, it won’t be long before you start earning from your passion!
