3 Perfect Ways To Monetize Your Blog

One of the important ways to make mony online is to start a blog or a website and monetize it . Why not , isn't it amazing , to write about things you like and make money doing that . Well , many people nowdays make their blogs the main source of their income . But ways to start montizing your blog are different , and you have to choose wisely if you want to earn the maximum possible from your blog .

Trying all these different ways is a waste of time , and you end up to earn a few while you work  a lot . The thing is "  If It's Good To Be True , It Probably Is " : you may have already been in a website that promise you of big amounts of money for doing nearly nothing , be careful and don't get blinded by these promises .

So , if you're a newbie and you have just started your blog , or  already running a blog but you're struggling to make money with your blog and have tried many ways but nothing in return ; read on , I'll be showing you main ways to monetize your blog .


Advertising 

  When it comes to making money blogging , the most popular way is Advertising . Maybe because it's somehow easy and doesn't take you a lot of work . There are different types of ads , but still the most popular is the PPC ads ( Pay Per Click ) How it works ? simple , you sign in to one of those advertising programs  ( Adsense for example ) , they give you codes to put on your blog , that will show either banners ads , text ads ... on your blog based on your blog content ( if you're running a blog about bodybuilding , the ads will be almost on the same topic ... ) , different ads may be displayed for different people and different locations ( the ads you see , may not be the same ads someone is seeing from another location )  and when your visitor click on some of those ads , you earn money .

Pros 
 - you can earn few dollars per click .
 - you don't need to worry about updating the ads.
 - easy way to make money .

Cons 
 - a lot of ads can disturb your visitors .
 - you can earn 0.01$ per click .
 - fraud clicks can get you banned from the ads network .

Promote affiliate products 

 Affiliate Marketing  is also a great way to make an online income . The most commog method of doing affiliate marketing with the blogging space  is to write articles and and place affiliate links within your content.
  The easiness and effectivity of affiliate depends on a lot of things you should be aware of . many peoplethink that by promoting a ton of different products and  placing a ton of links on their articles will get them a   massive income ; while you can make 5000$ promoting one product but only 50$ promoting a lot of products . yes it's true , the way you can convince people to buy/sign in .. is all what matters .
  Don't just put random links on your articles , instead , try to find a good product you have tested or know enough about to recommend to your readers  . You can always link your visitors to a page where you talk about the product in details to encourage them making the purchase .

Pros 
 - You can make a big amount of money , there are companies that pay you up 60$ for single referral .
 - Once you get used to it , it gets more easy .
 - Affiliate marketing lets you build relationships with your clients which helps in your future as an affiliate .

Cons 
 - It often takes a good experience and marketing knowledge .
 - Sometimes it requires to spend some money .
 - it also takes time , it depends on your traffic and kinds of products you promote .

Writing Reviews 

 if you're a good writer , this tip is a great way for you to monetize your blog . Personally before I buy ;anything online ( ebook , service .. ) I search for some reviews about it , and I'm sure you too do that .
We're talking about buying so you won't spend your money for a random product on a random website .  You have to know enought things about it before buy it . The point here is reviews are important to prompte  products . So your job here is to write reviews of certain  products , services .. which will help the consumer  to select the perfect choice . If you'd write a great review and get to rank it in the top search results , you'd  get a lot of traffics hence make more sales .
Great tip to increase your sales is to offer something for free after your visitors make the purchase .

pros
 - you can benefit from your writing skills
  - you can get highly targeted traffic
  - one good review can gets you a lot of money for a long time ( you can write a review in January 2013 and still getting money from it in April 2014 ) .

Cons 
 - It requires good writing skills .
 - you have to make your reviews rank in top search results .


Conclusion 
 Those were the 3 main ways to monetize your blog , however there are more ways to make money from your blog but those are the 3 ways I recommend and which almost all the bloggers are using to monetize their blogs .  You can either use them for your blog or your website , it's the same  You're not obligged to  use the three methods , I mentioned the Pros and Cros for every method so you can figure out which one is  suitable for your blog . So don't just start a blog , start an online business . 

 If you still have some questions about ways to monetize your blog , please leave a comment bellow .