(Sample Project) Make Money Blogging in 2022

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How do make money blogging with 0$ spent on advertising? Using the best monetization strategies.

1) Google search ➡️ blog ➡️ purchase

Product reviews = educated purchase decision

2) Blog needs to be about something purchasable (product reviews) 💸

Two types of monetizable blogs:

a) Blogs containing information ➡️ a lot of ads

b) Blogs about products ➡️ affiliate marketing

3) How does blog monetization work?

Acquire traffic 🚦

a) Content strategy ♟️

b) Choose a niche 🏌️

Content ➡️ grows traffic

2 types of articles:

a) Best *product* compared

➡️ Every product has an affiliate link, for each purchase made through it you get a commission

➡️ More expensive the blog, the less traffic generates more money

➡️ Not only product but a website/service as well

Why Ad revenue pales in comparison? You get only 20-30$ per 1000 views

How to find article ideas? 🤔 Use keyword explorer (Ahrefs for an example) and type in “best *your niche* ” and see what are the most searched for products

a) Use the matching terms tool to find similar articles, their difficulty score, and volume

:

a) Search Volume

b) Value of the product

Things that are expensive and searched for a lot make the most money, but are also the most competitive:

a) Web hosting

b) VPN

c) Crypto and NFT

d) Credit cards

➡️ Summary: to make money blogging, the first step is driving traffic to these affiliate-based keywords articles

a) Writing Articles

b) Affiliate Programs

c) Publishing

How to join the affiliate program?

a) Search for “best *product*” articles that already have the links in them

b) Google “ *product/service* affiliate program”

➡️ Join each program individually, based on the a company that you want to promote in your article

a) SEO

b) Formatting Blog Posts

c) Using AI to Write

d) Link Building

➡️ All of this is explored in more depth in other articles

Resellable information for money, directly to your audience

Online courses require some sort of audience, but you can start with the small list

a) Email list

🤜 The best way to build your Email List– entrance/exit attempt popup

🤜Needs a lead magnet– something they get in return for giving you their email

1. Free PDF

2. Checklist

3. Free Course

b) Selling a Product

Completely different discipline, has to be learned separately from Affiliate Marketing

Every article should be specific to selling the online course

a) How-to posts: start a blog, make money blogging

➡️ Content helps you build an audience, email list, and hopefully, sell your course

After building an email list, start surveying to see what they desire

V.I.P List – good lead magnet, they get premium content and info

Based on the survey responses and your reader’s needs, start selling Your Online Course for a Price

Last resort

Good for blogs that contain unsellable information (like Recipe blog)

High-volume search term articles, but the intent is not directly product focused

a) Ideas type posts

b) How-to posts

Good for high-traffic articles that you can’t monetize via affiliate marketing that well

This doesn’t mean that you can’t combine, and have both affiliate links and ads, but:

a) Search intent-driven purchases are best for affiliate

b) Broader searches about ideas that get a lot of traffic, but people aren’t ready to buy anything yet – these build email lists and add revenue

At around 25.000 visitors per month start joining AD Networks instead of AdSense

a) Ezoic

b) Adhrive

c) Mediavine

Having any fewer visitors ➡️ not worth adding Ads

Big media sites use

For big enough sites, companies will pay for every single click that a blog gives them

a) Affiliate→purchase brings the money

b) CPC→they pay you for each click you generate for them

Good for filling in the gaps (it’s hard to find affiliate links for every single product you ever write about)

More advanced strategy, when you have a big sales team

a) Sales-Drivenven Approach

b) Selling Email Newsletter Spots

c) Selling Banner Ads

Final stage of blog monetization, when you become a media company

Search intent behind searches is key.

Broad Searches & Ideas→ Ad Revenue, Email list

Product Searches → Affiliate Marketing

Other Products (Not Monetized) → Direct Sales, Ad Revenue

Information in your Niche → Course sales, Email list

It dictates what monetizing strategies you should focus on at certain points in your blogging career. If you are just starting as a new blogger and you want to monetize your blog as quickly as possible, follow this framework:

1) Affiliate Marketing articles

Based on the best product posts

Controls your initial content strategy

Helps you earn more early on for every click

2) Build an Email List

Exit attempt pop-ups for acquiring new subscribers

Provide Lead Magnet for something that they’d want

Start building the list without directly selling to them yet

3) Join an Ad Network at 25.000 visitors/month

When you can meet traffic requirements for them

4) Build an Online Course

Year or two into your blogging career

5) Direct Sales

Hire a sales team member

Build Cost-per-Click and Sponsored article deals

Sell Newsletter placements

Sell directly to companies

Blog monetization is very in-depth because every method is different. But by mastering some of them first and doing it in the right order, you begin to understand how it all works, so you can make more money with your blog in the 2020s and beyond.

We all work full-time jobs and want to try to build side hustles while we work full-time. So we need to use the most effective strategies to make money blogging as fast as possible. We need to focus on the right things at the right time and progress as efficiently as possible.