The easiest way to make money through a blog right now is basically just putting up ads using ad networks.
You’ll get a few cents per click so in order to scale your earnings, you either have to create a lot of other sites like that or increase your traffic a LOT.
Another way is to create a product or promote a product as an affiliate AKA affiliate marketing.
Here’s a sample site that survived using affiliate marketing. Competitors back then weren’t that good so it was easy for me to rank this old niche site. That’s one of them.
Note: Alternative Route
If you’d like to take a different route in making money with your blog, then you might like this part.
I’ve done this and can attest that it works.
The idea is simple.
I figured that I knew something that others didn’t, which is how to put up a website and get found online.
The challenge now is to look for a service or a product that I could build a site around and offer.
If you think about it, you can do it multiple ways.
- Create my own blog and write about the service on my blog. Put up my phone number so they can call me and I’ll then forward leads (commissions) Create a blog completely dedicated to the product/service where I’ll have regular content created. Get enough traffic and rent the site out. Create a blog, get paid to promote their content/products. Create a blog and sell products like an e-commerce site. Combinations of the 4 above: Slight variations in website design/structure, product styles and combining monetization strategies.
Now, it’s up to you to decide on what kind of route you want to take.
Example. I’ve rented out sites in the interior design market in the US. Since the site is ranking, the leads are valuable to them so they will be willing to rent the spot.
