A lot more blogs have gotten off the ground over the last year or so. People are at home more and have time to do it. They also want to create extra income streams due to the pressures of coronavirus. When done right, blogging can be a viable source of either extra side income or a full-time job.

Consulting

Consulting through a blog is one of the best ways to make money. If you have an area of expertise, then you can showcase this on your blog. Offer consulting services, so you can pass on your expertise to others who’d benefit from it.

For example, there are many who are looking to know how cryptocurrency is going to affect business and how the current Bitcoin price will change going forward. If you know about crypto, you can offer your services to this target market.

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AdSense

One of the best ways to monetise your blog is through Adsense. If you enable it on your site then you’ll be paid for people seeing ads and clicking ads. You need a lot of traffic to do this though, so make sure you’re bringing that in before going ahead with AdSense.

To get people to your blog, you could consider buying google ad space. However, you’d be better off creating compelling and keyword-focused content to bring people in. It’s far more organic.

Rankings

Setting up a blog that can offer to improve other blogs’ rankings is a great way to make some cash because quite simply, all the blogs out there want to increase their rankings. They want their articles to appear on the first page of Google and Bing.

You can also offer to improve rankings on sites like AliBaba or Amazon, along with other selling platforms. If you’ve got a background in SEO, you can offer an evergreen service because people will always want to improve their rankings. It might take some time to get set up and trusted by clients, but once you get there you’ll have money rolling in. 

Affiliates

Affiliate marketing is another great way to make some money. This is done by dropping a link to a product, and if the product is bought through that link then you get a percentage of the sale. You just need to be sure that the products you’re advertising are good. If they’re bad your site will take a bit of a hit. Product reviews are a great way to offer affiliate marketing to potential customers.