Top 9 Ways To Make Money Blogging in 2024 [With Practical Guide]

Are you looking for the top ways to make money blogging in 2024?

If YES then you are at the right place.

Gone are the days when people used to blog as a hobby. They used to share their knowledge through blogging without having a thought about monetizing it.

Since then, things have changed a lot and people these days take blogging as a serious business to earn money from a blog.

But for newbies or aspiring bloggers, there are lots of thoughts that keep spinning in their minds.

Is it really possible to make money blogging?
How much money I can make through blogging?
What are the tops ways to make money blogging?

So, whatever question you have in your mind will be answered here.

In this post, I will be sharing some of the best ways to make money blogging that will help you to clear all your doubts related to make money blogging.

So without further ado, let’s dive in.

But before going into details of ways to make money blogging, let’s have a quick overview of blogging’s potential.

Blogging Potential: How Much Money You Can Make From A Blog?

How Much Money I Can Make From Blogging?

I have come across the same question so many times in my blogging career.

Being it from family members, friends, colleagues, or aspiring bloggers.

And every time I say – Sky is the limit!

Yes, it’s true.

There is no limit on the money you can earn from a blog.

In fact, blogging is one of the best ways to make passive income online.

Though you can monetize any niche website, still choosing the right blogging niche can help you to get fruitful results.

All that matters is your dedication, consistency, and blogging strategies.

You know, more and more people are coming into blogging as full-time bloggers and considering blogging as an online profession.

And this is happening all because of the fact blogging potential.

There is a huge potential in blogging. And at that time, one thing which is coming to my mind is that you can earn in dollars. This is the same thing that I heard in an interview with one of the top bloggers in India.

You can start a blog in under 20 minutes and can start earning a decent amount of money through blogging.

Some of the bloggers making a hell lot of money you cannot imagine even.

Have a look at the image below.

This is the December 2017 income report of Smart Passive Income (SPI) founded by Pat Flynn, one of the best bloggers and affiliate marketers in the entire world.

He made around $166,000 in a single month which is really a huge amount.

Let’s take a dig into earnings of some other bloggers.

Anil Agarwal, founder of Bloggers Passion made around $17000 in just one month.

Want more?

See, the list is endless.

If they can make that much amount of money from blogging, why not you?

Are you getting me?

What I am trying to say here is that there is huge potential and you can earn a hell lot of money from a blog.

All you need to start a blog by choosing the right blogging niche with the right mindset, implementing the right strategies, and start making money through blogging.

I’m sure that you are clear enough about whether is it really possible to make money blogging. All you need to know is how to make money from a blog.

So, presenting you some of the best ways to make money from a blog.

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Best Ways to Make Money Blogging in 2024 Revealed

1. Ad Networks

If you are blogging for a while you must have heard about AdSense.

AdSense is an advertisement network from Google that lets you place relevant ads on your blog and in return, you can earn money based on ad impressions and clicks.

Google AdSense is the most traditional way to earn money from a blog.

Though there are lots of other Ad networks as well in the market but Google AdSense is quite popular as it operated by Google itself.

It is a completely free and simple way to earn money from your blog by placing ads on your blog.

And that is the reason it is used by around 2 million people worldwide.

Have a look at the AdSense income of Harsh Agarwal, founder of Shout Me Loud.

He earned approx. $51000 in the last ten years from his AdSense account.

How to get started with Google AdSense to earn money from a blog?

Step 1: All you need to sign up for Google AdSense and turn your passion into profit.

Step 2: Enter your blog name, email address, Save & Continue, and create an account.

Step 3: You will get a mail from Google AdSense team where you need to

Connect your site by placing the received code between the head tags of your site.

Step 4: On your GoogleAdSense Home, complete activation by updating payment address details and get verified your phone number.

Step 5: Your site will be reviewed by Google specialists. Your account will be approved if your site meets AdSense policies. Once approved you are all set to show ads on your site.

This way you can start placing Google ads on your site and make money blogging.

Like the Google AdSense network, there are many reliable ad networks as well.

Some of the popular Google AdSense alternatives are:

Media.net
Infolinks
Mediavine
Raptive
Skimlinks

So choose any Ad network and start monetizing your blog right away.

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2. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is one of the best and most profitable ways to make money blogging.

Unlike ad networks, where you need huge traffic to earn money from your blog, affiliate marketing can make you earn hundreds of dollars in just a single click.

You know 90% or even more revenue of most of the bloggers comes from affiliate marketing.

Did you see, Pat Flynn made around $106,000 from the affiliate marketing only?

So if you are looking for one of the best ways to make money from your blog, then affiliate marketing is for you.

Now let’s explore what affiliate marketing is all about and how you can start with affiliate marketing.

Affiliate Marketing is all about promoting the products through affiliate links on your blog.

And when someone buys these recommended products from your blog through your affiliate links, you get paid.

