(include the following heading after ‘How Much Money Can You Make From Blogging?’ and before ‘11 Best Ways to Make Money From Blogging’)
Short answer – yes, you can!
Long answer – it’s still a yes, however, there’s a lot of work to be done.
Based on this report, bloggers can make $1,000,000+ over the course of 10 years.
Of course, the report also indicates that you’ve got to consistently and strategically publish high quality content regularly.
Just having a blog for a 10-year period wouldn’t give you that kind of return.
The bottom line is you’ve got to create content that’s valuable and helps your audience.
For instance, let’s say you are in the website development niche.
You teach people how to build a website using WordPress.
And you’ve published a resourceful article that teaches people step-by-step how to go about building a website.
To build a website, you’ll need a domain and hosting to start.
Let’s say you are an affiliate of Bluehost.
Hence, you recommend Bluehost to your audience via your blog post.
What happens when your audience clicks on the link and makes a purchase?
You earn a commission.
What if your article ranks number one on Google for the search term ‘build a website’?
According to Ubersuggest, this particular term is searched 12,100 times monthly.
Did you know that the number one result on the Google SERP gets over 27% of the clicks?
Which, in our case, is about 3267 (27% of 12,100).
That’s the number of targeted visitors you can expect if your article ranks at the top of the search results.
If these visitors click on your affiliate link and make a purchase, you stand to earn big commissions.
Affiliate marketing is just one of the methods to make money blogging. We’ve listed several other ways you can monetize your blog.
What we are trying to say here is that you can really make money blogging.
It’s a combination of how well you plan out your content and optimize it for the search engines, among other things, which will help you succeed.
At the end of the day, treat blogging as a business and you could make some serious money!
Make money with sponsored posts on your website
(we already have this mentioned as Sponsored reviews. Updated a para to include posts. Also heading can be changed from Sponsored reviews to Make Money With Sponsored Posts on Your Website)
One such way is sponsorships. Meaning, a company pays you to write a review of one of their products or pays to feature a post on your blog. Either way, you get paid for it.
Other Ways to Earn From a Blog
Create a Directory Website
You could also turn your blog into a directory website. You know, like a job, auto, real estate, or a classified listing website.
In addition to using one of the methods mentioned above to monetize your blog, such as Adsense or affiliate marketing, you could also charge for the listings.
Be it a simple listing or a premium one, you could incorporate various listing packages to make money from your blog.
3 Best Performing Formats for Successful Bloggers
Content
One of the biggest sources of income for bloggers comes through display advertising. Any average blog usually makes between $0.01 to $0.25 per page view through display ads.
Now, this might seem small, but imagine a blog getting 10,000 page views on that particular page. You can earn about $100 just from one blog post. With 100 such blog posts, you could hit the $10,000 mark quickly.
The other income stream is affiliate marketing. When you get more traffic, you also get more buyers for the product that you promote. This significantly increases your earning potential per page.
When creating content, don’t limit yourself to just textual format. Create different kinds of content, such as videos and images as well.
Videos
Whether you are creating long format videos for YouTube, reels on Instagram, or even YouTube shorts, video content is a great way to engage your audience.
Not to mention, by including your blog URL in the description or ‘link in bio’, you can drive traffic back to your blog.
Images
Have you searched for an image in Google?
For instance, if you search for ‘make money blogging’, you’ll find several results under Images.
Most images lead to your blog post. By optimizing the images, you get traffic from your images as well.
Additionally, you can create infographics and other creative image content that can be shared on platforms such as Pinterest and Instagram to generate additional blog traffic.
All these additional streams of traffic help bring in visitors to your blog and, hopefully, more revenue too!
FAQ (to be added)
Is blogging a good way to make money?
Yes, blogging is a great way to make money if you are willing to put in the work and treat it as a serious business. A lot of upfront work is required to get your blog up and running.
You’ll need to install WordPress and actually create your blog, and publish SEO-optimized content consistently. You need to put in the work to start getting any returns from your blog.
That said, once you’ve created a blog and have a clear content marketing strategy, blogging passively gives you the additional income you need!
