5 Ways to Make Money With a Blog That I Will Be Using in 2022

Yes, it is possible to make money with a blog. I do it with my websites and in this guide I am not only going to explain how you can do it, but I am also going to show you real results.

I make this clarification to dispel doubts about Internet business. Many people do not believe that this is possible, others assume that it takes too much knowledge or, worse still, there are those who claim that this is just another scam on the Internet.

Before writing this article, I did a quick internet search on how to make money blogging.

The truth is that I found very interesting results, however, I would like to get away from this a bit and tell you about my personal experience.

I want to show you how I make money with my blog, some of my results and show you that if you put your mind to it, you can do it too. You too can make a living from a website, no matter where you are.

What it takes to make money with a blog

Well, the first thing you need is to have a website or blog (in this content both concepts are the same).

In technical matters, all you need is a computer with an Internet connection. In addition to having the willingness to work, to be constant and have a long-term vision.

Before moving forward, I want to make something clear at this point: 

Although making money with a blog is totally possible, this does not mean that you will achieve it overnight. This is a model that requires intelligent work, the application of certain strategies and defining a clear monetization methodology.

I'm sorry if what you just read has disappointed you, but it's reality. Here you will not find the recipe to generate thousands of dollars online in a matter of days.

So, let's look at the methods to make money with a blog in detail. For each form of monetization I am going to recommend a platform that you can use in your digital project.

1. Advertising platforms

This is perhaps one of the most common methods used by people to generate income with their blog.

It basically consists of assigning some spaces within your website to an advertising platform, which is responsible for selling these spaces to advertisers according to your market niche, the characteristics of your visitors, their countries, among other variables.

This method to earn money with a blog requires you to generate very good monthly visits (hundreds of thousands), since the cost per click is low and you need a very good number of clicks each month to generate interesting income.

Monetization example:

To better explain this model, I am going to give you an example in which you must take into account three key indicators:

• CPC (Cost Per Click): Amount of revenue you receive for each click on an ad on your site. In general, this amount is net, that is, the platform has already taken its percentage.
• CTR (Clickthrough Rate): Indicates the percentage of clicks you receive on an ad for a given number of page views. For example, if you received 8 clicks per 1,000 page views, your page CTR would be 0.8% (10/10,000=0.8%).
• Page Views: This metric tells you the number of visits you've had to a specific page on your site.

If you have a CPC of $0.20, a CTR of 0.8% and your content, with advertising included, generates 10,000 visits, the accounts are as follows:

$0.20 X 0.8% X 10,000 = $16 dollars

Recommended platform: Google Adsense

Google's advertising platform is perhaps the best known in the world of digital content.

Basically Adsense works as an intermediary between advertisers and content generators, and Google charges a commission for said transaction.

At Empiendo Historias, this is the platform I use to monetize content and specific pages.

Now Google Adsense is one of many other advertising platforms available.

Link:  Access Google Adsense

2. Affiliate Marketing

This is undoubtedly one of the most profitable and interesting methods to make money with a blog. Here are my results in a matter of 30 days:

Income results August 2020

What is affiliate marketing? In short, recommend products and receive a commission for each sale you generate.

You can also receive a commission for other actions by the user; such as completing a registration, downloading a file, viewing an advertisement, among others.

It is important to clarify a series of things, so that you do not make the mistake that most people make in their eagerness to learn how to make money with a blog:

1. The most important thing is to recommend quality products. Your reputation is at stake, so you must be sure that the product you are recommending meets certain standards.

2. As with your own products or services, make sure that what you are recommending is aligned with the theme of your blog .

3. It is recommended that you have used the product before , in this way you will know what you are offering, what its benefits are and aspects to improve.

4. Affiliate marketing should be about the value you add , not the money you want to make. If you start from this philosophy you will recommend things that are worthwhile.

5. Use affiliate marketing platforms that are reliable, in this way you ensure that you receive your payment and that users access what you are offering or recommending.

Amazon affiliates

The world's largest online store offers an affiliate program where they pay you up to 10% commission for recommending products.

This includes the physical sale of products as well as the sale of services such as Kindle Unlimited, Amazon Prime, Audible, among others.

In the case of Undertaking Stories there is a section of recommended books , where those books whose sale generates a commission are shared.

If you are looking for motivation, I tell you that there are people with blogs who make more than 500,000 dollars a year recommending products.

If you want to learn more about this system, here is a guide to the Amazon affiliate program .

clickbank:

With this platform you have two alternatives to generate income with your blog.

The first is to create your digital products (it is the next method that I am going to explain to you) and sell them there or, recommend other products already created and earn a commission for each sale you generate.