Affiliate Links are the unique links that are given by the companies to market their products on your blog.

Either you can get affiliate links from the company website itself or the affiliate networks.

Some of the companies have their own self-hosted affiliate programs while others are listed on the affiliate networks.

To get started with affiliate marketing, all you need to find the right products to promote.

Sign up on the relevant websites or affiliate networks, apply for their affiliate programs, and once your application gets approved start promoting their products on your blog via affiliate links.

Ley says I blog about blogging stuff that gives me an opportunity to promote blogging-related products like domain registrars, web hosting, blogging tools, and so on.

For Example: Bluehost

Bluehost is one of the most reliable web hosting providers that offer affordable hosting plans along with a free domain name.

My blog, BloggingBeats is also hosted on Bluehost. And being a consumer myself I promote Bluehost on my blog.

Bluehost offers a self-hosted affiliate program which means you have you sign up for their affiliate program on their website itself.

How to get started affiliate marketing with Bluehost?

Step 1: Click here to Sign up for the Bluehost affiliate program.

Step 2: Enter affiliate login information, account information, payment information, and click sign up button.

Step 3: Once your application gets approved you can log in to your affiliate account by using your username and password.

Step 4: Find your Affiliate Link.

Step 5: Start promoting Bluehost by using your unique affiliate link. Once any user will buy Bluehost services through your link, you will be paid $65 for each sale.

So, even if you can get 10-15 sales in a month, you can easily touch the $1000 a month which is a decent amount of money.

Also Read: Bluehost Affiliate Program Review 2024

This was an example of a self-hosted affiliate network.

Now I will show you how to use affiliate networks to find products and promote them.

Some of the best affiliate networks are:

ShareASale
JVZoo
Avangate
Impact Radius
ClickBank
Commission Junction
Amazon Associates

Here, I will be showing how to get started with the ShareASale affiliate network.

Step 1: Click here to open the ShareASale website.

Step 2: Click on I want to promote this merchant on my website button.

Step 3: Create your username, password, and complete the signup process.

Step 4: Once your account gets approved, log in as an affiliate by using your username and password.

Step 5: Search for merchants.

Here you will see features categories and trending merchants. Choose merchants based on your niche and Join Program.

Once your application to join these programs gets approved, you can easily get links under the LINKS section.

Step 6: Start using these links on your blog to promote the relevant products and get paid for every sale.

So this is how you can find the relevant products according to your blogging niche, get affiliate links to those products, and start promoting them on your blog to earn money.

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3. Sell EBooks

Selling your own eBooks can help you to earn money from your blog.

To sell eBooks, the only thing that you need is some decent traffic on your blog or a community of huge members around your blog.

And if you have just started your blog then this method may not work for you but in the long run, sharing your knowledge in the form eBooks may result in high revenue.

So first you need to increase your website traffic and build a strong community around your blog on any social media platform.

Creating a Facebook Group is highly recommended as this tactic is followed by most of the top bloggers and even some of the top brands.

But if you already have some good traffic and followers on social media then selling eBooks may work like a charm for you.

All you need to brainstorm a great topic you want to share deep knowledge about.

Better you can conduct a survey or poll with your audience to come up with an idea to create an eBook.

Once you are clear enough about the topic, start writing about that topic covering each and every aspect of it.

Let say, Affiliate Marketing.

As I have already discussed affiliate marketing and it is one of the best ways to make money blogging.

And for newbies getting their first sale could be a tedious job. So you can create an eBook around affiliate marketing having in-depth details where you can share your experience how you make money from affiliate marketing and all.

Once you are done with the writing part, use some services like Canva to design your Ebook.

After finishing the writing and design task, all you need is to use an eCommerce platform.

WooCommerce is highly recommended for WordPress blogs.

You can also use other third-party platforms like Instamojo to enable eCommerce functionalities.

Finally, launch your EBook on your blog for some genuine and reasonable price, let say $10.

Even if you manage to sell 100 EBooks which is almost achievable and you can earn $1000 instantly.

Recently, Anil Agarwal from Bloggers Passion launched an ebook on affiliate marketing for 999 INR.

And on the day of launching itself, more than 100 copies were sold out.

This way he was able to make around $1400 in a single day.

isn’t it amazing?

So, start creating an eBook to sell and earn money from your blog.

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4. Launch Online Courses

Like EBooks, you can also make money by selling your own courses on your blog.

Again, you need a good amount of traffic to earn money through online courses because it’s not worth it to create a highly valuable course but no one is going to buy it.

But if you have enough traffic on your blog then launching your online courses certainly helps you to earn a huge amount of money.

A course can be in textual form, video form, or combination of both.

All you need to find out a potential topic and start building a course around it.

You can take advantage of some online platforms like Teachable, Thinkific, etc to create and sell your online courses.

