Hey friends! Can you make money blogging if you are just starting this year? What are
the best ways for beginners to make money blogging? You’ll get the answers to these
questions but not only that. I will share with you my story and tell you how I made
my first $1000 a month as a blogger and how long it took me to get to that number.
And if you are totally new to blogging, stick with me to the end of this video because I
will tell you where you can get my Printable Checklist for Beginners. It’s 11 things
you should remember to do the RIGHT way when you start a blog on Wordpress.
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So this was my reality in 2017. I was working full time in an office and was secretly planning
my escape from the 9-5. I was trying to focus on my blog after working hours, and on weekends.
It was quite exhaustive but I was positive that this extra effort was a temporary thing
and will allow me to change my lifestyle completely once the blog will start getting traction.
I promised to tell you how I made my first $1000 / mo with my blog, and when this happened.
So it was actually at 11th months blogging when my blog was accepted to a premium ad
management company.
I’ll talk more about that in a few moments but let me just show you this graph because
you’ll see here that I didn’t jump from 0 to $1000/ mo overnight. There was a steady
growth of blogging income, I was first making less than $100 a month, then I was making
several hundred dollars which was a really nice addition to my day job income.
So I was slowly growing my blogging income and what worked for me initially at a few
hundred dollars level was Google Adsense and affiliate links. But you know what was the
real breakthrough in terms of blogging income?
I crossed that first $1000 mark only when I was able to join a premium ad management
company. And display ads on the blog started bringing me consistent income from that moment.
So let me explain what I am talking about. You know you can apply to Google Adsense with
a pretty new website and little traffic but with Adsense you usually will get paid very
little and I encourage you as soon as they reach higher traffic volume, try to apply
for premium ad management companies.
One of such companies is called Newormedia and they currently accept websites starting
from 30,000 monthly unique users. I want to thank Newormedia for sponsoring this video
but honestly, I was going to introduce you to this company anyway because one of the
questions that I get asked very often on this channel is which alternatives to Google Adsense
I could recommend.
And most of these companies want you to have much more traffic, it usually goes anywhere
from 50,000 to 100,000/mo sessions as a minimum requirement. And I mentioned that Newormedia
accepts websites starting from 30,000/mo unique users. So you’ll get a chance to increase
your monthly ad income so much faster with them.
Newormedia told me that most publishers see from 20 up to 50% boost in earnings when switching
from AdSense because they don’t work only with Adsense but also with other demand partners
and that means more competition for your ad placements.
One of my favorite things about Newormedia, which is also not very common for many of
these companies, is that they don’t require exclusivity. So if you are hesitant about
leaving AdSense, Newormedia are still willing to work with you.
But I am pretty sure that you will want to drop AdSense when you see your ad income improvements
from working with Newormedia.
You know what, if you not unsure if it’s the right move for you, just check out what
you could be making using their free earnings calculator. on their website. I will give
you a link to it in the description below this video! You will be surprised by how much
more money you can make with them compared to Google Adsense, with the same amount of
traffic.
At the time when I started monetizing my blog, Newor didn’t even exist, and it’s great
that now you have more options.
So that was about display ads. I want to just add here that in order to make a decent income
from display ads, you do need that traffic volume. And what helped me as a beginner blogger
get the minimum required traffic within the first year of blogging, was Pinterest platform.
You maybe heard a lot about Google SEO and how it’s important for any website. And
it is important indeed. I will give you a link below this video to a free training from
a guy who is doing really great with Google SEO. But the problem with it is time. Google
SEO is really slow when your website is new. So what I used for my blog to drive my first
traffic much faster was Pinterest.
And you know on this channel I talk about Pinterest a lot, so if there is any place
you can go and learn about Pinterest, it’s in my videos and I also can invite you to
a free Masterclass that goes into more details on how this platform can drive you free traffic.
Check the links in the top right corner and in the description below this video.
Now, I hope you now understand what is your next goal after Google Adsense. And if you
ask me, honestly, I wouldn’t even bother trying to join Google Adsense when your traffic
volume is very low. Adsense is paying so little that I think with a small traffic volume,
you can focus first on other monetization strategies that can bring you more income
per visitor.
What are the other strategies?
Well, the easiest to start with is affiliate marketing.