There are more than 100,000 merchants that can help you recommend your product, or access a wide range of products that you can recommend on your blog.

It is somewhat similar to the Amazon affiliate program, except that these products are mostly digital.

Link: Access Clickbank

3. Sale of own products

I'm going to confess something to you, at the beginning I was a little reluctant to create a product or a service, because I really felt that it was complex. However, after doing a test I was in for a big surprise.

The first thing you should be clear about with this monetization method is that you can not only market physical products, you also have the possibility of selling digital products, known as infoproducts , which offer great advantages, such as:

• You don't have to worry about inventory.
• You don't have to physically ship it somewhere in the world.
• It is usually a file that you send quickly.
• Once you do it, you only have to worry about the sale.
• There are no production costs.

So what21 product can you create?

My recommendation is that you focus on digital products, and the more related the info product is to the content you deal with on your blog, the easier it will be for you to generate income.

Here are some examples of infoproducts you can create:

• Face-to-face or digital courses on a specific topic.
• An ebook or practical guide to develop something
• Personalized face-to-face counseling or via Skype
• Training or training programs

Now, if you have no idea what product to sell , ask yourself what are the needs or problems that your community has around a specific topic, and from this, develop a product or service that adds value and resolves this conflict.

The first test I did was to create Rica Mente, a personal finance ebook , which shares key tips to improve personal finances immediately.

The results are that more than a thousand copies of this ebook have been sold and the idea is to continue improving it, adding value to people who want to turn their finances around and offering practical bonuses to achieve quick changes.

Because the content of Undertaking Stories is focused on personal finance, Internet business and lifestyle, this ebook has been very popular among the audience, since it solves a specific problem for readers: how to improve their finances in the short term.

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Recommended platform: Hotmart

This platform allows you to combine two sources of monetization: sale of digital products and affiliate marketing.

This means that not only can you sell your digital products, without the need to create an online store , but you can also access their product market, and find third-party products to recommend in your community and generate a commission.

The good thing about this advantage is that you don't have to worry about anything logistical or technical, because they take care of the payment gateway, send the content and pay you.

Link: Access Hotmart

4. Sponsored content

Is it possible to earn money with a blog through the content you write?

Unlike the other recommendations that are based on advertising, promoting products or recommending other websites, this method is based on selling your content.

In other words, with this method you get paid to write . Personally, I really like this form of online monetization, as it is an advertising option that is not so invasive, in which value is added to the reader and the advertiser.

How this monetization method works:

Brands contact you directly, or indirectly through platforms, to talk about a specific topic and include a link to their website on your blog.

What brands are most interested in, regardless of the theme, is that the link to their website looks as natural as possible. So you must create content that adds value to the reader, that fulfills an advertising objective, and that looks as natural as possible.

In fact, large media outlets use this monetization system to generate income through advertising through content. These brands, due to regulations, inform what content is sponsored or scheduled.

Recommended platform: Publisuites

If you like this option , Publisuites offers you to connect with brands around the world, mainly in Spain, so that they publish on your site.

This platform offers the possibility of monetizing by selling sponsored posts and social mentions.

Link: Access Publisuites

5. Sale of own and third-party courses

If you like to create video content, and you master a specific topic, you can create a course to sell online. Although this is part of the digital products to sell, due to its magnitude and importance, it deserves a different section.

The important thing is that this content is practical, easy to apply, that it focuses on a specific objective and is aligned with the theme of your blog.

While there is a lot of competition in this area, I believe that if you add value with content and can identify an area that people who follow you want to dominate, you have a very good chance of making money online.

In fact, this is the new bet within the Emprendindo Historias blog, since I have launched Start Online , a program that teaches how to create a website that generates income from scratch .

Now, another possibility you have is to recommend third-party courses and earn a commission for each sale (that is, apply point two of this list and sell other people's courses).

Remember that for this option you must verify its quality and not recommend any course simply to generate a commission.

Recommended Platform: Udemy

Udemy offers you two very interesting alternatives. The first and most common is to become an affiliate, that is, recommend Udemy courses and earn a commission for each sale you generate.

The second is more interesting, since you can create your own courses and teach what you love. The offer that Udemy offers you is more than 17 million students around 170 countries in the world.

According to their figures, the top 10 teachers have made more than 17 million dollars teaching something they are passionate about.

Link: Access Udemy

Recommended books:

  

Finally, you should keep in mind that, when it comes to making money with a blog, the most important thing is the value you add through content for your community. It is vitally important that you add as much value as possible.

So the question should not be how to make money blogging fast, but how to create a community that is willing to pay you repeatedly because of the value you bring to their lives.

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