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Make Money Blogging
Do you want to make money blogging ? If you
do – you’re not alone. More and more
bloggers are finding that blogging is a
profitable medium. Whether it be to earn a few
extra dollars a week to feed their coffee habit,
or making enough money to stop them having
to get a part time job to get through college, or
whether they’ve got it to a point where they
are able to make a full time living from their
blogging – there are tens of thousands of
bloggers who make money blogging.
How to Make Money Blogging
In this page I want to share some information
for beginners on how to make money blogging.
For a very quick and broad visual intro –
check out this Make Money Blogging MindMap
which visualizes just SOME of the ways
bloggers make money blogging.
Firstly – lets get our expectations right. Not
everyone who tries to make money blogging
becomes rich. In fact those who do well from
blogging are in the minority. I’m sorry if this
disappoints you – but I’m not here to hype this
up or make any promises. It is possible to
make money blogging – but it takes time and
a lot of hard work – and it doesn’t happen for
everyone!
For a picture of how realistic it is check out
my post – Can You Really Make Money
Blogging: 7 Things I know about Making
Money from Blogging .
Secondly – let me start by sharing my own top
Money Making Methods but below that point
you to some great resources and teaching on
how to increase your income from blogging.
What follows is a
quick summary
of my main
income streams
from blogging.
Before you read
it though – keep
in mind that
every blog is
unique in how it
can make money. Some of the following
income streams will work on some blogs a lot
better than others – the key is to experiment
with as many as possible and see what works
best for you.
The following income streams (from a number
of blogs) have helped me to earn a six figure
income each year for the last 5 years from
blogging. I’ve ranked them from highest to
lowest.
I hope you find it useful to see the mix and
variety of ways that I earn a living from
blogging.
1. AdSense
Despite not using it
here at ProBlogger
any more ( here’s
why) I continue to
use AdSense with amazing effect on my other
blogs. I have them all set to show image and
text based ads and find that 250×300 pixel ads
work best (usually with a blended design). I
don’t have much luck with their ‘referrals’
program but their normal ads work a treat and
continue to be the biggest earner for me.
2. Affiliate Programs
I run a variety of
affiliate programs on
my blogs – most of
which bring in
smaller amounts of
money that don’t
really justify a
category of their own
(but which certainly add up).
These include recommending quality products
like these here on ProBlogger: Thesis
WordPress theme, Yaro’s Blog Mastermind
Coaching Program and How to Launch the F***
out of your E-Book (and others) as well as
some great products on my photography blog
including 123 of Digital Imaging , David
DuChemin’s amazing Photography E-Books
and Mitchell Kanashkevich’s great ebooks.
The great thing about many of these programs
is that they are of such high quality that they
sell themselves and I am being emailed from
readers who sign up to them thanking me for
the recommendation!
3. E-Book Sales
Last time I did a
wrap up of how I
make money
blogging this
category did not
exist for me – I
didn’t really have
any of my own
products to sell at all. However in the last year
or so I’ve released 3 E-books – 31 Days to
Build a Better Blog , The Essential Guide to
Portrait Photography and Photo Nuts and
Bolts: Know Your Camera and Take Better
Photos. While these products all only sell for
under $20 they certainly add up and some
months this has been my biggest category of
income. The reason they were only ranking at
#3 in the last month was that I didn’t do a
product launch (I wrote about one launch
which brought in $72,000 in a week here). This
is an income stream I see growing as I add
more E-books to my range (expect 3 in the
coming few months).
4. Continuity Programs
This is another
newer category for
me but one that
continues to grow.
A continuity program
is a site where you
earn a recurring
income from people who subscribe to a
service you offer.
For me this includes two sites –
ProBlogger.com and Third Tribe Marketing .
Both programs are membership sites and
generate monthly income from the thousands
of members that they have as a part of them.
5. Private Ad Sales/Sponsorships
Private ad sales
directly to advertisers
have fallen for me in
the last year (they
previously ranked #3
on this list). This is
partly due to a change
in my own focus but
also partly due to the economy as it is. I
should note that this area does vary a little
from month to month depending upon the
campaigns we’re asked to run – we’ve had a
couple of months where it actually ranked #2
in the last year.
This includes ad sales of the 125 x 125 ads
here at ProBlogger as well as a campaign or
two at Digital Photography School .
6. Chitika
Chitka
continues to
be a great
performer for
me on my blogs. They traditionally have
worked best on product related blogs although
their Premium ad units now convert well on a
larger range of blogs.
While I’ve focused a little less on Chitika in
the last 6 months (mainly as I’ve released my
own products and moved a little away from
advertising) they do continue to perform well
where I use them and over the time I’ve been
using Chitika they’ve now earned me over a
quarter of a million dollars – as a result I
can’t recommend them enough!
7. Amazon Associates
Amazon’s affiliate
program has been
one of my big
movers in the last 12 months. I used to make a
few odd dollars from it – however in recent
times it has become a significant earner for
me (in fact it’s now earned me over $100,000
since I started using it ). Christmas time (and
the lead up to it) is a particularly good time for
Amazon – last December it would have ranked
#2 on this list.
8. ProBlogger Job Boards
The job boards
here at
ProBlogger
continue to
grow each month in the number of
advertisements that are being bought. This
enabled me to invest most of the money that
they’d earned a while back into getting a new
back end for the boards and to redesign them.
These job boards now bring in over $1000 a
month in revenue which is pretty nice
considering that they are so low maintenance
to run. They also offer a service to readers
and add value to the overall blog.
The only problem that I face with the job
boards is that there are so many bloggers
looking for work that the demand for jobs far
exceeds the supply. On the good side of things
is that advertisers are reporting getting
amazing quality of applications.
9. Speaking Fees
I get asked to do a lot of speaking and
increasingly they are paid opportunities. I’m
not able to do as many as I would like (mainly
because I live in Australia and most of what
I’m asked to do is overseas and I only travel
2-3 times a year) – however in April I did a
couple of events and the income was enough
to include in this list.
Other Income
In addition to all of the above there are many
smaller incomes. Many of these are from
smaller advertising programs that I test but
none are big enough to really rate a mention
here.
The other income stream that there was no
actual money from in April was book royalties
from the ProBlogger Book. These are only paid
every 6 or so months (not in April). It’s
probably also worth mentioning that authors
don’t tend to make a whole lot of money on
book royalties – you don’t write books to get
rich (unless you sell a lot of them).

Make Money With Blogging