So you have a blog….great! Did you know that you can start monetizing it and earning income? There are 3 top ways to start earning an income off your blog today.
I started blogging a little less than a year ago as a way to document my life, the kid’s milestones, and share photos with family and friends. Over the course of the year my following grew and opportunities arose to monetize my site. I have earned a little under $3,000 in the 5 months since I started monetizing. I should also note that I am currently working full time and blog on the side.
How to Monetize Your Blog
Sponsored Posts
Influencer networks like Social Fabric, Full Bottle (if you join I would love for you to use my name Jaclyn Quinones when you sign up!), Linqia (this is my referral link), Obvious.ly, Influence Central, Social Native, Activate by BlogLovin’ and Everywhere Society pay bloggers/influencers to share content on their sites. I only shared brands and products that were true to my blog and that I felt were valuable to my readers. There are so many more networks you can join, but those are the top ones that earned my site money. You can also cut out the middle man and go directly to the brand you want to partner with. (Updated: 2018 Best Influencer Networks to Join)
Pro Tip: Work on getting those page views up! Tailwind is a Pinterest scheduler and helped grow my page views 2-3 times! Try it free for the first month.
Affiliate Links
Affiliate links are tracked links that earn you a commission on a sale.
Commission Junction
Impact Radius (earn commission with stores like Target, Oriental Trading…)
Referral Links
A lot of times when you purchase something you’ll receive an email that says share with your friends and earn $5 or something like that. Share them! Here’s a list of the referral links I have (just in case you want to purchase something 😉 )
Sharing my content and having it reach many viewers has probably been my biggest struggle so far. I LOVE Pinterest (as any woman does) and decided to get assistance sharing my content and pins with this powerful search engine. Grab a free month using Tailwind! You can use my referral link to sign up. > Free Month of Tailwind
Good Luck and please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions!
Rachel Golden
Thursday 2nd of March 2017
I've heard a lot about Social Fabric, but I never got into it. I'll definitely have to check some of these out :) Thanks for sharing!
KenyaRae
Wednesday 1st of March 2017
These are all awesome! I just signed up for a few. Thank you for sharing.
Patricia
Wednesday 1st of March 2017
Killin' it with the blogging girlfriend. This is great!!
Bailey
Wednesday 1st of March 2017
So many wonderful tips! I'm starting to monetize and needed to see this!
Krista Nile
Wednesday 1st of March 2017
That is SO awesome!! I need to work harder on monetizing for sure.