The monetization of his blog is the goal of all bloggers who aspire to become free with their content.
In this hub, I'll show you the 9 monetization methods I really recommend you because they work. This is not a bullshit list with the sole aim of listing everything that exists, I do not see any interest.
I hope that you can focus on schemes that have proved their worth.
For each of these monetizations, an article will be dedicated to them (they will be published as they progress) to deepen and give you all the tools to put them in place.
I therefore invite you to access those that you consider most appropriate in your case and to APPLICANT maximum advice provided inside.
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When is it relevant to monetize his blog?
Let's be honest, we're all used to having the madness of grandeur as soon as we start a new project.
This character trait has nothing bad, it even has many qualities! But to make money online, you have to know how to be smart, in order to achieve its goal in the best possible ways.
The most common mistake is to want to make money with a blog and not that our blog brings us money.
You're gonna tell me I'm playing with words. And yet, there is a big difference between the two!
In the first option, monetizing your blog is a priority over the content of the blog.
In the second, it is the content that is prioritized so that it can make us money.
Technically, you can easily monetize your website from the beginning. But I prefer to warn you, without good foundations, that the results of monetization will be slim, if not non-existent.
Here are the two pillars needed to monetize his blog:
- Have stable traffic : no need of tens of thousands of readers on your blog, but just from regular traffic.
- Be constant: We cannot succeed on the web without consistency. You need to provide content and articles continuously to develop your business.
Therefore: Focus on the content of your blog above all!
Take your time, a few months if necessary. The monetization of a blog is not a background race.
If your blog has qualitative content, the ideas that will follow have a success rate of 100%.
You'll give us news!
So, what are the best ways to monetize his blog?
Monetize your blog with the sale of infoproducts
Warrior bloggers will tell you: if you are looking for how to monetize your blog, the sale of infoproducts is a safe value.
As its name suggests, this monetization is based on the creation and marketing of a Digital product on your blog.
This means is one of the most popular. Once the product has been completed and is available online, only the fruits of it have to be reaped, i.e. income!
Here is a selection of the best digital products that are likely to earn the most money:
Sale of eBook or PDF
The digital book market is a real Eldorado for bloggers.
Digital books are the perfect products, as they are relatively easy to achieve and their price is generally low enough to allow your audience to acquire it, and fairly high so you can make good income over sales.
These e-books can be PDFs that contain a training, or an ebook that answers a query, no matter!
The important is whether it is relevant, relative about your blog and enough marketing to attract potential customers present among your traffic.
Sale of Video Training
Even if for a blogger, getting in front of a camera is not natural, the sale of video training continues to explode.
As the web becomes the working tool par excellence, everyone turns to online training.
The key to success : a good training module for your field of expertise, coupled with educational content !
Sale of .PSD, photos, presets
We often talk about articles, but we forget about the illustrations of each web content.
Thus, for artists bloggers, you can easily turn to selling .PSD, template, graphs or presets to create passive revenue on your blog.
This is an ideal method for blogs maintained by graphic designers or photographers.
Monetize your blog with affiliation
Affiliate marketing is one of the most common techniques to generate revenue on the web and especially on blogs.
No less than 18% of the digital revenue from the web comes from this sector!
The principle is simple: you put a link in your blog (in articles, ideally) that promotes products of brands or companies, and every purchase from one of your links, you win a commission on sale.
That's right, affiliate marketing.
Here's how to create an affiliation monetization on your blog:
1. Choose a product suitable for its niche.
2. Choose A good product.
Keep one thing in mind: if your audience is satisfied with the products purchased through the affiliate link on your blog, be sure that she will buy other products again, and that she will click on your links again!
Monetize your blog with advertising (Adsense, Ezoic,...)
Advertising is one of the best-known ways in marketing to generate revenue.
The blog does not escape the rule!
Advertising on a blog is based on advertisers or Enterprise Development who want to increase their visibility thanks to your online platform.
The approach is as follows: An advertisement appears on an insert in your blog and you are paid:
- Either by the number of clicks on this ad from your blog (and therefore from your audience)
- Either by number of traffic monthly / annual blog.
Don't worry, no need to run for a business or think about the best place (in an article or on a page) to display the advertisement.
Because yes, several tools are there to monetize automatically Your blog.
Tool Ezoic, for example, offers you to monetize a website through various targeted ads for the niche of each blog.
