How to monetize your blog?

The question of “how to monetize My blog” is often the very first thing that new bloggers ask ... literally on day one of their blogging adventure. Welcome to "How to monetize your Hashnode blog" I am Achile Tanoh participating in web monetization program organized by AfricaHacks. I have to share an article every week. I am excited to be sharing with you this article and hope at the end you would be able to make money with your blog.

In fact, blog can be a passive source of incomes, and the time invested in it, respectively your investment that, later, can bring you a good income.

We will talks about 3 ways to monetize a blog

Sponsorship and Advertizing

Making money with sponsored post and reviews is one of the least common ways of monetizing a blog, probably because you’ll need to have a lot of traffic and credibility to pull it off.

With sponsored posts and reviews, a blogger will charge a company a fee to write about their product on the blog and give their opinion of it. The product gets exposed to the blogger’s audience and the brand gets more exposure and new customers.

About advertizing, you have to know that, to become a google Adsense member, your blog must meet some requirements. The minimum attendance according to the rule of analytics should be 500 individuals per day. In fact, the average rate of conversion for advertissements is 1% of total number of visiters per day. The cost of the single click can vary from $0.01 to $1.

Freelance

One of the easiest ways to make money from your blog is to become a freelance writer for more prominent blogs in your niche.

Freelance blogger Bamidele Onibalusi used his blog, Writers in Charge, to show his content marketing chops while also growing his audience. He now makes a full-time income blogging for other businesses.

also use freelance marketplaces like Upwork, SEOclerks and Fiverr. But while there are a few freelance writers that make a lot of money, like Danny Marguiles who made over $100k a year on Upwork, the majority of freelancer writers on these platforms make very little money.

affiliate marketing

is the process of promoting other people’s products in exchange for a commission whenever your recommendation leads directly to a sale. This is all made possible and tracked via affiliate links. Here’s what a link like that might look like:

SOMEPRODUCT.com/?affid=1234

Basically it’s a standard link, only with the affid=1234 part added at the end. Affiliate program exist in every field. Site that sell services are interested in attracting new customers and are willing to pay for it.

  > Summary

There are a lof of ways to monetize your blog. However the number of advertizing can discourage visitors and may cause sanction of search engine; more ads, no privacy, informations no protected. Blogging alone doesn’t generate revenue unless you can find a monetization strategy that works for your blog. I hope you now have the strategies and tools to start making money with your blog.

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