8 ways to make money online with your blog

The most sought after and result-oriented blog monetization strategy is Google Adsense. Which is affiliating with Google to place ads on your blog while you earn a commission anytime the visitors to your site click on the ads. Google Adsense is genuine and has made many bloggers and webmasters rich. However, there are other blog monetization strategies such as selling your ads space directly to sponsors which could be more profitable and immediate.

The following are the list of 8 out of the various  ways you can make money from your blog.
Donation
This is the act of placing donation button on the pages of your blog. It is a voluntary donation from anybody who wish to support the good work being done by the blogger. Everybody is not stingy. Some people
are philanthropist and if you are fortunate to drive quite number of philanthropist to your blog, don't be surprise to receive a huge amount as donation.

Article marketing
Affiliate marketing is the act of promoting other people's product with the aim of earning a commission from every sales you make. It is advisable to promote only product or products that relate to your blog
niche. If you are blogging on education, you can promote educational books on your blog and earn a commission anytime someone purchase a book through the links you provided on your blog.
Some affiliate programs you can join are amazon, clickbank, cmsaffiliatecash, sfimg, linkshare.
Paid review
Paid reviews are one of the fastest and most effective way to make money from your blog. If you have a popular blog with huge traffic, individuals and companies can pay you to write a review on their products and services. Only write sponsored posts that are relevant to your blog and audience.

Sell your own products
You can sell your personal products on your blog. You can create digital products such as ebooks, video, audio program and sell it at a very cheap price on your blog. Recently my brother who is an artist in the name of  B4, is planning to sell his musical tracks and album on his blog. That is where the musical industry and world business is going. One good thing about these digital products is that they are downloadable. Therefore, making you money even while you're sleeping.

Create membership subscription
Assuming you know the list of over 200 search engines, for instance, you can provide the list of 50 search engines to general visitors and ask your visitors to subscribe, paying certain amount in order to have
access to rest 150 list. You can be providing certain service on your blog such as teaching people how to make musical beat, how to be successful in blogging e.t.c and ask people to subscribe as a member to enjoy special benefits such as getting advanced lesson through your e-newsletters. This also generate side income for bloggers using this kind of monetization.

Generate leads for your offline business
If you are a comedian or MC, having a blog where you  crack jokes can help you to get people who might employ your service for their marriage or other ceremony. A musician or DJ can generate leads for
shows or performance at ceremonies through his blog. An accountant or lawyer can get consultancy jobs from his blog on accounting or legal. Providing samples of what you can do on your blog can generate leads for your coaching, speaking or consulting job.

Indirect advertising
This can be categorize into two - one is Pay Per Click (PPC) program while the other one is Pay Per Mile. In PPC the publisher I.e owner of the blog is paid certain commission anytime visitors to his blog click
on the advert place by advertising networks such as Google Adsense, chitika, bidvertizer, adbreeze among others. Most PPC programs are easy to join and don't demand having high traffic statistics before joining. In PPM, the advertising networks pay the blogger certain, ussually fixed amount per every 1000 (mile) pageviews. Unlike PPC, many PPM programs usually require high traffic statistics and is good for bloggers with huge pageviews per month.

Direct advertising
This is also referred to direct ads space sales and is the act of selling part of the space on your blog directly to advertisers or sponsors.Unlike PPC and PPM, you have mote control over your blog and income. Once you have the kind of traffic that can win the heart of advertisers, you can make cool money from direct ad space which could be more profitable than other blog monetization methods.
You can make huge income from using only one of the 8 listed blog monetization strategies. You can also mix-match all the 8 strategies to generate income from your blog.

I hope this article has opened your eyes to the various ways you can make money from your blog?