When you first begin blogging it’s really exciting to see your words on the page in front of you. However, most people begin for one of two reasons. They either want to be heard because they feel passionate about something or they’ve heard of how much money you can make by monetizing a blog. While there was a time that blogging was all about telling your personal stories and talking about things you hold near and dear, even the biggest corporations have set up blogs on their sites for the very same reasons you want to blog! Either they want to disseminate information about their products and services or they are looking to build traffic as a way to increase sales. That’s right, information about their passion (their business) and making money from their blog. So how do they do it? It’s easy once you know the secret!
First, it might be good to understand that the only way you are going to make major amounts of money is to build major amounts of traffic to your blog. It would help to study tips and tricks from leading bloggers on how to build traffic, but usually, that entails being willing to post informative content and building rank on the search engines so you are seen.
That’s another topic altogether, but the point is if you want to monetize your blog you need to ensure you have sufficient traffic to your site. Find out how to build traffic first and then you’ll have a large enough audience to expect a decent return on your investment. At this point it’s the cost of buying a domain name, hosting your site, and the investment of your time spent blogging.
Perhaps one of the easiest ways to make money from your blog is to become a hosting reseller for your own hosting company that you have contracted with. Companies like Certa Hosting in the UK have a variety of packages which you can choose from and then you simply resell a portion of what you’ve bought. Not only does this end up paying for your own web hosting for your own personal blog, but it brings in additional revenue as well.
The only thing you really need to do is connect to your host with a special link they provide so that new accounts are credited to you and that’s about it. They handle all technical issues from there on out. Passive income if ever there was one!
Of course, you will be told to become an affiliate marketer, join Google Adwords, and a million other ways to make money from traffic you send from your blog, but those are what everyone and their brother is doing. Try something a little off the beaten path like web hosting reselling in conjunction with PPC ads and affiliate marketing.
Here is one final tip: once you start building traffic to your site and you gain in rank, did you know that people will pay to post a blog on your site? Companies really need those backlinks, so build traffic and rank, then set a price for blogs you’ll post. These are the easy ways to monetize your blog, but they are also the most effective. Looking to make money doing what you love? Monetize your blog and write to your heart’s content!