6 Ways to Monetize Your Blog or Website

You have a beautiful website created through Wealthy Affiliate. You have found your niche by combining your interests and keyword research. You have found keywords that will help you create informative, quality content. You have made your posts to your blog website. Your site is up and running with beautiful images and videos. Now what? How do you create an income from your website?

You monetize. What are the best ways to monetize your website? Actually there are 6 great ways to monetize your website and start earning.

How Do You Monetize?

Here are Six Ways:

Make Money With WordPress Affiliate Marketing

Many entrepreneurs are using affiliate marketing to monetize their websites .If you want to go this route, you can get started by promoting products from merchants. Think about the products you use and check for affiliate programs for the sellers of these products. Sign up with these affiliate programs and start promoting on your website with links to these products. You can create content that can incorporate these products or pick products that are related to your website niche. Affiliate marketing is the easiest way to monetize your website.

Display Google AdSense on WordPress

Google AdSense is an easy way to make money from your website. Sign up with Google AdSense and they will give you a code to add to your website. You can add this script to widgets or to html sections of your website. You can pay when a reader clicks on the ad displayed on your website. These are called CPC advertising. CPC means cost per click. This is a slower and more difficult way to earn since the click through rate has a large impact on your earnings.

Use a WordPress Advertising Plugin to Sell Ads Directly

You can sell banner ad space on your website. This works better if you have a steady high flow of traffic to your website. You can sell space to other website owners to display ads to promote their products or websites. There is a WordPress plugin that you can use to help you manage your selling ads on a website called BuySellAds. This is a marketplace to match up website owners with sellers of ad space. Much like ClickBank is a marketplace to match up merchants with affiliates.

Sell Sponsored Blog Posts

You can also monetize your website by being an “influencer” of being paid to write reviews or recommend a product or action on your website. You are paid by a sponsor to represent their product, promote it and create a positive influence on your readers to try the sponsored product or service. Sponsorship can take the form of a social media campaign or writing posts or your blog about the product.

How do you get sponsorships? Increase your social media engagement. Get followers on your social media accounts such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Connect these social media platforms to your niche website and connect the content of all the sites around your niche. One site that offers opportunities for bloggers is BlogHer. It is a website covering the latest news, trends and information around women’s issues. I applied to be one of their “influencers.” I have been paid to post about TV programs debuts, food and makeup on my Facebook and Twitter profiles. There are other sites such as these where you can get sponsorships. When you write sponsored posts, it is critical to be knowledgeable about the disclosure laws in your area.

Get Paid to Write Reviews

You can also monetize your website by being paid to write reviews. With this method, you are paid to try products related to your niche for free. You then write a review of the product. The paid review is usually for the most part, favorable but not always. You can obtain a client to pay you for reviews through websites such as PayPerPost or SponsoredReviews. Just as with paying to promote a product through sponsorships, you also need to follow guidelines for paid reviews in your area of residence and laws that regulate this activity.

Earn Money by Flipping Websites

Another way to monetize your website is to sell it. If you know how to build a website and get traffic to it, you can sell it to entrepreneurs. You need to research the type of websites in demand, create them and price them and sell them. Flippa is an auction site for selling websites. If you are a creative person and have an eye for design, this could be a way to monetize. You can have a website sales site for websites!

What Way Will You Choose?

These six ways to monetize your website are only the tip of the iceberg. There are many other ways to monetize your websites such as creating job boards, membership sites, private forums, selling e-books or online courses, holding webinars and creating your own products and selling personalized items. The methods and opportunities to monetize your website are as endless as your creativity and imagination. It’s all up to you. The best way to monetize your site is to get started!

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All the best, til next time.