The Quickest Ways to Monetize Your Blog
If you’ve been running a blog for a while now as a hobby and you don’t want to turn it into a full blown business but are thinking it might be nice to get some money out of it then you could do a lot worse than to simply add one of the following monetizing methods to your blog. Most of the time they sit in the background and do nothing, meaning you can collect a bit of money and perhaps cover the cost of the blog hosting. If you are really lucky you might even start to bring in enough to make it equivalent to a second, or part time job. Here are the ways you can do this:
Firstly, you could start by enrolling your website into Adsense. Adsense has quickly become the most used and popular ad serving application and is managed by Google. Once you have enrolled it will place video, image and text adverts onto your site and you will then generate a trickle (and perhaps more) of revenue through pay per click income.
Secondly you can then also sign up for Affiliate Programs that you can use on your website. These advertising affiliate programs are where a number of other businesses will pay you money if you direct traffic and customers from your site to their business site.
Thirdly you could opt for Continuity Programs. These continuity programs normally take the form of an income that keeps recurring, most usually from a service offered or a subscription to your site.
After that you can think about if your site would suit Private Ad Sales. These Ad Sales would be some kind of agreement between another business and yourself whereby they’ll give you some money to leave their advert on your website.
Lastly, it may be that your website could be the type of site to benefit from selling some sort of Ebook. These Ebooks usually arrive in the form of a guidebook outlining how to fix, do, build or achieve something and they are often a good route of income if you have some sort of unique knowledge on offer.
Alex is a freelance journalist and financial blogger. He loves to write about football and jazz but spends most of his days writing about mortgages, stocks and shares and payday loans .
