7 Best ways to Make Money from a Blog- learn monetizing

1. Placing CPM/CPC ads

According to me half of the blogs are earning a huge amount with the help of Advertising. Placing ads on your blog helps you in generating more and more income and making your blog an ATM. When it comes to CPC advertising, the name that strikes your mind is Adsense. Hey, I know mind reading ( did I guess it right, just kidding ). Because Adsense is the best CPC advertising and it is powered by the Google. So it will make sure that you will make some decent money from the ads. Every blogger is not lucky as they won’t get an Adsense approval. So you must try out some best Adsense alternatives like Adsoptimal, Chitika, Revenuehits etc. Anyway using CPM/CPC networks is one of the best ways to make money from a blog

How to earn more with CPM/CPC ads

1. Select the good network like Adsense

2. Disable unrelated categories ( if you are using Adsense )

3. Select the good ad formats if you are placing ads in sidebar, select the image ads  and if you are placing ads in middle of the content, use Text ads which will bring you more clicks

These are some tips to increase your earnings with advertising

2. Sell Ad space directly

Generally, people won’t like a boss or a middle man who pays them for work. The middle men are advertising networks like Adsense. So what people love ?. They love to become their own boss. This applies to direct advertising. Direct advertising is the best way to sell ad space with your own prices. In direct advertising, you have the option to talk with the advertiser, set your own prices. And you have an option to approve or reject ads. With Adsense, you can only disable categories, even though you disable some categories, it would display some unrelated ads on your blog. But in direct advertising, you can only approve the ad, which matches your blog niche. For example, an advertiser wants to promote his weight loss product and he/she asks you to promote his product on your blog. But if you have a technology blog, I know that you don’t approve them. But with Adsense, you cannot stop them. At the same time, If you have a good blog with good Alexa rank, you can even demand up to $1500 per month. Anyway, direct advertising solves the question what are the best ways to make money from a blog for big blogs.

Note: I don’t recommend direct advertising for a small blog. Only select this method if you have a good blog with Alexa of less than 1,00,000.

Steps to earn more with direct advertising :

1. Use direct ad networks like Buysellads.

2. Every forum has a buy/sell trade section. Use it and post your ad space in it.

3. Place banners like “Place your ad here on your blog”.

4. You advertise with us page must be unique with all traffic, Alexa, PR and traffic sources information

3. Affiliate Marketing

Here is an Indian pro blogger who earns nearly $20,000 with the help of promoting products in his blog, also called as Affiliate Marketing. He is none other than Harsh Agarwal, Once watch his income report and you will see that he is earning 90% of income with affiliate marketing. That’s why I recommend you to start using affiliate marketing. A question like which is one of the best ways to make money from a blog which is perfect niche targeted will be solved by affiliate marketing. Affiliate Marketing is nothing other than promoting products on your blog. It is a referral program, in the referral program, if someone signs up through your referral id, you will get some commission. In an affiliate program, if someone buys a product through your referral id, you will get paid.

For example, if your blog is about domains. You can signup to an affiliate program related to domains like Bigrock. Then start promoting big rock in your blog. If someone buys a product from big rock through your affiliate id, it will give you some commission.

Here are some tips to earn more with affiliate marketing :

1. Select the right product

2. Start writing reviews about the product you are promoting and it will bring you some more sales.

3. Signup with CJ affiliate and start promoting products without signing up for all programs. Because it is a pool of affiliate programs.

4. Sponsered Reviews

The name suggests that it is a method which involves of reviews. This is one of the best ways to advertise.

If you are an advertiser

If you are an advertiser who is the founder of an ad network and you wanna promote your ad network across the blog. Then you select a blog and contact the blogger to write a review on your blog. He/she asks you for a trail and then they analyze your product and decide a conclusion and write about your product and its pros and cons on his/her blog. And it will result in a good exposure of your ad network

If you are a publisher/blogger

You can make a very huge amount by writing sponsored posts in your blog. If your blog is so popular with so many readers, you can demand up to $500 easily and they are willing to pay you.

Which is one of the best ways to make money from a blog without advertising ?. The first answer would be sponsored reviews.

Tips to earn more with sponsored reviews

1. Only select this method, if your blog is so popular

2. Only write reviews on related products

3. Write your review honestly.

These are the simple but effective tips on sponsored reviews.

5. Selling e-books

Here is the best example of selling e-books. The best pro blogger of India Harsh Agarwal sells ebooks in his blog shout aloud and earns a good amount of money with it.

Which is one of the easiest and best ways to make money from a blog? The answer is Ebooks.

All you need to do is selecting a good topic like Adsense mastery guide etc. You must research and even start experimenting on your topic and then based on your experience on that topic. Write an 

PDF e-book which must be in-depth, includes photos etc and then you can publish it in your blog book store and start selling it and if your blog has a good amount of subscribers, it would be very much easy to make your first book sale.

6. Offering Services

We all see some bloggers in the blog-o-sphere will create a page called Hire me. Because offering services are one of the best ways to make money from a blog.

For hire :

If you are a newbie and don’t know how to optimize your blog for search engines. Then you need to hire an SEO expert.

For Blogger :

When someone hires you, the rates are depended on you. You can select a rate of $100 to $1000 for some purposes. Some popular bloggers offering services like search engine optimization of blogs and making a decent amount from it.

Tips to earn more with Services

1. Write a good Services page

2. Send the sample works of you to the person who hired you. It will bring some confidence.

3. Only offer services when you are an expert only.

7. Offer blogging courses online

Online teaching is still one of the best ways to make money from a blog. Harsh Agarwal an Indian blogger started a new online course under his brand called ShoutUniversity. And he teaches all blogging related courses online. This is only possible for big bloggers who have much exposure. So if you are one of them, start your blogging University now