The Only Way To Earn Money Through Your Blog!!!!

Bloggers have only three reasons to blog: make money from your blog; communicate for passion, or both. A few things are a must for bloggers to do even before flirting with the idea of monetization: invest in a hosting account, setup the blog properly, and start generating quality, niche-dominating content.

If you want to start earning income from your blog, you’ve come to the right place. We asked site owners around the country to share their best monetizing techniques, and they delivered with some great tips. From affiliate marketing to selling e-books, mastering search engine optimization and so much more, you’ll find a ton of ways to make money from your own site.
 
Take a look at the advice that follows, and choose the techniques that will work best for you. Financial success is on the way!

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Be a merchant

The best step forward – in the sense of true entrepreneurship with focus on producing for profit – is to sell your own products and services. Granted that it’s one the most difficult ways to monetize your blog and it’s also one of the most demanding ways to make money really. Yet, it’s also one of the most profitable ways to monetize your efforts from your blog.
Your blog works as the “trust engine” and helps you generate a massive following of earnest, enthusiastic, interested, and passionate readers. While those efforts will be on, your products and services will be the ultimate moneymaker for all your efforts. Think of this “blogging to sell”, “Inbound marketing”, “trust marketing” or whatever but this is how it works, and it does so effectively.
You could be small or big. You could spread yourself thin across a niche or get into “focus” mode and deliver on a tight niche. Create your own digital products or setup a string of services that you can deliver and you are in business.
Once you set up a product or service, you can also sign up with Clickbank.com and E-Junkie (if you have a digital product). If you have a physical product, you can sign up with the likes of Commission Junction, LinkShare, and ShareaSale.com to attract an army of affiliates from around the world who can boost your sales on a commission basis.
There’s more potential in being a merchant or a proper business that produces or delivers services rather than just being an affiliate.

Advertisement revenue

Once you get your blog to attract tons of traffic, reader engagement, and allow readers to see a perceived value in your offering, it’s easy enough to monetize.
A host of programs exist today to allow publishers to make money from the traffic visiting their websites. Google Adsense, Chitika, Bidvertiser, and Clicksor are all great ways to monetize your blog. Contrary to what you’d end up reading on a countless number of websites advocating the apparent “ease” with which you can make money, it’s not as easy as it’s made out to be.

• Getting all that traffic to your website takes a lifetime of work.

• Keeping visitors or readers engaged is asking for nine more lives.

• Making money off third-party advertising platforms such as those listed above (including AdSense) involves continuous work involving testing each page for proper ad placements, A/B split testing, and a relentless pursuit of optimizing your blog pages for maximum conversions or revenue (and this applies for every marketing channel or tactic).
  • Do Google AdSense ads perform better when you place them in your blog sidebar or after every post?

• Do they work better when they are colored and formatted matching the look of the rest of the blog or when they left as is?
• Do you stand to make the most of click conversions when ads show up repeatedly within your content or when they are left prominently as “sponsors” or “advertisements” somewhere away from the content?
• No two sites are alike and only A/B Testing can help you answer these questions, Adpushup lets you A/B Test your Ads to optimize ad revenues.
• Leave a few blocks of ad space open for advertising opportunities for merchants who’d specifically request you (or you’d hustle and request them) to advertise on your blog.

The key for effective monetization lies in a combination of traffic, trust, engagement, and effective use of space for advertisements (no matter which network you choose to use).

Affiliate marketing

“A great way to monetize your blog is by affiliate marketing, such as through amazon.com and coupons.com. There are many affiliate marketing programs out there; by finding one in your niche you can create a nice income while exposing your readers to new products and offers.”

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 Add an “instant” marketplace. 

Ubokia, a startup based in the Silicon Valley area, will allow you to add a miniature marketplace that focuses on products in your niche to your site—without the hassles of maintaining it and policing transactions yourself. For instance, if you write about music, you might add its instruments marketplace to your site. The marketplaces can be customized, so, if say, you’re a “mommy blogger” and want to offer a marketplace selling both baby products and kitchenware, you can do it. Ubokia pays bloggers who host its marketplaces a two percent commission on sales, depositing the payments in their PayPal accounts. “We’re compatible with every blogging platform out there,” says Matt Pine, vice president of marketing at Ubokia.