The Greatest Strategies to Make Money Blogging

I’ll get straight to the point.  If you want to make the biggest bucks off your blog, here are the strategies you should use.

1. Affiliate Marketing

I personally vouch for affiliate marketing.

For those unfamiliar with the term, affiliate marketing is a performance-based marketing where you earn a fixed commission for referring a visitor or a customer to another company.

You recommend a product or service to your readers, they click to the website and make a purchase and you receive a commission in return.

When you sign up to become an affiliate, you receive a special link with tracking, which you can use to link to the affiliate products or services. Commission rates vary drastically from as low as 2-3% to 50% and more. Some programs also offer a fixed rate per sale, so make sure you read the terms carefully when applying.

The obvious pros of affiliate marketing are the following:

• Your income is passive (mostly). Sure, you will have to invest time in creating a prolific affiliate post (I’ll get back to this in a moment), making it rank in the search engines for relevant keywords and building traffic using proven methods. However, this post will continue to bring you income over a long time span without any further investment.
• You can get a very high, recurring payoff. Depending on the affiliate program and product you choose and the traffic your post will get, you can easily earn between $4.000-$5.000 per month if not more.

Yet the most important ingredient is a winning affiliate copy, which results into high profits.

Now here’s how a lot of people tackle affiliate marketing (and complain about meager results afterwards):

Write a general blog post, mention any sort of products, use affiliate links to link to it and hope that the readers will feel super-excited and click to buy the recommended goodies.