5 Tips to Monetize Your Blog and Make Money Blogging
1. Advertising
Including advertisements on your blog is the most obvious way to derive an income from your blogging efforts. Ads can come in the form of text links or banner ads, and advertising options are available that you can easily tap into through pay-per-click, pay-per-post and affiliate programs online. Google AdSense, Amazon Associates
2. Merchandise
Another simple way to monetize your blog is by selling merchandise through a service such as CafePress who will work with you to create custom items for you to sell through your blog.
3. Reviews
Bloggers can make money by reviewing products, events, businesses and more through blog posts.
4. Ebooks
A great way to bring in some revenue on your blog is by writing an ebook and offering it for sale through your blog. Ebooks are particularly successful for bloggers who have positioned themselves as experts in their fields and advertise their ebooks as additional or exclusive information just for readers of their blogs.
5. Donations
Many bloggers add a donation button to their blogs asking readers to make a monetary donation to keep the blog alive. Donations are also solicited with clever taglines such as, “If you like this blog, why not buy me a cup of coffee?” The donation link leads the reader to another website such as PayPal where the individual can easily make their donation.
Free Advertising
Oh noes! Not free advertising?! It must be a gimmick! Well that’s simply a load of crap! Don’t get me wrong, there are a ton of scams out there claiming to be free. But free can be good.
Amanda Mankins wrote “Have faith in things that are free. Just because it is free does not mean dismiss it as junk.. I have spent more money on junk. So just because you pay for something does not make it worth the money you spent for it. I am using free ad boards and forums to post my ads…With success!! These are available to you 100% FREE! So why do we spend countless dollars placing ads on networks that have tons of click fraud? Start using free services!” http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Amanda_Mankins
Like Amanda said, use free ad boards and forums to get your links out there. Also, including your link in comments when commenting on other blogs is helpful too. The more links to your site the better your ranking and the greater number of clicks. Building back links is essential to making money online. It’s free to do so there is no good excuse not to just get out there and take advantage of free advertising!
So now you may be asking yourself, where can I post my links? That really depends on the content and subject matter of your site. There are millions of communities out there and forums where members of those community gather to share ideas and opinions. Start posting comments on community sites or submit articles to blogs that are related to your site. Don’t forget to include your links to build up your back links.
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