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How Can I Make Money on My Blog? Apply These Techniques Pros Use!

September 23, 2015 By: Lesley12 Comments

How Can I Make Money on My Blog?

Are you asking yourself how can I make money on my blog?  There are a number of ways you can go but the most profitable in my personal experience is affiliate marketing and ad revenue.  Both are streams of residual income that grow over time.  The money you can earn with affiliate marketing and ad revenue can more than pay your mortgage each month if you are willing to learn how its done and put in the time to actually do it.

how can i make money on my blog

Blogs Make Money with Affiliate Marketing!

With affiliate marketing you place links in your blog posts to online retailers and merchants that  give you a commission for the sales that take place as a result of your referral.

If you are reviewing a product, wouldn’t it be great to slip a link to the product in the review, sell it and make money? Of course it would.

Perhaps you are writing a recipe and you want to link to a fancy kitchen gadget that makes the recipe perfect?  You can make money that way.

There are countless ways that bloggers make money with affiliate marketing!  Reviews, recipes, crafts, special diets, and personal experiences can all be turned into cold, hard cash!  

Affiliate marketing is a way of advertising products on your blog and making money.  I make a full-time living off affiliate marketing income and it’s something that I have built over time with my blog.  I took my personal experience and products and turned them into a blog that makes money.

To build an effective stream of affiliate marketing income with your blog you need targeted traffic and you need good original content written in such a way that makes a reader click and buy.

Affiliate marketing works if you know how to work it.  There are really good affiliate marketing classes for bloggers that can take you step by step through making money online with your blog.  I highly suggest you invest in one.  What business grows without some investment?  You can’t expect to make money with your blog if you aren’t willing to invest in it.

Blogs Make Money with Ad Revenue

Ad revenue is another way to generate income with your blog.  You can place advertisements on your blog and make money that way too.  When a reader clicks on an ad on your blog, you will receive money for it.

There are lots of different ad revenue programs that you can have on your blog, some companies may even approach you for an ad space and pay per month once you start to gain some decent targeted traffic.

Ad revenue is a nice way to get some extra money with your blog or it could be the entire focus depending on your niche.  There are a lot of people who make good money with just ads alone.  Recipe bloggers, craft bloggers, and diet bloggers do very well with ad revenue just to name a few.

Affiliate Links & Ads Will Do You NO Good Without…

How Can I Make Money Blogging

Keywords

Keywords are the words that people are searching to find your blog.  You need to be using a good keyword tool to help you dig out the best words to use in your blog posts.  A good keyword tool will give you this information.

Do not attempt to write blog posts without keywords because you are taking a stab in the dark at getting targeted traffic to your blog.  Targeted traffic converts sales!

SEO

It’s important that you get your search engine optimization in place.  SEO is not some mystery of the blogging universe, or at least it doesn’t have to be.  Good SEO is simply placing your keywords in the most effective places for search engines to pick up.

Targeted Traffic

Traffic is the life blood of a blog that makes money, without it, you can’t make sales or generate ad revenue. Why does targeted traffic matter?  Because targeted traffic brings sales.  When people find exactly what it is they are searching for – they click and buy.

Content is Still King

Blogging is not all keywords and SEO – content still reigns king and knowing how to write a blog post with good content that converts sales takes some practice.  Good content is what will convert sales on your blog.  The keywords and the SEO will get the targeted traffic there BUT your content will be what determines if you make the sale.

I’ve been making money online with my blog with affiliate marketing and ad revenue for years and I can tell you it didn’t happen overnight.  With the right training and support, you can fast track your learning curve.

Learning to blog for money has been one of the single most rewarding experiences of my life. That is not hype, I’m blessed and grateful everyday for my blogs that make money. Because of them, I can stay home with my children and provide a life for my family.  Some people get so wrapped up earning a living they forget to make a life, blogging for money allows you to have the best of it all without having to leave what matters to you most.

About Lesley

My name is Lesley and I'm a mommy blogger and affiliate marketer all rolled into one.  I started out with Robin Cockrell's original program in 2013 and I've been plugging away ever since.  

Comments

  1. ologsinquito says

    September 23, 2015 at 10:35 pm

    Lesley will teach you so much. I’m in her mastermind group, and the help is ongoing. If you haven’t received any formal training before, this is the group to join.

    Reply
  2. ologsinquito says

    September 23, 2015 at 10:37 pm

    I also need to mention this is a two-person operation. Robin is the other partner, and she WILL tell you everything you know to help visitors find your site.

    Reply
  3. Olivia Morris says

    September 24, 2015 at 12:10 am

    All great learning tools….

    Reply
  4. Robin Rue (@massholemommy) says

    September 24, 2015 at 10:10 am

    I keep meaning to sign up for some affiliates. Thanks for the reminder 🙂

    Reply
  5. Debbie Denny says

    September 24, 2015 at 7:33 pm

    I know a lot of people do Affiliate. I tend to lean towards a well written post and ad link.

    Reply
    • Lesley Stevens says

      September 24, 2015 at 7:35 pm

      Affiliate marketers have well written posts that use a different sort of ad link.

      Reply
  6. Liz Mays says

    September 24, 2015 at 8:10 pm

    This is really helpful. I’m still learning about SEO but I’m much better than I was a few years ago.

    Reply
  7. Annemarie LeBlanc says

    September 24, 2015 at 11:51 pm

    These are very helpful tips for bloggers who are starting out in the industry. Another reminder is to have that mindset that blogging is not a get rich quick scheme. It takes time to build an engaged audience.

    Reply
  8. Caroline says

    September 25, 2015 at 12:05 am

    Those are really great tips! Have to find the time, and apply so of them to my blog.

    Reply
  9. Toughcookiemommy says

    September 25, 2015 at 1:07 am

    This is some great information for new bloggers. It can help them to monetize their blogs.

    Reply
  10. Dogvills says

    September 25, 2015 at 3:29 pm

    This is a great resource for bloggers who are looking to earn from their blogs. I never earned from affiliates, but I guess my targeted traffic has something to do with it.

    Reply
    • Robin Cockrell says

      September 28, 2015 at 1:24 pm

      Gosh I can’t imagine not earning money.

      Reply

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