three ways that I personally make money
blogging what's happening guys this is
Greg Kononenko the Caffeinated Blogger and
today in this video i'm going to be
showing you three ways that I personally
use blogging to make money from several
blogs of mine this is going to be the
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let's get into the details alright I'm
going to show you a few ways that you
can make money blogging but before I do
that I wanted to explain something very
important that a lot of people do not
understand and that is how your blog
actually works and what is the mechanics
of how you can make money blogging so
here is a very simple scheme it's
probably going to look a little bit ugly
once I'm done with it but I'm gonna have
a go at it anyway here is your blog
alright and your blog the way that I
like to think about your blog is your
blog is a machine and a machine has a
process and it's got inputs and it's got
outputs and I want to talk you through
so that you've got a very clear
understanding of exactly why blogs are
so so powerful so the weather blog works
for you is I'm gonna start with the
output side okay and on the output side
what you have is that it can help you
make Commission's that's affiliate
commissions of course okay and that
comes from content
okay so Commission
from links that are embedded in your
content that's a very powerful way to
make money blogging second way to make
money blogging is to build an email list
and after you've built an email list to
have commissions and sales from that as
well okay so when I say commissions by
the way I mean both your affiliate
commissions as well as CPA commissions
and selling your own products you can
kinda I don't want to create separate
entries for that but you understand it's
selling your own or selling other
people's products for a commission okay
so that that's gonna be the outputs
you're gonna get commissions you're
going to build your list and make
commissions from your list as well and
make commissions from the content now
there are probably a few others I'm
going to get back to that in a second
but what I want to go into now is the
inputs the inputs into your blog traffic
okay that'll be one of the inputs and
the traffic will come from a variety of
different sources the traffic to your
blog can come from YouTube videos just
like this one that you're watching now
that drives traffic to my blog the other
inputs into your blog will be SEO or
Google traffic okay the other inputs
will be things like Pinterest traffic so
all of those things like all of that
traffic is going into your blog and it's
generating in the output which is all of
those commissions and sell that we've
just talked about the other inputs into
your blog will be in things like links
okay so that will to grow your authority
and to get you more rankings to get you
more traffic and so on and the cool
thing about this is that your blog will
only grow over time your blog will
generally not go backwards unless you do
something stupid like create thousands
of spammy links okay so once you've got
this machine set up and it's got content
and it's building the list for you on
autopilot all we can then need to do is
just work on your inputs and if you're
working on your inputs your machine will
get bigger and bigger and bigger so
what's gonna happen is that one month
from now your blog is going to be this
size and then you know a year from now
your blog might be this size
that is the power of blogging it will
just grow over time let me just get rid
of this because you know that's a bit
ugly a bit you understand what I'm
saying right every month it's going to
increase and you just need to tweak the
inputs and tweak the outputs but the
blog is going to be passively working
for you virtually 24/7 once you've got
all of the inputs and all of the outputs
fine-tuned now other things that you can
make money is you know your list will be
will have automated follow-ups okay and
in those automated follow-ups this is
where you can you can promote affiliate
products sell your own etc okay so you
can create those automated sort of
selling machine so guys I hope this is
making sense because a lot of people
don't understand how a blog can actually
make money they think you know I put up
a blog and then it's kind of like a
black box it's very unclear as to how
you can actually make money from your
blog but this is how I think about it
this is how I've built several of my
blogs and this is how I like to think
about it of course other ways that you
can make money there is Adsense and
content okay so that's like monetized
ads I'm going to show you those things
in just a moment but I wanted to start
out with this big picture so that you
have a very good clear bird's I sort of
view of how your blog actually can make
you make money so now let's move on to
way number one that I make money with
blogging and that is affiliate
commissions
all right so case in point and way to
make my new blogging number one
affiliate commissions so you can see
this is one of the posts on my blog
that's hustle calm and the blog post is
called why I switched to site ground now
site ground of course is a hosting
company that I use and that I highly
recommend by the way check out the link
in the description below if you want to
see this exact blog post on my site so I
