How to make money blogging

First, before you decide to create a blog you have to know what a blog or vlog is. A blog is an online journal of an individual, group, or corporation that lists its activities, thoughts, and beliefs.

There are many ways to make money blogging but in order to earn an income, one has to have traffic to their blog first. After, you have a lot of traffic to your blog you can start monetizing the blog. With good SEO practices, your blog can have good traffic. By having good SEO practices it means writing good titles, writing very good content, and the use of popular keywords and link building.

Writing good titles is important to let the search engines find your content online. A good meta description of your blog is important to allow the search engines to find your content online.

Writing very good content will determine how many readers you reach and how the search engines rate your blog. Depending upon the rating, the blog is listed in order of its domain authority. Domain authority means the amount of trust the domain has due to its content and knowledge with its viewers and search engines.

When writing the title and the content you must use popular keywords that are relevant to your site or blog. Finally, there is link building and that is when other blogs link to your blog because it is regarded as a trusted source of information on the search engines. If your blog has all four of these attributes then it has domain authority and is regarded as a trusted source on the Internet. You can then make money blogging easily by using these methods.

The ways to make money blogging include;

Affiliate marketing

Google ads

Sponsored Posts

Banner ads from ad networks

Sell merchandise

Offer paid subscriptions

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is when you recommend products or services in exchange for a commission. Some of the popular affiliate marketers are

Amazon affiliate program

Share a sale

Awin

Partnershack

Commission Junction

All you do is share your unique affiliate link of any of the products you are recommending and you earn a commission when a purchase is made.

Google Adsense

Google Adsense helps to sell ad space on your blog. It is run by Google. You make money when the reader clicks on the ad. Google places ads that are relevant to the subject of the blog. Google Adsense is a good method of making money on your blog dependent upon traffic to the blog.

Sponsored Posts

Sponsored posts-you can write about a product or service in a sponsored post. Where the company pays you for writing about their product or services. Sponsored posts are known as promoted posts. The industry standard is $10 per 1000 followers.

Banner Ads on Ad Network

A web banner or banner ad is a form of advertising on the Internet-delivered by an ad server. This banner links to the webroot of the advertiser. The banner is embedded with a code to link to the advertiser's website.

Some of these banner and server sites are;

Basis.net

Epon.com

Hit apps

Adcolony

Adlane

Sell Merchandise

You can sell merchandise, products, and services directly from your blog or website. Simply ensure that your blog has a payment processing cart page. You can sell merchandise directly to customers 24/7.

Offer Paid Subscriptions

You can offer paid subscriptions to your blog for a fee. Clients can join membership to paid content on blogs. As long as the blog has a subscription page with a payment processing page. You can sell memberships to your web blog.

In summary, there are many ways to make money blogging which include all of the above. Affiliate marketing, Google ads, Banner ads, sponsored posts, selling merchandise, and paid subscriptions.