You have a blog, you have traffic, but you're not making any money.
What should you do? I'm going to share with you five ways you can monetize your blog.
Let's start off with the easiest one.
#1 AdSense,
it's something that Google provides, and allows you to put ads on yoursite. People put AdSense on their site, you put it throughout your text, your sidebar, every time they click on it, you will make money.
#2 Affiliate programs.
This is where you promote a product or service, and you get paid every time you drive a sale.
There are lot of networks out there that have affiliate offers such as Click Bank, or JVZoo.
You can go there to sign up for offers, promote them on your blog, and you'll get paid every time you drive a sale.
#3 Sell digital products.
This can be e-books or online courses, there's an infinite amount of possibilities with digital products.
You can try to use a services such as Kajabi to deliver your digital products to the people who buy it.
Now when selling digital products the best way to do it is typically through a webinar.
Make people to go to your site and register for a webinar, some of them will end up buying or becoming leads, or customers, for your digital products.
#4, Sell your own ad space.
AdSense, which is owned by Google, is the middleman. If you don't want to be under a middleman, you can go directly to the people that should be advertising and get them to buy ads.
Sure, most people are going to say no, but that's okay. If you hit enough people up, someone will buy an ad spot.
By doing that, you can keep that middleman fee and you'll make more money.
#5 Sell physical products.
A good example of this is Legion Athletics.They have a blog all about fitness and they sell physical products.Proteins, supplements, vitamins, and you know what?
They do millions and millions of dollars a year.They do over $10 million a year, literally, over $10 million a year because of their blog traffic.
This will be effective as long as you will be creating amazing product that people want to buy.
Use those five methods and you'll be able to monetize your blog. If you want, you can use multiple of them.
Some people do ads and they sell digital products. Some people sell digital products and physical at the same time. It's up to you on what you want to do.
I don't suggest you to do all five, because it's just overwhelming for a visitor, but you can pick one or two, and if you want to go to the extreme you could pick three of those methods and use them all at once.