The best part is you can use multiple monetization ideas at the same time to create a truly diversified income stream from your blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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How to make money blogging in 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Before I jump into the ideas, let me just give you a quick rundown of how I’m going to be ordering them. I’ll start with the most popular monetization methods<\/strong> and slowly get more narrow as the list goes on. So if you’re already familiar with the basics of how to make money with a blog, you might be able to skip the first few suggestions. Otherwise, start at the beginning or just use the table of contents below to jump to whichever blog monetization method you’d like to learn more about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s start with one of the biggest money makers for bloggers…that regular people often aren’t familiar with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udcc8 Affiliate marketing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With affiliate marketing, you get paid for linking or otherwise recommending products or services if someone purchases a product as a result of clicking from your site<\/em>. When someone buys after visiting from your site, you’ll get either a percentage or flat-rate commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, you could write a product review blog post and get paid if someone buys as a result of your review. An example of this in action is our SiteGround review<\/a>. If someone signs up to SiteGround from our review, we earn a small commission. Or, you can always curate or mention multiple products at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The important thing here is that the customer still gets the same price, no matter if they buy something based on an affiliate’s recommendation or directly from the vendor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83e\udd29 So how can you find these affiliate opportunities?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n One way is to look in companies’ website footers for an Affiliates <\/strong>link. A good percentage of businesses have such links and you can find out about their affiliate program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another way is to sign up to an affiliate network (a collection of affiliate programs). Some good networks are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u26a0\ufe0f Lastly, if you’re into WordPress, there are two more options that we can recommend:<\/p>\n\n\n I’m giving Google AdSense its own category because it’s one of the most popular and easiest ways to start monetizing your blog. I’m guessing you’re familiar with what AdSense ads look like. If not, here’s a quick example:<\/p>\n\n\n To get such ads on your site, all you need to do is sign up for AdSense<\/a> and add the ad code to your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then, Google will serve up ads that are relevant to your content and your visitors. And you’ll get paid if someone clicks on your ad (known as cost per click) or even if someone just views your ad (known as cost per impression).<\/p>\n\n\n Did you know that there are tons of companies who will pay you money just for writing a post about them? Such posts are called sponsored posts. And if your blog gets decent traffic, plenty of companies will pay for the privilege of sponsoring a post. This might be one of your main strategies on your way to learning how to make money with a blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One way to find sponsors for your posts is to use a network like IZEA<\/a>. But honestly, the best way to attract such opportunities is to create a page on your own site advertising your traffic and rates for sponsored posts. That way, advertisers can find you<\/strong>. And trust me, sponsors are always looking for opportunities!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83e\udd89 Just be aware – it’s a good practice (and sometimes required by law) to clearly disclose when a post is sponsored<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n AdSense is technically a display network. But because it’s so popular, I gave it its own category. AdSense is not your only option here, though<\/strong>. There are tons of other networks where all you need to do is add a code to your site and start displaying ads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u270d We already wrote about some AdSense alternatives<\/a>, but some good options are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not sure what I mean by display advertising? Here’s a quick example of what a Criteo ad might look like:<\/p>\n\n\n AdSense and other display ad networks find ads for you so that you can find out how to make money with a blog without needing to lift a finger. But in return…they do take a cut of what advertisers pay you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So one way to potentially<\/em> make more money and have more control over the ads on your site is to cut out the middleman. That is, directly sell ads to advertisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like sponsored posts, the best way to attract these opportunities is to create an Advertise<\/strong> page on your site that lists details about your traffic (including Google Analytics screenshots<\/a>). But you can also try proactively reaching out to companies in your niche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udc49 And once you get some ads, you can use a WordPress plugin to help you manage them. Some good ones are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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