One of the best and the easiest ways to make money from your blog is to sell affiliate products. Especially in a niche like Making Money online where people are blind to ads and are more aware of ads and actual content its a bit difficult to make money from programs like Chithika and Adsense. This blog makes me 300$-500$ a month and most of the earning are through affiliate products. A blog is a great place to sell affiliate products because you can promote different products according to different users and because of the diverse search engine traffic you are constantly exposed to possible relevant buyers. Although I have promoted quite a few service through this blog I have only recommended handful of products for anyone to buy. Let me share with you the posts that are making money for me from this blog.
My Twitter Sniper review post makes me around 100$-200$ a month. Last month it has fetched me 125.10$. Currently I rank no 1 for the search term Twitter Snipe review in Google. Some of my other posts about Twitter like how to grow your Twitter followers automatically and Twitter software to get more followers also rank well in search engines so I'm getting some decent relevant traffic to my affiliate link. Unfortunately Twitter Snipe has sold out and they are going to release a new product that is pretty similar to Humming Bird. The great thing is I don't have to change my affiliate link and they are going to introduce an up sell which is going to make me even more commissions 
. They are going to release a demo for affiliates so be on the lookout for a brand new Twit Sniper review ( yep they have shortened the name ) => 125$
The next Twitter product I promote is the Humming Bird and at the moment there is a sweet deal for you as well. Humming Bird is also releasing a new version , this ain't targeted Twitter follower thing but a full blown Twitter affiliate marketing system. You get keyword targeting , Geo targeting , multiple account management and the lot. The original Humming Bird software sold at 197$ , but because of the new release they are selling it for 97$ and whats more you get the full access to the new release as well. This is a great opportunity to try out the best Twitter Marketing software out there for half of the prize , so if you are interested about making money with Twitter go get it. I'm writing a full review of the new Humming Bird release so be on the look out for a new post about Humming Bird. I make 40$ - 80$ promoting this and I don't even rank in search engines for this term => 40$-80$
OIO publisher is another money maker for this blog and to learn about all the features of OIO publisher you can check out my OIO publisher review. Its a complete ad management software for blogs and you can see it in action in the side bar of this blog. If you are ever consider doing private ad sales then this is one of the best Wordpress plug in's out there to do that. I made some sales in the initial promotion period but now it around 1-2 sales per month which is 17-34 $. This is not bad since I don't rank that well for the related terms. => 17$-34$
I know this is post is getting a bit long but please bear with me for a bit longer
Although I make money from this blog this is not the only source of my online income. Forex trading is one of the easiest way to make money but if you don't know what you are doing then you can loose big as well. Most people are scared of Forex trading because of the complex numbers and graphs. That is where a broker like e-toro comes in handy. I personally use e-toro to do my Forex trading and I promote it heavily as well.You can check out my e-toro review to get the full details. The affiliate payout ranges from 100$-200$. So even if you make one sale per month you are doing good. => 100$-200$
Finally I promote Kim Roach's Instant Payday Formula. This is without doubt one of the best products that teaches you how to make money online and I have no problem recommending it to any one. You will learn all the basic stuff you need to know to start making money online and for a bit advanced users there are lots of other stuff too. This is a gold mine of information and it is arranged in a neat easy to learn order. If you want to learn how to make money online but afraid of buying a crappy product out there I highly recommend you buy this one. Check out my full Instant PayDay Formula review to learn more about what you are getting for 97$. => 50$-150$
As you can see there are lots of ways I make money from this blog. Combined affiliate sales plus the Adsense earnings make me around 300-500$ from this blog alone , and it continues to grow. If I get product reviews then it goes even higher. You might be thinking I'm getting bucket loads of traffic to make this much from the blog.My average visitors are less than 300 per day, but most of them are highly targeted search engine traffic.
There is no big secret to making money from blogging , its about promoting affiliate products and getting relevant traffic to those posts about affiliate products. The biggest mistake most blogger make is writing about some product and forgetting about it. Find some products related to your blog that are of high quality. I'm personally using or have used all the products I'm recommending so I have no doubt about there quality. Then write a detailed post about those products. Build some back links to that post and rank in search engines. Money will come , no doubt about it.
I rank well for search terms related to make money blogging and there's a steady increase on questions about how to make money online from blogging. I hope this post answers the question how to make money from your blog. There are lots of ways to make money from your blog and unless you test them out in your blog you will never know what will work for you. Remember that the most important thing you need to make money online is TAKING ACTION .
Well, is great you make money from this blog, but I think is the content and words that you wrote that really bring in the money for you, not the search engine. As John Carlton said, “nothing gets done unless the words are written correctly.”
congrat that is a great amount. I am working on earing money with reviews. In 2007 I made about 800 to 900 each month with reviews. I hope to make this amount soon with my current blog.
Have to agree that without good content and clear writing your search engine traffic want stay around much , but still its a good idea to optimize your blog posts for search engines because thats free traffic without much effort
Thanks , hopefully it will grow to much more
What is your page rank? If you are making money with affiliate marketing you must have a pretty high page rank.
My home page PR is 0 and I don't know about the internal pages. PR doesn't matter for affiliate marketing , it matters if you are selling links or doing paid reviews but for affiliate marketing you only need to rank high in search engines
From the moment your started your make money online site, how long did it take for your to start earning a comfortable revenue?
To reach this level this blog took around 1 year , Niche sites are less work and much easier to maintain and I do have a few of them. Forex trading is one of the easiest ways to make money but it has high risk factor as well.
I rank well for a few review words but I almost never see any conversion or money pouring in
I am so bad at affiliate marketing that it's not funny (even though lots of people told that I wrote good review posts)
Wish you can be my money consultant somehow
Review income tend to fade away with time depending on the product. When something like OIO publisher first came along they produced good commissions. My Twitter reviews still produce money because Twitter is hot at the moment , but even the Twitter Snipe sales are less than when it two months ago. To build a steady recurring income from blogging you need to consistently need to review prooducts
Good point. I guess even when people are searching for such reviews, it doesn't mean that they are in the “ready-to-buy” state, especially if the product is an old one
Exactly and if your in technolgogy , MMO niche then its even harder because new products are coming out almost daily
I think this will be great. SEO is the source of traffic and Affiliate marketing is the best source in making money online. And if these two will be combine then absolutely great in result..high traffic equals more money
we can really monetized our blog only if we have done enough SEO with it..
This is good inspiration for me, I am wanting to make a lot more money frmo my site – which is currently not monetized. When I make enough from affiliate marketing, then I can come to Sri Lanka and eat hoppers, short eats, fruit and curry all day!
Nishadha,
it would appear that your Google PageRank has been reset to zero as some kind of penalty.
Ya Brett you can do all that , and by the way the north east is now becoming a popular tourist destination after the end of the war and I heard that crab is one of the favorite dishes going around
Ya Brett you can do all that , and by the way the north east is now becoming a popular tourist destination after the end of the war and I heard that crab is one of the favorite dishes going around
Seems that way to me too , I have made a request for reconsideration but didn't get any reply , It doesn't seem to effect my traffic so I guess no harm done
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Thanks for commenting , I don't mind people leaving links as long as it adds to the conversation
nice post, thanks for the share!
You can't separate SEO from working with an affiliate network. An online business requires a website and that website requires SEO in order for you to have traffic so you can earn money from affiliate marketing.
nice