Easy Ways To Make Money Blogging in 2018 - Begginers Guide

The Internet is re-shaping the world in every aspect and especially in term of online earning from blogging and many other legit ways. In this modern era, one can easily imagine and understand the concept of making money at home and even with zero investment in 2018.

Don't worry if you are getting confused with the term 'Blogging' or anything else, because I'm gonna describe every necessary and related details in a simple way.

What is a Blog?

At the time of writing this article, I am considering my readers new to the world where people make money blogging. You can skip this section if you already know well about the concept of blogs and can create your own blog easily.

A blog is your own website where you can write any interesting content or offer any service in which you have expertise. You can write articles about any topic according to the interest and knowledge of yours. People may have an interest in writing about games, software, flowers, health, beauty or fitness and hacking, maybe. 

There are thousands of the topics and services that you can offer to your readers and users in a proper way on your blog.

Before proceeding, I recommend knowing that how to start a blog that can make money for you.

How Much Can You Make Money?

Depending on your passion to create quality content and skills of getting traffic to your blog, your earning may vary from $0 to $10000 per month. There are many bloggers who have been working for many months but their income is zero due to the lack of passion, interest and knowledge.

On the other hand, I can show you some of the highest earning blogs that are making really good and huge amount of money for their creators. Some of such blogs are as follows:

• ShoutMeLoud
• ProBlogger
• BloggerTipsTricks

Following are some of the legit and easy ways to monetize your blog for generating income for your living. I'm not gonna discuss each method in detail but it will give you a clear concept that how can you earn from your blog.

Read Also: Proven Ways To Make More Than $1000 With Facebook Account (2018)

1. Earn With Advertisement

I'm pretty much sure that you have seen any promotional ad in a newspaper or on a signboard. Did you ever think that why and how this happens? Bigger companies always try to promote their products and services through a medium which is visited by a large number of people. 

This is the key to the success of blogs. If you can bring remarkable traffic to your blog then no one can stop you to earn. Nowadays, many ad networks are working as a middle-man to get ads from companies and distribute among different publishers to be posted on their blogs and websites. Google Adsense is the most popular ad network among all.

You can use Google Adsense or it's alternatives to get ads for your blog and turn your passion into money. You can monetize your blog with some of the following Ad Networks to get CPC (Cost Per Click)/CPM (Cost Per Mile [1 Mile = 1000 impressions/views])

• Google Adsense
• Media.net
• DoubleClick Ads Exchange
• Facebook Audience Network (FAN)
• District M
• bReal Time
• AdBlade

You may also search on Google for best ad networks that suit to your blogs.

2. Sell Ads Space to Make Money

As I described above, you can make money by advertising some products on your blog through any middle company (Adsense etc). In the same way, you can sale your blog's Ad space directly to the company. For this purpose, you have to put a prominent "Ad Here" banner on your blog so that it may visible to your readers. There are strong chances that some of your visitors are marketing managers of a company who are looking for such ad spaces.

Moreover, if you have gained huge traffic to your blog on daily basis then different companies will get in touch with you to make a request for their promotion at the cost of your demand.

You can also choose some of the networks that give services to sell direct ad spaces on your blogs. Following is the short list of such ad networks.

• BuySellAds
• Publicity Clerks or AdClerks
• Project Wonderful
• BlogAds
• OIO Publisher

3. Sponsored Posts on Blog

People love to see something good about their services and products on a platform that is trusted and visited by many people. So, once you make your blog's good reputation, you will receive offers from bigger companies to publish their article on your website.

You can fix some dollars for each article according to the length (in term of words or characters).  There are some blogs who make $15-25 for only a single sponsored post and no doubt, it is reasonable.

4. Affiliate Marketing - Good Income Source

Due to some strict policies of Ad Networks, the trend is going to the affiliate marketing because it is the best alternative to ads and biggest source of good income with zero investment. In affiliate marketing, you become a middle-man for buyer and seller.

You just need to put some links or banners of the company's products with which your affiliation is approved. The visitors will be redirected to the company website through your affiliate links. Their deal will be with the seller company and you will receive your commission on every successful sale. 

Affiliate marketing gives a higher commission than that of advertisement through ad network companies like Adsense etc.

Here, I will mention some of the best Affiliate Marketing Networks that gives a really good commission for each successful sale made through your link.

• Amazon
• eBay
• GoDaddy
• BlueHost

This list is not limited and you can find more and more best networks on Google.

5. E-Book Sales To Earn 

Many developed countries are introducing digital study system that is replacing paper books with the soft form of notes and booklets. This thing is increasing the demand for e-books on different useful topics. 

Some people have good writing skills and they can make meaningful notes on a topic. They write interesting books, design its title and cover pages and sale as a PDF file.

There is no need to bear the expense of printing and binding. You can write on any trending catchy topic to make great sales. People love to read hacking tricks, marketing strategies, cooking recopies, new hairstyles, programming and much more.

If you are not good at writing e-books, simply make affiliation with Amazon and promote their ready-made e-books because of the sale of this products in growing with the time.

The following list will give you an idea for the topics on which you can create or affiliate aa e-book to take the initial step.

• Series of Fanaticized Stories 
• Romantic Novels
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Fashion Trends 2018
• New Cooking Recopies
• Tour Guide
• Top Ten Politicians All The Time
• Best Mehndi Designs
• Hacking Tips & Tricks
• How To Grow YouTube Channel
• etc, etc

6. Selling Services - Direct Income From Blog

In this regard, a blog plays a role of your shop but not in physical form. You can sell services through your blog to make good money online. This service may include copyrighting, proof-reading, creating designs of something or maybe video editing. 

You can also give training for something in which you are expert, coaching and another such type of services can be sold for making money from your blog. You can offer:

• Content Marketing
• Video Marketing
• Product Promotion on Facebook
• An increment in Instagram Followers
• Email Handling
• Finding Contact Details
• Video & Audio Editing
• Translation to any language
• etc..... etc

7. Selling Blogs

You may get confused with this term because we were talking about money make blogging, not selling own blogs. Yeah, of course, you are creating a blog to make money with it in future. But now, people are selling their own blogs that are getting good traffic. They create a blog, make it visible to everyone and sell it at Flippa (a platform that makes auctions for websites and domains).

Many companies are searching for the popular blogs that are for sale. They purchase such blogs or website and use according to their own requirements. They do so to avoid the trouble of making the new blog popular. 

8. URL Shortener Earn Money

URL shortening is the service with which you can convert a longer link into short form. There are many websites that are giving this service and paying the bloggers who use on their blogs.

Basically, when you shorten your link, it will be redirected to an ad page that runs for five seconds. After that, the visitor can "Skip Ad" to go to the desired page. When a user clicks on your shorted link and sees the ad, you will be awarded commission.

Though there are many URL shortener services, a few are most valuable and worthy. You can also earn extra from these services by using their affiliate system too. You can use:

• Shortest
• Adfly
• ClicksFlycom
• Oke.io
• Link4.Me

Conclusion

This detailed guide was about some easiest ways to make money blogging. Using these ways, a blogger can make a good income from his/her blogs. I focused on the main points and tried my best to clear each and everything about it but you must feel free to ask anything if there is any confusion. 

In a Nut-Shell, we can say that blogging can make good money for you if you have passion, interest and knowledge. There are many other ways to make money blogging but I can't explain all of those in a single article. You can freely comment your feedback, thoughts, opinions and questions to share with other readers and to make your knowledge broader. 

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