Most people have heard of the success of Perez Hilton’s blog and that he makes somewhere between $200,000 to $400,000 each month blogging about the latest celebrity gossip.
Success stories like Hilton’s might make the prospect of earning a
fortune blogging seem real, but the truth is that it is hard work and
not very many crack that six figure per month mark. Still, you can make a
decent living from blogging, if you know how to go about it.
Every now and then, I’m pulled aside at a family gathering or am
emailed by someone who wants to know if it’s possible to make money
blogging.
Some of the common questions include:
- How do you make money online?
- How does AdSense work?
- Should I attend this “make money online” course?
The answer is an absolute yes. You can make money blogging.
While not in the six figures, Matthew Woodward, for example, made approximately $20,000 in December of 2014. That’s a pretty nice paycheck for blogging.
Even a simple idea like Michael Malice’s Overheard in New York, where people submit posts of things they’ve heard somewhere in New York, earns about $9,000 a month from private advertising revenue, such as banner ads placed on the site.
Personally, I have been making money online since 2004. I quit my day
job as a rubber dam engineer in 2006, and never looked back.
So, again, the answer is: Yes, you can start a blog easily and make some money.
There are a lot of different online business opportunities, too.
The only question left is: Do you have the writing quality and blogging know-how to get it done? It’s not something easy, but I promise you it’s worth it.
5 ways of making money from your blog without having your own product
When you think of making money from a blog, you might think about
Google ads, but there are a few different ways you can make money from
your blog:
- AdSense – People make hundreds of thousands from Google AdSense ads. AdSense makes up about one-third of Google’s revenue. Pay is good, but you will need to play by Google’s rules. There are reports where Google AdSensers get bumped out of the program without warning.
- Affiliate marketing – This is simply a way to sell related items without the cost of developing a unique product. This is mainly how I make my living online, so this is a viable way to earn money from your blog.
- Banner ads – Another way to make money from your blog is to sell banner ads on third party sites such as BuySellAds.com. My experience is that this is fairly low pay, but better than nothing. All the different areas of your income can pool together to make a difference in your overall blog earnings.
- Selling ads directly on your blog – You can earn good money by selling banner ads directly on your blog. However, your blog must first have a good amount of traffic to attract the higher paying advertisers. At first, it might be better to focus on building that traffic and then you can more easily attract the big players.
- Product reviewer – This might not pay you monetarily, other than the amount you’re earning from blogging, but it can help you try out the newest products in your niche. Merchants send you their products for trial, and you write an honest review. WHSR blogger Gina Badalaty, for example, does this and wrote some great tips on how to become a product reviewer. The key to becoming a product reviewer is that you need to be an influencer in your niche. Personally I get free hosting accounts to test at WHSR so I can write a review on it.
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