made this blog post a while ago and it
just talks about the reasons why I
really enjoy site ground host hosting
this is one of many many many blog posts
that I've gone on various blogs of mine
I just want to use this one as an
example and when
someone reads these blog posts they will
then will be able to click on any of
these links and if they click on the
link that will take them to site ground
sales page and if they sign up I'm gonna
get a commission now here is proof that
this actually works sigh grounder fee
net sell generated I don't promote this
anywhere except for my blog so that all
of these have been generated just via
that one post ok you can see I mean you
know obviously they didn't make me rich
but this is one of many many affiliate
products that I recommend on many
similar pages on my blog so you can see
there's tons of sales here there's over
10 probably 15 sales or so that I've
generated each one of them is $50 so
it's quite nice for one simple post now
going back to this diagram okay so this
is content and it's creating the
Commission's so this is where we're at
we're at content that is creating the
Commission's the way that I drive
traffic to this is from two different
sources the first way that I drive
traffic to this page with my site ground
hosting affiliate links is through
Pinterest you can see one of the pins
that I share my Pinterest profile is
this pin called 8 reasons why I switched
my blog hosting to site ground it's the
same image that you can see here right
this image here I pin that on Pinterest
in a variety of different ways I share
this pin to group boards and I also
share this pin and we share it with my
followers as well as we do cross pin
exchange by tailwind if you want to
learn more about the way that I drive
traffic to my sites with Pinterest you
can check out links in the description
below this video you'll be able to get
my free course on that where I cover the
full strategy on how I get traffic from
Pinterest now the second way that I
drive traffic to that page is through my
email list right like I told you guys
here at least automated follow ups we
can promote various things now I've got
various opt-ins and various places you
know on YouTube as well as on my blog
and if someone leaves their email
address here for example in the sidebar
on my blog they will get added to my
automated follow-up sequence and here is
an example
of what I do so this is one of the
emails that people would get if they
join my email list and you can see that
I recommend SiteGround so I say some
other cool stuff you might want to check
out why sad ground is the best hosting
Emma and if someone clicks on that link
once again they'll get taken to their
blog post and a lot of people will buy
based on that actually just recently I
made the sale two or three days ago you
know just just from this follow up for
site growing on the feeleth hosting
program so this is the first way that
you can make money blogging now we're
going to move on to the second way and
just in case if you're wondering if
affiliate marketing can make you a lot
of money over the long term it certainly
can here are my earnings from just some
of the affiliate networks that I'm part
of these monies from jvzoo if I'm going
to choose here how much I've made on
jvzoo from all time you'll be able to
see that it's just refreshing now I've
made over 140,000 just from jvzoo then
another network that I'm part of is
warrior Plus and you can see here if I
go to quick view and choose all time
all right you will be able to see that I
made 76 thousand dollars or more plus
that's what roughly two hundred and
thirteen thousand dollars or so just
from these two networks I'm also part of
several other networks so definitely
feel net marketing is a very effective
way of monetizing your blog so now let's
move on to the next way that you can
make money blogging the second way for
you to make money blogging is by having
sponsored posts also called guest posts
what's going to happen over time is that
your blog is going to gain popularity
and it's going to grow in what's called
DA domain Authority and you might
already know that the way for people to
rank their search results or their blog
pages in Google is one of the critical
factors for that is having high
authority and a large number of high
authority backlinks pointing to their
pages so basically all of the bloggers
including myself will always chase
what's called backlinks links from other
sites to our blog
and people will actually naturally start
coming to you and they will start
inquiring whether they can put a guest
post with a do folder link back to their
blog so that they can gain that valuable
backlink the way that this is going to
happen and that that it's been happening
for me is people come to my blog they
find it by a variety of different ways
search results Google etc and they come
to this page contact and then they will
get in touch and they will say listen
I'm wondering if I can put guest post on
your site I'm willing to pay you XYZ for
it and you can negotiate with them you
can even create a separate page when
your blogs do that saying interested in
advertising or sponsored posts things
like that and actually just put the
prices up there you'll probably even
increase your results with that it's not
a primary method of earning with my blog
for me but you can certainly do that
