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You are missing one monetization strategy - when you already have an audience and you have a lot of repeat visitors then there is the possibility to offer subscriptions. A paywall restricts online content access to paying subscribers. It’s software that shows a preview of your content but prevents the reader from seeing it fully without first subscribing to your platform. This is like a membership site, but it’s much simpler for subscribers as it takes only one click to make the payment. For publishers, it takes only 10 minutes to set it up and start collecting the first payments right away. For example, if you are writing about niche topics, run a small news publication, have a premium podcast, or any other valuable content, Zlick paywall might be the best monetization method.

Wrote review articles about products I used - one of the companies found the post and reached out to me asking if I wanted to be an affiliate for it. Paid well.

In parallel, I wrote another article that took off in terms of traffic (and dwarfed all the other artilces I had) so doubled down on that topic and multiplied the traffic.

Most are pro blogger. Is there anyone still making from Google Web Stories?

Will aesthetic decor blog make money?

Thanks for sharing

youre likely not going to find the detailed answers you want here because this group has 10s of thousands of people who know how to make blogs and once someone starts sharing details of profits and how, likely someone is going to try and steal the idea. So everyone is quiet.

One thing to try is google for: mediavine income reports

It used to be a more common thing but some mediavine bloggers would do monthly/quarterly earnings reports that broke down traffic, income from ads, income from others... posted directly on their websites.

the mediaivne website used to update a list. its been since 2022.
https://www.mediavine.com/mediavine-income-reports/

But of you google that term and filter in "within last year" you'll find recents

here is one; Lifestyle with Leah

Ive met a few successful MV bloggers, have seen stats.. these reports are legit.

monetizing is of course very important, it helps you financially and also ignites your passion to a greater level for blogging....the first step should be to start monetizing with ads...

Monetizing a blog is always a good idea. Today, you need to treat it like a business to achieve many other goals if strategically worked from the long term perspective.

Since you are using free platforms, though you can apply for AdSense and get approval, you cannot make money. Organic ranking is the factor that determines how much you can make from your blog. Since, search engines stopped ranking free blogs for potentially competitive keywords, you cannot gain any traction and ultimately cannot earn.

I currently focus on only creating/updating content in hope of getting more users.

But I am thinking about adding some sort of monetization so I can experiment with what works.

So far I have not so many users so I still think its a better use of my time to improve my webpage. Like 1.4k sessions last 28 days.

It really depends on your purpose for doing it. Some people blog as a creative outlet and choose not to monetize because they feel it complicates things or puts pressure on them. That's fair! For others, however, it's nice even to make enough to cover the costs of your hosting or other tools you use to keep your blog running. That said, there's also the question of what type of monetization is going to fit best your blog - ads, affiliates, your own products, sponsored content, etc.

I can honestly say that it CAN be a full-time income if that's the route you'd like to go long-term.

How much or what type of monetization you choose is going to depend on what works best for you, both in terms of your goals and your comfort level.

A couple things to read on the topic:

https://ghost.org/blog/content-strategy-creator-funnel/

https://ghost.org/blog/conversion-strategy/

A few major ways to make money:

1. Make your blog a newsletter, and make it paid.
2. Make your blog attract customers, and use it to sell something that you've written (e.g. a book of short stories).
3. Make your blog attract customers, and advertise to make money.

For a creative writing website, I suspect #2 is the best option. If you get fans of your writing, you have a decent shot of converting them. If you write regularly and get people to read what you're writing, you can occasionally create some new "premium" content to sell to your fans.

I would just categorize your short stories as short stories. You can add the category link on your menu.

There are many ways to monetize a blog. The easiest ones for beginners are using Google Adsesnse and Affiliate Marketing.

Sometimes you'll see Ads on blogs. Those are usually from Google Adsense. The best approach is to not sacrifice your user's experience. Don't place ads everywhere on your blog. They need to placed strategically while being non-intrusive to your users.

Unfortunately, you'll see a lot of beginners place the ads all over the damn place thinking they'll make more money since there are so many ads. In reality, that's going backwards. People already hate ads why would you put them all over the place.

With affialite marketing, I would look for products you're already using and see if they offer an affiliate program. I wouldn't promote anything you're not using.

You can also create digital products to sell on your blog.

Let me know if yo need help. I don't mind giving you some pointers :)

Almost all the blogs use Google's adsense to earn money

There’s a range of ways:

• ads - most common, revenue directly proportional to readers (annoys some readers but so common most people won’t notice)
• paywalled content - including soft paywalls like ad-free access (hard paywalls annoy people but partial paywalls / paid content can mitigate that)
• affiliate links - probably not as viable for you because you’re writing fiction
• selling products - you can probably make ebooks of your stories for example
• sponsored posts - you need quite a lot of readers for people to want to sponsor you

While there are arguably dozens of ways to monetize your blog, there really are eight core methods that will help you earn a healthy income from your efforts.

