Earning money from your blog isn’t a difficult issue. As I have been asked many times about this, I’m summarizing some points in this regard.
Ads
If you’re a premium user of WordPress.com, you can run their ads. Unless you have good traffic, this might not generate a lot of revenue. Please refer to my previous post “Do you display ads on your blog?”. Users of Blogger, WordPress.org and other platforms have more options of ads to run – such as Google ads or Amazon’s. Just be careful that a lot of ads might have negative impact.
You can also sell advertising spaces on your blog. For example, you can add an image in one of the widget areas letting people know that this space is available for ad slot. This image can be linked to your contact page – and those interested in purchasing this ad slot can settle things with you. They’ll need to provide you with the required banner image for ads, which you can place in the widget areas. I’m doing the same – check here for details.
Referrals
There are a lot of affiliate programs that pay good commission (cash or non-cash). For example, Amazon, WordPress, Dropbox, … You can easily display the referring links on your website or use them within your posts.
Re-blogging
You can also sell a reblog or a post about a product/service. However, this depends on the numbers of readers your blog has and their interests. Again, be careful, too much of reblogging might have negative affect on the reputation of your blog.
Other
Your blog is the best place to sell your own products or services. For example, writing, programming, translation, …
Don’t forget that with time and more traffic, your domain name could worth a fortune. I sold one of my websites once for a good amount of money due to the reputation of its name!
I’d like to make money on my blog. I figured you had to have a LOT of traffic to do so. Thanks for all the information. You always make things pretty easy to understand.
Sorry Joanna, I missed to reply to your comment earlier. I apologize and thank you very much. Glad this was helpful
Really helpful post. Really appreciate it!!
Thank you very much. Glad it was helpful…
I’m kind of new at blogging and even though I would like to monetize one day, right now my challenge is to get traffic at my https://mycoffeethought.com/ .
I also have two more blogs one for my online Spanish classes https://becomingbilingual.blog/ and one to promote a very unique handwriting book https://besteasyrecipes.blog/ I’m not sure if I should advertise my blogs among each other or just leave them alone. What do you think?
Mohamad – Thank you for sharing these pointers. Can you tell me how I go about displaying amazon referring links on my website? Or, WordPress?
Much appreciated, Marie
“There are a lot of affiliate programs that pay good commission (cash or non-cash). For example, Amazon, WordPress, Dropbox, … You can easily display the referring links on your website or use them within your posts.”
Hi, Marie. You need to apply for both taking into consideration that you already have accounts there. See links below.
WordPress: https://refer.wordpress.com/
Amazon: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/
When your application is approved, you’ll use the referral links in your posts or on your site. Please let me know if you need any further help
Love this. So want to monetize my blogs, but I’m hopeless at computer speak. So haven’t a clue how to do what you’ve so beautifully explained. eeek. This is great, thanks for sharing. Perhaps I can get hold of someone who ‘gets’ this to help me. Much appreciated. x
Thank you and you’re most welcome, Deborah. Glad you find it of a help for you. Please don’t hesitate contacting if I can be of any further assistance…
thankyou!
Great advice that hopefully I can put into practice. Thank you.
You’re most welcome and thank you, Miriam. Glad it was of a help.
Something I’ve always wanted to know. Thanks
Thank you, Alexander. Glad it was of a help…
Thanks for these clear-eyed, common sense facts.
You’re most welcome, Anne. Glad that those points were of a help 🙂