How to make money blogging?

7 min readJul 31, 2021

How to make money from blogging?
What are the ways to make money from blogging?
How much you can earn?

If you are searching you the above questions, then you are in right place. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to make money from blogging, all the aspects that’ll help you.

So, Let’s Start

If I talk about back years, people were doing blogging as a hobby while working full-time jobs. Earlier to now, the blogging functions are still in the same way, but also had many changed.

In 2021, blogging has started on a large scale and become an online profession that is absolutely profitable.

Before going into depth in this, let’s see the potential it has:

How Much You Can Earn Money From Blogging?

As I mentioned above, that blogging is now a profession like Actor, Doctor, Consultant, etc., there are many levels of blogging from where you can earn from $5000-$1 million a year.

How Much Money You Earn Depends On Few Factors Such As:

which niche you are writing about?
Are you dedicating learning and implementing?
How much traffic do you generate from your blog?
Which technique do you implement for your blogging?

There are also many other factors like consistency, motivation, your network and goals.

However, if you know your niche (very well) and digital marketing (skill) with only these you can really grow in this field.

You can browse other posts of Shivani Digital to learn more about digital marketing, mindset and motivation (No Motivation in this guide — lol!).

What Are The Ways To Make Money From Blogging?

There are many different ways to make money

You can monetize your blog to make money but that also depends on the level of your blogging and which kind of blogging you do.

Ad Network (Adsense, Media.net, Infolinks)
Affiliate Marketing
Sell Digital Products (eBooks)
Paid Review
Online Consulting
Online Course
Native Advertising
Direct Advertising
Collaboration with brands
Provide service according to your skills

Do some more than traditional advertising, apply other monetization tricks. Just adding ads is not enough (Get the value of your time).

Ad Networks

Most recommended and simplest method for monetizing a blog.

The most popular Ad networks are:

Google Adsense (by Google)
Media.net

You have to get approval for your blog from these ad networks. They’ll automatically show ads related to your content (Google Adsense, Media.net) and also what your visitors are interested in. Mainly the new blogger uses this method to get recurring income by monetizing their blog. Well, don’t worry the shown ads will not affect your user experience because of high-quality ads.

You — one problem, I don’t get more page views then?

Hmm. There are also other ad networks (list mentioned below) that you can use if your blog is having fewer views than 250 views/day.
Remember, you don’t end here. Your first priority must be getting Adsense or Media.net because it has more benefits than these ad networks.

Popads

Propellerads

Revenue Hits

Contextual advertisements are not enough then along with that you can do display advertising or affiliate advertising.

Affiliate Marketing

One of the best ways to make money is affiliate advertisements. Even from the alone sale, you’ll make more money than clicking a single contextual ad.

Profitable and most used method by bloggers.

Affiliate Marketing is a single and depth topic so, we’ll cover this topic separately.

What is Affiliate Marketing?
How to Start?
How to select the right affiliate program?

Below are some of the popular affiliate marketing programs that you could join:

The best thing about Affiliate marketing is you can use it on any blogging platform whether it is free or paid such as Squarespace, Wix, Mix, Medium, or even Instagram.

You don’t need to do much more in this, just share your specific affiliate link of the product which you recommend, and if any buddy purchases it through your link, you’ll receive a huge commission from the selling amount.

Bloggers earn millions of dollars every year from this method.

Sell Digital Products

If may notice, that now these days many bloggers are selling their eBooks as digital products.

This is easy, you just have to do is pick a topic (which you know well), write an eBook on that topic and it’s ready to put on sale on your blog or any other platform (Amazon, Flipkart, etc.) Once you carry on this process, you’ll earn a decent amount along with learning.

Selling eBooks on the blog is like a cherry on a cake because it will generate your passive income (I Know this is a quite good way).

Or to make it more simple for you, You can even compile your post or article into the structure of the book and that’s it. Sell it where you want.

Sooner, Shivani Digital is going to launch their eBook (Are you excited?)

For book cover design you can use freelancing websites like Fiverr, Upwork or also contact Shivani Enterprises (+91 9213123897).

as well as you can also sell your physical product on your blog by using WooCommerce.

Paid Reviews

Wanna Boost your monthly income? Great!! use paid review. This is a quick method from which you can earn more than $10 by just posting a small review blog/post.

While doing paid reviews, you much keep some points in mind such as:

Paid Reviews can be Good, Bad, or Ugly.
Doing a Paid Review or a Free Review?

You — From where do I get paid review opportunities?

Some websites to find paid reviews opportunities

Online Consultation

If you are an expert in something, you can consult the one who needs it.

Online we generally get the answer to all the questions but the expert can actually describe more and for that, you don’t need to go anywhere the consult is just right away.

Online Course

Do you produce videos? or Can you convert your text/post into a video format?
Can you create a course video for about 2–3 hours?

If you can do all these then, you must use this method. Now, these days people mostly refer to videos or audio rather than reading a context so, launching online courses is great, and also if you produce a unique course, your chances to earn money around $1 million is not far.

Many companies sell their online course where you can learn WordPress, Affiliate Marketing, Web Designing and Adsense by videos.

Some Platforms which you can use to give online courses are:

Native Advertising

Forefronts of making money from blogging are none other than Native Advertising. Mostly in case news and job blogs easily you can make money from Native advertising.

Here are few native advertising platforms which will save your time and effort.

Direct Advertisements

If we talk about advertisement programs, No doubt! Adsense comes first for bloggers, but still AdSense has some limitations. Limitations like the amount you get when someone clicks (PPC- Pay Per Click).

Try to grab direct advertisements, replace them with those AdSense units to get more benefit.

You — How can I get direct advertisement

The solution is right here, You can add a new page or try different networks to get started. On many different blogger’s pages might you saw the page “Advertise with us” or “Media-kit”, these pages normally grab Direct Advertisements.

If you are a WordPress user, use the plugin WPAdvancedAds to manage your ads.

Collaboration With Brands

Any type of blog, use this method to establish an audiences base. Run campaign for brands to reach their target audience.

Brand Collaboration, Paid Ads, Webinars, Meet up or Make Videos.

Many bloggers doing it with various brands. This is the hottest way to monetize your blog.

Services

You may have some skills (anyone), you can create an offer by using skills. Totally depend on you — what you can do better, you can offer graphic designing, video editing, SEO, Social Media Marketing and so on.

Even I offer WordPress, SEO, Thumbnail design services. Offering services not only help you to earn money but also increase the ability to do work on skills.

Self-services launching is quite easy. All you have to do is create a page on your blog, list the services you provide.

To make it easier for your audience, Deal with your first 3–4 clients give them your service. You’ll get an idea of how you can improve your sales process. Later you can automate like payment and follow-up.

There are also other ways to make money from blogging, but I think which we discuss above that are most used and suggested by other bloggers.

I promise, all the above ways are great and you should select which way suits better your niche.

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