How to Monetize A Blog

Si Thu Phyo
Newbiesbox
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3 min readSep 11, 2016

Nowadays, blogging is turning into a business tool and you can make money from your blog. If you are creative writer and can make inspiration content, blogging can be not only as a writing tool but also a business tool. There are various purposes for making blog such as fun, creative, business, informational, and etc. If you want to monetize your blog, your blog should have enough content that can attract to the visitors and audiences. In this article, I will only tell you how to monetize a blog. If you have a blog and want to grow your audiences, check the articles I wrote in this site : 5 ways to improve your website’s SEO and how to stand out your brand.

1.Display Ads

Most of bloggers monetize their blogs with display ads. But your blog should have massive traffic to monetize. Google adsense is very suitable for massive traffic sites and if your monthly traffic is over 100k, you can earn up to $500 to $1000. But Google adsense approval is not easy and your blog must be unique and not copy content. If you haven’t Google adsense, you can try another display ads for your website.

2. Affiliate marketing

You can earn money as a commission by selling someone’s brand or product. It is a very popular way to earn money from your blog, if you write the blogs for about these products and brands. When the visitors or audiences of your blog buy a product that you affiliated, you will get commission from the sellers.

3. Donation

This way is suitable if your posts are quite active and quality content. You can ask your readers for donation. If the reader is really impressed by your articles, your reader can give you a good donation. But I’m not recommend donation button integration in the blog if you can’t make quality content.

4. Private Ads

Similar to display ads units. According to your traffic and visitors location, you can integrate private ads in your blog. Businesses in your local country can advertise on your blog if your blog is really popular in your local country. Otherwise, you can also try buysellads for private ads.

5. Selling Digital Products

Some bloggers sell digital products on their blog. They write unique articles on their blog and have massive audiences. Normally, most of pro-bloggers sell ebook, tutorials and their services on the blog. It is a great way to monetize a blog. Selling digital products on the blog isn’t easy if you aren’t a professional or specialist. Later, I will write about digital products selling on the blog.

Conclusion

Although there are various ways to monetize a blog, in this article I write about the basic concept of monetizing a blog. Don’t focus on the money. Focus on your content quality and audience engagements. If you only focus on money, it is sure that you can’t make any profit. Be patient and professional. If you have a great network, you can do everything you want. Cheers… :D

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Si Thu Phyo
Newbiesbox

I’m a WordPress developer and trainer of Web Development Class at Myanmar Tech Wave. Founder of newbiesbox.com and love in writing and playing Kyokushin karate.