5 Ways to Monetize Your Blog or Website

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Having a website is lots of fun, especially when it provides value and can help people. But, let’s face it; most people, like me, have websites and blogs to make money. However, if you are just starting our your blog or business online, monetizing your website or blog may seem like a mystery. It took me some time to figure out how to monetize my websites and blog, but I finally figured it out.  So, here are five easy ways I monetize my blog and websites and you can too.

Google AdSense Ads

If you don’t have AdSense ads on your website or blog, you are missing out on easy money. AdSense is an advertising placement service by Google. Publishers earn commission by displaying targeted text, video or image advertisements on their website pages when site visitors view or click the ads.

Placement of the AdSense ads on your website is key to making more money. When I first started using Adsense, I was only making a few cents a day. However, when I moved the AdSense ads to prominent locations on my website and blog, my commission went from a few cents to a few dollars a day. The commission increases as my website traffic increases and more people click the ads.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing programs are good options to help generate revenue to manage your website. Signing up for an affiliate marketing program allows the advertiser to post an ad on your website or blog with a customized website banner ad or link to increase their sales. When someone clicks on the ad or signs up for the product or service using your link, you earn commission.

One of the affiliate marketing programs that I use is Commission Junction. Commission Junction is one of the post popular Affiliate programs to connect publishers, like you, to hundreds of advertisers.  Be careful of affiliate programs that charge high fees and do not give you control of what to display on your website or blog.

Get Paid To Blog (PTB)

If you are a blogger, why not get paid to blog? You can get paid to write articles for businesses, products or services. These programs can vary from free to paid opportunities, and restrictions vary. The information must usually be original content (not copied from another source).

An example for a great PTB platform that I use, is Skyword.com. Skyword connects freelance contributors with leading brands and publishers to produce quality content that informs, educates, and inspires. Simply create a free Skyword profile, which is like a freelance contributor resume.  Skyword has assignments from organizations across a wide range of industries. If there is an opportunity that aligns with your expertise and interests, they contact you directly with the offer.

For some ideas on other PTB programs to help you make money blogging, check out How to Make Money on Blogging Sites by Keyanna Rochelle.

Get Paid to Tweet

If you use Twitter to promote your business, product, service or blog, you might as well get paid to tweet for other businesses!  When you post campaign ads to your Twitter account and people click on those ads, you can get paid with Paid to Tweet programs. With Paid to Tweet programs, you can earn from 1 cent to $20 or more for posting ads on Twitter, or 1 cent to 50 cents per click when people click on your ads.

SponsoredTweets is a platform that I use that pays content creators to share campaign tweets or social media posts from the world’s biggest brands. Content Creators, like you, get paid to share the brand’s campaign advertisement via twitter and other social media platforms. You can select and bid on the campaign that you are willing to share. The bid is the amount of money you want to post the ad. If the business accepts your big, you create the post based on their recommendations and it will be posted using your twitter handle or social media page.

Get Paid to Advertise

Monetize your website or blog by selling space for advertisement pictures and links on the site. Create website ad space for blocks, like 125X125 or 250X250, or for top, bottom or side banner ads with links on your site for paid advertisements for businesses.

An easy way to promote advertising opportunities on your website or blog is to share and promote it on social media networks, promo ads on your website or offer it on Fiverr.com. Fiverr is a website that allows people to create online services to customers for $5 a job or “gig.” As a seller, you can create a $5 gig to promote ad space on your website or blog. Fiverr is also good as a buyer to buy services for $5 to help promote your website and blog via their social networks to increase traffic to your website. High website traffic is attractive to advertisers.

There are hundreds of ways and websites to help you make money online, but doing these five things will be magnificent start to monetize your website or blog.

Comment below to share other ways or websites you use to monetize your website or blog.