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If you’re looking to make money from your blog, there are many ways of doing this, but the first step in the process is taking the time to provide massive value to a specific audience base.
See, there’s no way you can make money from your blog until you have a decent amount of traffic, and whilst there are various hacks to getting people to visit your site the truth is the most potent and sustainable method is to create so much value in the content you produce that people naturally want to keep coming back for more.
There are other issues you’ll want to consider before looking at the ways to make money from your blog too, such as the speed of your website which can be greatly improved by using a content delivery system, similarly you’ll want to make sure your website isn’t always crashing or going offline. In this case, you might want to invest in reliable network monitoring solutions to ensure that your website is running and accessible without any network issues.
Once the basics are in place then you can start looking at some of the more fun stuff, that involves making money from your blog. In this article, we’re going to take a look at some of the best options for most bloggers.
1. AFFILIATE MARKETING
This is essentially where you recommend a product, for instance, someone else’s online course that is relevant to your audience. If someone clicks on the link on your site and goes on to purchase the course, then you are paid an affiliate commission – sometimes as high as 50% of the product price.
This is where promoting other people’s digital courses can be really handy, as you don’t need to go to the effort of creating a course yourself; you can simply recommend other people’s courses, and get paid up to 50% for simply placing a link. When you consider that some online courses sell for upwards of $1,000 – this can be a very lucrative way to generate money without much effort on your part.
2. CREATE A COURSE YOURSELF
If you’re in a position to create a course yourself then this can be very lucrative. It’s likely that you already have unique knowledge and insight that comes from experience which can be packed up in an online course and sold to your readers. The more niche the course is, the more likely it is people will pay a decent amount of money for it – as broader courses tend to be seen as less valuable due to the relevancy they have to people’s lives.
If you focus on a specific problem and package up a solution – then you can sell this to your audience for a decent amount of money. All it takes is a weekend, or maybe a week, to create a course, but once it’s done you can leverage it time and time again… making money in a passive way, known as passive income.
By investing your time to create an online course, you could easily be rewarded with making an additional income of £1,000 per month; each and every month.
3. ADVERTISE
There’s always the option to place ads on your site, though many people don’t like blogs that are littered with third party advertising plus the amount of return you get (unless you have a very high traffic website) can be minimal.