Sometimes back, Kulwant Nagi from Blogging Cage who has made $500,000+ with blogging so far launched his blogging course called Blogging Blueprint 2.0 for beginners for $99.

Now, you can imagine the revenue he has generated from this course.

Not only the revenue but also the good wishes he might be getting from who got benefitted from this course.

So, what are you waiting for?

Start replicating and monetizing your blog in every possible way.

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5. Sell Advertisement Space

This is another way to make money blogging.

Undoubtedly, Google AdSense is one of the best ways to monetize your blog via ads but there are some limitations like:

Getting your account approved is not as simple as it looks
Your account may get banned
Low CPC (Cost Per Click)

So to overcome these limitations, it’s better to start with the direct advertisement on your blog.

And if you can get direct advertisements for your blog, I would recommend you to replace your Google Ads with direct ads and take full control over them.

If you have a decent amount of traffic on your blog then getting direct ads for your blog would not take that much time.

What you can do to get a direct advertiser for your blog:

Create “Advertise with us” page
List yourself to marketplaces
Check other relevant niche blogs
Use forum and directories
Utilize Social Media platforms

So, create a dedicated page, follow other strategies, and start monetizing your blog with direct advertisements.

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6. Sponsored Post

Sponsored posts could be a great way to make money blogging instantly even if you are a beginner.

Unlike selling your own ebooks, courses, and blog space for advertisement, for a sponsored post you necessarily don’t need to have high traffic on your site.

But you will have to find the sites and products that offer sponsored post opportunities.

Some of the best sites where you can find sponsored post opportunities are:

Izea
Tomoson
Revcontent

Then, all you need is to write some content around those products to promote them on your blog.

You can write a well-researched review post or an informational post on your blog and in return, you will be getting paid.

Furthermore, you can add your affiliate links while writing content and if someone buys using your link you will also get the affiliate commissions.

So, it’s like a cherry on the cake.

Moreover, you may also get some emails directly from the companies you are already promoting and they will pay you for publishing sponsored posts on your blog.

Recently, I got a mail from the HostPapa affiliate team for a sponsored post.

Here you can see, they asked me to post content around “How HostPapa is a Full Service Web Hosting Company”.

And if I publish a post around the same topic on my blog I will be paid $50.

How cool is that, isn’t it.

So take advantage of sponsored posts and make money blogging instantly without having much traffic on your blog.

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7. Consultancy Services

Next what you can do to earn money from your blog is to offer some services.

Based on your expertise level, you can offer different services and in return, you can make a hell lot of money without selling others’ products.

In fact, I would say this is one of the best ways to make money blogging and can help you in the long run.

You know every month Google comes up with new algorithm updates and you never know when your blog would be hit by and blog traffic all of a sudden would go down.

So it’s better to have some revenue sources where you are not dependent on Google traffic and offering your own services is certainly a great choice.

Let’s say you are good at WordPress, Content writing, Designing, SEO, and so on. You can offer all these services on your blog and can earn a decent amount of money.

All you need to create a dedicated page “Services Offered” on your blog and make sure it is easily accessible to everyone.

You can also take advantage of social media platforms to acquire clients.

Once you deal with 1-2 clients, you will become more confident and it would be easier for you to improve the whole process as needed.

So start offering services straight away and make money blogging.

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8. Participate In Contests

It is one of the simplest ways to earn some extra cash from your blog.

From time to time companies come up with several contests to encourage their affiliates and have some fun.

All you need to participate in those contests by following their rules.

Recently, I was invited by Liquid Web for their May month contest where they asked me to write a post around “taking your business online”.

I participated and got $100 in my Impact Radius account.

So this is how you can make money from your blog even if you have no traffic and without selling any products.

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9. Sell Your Blog

Most beginners and aspiring bloggers who are at least aware of a bit about blogging think that they can make money from Google AdSense and affiliate marketing.

But as you go deeper you will come to know the actual potential of blogging.

Whether you know it or not, your blog is a huge asset in its own way.

As your blog content, traffic, and sales grow with time, your blog value also increases along with and you can sell your blog for thousands of dollars.

Flippa is a one-stop solution to buy and sell online businesses, websites, blogs, Apps & domains.

The day when you will start taking your blog as a real business would be the day you can actually feel the potential of blogging.

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FAQs

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Also Read:

Top 16 Blogging Mistakes To Avoid in 2024 (For Amateur Bloggers)

Final Thoughts On Ways To Make Money Blogging

This is all related to making money blogging.

I have shared some of the top ways to make money blogging included with practical guides.

If you already have a blog, start implementing these ways to earn money from your blog.

And if you don’t have a blog, I would highly recommend you start a blog and live life the way you want.

If you already making some money from your blog, do share in the comment section which ways you are using to make money from your blog as it would be helpful for our audience.

Finally, don’t forget to share this post as it might be beneficial for others too and at the same time motivating for aspiring bloggers.