What kind of products you will promote as an affiliate and how much you’ll get paid
for it in commissions, really depends on your niche. And you will definitely need to check
some of your established competitors to see what are the affiliate products they promote.
But I can mention here several large affiliate networks that you might want to join because
they work with a ton of product and could fit many different niches.
Shareasale CJ Affiliates
RewardStyle Amazon affiliates is also a well-known option.
Depending on your niche, you could give links to services, to digital products like Ebooks,
online courses, printable files, and so on. Or you can give affiliate links to physical
products. Let’s say you have a blog about Ketogenic diet. With this topic, you could
promote as an affiliate both things – digital meal plans and physical products, like protein
powder or whatever. I think in every niche you can find something
to promote as an affiliate. You just need to do some research and maybe you’ll have
to apply to some affiliate programs individually, outside of the big affiliate networks that
I mentioned.
Just as an example, you might not expect to easily find an affiliate program when you
are writing a blog about solar panels, right? But funny enough, just last week a company
reached out to me offering me to become an affiliate for their solar panel product. I
politely refused because that it’s not even close to what I talk about on my channel but
you see, affiliate marketing opportunities are possible in almost any niche. You just
need to actively look for them.
On my blog, since a lot of my content is teaching you how to blog, I have affiliate links to
the hosting provider that I used when I started and I can recommend it to any beginner. If
you are still in the planning stage and haven’t actually started your blog, I can tell you
this company has a great package that includes a free domain for the first year and you’ll
be paying just $2.95 per month to have your own piece of land in the online world.
They offer this special pricing to my followers, so I’ll give you a link in the description
below this video. Check it out there. I also have a click by click tutorial that shows
you how to set up a Wordpress blog. The link to this video is in the info icon and in the
description down below.
3. Offer any kind of services related to your niche
Someone would say well, offering your services on the blog doesn’t mean making money with
your blog. And I will answer– who said it’s not?
If you start a blog about human psychology because it’s your area of expertise. And
then you get your first clients who found you only because of your blog? How is it not
making money with your blog? Of course, it is!
I’ll tell you more. In the business world, it’s actually called content marketing,
and many companies have full-time employees who create content for their corporate blogs
and even Youtube channels. If having a blog wasn’t profitable and didn’t drive clients
to these companies, do you think they would invest into these full-time employees?
And even in my personal blogging story 1:1 services played a big role. Because I focused
so hard on driving traffic from Pinterest, and got great results for my own blog, I was
able to offer my Pinterest management services and 1:1 consultations to other bloggers and
businesses.
In all honesty, a lot of beginner bloggers should actually start thinking about some
kind of services they could provide because until you make your first $1000/mo with display
ads, you will probably work on your blog for at least a year. You need to find an alternative
income stream and use your blog as a free platform where you can demonstrate your expertise,
your skills and knowledge in order to get your first 1:1 clients.
Again, it doesn’t matter what is your niche. In most niches, there is always something
you could offer as a service. If you are an expert in DIY home remodels, you could offer
consultations to people who want to do their home renovation. If you think about services
and nothing comes to your mind, the easiest you can do is offer your copyrighting to either
more established bloggers in your niche, or to some companies that work in the same field.
You can use your existing content on your blog as your portfolio. I can’t think of
an easier way to make some extra buck for a beginner blogger.
There are other ways you could make money blogging but I consider them a more advanced
level, I will not talk about them in detail in this video for beginners.
It’s creating and selling digital products. It could be simple eBooks or comprehensive
signature online courses. Selling your own products means you need to build funnels around
them, build an email list, it’s not something you can jump on as a beginner blogger.
But if you are considering creating something like this. Maybe your own online course for
example, then I’ve got you covered in my Stress-Free Courses Accelerator program. If
you want to learn more about it, I’ll give you a link in the info icon and in the description
below this video.
Now remember I promised you at the beginning of the video a Checklist for beginner bloggers,
with 11 very important things you should remember to do the RIGHT way when you start a blog
on Wordpress. If you miss some of these steps, your blog will exist but when you find out
what you’ve done wrong, it will be really hard to fix those mistakes. So check the link
in the info icon and in the description down below, and make sure you do things right from
the beginning!
Before you close the page, check out a couple of my other videos that are perfectly complimentary
to what I shared with you today. Check them out here and there! And I’ll see you in
the next videos!