How to monetize your blog
If there's one thing every new blogger asks, it's: "How do I earn money from this?"
The most immediate and simple answer to the question is: Google Adsense, but are we really going to make some money with Adsense?
I know people who make good money with Adsense, but it is not a pure coincidence but that the theme of the site, the content and all aspects are well thought out to satisfy keywords that pay well per click ... that, or have beastly amounts of traffic that the common blogger hardly get, much less if you talk about for example: Quantum Physics.
Before all the people who live on Adsense start throwing stones at me I want to say that I am not against this system, in fact I use it and I received checks ... but the common blogger is going to have to resort to other methods To achieve significant profits attributable to your blog, in your case Adsense is an extra.
Sell affiliate products
Affiliate Marketing consists of promoting a merchant's products through links and if someone follows the link and makes a purchase we earn a commission.
We can do this in a particular way with companies interested in advertising their products / services on the Internet or accessing an affiliate product website.
In these sites we can very easily choose a product that we would like to advertise, obtain the corresponding link and use it both in our blog, PPC campaigns or wherever we can think of (remember, spam is bad ... don't do it).
The affiliate site that I use for my Affiliate Marketing campaigns is ClickBank
Promote our own products
In the same way, if we consider that we can make an important contribution we can sell our own products, you do not need to invent any revolutionary software or anything like that, even short but useful e-books can serve well.
Do you have knowledge about a specific topic and can you develop a mini course on a confusing topic in your area?
The good thing about a blog is that by writing regularly about our topics of interest we show that we know about it and if we get followers it means that we are not the only ones interested in our words.
Today there are many payment methods, credit card, paypal, rapipago, pagofacil and if it is someone from your same city you can even go to withdraw the money yourself and incidentally the buyer meets his favorite blogger in person ... why not?
Promote ourselves
That's what I basically do with my blog, I promote myself as an up-to-date professional in his field and constantly learning.
If you are a doctor you can write about medicine and your experiences with patients, a chef can share recipes, if you are a journalist you can… well, do journalism and thus everyone can promote what they know how to do.
It is not just about doing this to get a job, but we can give talks, do some freelance work, etc. There are a thousand and one way to monetize your skills.
This is hard work
It all sounds very nice and in fact it is, but it is not something that happens from one day to the next of coincidence, this requires commitment, perseverance and quality.
If we really have nothing to contribute, we will hardly achieve a result, but do not be scared, the only way to reach the goal is to start and a sand castle is made up of every grain.
