How to Make Money Blogging

January 6, 2011 • tony

Is it possible to make money blogging? Some people might be doing for fun as a side income. But there are a few people who are serious in blogging and make a full time living through their blogs. A good example will be Darren Rowse who makes a 6 figure income through blogging. Another success blogger will be Brian Clerk who blogs on copywriting. There are many more successful examples. So how do you actually make money out from blogs? Below are 4 common monetizing methods that bloggers use.

Make Money Through Google Adsense

Google Adsense is the easiest way to make money with any blog. It is an online advertising application by Google. What you need to do is sign up an account and put in a piece of code on your website and it will automatically show relevant ads on your blog. When a reader clicks on the ad, you will receive a commission. The average commission is around $0.30 depending on the ad. Once you get more than 100 clicks a day, you can easily make an extra few hundreds from your blog every month. With substantial volume of traffic, you are able to earn more than a thousand each month!

Advertising Sponsorship

Putting up banners is the most tradition way of advertising. If you have traffic on you blog, you can find advertisers to sponsor your blog. It can be header ad or sidebar banners. Selling banner space can be a stable income for your blog every month. So for example if you blog about baby early learning, you can find advertisers in your baby early learning niche to advertise some products.
Another method is to approach advertisers to offer them a sponsored review of their products. You can charge $50 or more for a quick review. At times you might also get free products from the sponsor to try and keep it! I know of some bloggers who get sponsored trips to travel and blog about it. Really interesting job!

Selling Affiliate Products

Another strategy bloggers use to earn money from blogs is to sell affiliate products. You might have a blog on dog training and you can find relevant products like dog training ebook to sell on your blog. You just need to insert an affiliate link from your site. Once the reader clicks the link and makes a purchase of the ebook, you will get a commission on it. Comission usually range from 30% to 50% or more which is actually quite a good income. Many bloggers have gone in affiliate marketing and make thousands every month. To find affiliate products to sell, you can check out Clickbank.

Membership

Making a membership site is a very profitable business model. There are bloggers offering premium content and selling for more than $50 a month. You do the maths and you will realize how much you can earn with just a mere 100 members a month. To create a successful membership site, you will need to be an expert in a field or an authority blogger whom people trust. A typical scenario will be a guitarist shooting his own video tutorials and upload on his site and charging readers to sign up as a member to learn some cool flicks. The recurring membership fees make this a very lucrative income for bloggers.

I hope the following examples will give you an idea how to make money blogging.