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.
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.
With NoPassiveIncome, I’m doing great with BuySellAds:
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!
I’m new to blogging and this post is timely.
Thank you also for the blogging guide.
Glad you enjoyed the post, Paul.
And let me know if you have any particular questions.
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.
I am Waiting for your reply…
Thank you
Thanks for the suggestion, Ankush.
I’ll take that into consideration as next blog post topics.
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.
That is an excellent idea.
Feel free to share it, Vijay.
I prefer writing and selling my ebook on my blog because I keep 100% of the profit. Nice tips though.
What system do you use to sell your eBook, Wali?
Hi Eric, Making money via the blog using several methods. Like affiliate is the best to earn lots of money via blog.
I like affiliate marketing, but it’s not my main source of income.
Thanks for adding your views, Vijay.
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.. 🙂
Hi Akshay,
if you are interested in affiliate marketing, try reading this post:
http://nopassiveincome.com/affiliate-marketing/
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.
Glad you confirm my points, Charan.
Happy blogging!
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