Affiliate Marketing

If you want to monetize your blog without Ads, Affiliate Marketing is the best way to do it. In fact, it is the most lucrative way to make money blogging. And it’s easier than you think.

You don’t need to have any products/services. All you have to do is, promote others’ products/services and get the commission when someone buys the product/service through your link.

However, affiliate marketing takes time. You cannot expect quick success in affiliate marketing. There are some online courses that claim to make you millionaire within no time. All of these are scams. Stay away from them.

To get success in affiliate marketing, work consistently on your blog. You can get started with affiliate marketing with affiliate networks like –

  • ShareASale
  • Impact Radius
  • Viglink

2 Selling Ad Spaces
     It’s like direct advertising. You don’t need to have any third party. All you need to do is, convince the advertisers to put ad directly on your blog.

This way you will get the full control of ads like where and how the ads will appear. And you’ll get the full money.

But if you’ve just started a new blog, this might not be the right option for you. You need to have a decent traffic to attract advertisers.

Here are some tips to sell ad spaces on your blog:

  •  Create an ‘Advertise’ page with information of your Blog stats, Audience profile, Advertising options, etc.
  •  Use Ads Pro Plugin to manage your ads.
  • Join forums like Digital Point to find advertisers.
  • Contact with potential advertisers directly.
  •  You can also try BuySellAds to sell your ad spaces. As a media, it will take a cut from your revenue.

3. Sponsored Posts & Reviews (But Don’t Sell Links)
     Product owners or service providers pay bloggers to write about them. It could be a sponsored review or post.

In sponsored review, product owners will ask you to write a review of their product. And the sponsored post is about publishing paid post on a company or product. It may be written by you or by the advertisers.

There is no harm in publishing sponsored posts or reviews if you do it right. In fact, it can generate a good amount of money for you.

But you need to be careful about sponsored posts. Here are a few things you need to consider before writing sponsored reviews.

  • Never accept casino or gambling sites.
  • Add “nofollow” tag to the advertiser link.
  • Don’t write false information about the product/service.
  • And disclose that it’s a sponsored post/review.

Here are some of the sites from which you can get Sponsored Posts.

Linqia
ValuedVoice
BlogExpose

4. Sell Your Own Products
Selling your own digital and Physical products and Services is another lucrative way to make money without AdSense. You create it once and you can sell it for unlimited times. That’s the beauty of digital products.


Selling eBooks is just an example. Here are some other examples of products that you can sell on your blog.

Course
Design Work
WordPress Theme/Plugin
Reports
Software
Video Content
Photographic Prints
Excel Templates
Website Templates and more.
You can use Easy Digital Downloads WordPress plugin to sell your digital products easily.

Physical products like 
  • T-shirts
  • Arts
  • Book (hardcover)
  • Scrapbook Supplies
  • DVD
  • Skincare Products
  • Handmade Soap
  • Calendars
  • Vintage Clothing
  • Food Items
  • Toys
  • Diet Products
  • Jewelry and many more.
These are just some ideas. You can sell anything which is related to your niche.

You use WordPress eCommerce plugins like WooCommerce to sell your physical products.

So if you are an expert in anything, start selling your own services.



5. Paid Membership
Offering paid membership is another great way to make money from your blog. It’s very profitable if you can do it right.

Pradeep Goyal of CashOverflow was able to generate $3000/month from mailing list subscribers.

You can start a paid membership program if you have a good community around your blog.


Over to You
So these are some best ways to earn money from your blog without AdSense.

Trying all of them at a time will be overwhelming. So I’d recommend you to try 2-3 ways and find what works for you. For me, Affiliate Marketing works great.

Now let us know if you use any other ways to make money without Google AdSense.

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