1. Affiliate marketing One of the most popular methods for monetizing a blog is to leverage affiliate marketing. This is especially useful when you're just starting out and you don't have your own products or services to sell. All you have to do is develop content that will ultimately be in harmony with whatever affiliate offers you plan to push out.

For example, if you're running a fitness blog, you can easily sell affiliate health, weight loss or body building supplements. Since the content is already attracting people that are interested in fitness, selling these types of products helps you to create a near-automated stream of passive income.

2. Advertisements While most people might think that adding some pay-per-click (PPC) ads will be a great way to make lots of money with their blogs, unless you have massive amounts of traffic -- as in 10,000+ visitors per day or more -- the income will be marginal at best. The real income here doesn't start until you cross about 100,000 visitors per day.

However, you could easily negotiate terms directly with advertisers by utilizing display ads as opposed to PPC ads. As long as the ads are within your specific niche or industry, you can likely negotiate an amount that would be much more competitive than income from standard PPC ads.

3. Email marketing One of the most powerful methods for making money from your blog is directly through email marketing. But to be successful, you need to build your list. Whether you promote blog updates or create a lead magnet, utilize one of the more popular email marketing platforms like ConvertKit, Aweber or InfusionSoft to implement the systems necessary to begin marketing via email.

By building a strong bond and a connection with your readers, you can effectively generate a sizable amount of money through the course of marketing both your own products and services along with affiliate offers directly through email. You can expect to generate approximately $1 per subscriber per month.

4. Sell ebooks Ebooks offer a relatively quick pathway for making money from your blog. Develop an ebook that's aligned with the content of your blog. Non-fiction ebooks are relatively simple to create, and if you're teaching a skill that many people struggle with, it's likely that the ebook will produce a healthy profit.

You can easily promote your ebook directly through your blog by creating attractive content that will draw people in, then enticing them with your ebook. You could also build a sales funnel, which is an online marketing term for an automated multi-step sales machine, and sell your ebook on autopilot.

5. Sell courses Selling digital online courses is another way you can profit from blogging. Develop intuitive and helpful courses that add a tremendous amount of value and the rest will be smooth sailing. By putting your heart and your soul into these courses, you can simply allow them to sell on autopilot for you, another great avenue for passive income.

Courses work great when it comes to technical skills like web development, digital marketing, graphic design and so on. But they also work in formats like finances, stocks, currency investing and accounting. Find what you're really great at and do the due diligence before building your course. Thenm make something far better than the other courses out there in the marketplace.

6. Sell digital products Creating digital products is a great way to profit from your blog. You can effectively sell any type of digital information product on your blog as long as it's in harmony with your content. You can build a webinar to market your product and deliver them through a member's area or through other downloadable means.

Digital products can be a combination of videos, downloadable guides, resources, PDFs, software components, SaaS and others. Do your best to create something that helps fill a need or a void. Don't second guess yourself, as you'd be surprised at just how much money you can make by selling digital products on your blog.

Related: How to Produce Juicy Content That Catches Eyeballs

7. Sell coaching services While it does seem like coaching services are infiltrating every aspect of the market these days, selling coaching services through your blog can definitely be a lucrative prospect. Whether you set yourself up as a life coach, a career coach or a business development coach, you can earn a significant income through just a handful of clients.

Decide on a number of packages, and do your best to ensure that you address any objections upfront. Customers tend to abandon the purchase process when it's too complicated, they have to leave the site, create an account or a number of other reasons according to one such study by Baymard Institute.

8. Secure sponsorships Sponsorships are a great way to make money from your blog, but you need the traffic if you're going to sell it for a significant amount of money. You can create sponsored posts as long as you label them as sponsored. The FTC cracks down on marketing products and services, including articles that are sponsored when in fact they're passed off as organic.

You have to be careful with sponsorships. Be sure that you're upfront with your readership. Google also cares acutely about sponsored links and will penalize you if you're selling links along with penalizing the site that you're linking to. Simply put, it's not worth it, so be as transparent as possible.

Step One: The Surprisingly Simple Process To Research, Validate, And Choose The Perfect Online Business Idea by Jake Lang

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Just wanted to share my experience to show that real results are possible! I run a weight loss blog where I publish 3 articles a week. For each article, I create 2 Pinterest pins and sometimes make videos too.

All this takes me less than 6 hours a week, and so far, I've generated $3,400 from ads (using Adsterra) during this period. Consistency and smart promotion really pay off!
>> Health and finance content generate the highest revenue from Adsterra.

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Monetizing an Instagram account is not hard but it depends on your intent, what is it you want to sell or offer... service(s) product(s) ?