Your blog could be more than just a place to write down your thoughts and opinions or promote your brand; instead, you can use it as a tool to make passive income.
This means that you can set up ways to make money through your blog and then sit back and wait for the money to come in without having to put any work into the process.
Keep reading for a few ways that you can get started.
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Write and Sell an E-Book
If you are already blogging, you are already confident in your abilities as a writer. And if you have a large enough following, you know that people respect you for what you have to say, for the knowledge that you can share with them, and for the valuable content that your blog provides.
So why not go a step further and write up a short e-book that you can then promote to your subscribers and readers for sale?
Whether you are a blogging expert on public health policy, thanks to your masters of public health from a reputable university, or you are known for your ability to teach others how to create art online with Adobe programs, all you have to do is put your e-book on your blog and wait for the sales to come in.
Sell Ad Space on Your Blog
If you are able to prove that you get a lot of traffic to your blog on a consistent basis, you can start selling ad space to fellow businesses on your website.
This is one of the many popular methods that bloggers use to generate passive income, as you can simply place the ads within the headers and the margins of the site without them getting in the way of your content.
Just be sure to keep the ads to a minimum, display them in a tasteful way, and focus on getting ads from businesses that would appeal to your readers.
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Sign Up for Affiliate Marketing Programs
Finally, you can sign up for one of the many affiliate marketing programs that are available to bloggers and website owners just like you. These are really easy to sign up for and set up, and all you have to do is place ads for those companies on your website.
Depending upon the affiliate program that you sign up with, you can make money every time that a visitor clicks on one of the links, or when that person clicks through and makes a purchase.
You can also work on incorporating your affiliate offers in a tasteful way throughout your content so that more people are encouraged to click through, find out more, and make a purchase.
Just make sure the affiliates are related to your blog’s content so that readers will not be turned off by them.
Here’s a great guide you want to read about affiliate marketing: How to Make Money With Affiliate Marketing – A 7 Minute Guide
By following the tips above, you can use your skills and education, such as your masters in public health online degree or your web development background, on your blog to start earning more passive income easily.
Give one or all of these strategies a try and see which one works best.
What’s your experience with passive income?
Are you earning something from your blog?
Please share your experience in the comments below, thanks!
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I’m new to blogging and this post is timely.
Thank you also for the blogging guide.
Hello Erik
Thank you for sharing I learned many things from this post.
Please share a article on How can earn Money Through Fiverr or SeoClerk Websites.
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Hi Erik,
You have written a detailed and very informative article, I like your witting skills. I have a blog also and earning money by using file hosting websites. They give me $5 per 1000 downloads.
I prefer writing and selling my ebook on my blog because I keep 100% of the profit. Nice tips though.
Hi Eric, Making money via the blog using several methods. Like affiliate is the best to earn lots of money via blog.
Hello Erik,
From last 3-4 years I am doing blogging and making money with affiliate marketing and selling ad spaces.. Today I got one new way to earn from my blog. I will write a one E-book and sell soon.. Thank you for adding the great methods to earn passive income from blog.. 🙂
The internet providing “n” number of methods to make money online, but blogging is the best and evergreen home based online business, can make multiple ways with a single blog (AdSense, affiliate marketing, selling products and much more.. ) but choosing the powerful niche is not only important, must have good knowledge on that subject, how a blog works and the main important how to promote the blog properly to gain more organic traffic. Most of the pro bloggers the main income sources from affiliate marketing, I thought the same for you, but you mentioned it’s not! Then you must have some services for a blog.
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Hi Erik,
I am actually starting multiple blogging websites for some income. And I found your article really helpful. Thanks for sharing these amazing tips about passive income.
Keep Posting!
All prospering channels Erik. Writing and selling eBooks is a fun way to profit passively. The trick to genuinely free yourself through your blog is to build an almost solely passive income model. Doing this frees you from trading time for money, needing to work at specific times.
Ryan
through this method we can really get income this information is very interesting.
Hi Erik,
My latest favorite is selling courses online. Once you have the course uploaded you can have many students that purchase it online and repeat it over and over. It has done better for me than my eBook! I do send updates from time to time to students on the one course I’ve done but I want to get more courses up online this year. I’ve used Udemy as they are huge and people search there for courses. I’m in the phase of deciding which course to offer next. I used to teach in person until Covid hit and once I learned the ease of doing it online where I can make money while I sleep 🙂
Hi Erik,
Thanks for sharing your amazing tips on passive income with me. I am actually starting multiple blogging websites to earn some income this blog really help me. thank you ver much
I have done affiliate marketing where i haven’t applied any strategy to reach. but i feel now this is a big way to earn more. thanks for the useful post.
I already have my ebook and I am also affiliated with some products.
For me, affiliate marketing is one of the best options for beginners, you can learn and earn a lot with it
Thank you Erik for this. I will look to incorporate some of those ideas in my blog
I personally just started with my own blog/website and I think the ad monetization will come when I have a larger amount of readers and traffic coming in consistently each month. For now, I will just accept donations and use some referral codes to potentially make some extra side income while I’m doing something I enjoy. Thanks for the article!
Hey Erik,
Engaging in creating and selling eBooks can be an enjoyable means of generating passive income. Establishing a predominantly passive income model is the key to achieving true freedom through your blog. Doing so liberates you from the constraints of trading time for money and the need to adhere to specific working hours.