Google's advertising mastodon, Adsense, is also present to make it easier for you to monetize your blog, offering a complete and fully customizable advertising program.
Monetize your blog with sponsored articles
The sale of sponsored articles is quite unknown in the community of bloggers who are not very familiar with SEO.
Yet, this is one of the simplest ways to monetize blogs.
What exactly is this?
One of Google's most important SEOs is getting external links to your site. The more he gets, the more authority he gets in Google's eyes. The better your positions on the search engine (provided you have relevant content).
The idea is to sell these links from your site.
How?
Either writing an article brand new including a link to the advertiser website, either by integrating the link from an existing article.
The advantage with this monetization technique is that it is not mandatory to have traffic. If your site has keywords positioned and already has dozens of backlinks, you will already be able to sell sponsored items.
Monetize your blog with the service sale
The sale of services is consistent with the monetization of digital products.
The sale of services is even one of the most popular non-liable revenues on the web!
Whether it is consultations, writing services, courses, live training, you certainly have the opportunity to sell a service in your area.
Yeah. take advantage of your blog to sell your services!
All it takes is a little bit of your time.
The bright side of this technique is that by offering services, it is easy to note which are most demanded and which bring you the most money, traffic and hearing.
As a blogger, simply explore all your options.
Monetize your blog with a coaching offer
Google's published figures are clear: Internet searches are the most frequent questions.
This means that a large part of the web traffic is in search of information, and more precisely help.
So it was quite natural that coaching made a big place in the online sales business.
The goal, in short, is to help people with your skills while earning money.
Why don't you propose a coaching on your cooking blog to learn the steps of making a good Tatin pie?
Why not a coaching on your personal blog to learn the basics of SEO?
The options are endless and the customers are numerous!
Little trick The effectiveness of a coaching offer is multiplied after setting up a sales book or training.
There's a good chance your audience wants something. more personalized digital books. It is therefore more advantageous to offer coaching after putting online digital products on sale.
Monetize your blog with paid subscription
A new wind is blowing in the world of blogs: It is based on a gold marketing technique that we all know: a subscription offer.
You probably wonder what form a paid subscription takes on a blog. The answer is simple:
It's creating a VIP space reserved for members of your community / traffic who have chosen to subscribe monthly or yearly to your blog, in order to have access to exclusive content.
In this VIP space, you can share:
- Exclusive articles
- Advice
- Unpublished methods
- Webinars / conferences
- Discussions or meetings
Readers are all looking for a shared community the same interests. A subscription membership system on your blog is a good tool to give a sense of belonging.
A paywall is the trick is played
To set up a membership service on a website for the purpose of monetisation is called a « paywall. »
A paywall is a restriction on a blog or site to hide part of the content until a payment or subscription has been noted.
In addition, there is no need to have a lot of traffic to put this system in place.
Several digital tools exist to set up a paywall on your blog.
WordPress even has a plug-in, MemberPress, for creating a VIP space in just a few clicks, for easy and fast monetization.
Selling physical products
We can't talk about blogging monetization without talking about selling physical products.
This is not well known, but a staggering number of bloggers start selling articles and end up opening up a e-commerce website!
As mentioned above, you can monetize digital products, but selling physical products is an excellent source of revenue.
The delivery of products has never been as simple and fast as these days, it would be a shame not to take advantage of it to earn a little money, don't you think?
Take time to think about which products related to the topic of your blog You can put on sale on your website.
The perfect product must be a mixture of three things: your expertise, the request market (your traffic) and a touch of marketing.
Accept donations to help you maintain the site and continue to produce
This is an idea of monetization that has an efficiency on a case-by-case basis, but overall, all bloggers can accept donations in order to have a certain amount of money to continue producing articles, and a varied content on their blog.
The acceptance of donation is particularly effective for bloggers or freelancers starting, like amateur journalists, writers or graphic designers.
Besides, one of the best models of monetization to monetize his blog with a paywall is donations!
All your articles and content are free of charge, but you offer your audience and readers financial help if they wish, and thus contribute to the prosperity of the blog.
Conclusion
I gave you nine ways to pay for your blog. These are the most effective. I myself tested most of the ones mentioned (except the gift, but that will not be long). For others, I have contacts that have proven their efficiency.
All you have to do is define the best strategy for your audience and make every effort to reach your destination: Freedom.
