8 Ways blogging can make you money.

  Your blog is your best digital asset for making money online.

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It's a question many new bloggers ask. And that's because they see others do it and are convinced that it is possible. In fact, if you have a blog,

you can make money with it in so many ways that it would be difficult to put out a single post to list all the possible ways you can make money with your blog.

For the purpose of this blog though, just think of one way you can make money online, and then think of how you can use your blog for that purpose.

So do you have a blog or you are thinking of creating one?  

Well if you already have a blog then that's fine.But if you don't have one then you can get one by choosing from among the many blogging platforms that are out there on the web. Here are just four of the most widely used blogging platforms to choose from.

a) Blogger.com

b) Wordpress.com

c) Weebly.com

d) Wix.com


Once you have a blog you call your own, it shouldn't be hard finding ways to fill it up with content. What content you put will depend on the purpose of your blog. If you set up a blog to talk about race cars, then the content you put there must be about race cars and not something else.

This is because visitors to your site interested in race cars may be put off seeing a topic that is in no way related to race cars. This can cause disinterest in your blog site and cause visitors to go elsewhere.

Having established the purpose of your blog and what content to post, you now want to use your blog to make money. Here are 8 ways to make money with your blog

1) Reviews

As online shopping becomes the norm, more and more people are turning to product reviews as a source of first-hand information when making buying decisions. According to statistics, 90% of people say online reviews influenced their purchase decisions.

How you can make money

You can use your blog to recommend products that people would want to buy by writing a review post about the products and then offering various ways these products can be purchased. Products you can review range from software, smartphones, PCs, and many more.

What you are doing with your review is helping a would-be buyer have enough knowledge about a product to make a purchase decision. You can also negotiate with companies to review their products and earn from your efforts.

2) Affiliate Marketing

Once you understand that your blog can make you money, then you begin to think of all the ways this might be possible.  Affiliate marketing is just another way you can use your blog to make money.

With Affiliate marketing, you join a merchant program by filling out an application and once accepted begin to promote the products of the merchant through an affiliate link that will be assigned to you.

How you can make money with affiliate marketing

Since affiliate marketing is all about promoting other people's products, to make money with your blog you can place affiliate banners on the sidebar of your blog. You can also write a post about the particular product you are promoting and once someone clicks the link and buys, you earn a sales commission.

See: 5 reasons why you can't join an affiliate program

3) Digital Products

Digital products are products that can be downloaded directly to your desktop, smartphone, or tablet such as ebooks, e-courses, and apps. You can set up a blog and publish posts that talk about these products.

How it can make you money

If you are very knowledgeable in your niche and want to reach out and help others you can do so by offering your expertise in the form of an ebook,

a course or packaged content such as an ebook set or a bundle that comprises an ebook, software, and course or video, and then place them in your blog post with links for purchase.

4) Sell Products

Your search for ways to make money with your blog could also see you selling products of your own to make money. Placing your own products on your blog and selling them can be profitable. And you can do that by adding a shopping page with cart functionalities to your blog or can setting up an eCommerce shop

How it can make you money.

The products you sell are your own. And that means you are working for yourself and not as an affiliate that is promoting someone else's products. The money you make from sales of the products you sell is yours 100%. All you need to do is to get the word across that you are selling products.

5) Offer a service

A blog can be a good way to reach out to people by offering a service. Some of the services you can offer to depend on your expertise in a particular area. And so you can offer a service like web design, copywriting, photography, etc, and so on.

How it can make you money

By offering your service you are helping people who are in need. Take for example web design. You can use your blog to give advice on the kind of design that can fit a particular blog to grab attention. People in need of a good-looking blog will through your blog get in contact with you to help them.

6) Consultancy 

Businesses need to stay ahead of the competition and that is why they need the best information and the best solution to be upfront. By offering a consultancy service you can attend to businesses who are in need of the necessary knowledge to stay abreast and also to learn new strategies and techniques that they can apply to make their business grow. In this, your blog can be helpful

How it can make you money

Consultancy services offer a wide range of services that include pay-per-minute phone consulting. Your blog can be a service point that businesses can turn to for their consultancy needs. In this, your blog can make you money when businesses book your services and require your expertise.

7) Advertising
Advertising is another means of making money and it is done by simply placing Ad Banners or Ad texts on your site. There are two ways of using advertising to make money on your site and that is by

a) Joining an advertising program or
b) Selling advertising space on your site

How it can make you money

Once you have a site and have started posting content on it, you can apply for an advertising program like Google Adsense and then run their ads on your blog. Ads are mostly banner ads that you can place preferably on the sidebar.

But you can also choose to place it on headers and footers. You can also place advertising spaces on your blog and sell them to willing advertisers who will pay you to advertise their products.

How it can make you money

When you apply for an advertising program like Google Adsense and get approved, Google then does the work of placing ads that are relative to your site's content. How you earn is when people come to your site and click on the advertising banners.

 When you sell advertising spaces on your blog you are inviting advertisers who are interested in advertising their products to buy those ad spaces. How you earn depends on the agreement you establish with them for the ad space.


8) Donations

Have you noticed that most sites have a PayPal button placed in some strategic part of their site.? Well, it could surprise you to know  that these are not checkout buttons,

 but donation buttons which while site owners are not pushy, request in an encouraging way for site users to make some donations towards the up keep of the site.

How it can make you money

By placing a donation button on your blog, you can get visitors who read and enjoy your blogs to make a small helpful donation as a way of keeping up with maintaining your site. Money donated will go directly to your PayPal account.

While it may not be much, it is still helpful in making you earn money for your blogging efforts.


Final Consideration

If you have a blog and you want to make money with it, you have so many ways you can do that. As always in making the choice of how to use your blog to make money, you must always do something that is in line with the purpose of your blog.

 This means that to make money with your race car blog you should

•  Do products reviews around race cars
• Sell products, accessories, ebooks, videos, etc around  race cars
• Offer services around and related to race cars.   

Making money around the purpose of your blog helps in aiding your visitors to have a wide range of useful information at their fingertips around and related to the purpose of your blog. This concentration of information can make them stay much longer on your site.

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