1) Affiliate Marketing

This is no doubt my number one way to make money via your blog. It is all about referring your website visitors or users to products, and you get paid when they make purchases. Many times it is advisable you recommend products or services you have used before.

This business model is usually a win-win for both the publisher (you) and the manufacturer. While you reduce hug over the head of the company hiring marketing staff, you earn a decent income while doing what you love to do best. You earn a decent income without creating your emails, and without undergoing strenuous marketing efforts to convince clients to buy products.

Your website visitors relies on the credibility of your blog content. As such, to maintain these clients you must be ready to deliver quality and verifiable content at all times.

2) Sell Digital Products

Unlike those of us willing to sell other peoples product, if you are not in this class you can create your digital product. You can engage in selling various digital products. Starting with sales of ebooks written by you will be quite easy. You need little or no skill. All that is required of you is pick a topic, assemble related materials, update and develop new once to complete the old once

Now you can sell on your blog.

Also, you can sell images or videos that other bloggers can use for developing content on their website. What is important is been able to create images or video that are relevant to your audience. Plugins and apps are another class of digital materials but here you need to be skilful

Lastly, on digital materials, you can create a course. I mean teach what you know; online courses and webinars are a great way to make money online. You do not have to make it a lengthy instruction, short-form content on relevant topics to your niche audience will make a lot of difference.

The fact that you can create a digital product once and continue to make a good income from them, in the long run, makes this model of making money interesting.