right and you will start getting
inquiries I'm going to show you in just
a moment of what has been happening for
me actually I might as well just jump
there now so I'm gonna have to blur out
some details here here is a recent
inquiry that I've got literally just a
week or so ago and someone actually
inquired and they said can I publish an
article and you can see here I said hi
yes we accept guest contributions there
is a $30 USD fee to publish a ready-made
article we leave all links as to follow
please let me know alright and the
person as you can see replied hi sounds
good if you don't like the topic I'll
send over more and then basically they
went ahead and we published that post
that was as easy as that that's one of
the simplest ways that you can possibly
make money with your blog you know you
don't need to sell anything to anybody
people will actually start coming to I
get these inquiries very regularly so
and it's not just only that's how the
blog you know it happens on a variety of
other blogs that I run as well now this
sort of second part to it is that you
can also proactively
list your blog or you know that service
of providing a guest post here on five
hour five hours a marketplace that's
very popular I'm sure that you've heard
about it anyone can register on Fiverr
and anyone can start posting what's
called gigs right and your gig can be
that you will
published someone else's guest post on
your blog and you can charge a lot of
money for it I mean here is one that I
saw
I will guest post on my da 55 tech news
blog with to follow and they want the 36
trillion dollars for that that's
probably 30 or 25 dollars u.s. there are
lots more you can find on here and you
can list your blog on here as well a lot
of people want just one single link from
a high authority website or from a you
know just a site that has at least some
authority many people do not want these
60 ppm backlinks because that can be
picked up by Google as a spammy sort of
link okay so this high demand for this
kind of guest post as you can see
they've got 156 reviews and only one in
like ten people leaves an actual review
right so they I think they probably
would have sold at least a thousand of
these just on Fiverr so you can
certainly link the least your blog on
here as well and that should bring you
in some consistent sales and that's one
of the simplest ways that you can make
money blogging alright so hopefully you
guys are finding this interesting let's
move on to the third way the third way
that I personally make money blogging
and you can as well if you start your
own blog is through Adsense Adsense is
one of the most popular ways that anyone
can monetize their blog it's extremely
simple it's 100% newbie friendly because
everything that needs to happen is
basically for someone get to your blog
to a page like this this is one of my
blogs travel crock and as they're
looking at your content they'll see ads
similar to this like this is a net here
sales enablement tool this is a net here
at the top saying limited time coupon
for Namecheap and there's one more add
here bulk nutrient supplements and all
that they visitor has to do in order for
you to make money is click that ad if
they click that up then you will make
money you don't need to sell anything
you don't need to build a list as long
as you keep driving traffic to one of
your pages or you know to your blog you
can basically make money from this this
is extremely extremely simple and very
effective you can use Adsense in any
there are a lot of people who make tens
of thousands or you know five figures a
month from just from adsense alone I
personally have actually cut back a bit
on that sense because I found better
ways to monetize my blog's but on travel
croc
I still use Adsense now just to show you
that I'm walking the talk here is an
example of the money that I've made
we've had sense when I first started
travel chrome okay
I started this site in October 2016 so
it's been online for about two years now
and I launched it at the start of
October as you can see my Adsense
earning or basically zero okay as soon
as I launched the site using my
Pinterest traffic strategy if you guys
want to learn more about this Pinterest
traffic strategy check the links in the
description below I've got a free course
as well as a premium course explaining
that now as soon as the site went live
you can see that I started making
Adsense earnings you can see that I've
had $10 day then another $9 day you know
I've been making basically something
every day as soon as the site went live
that's how quickly as long as you drive
the traffic to the site that's how
quickly you can make money with Adsense
from your blog okay so you can see it's
very fast you don't need to kind of like
work for years in order to see any kind
of returns now I'm gonna have to blur
out some of the details here because
it's against Google Adsense terms for me
to reveal those details so you're just
going to be able to see the earnings but
not any of the other stats like
pageviews and impressions and so on
that's just for me in order for me to
comply with Google Adsense terms alright
so that's the third way that you can
make money blogging that's it guys these
are the three ways to make money
blogging in the next few videos we're
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