It is no longer current news that Google disables my adsense account about a month ago and since then; I’ve been very busy researching and looking for answers to that one million question…… How else can I make money blogging?
QUICK UPDATE: GOOGLE JUST REISNTATED MY ADSENSE ACCOUNT: Yes it’s true, it was last night that I got an email from the almighty Google; see the email below…..
Hello,
We previously sent you an email stating that your AdSense account had been disabled due to invalid click activity. After thoroughly re-reviewing your AdSense account, we’ve decided to reverse this decision and reinstate your account. Please note that there may be a delay before ads start running on your website, as it may take up to 48 hours before all of our servers are informed of the change.
If, upon the disabling of your account, we made a deduction on your remaining account balance, then we’ve credited back to your account any earnings we found to be valid. While this credit wouldn’t appear immediately in your reports, it would be reflected in your finalized earnings for this month once they’re posted to your Payment History Page during the first week of next month. After this time, if you have any questions regarding this credit, please feel free to reply to this email. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience.
Ok, enough of Google and their things, lets forge ahead with today’s post
When I was carrying out my research, I discovered that there are three major types of business models that online entrepreneurs use to make money blogging. The first and most common way to turn a blog into a profit pulling machine is to sell advertising space to different companies and brands who want to reach that blog’s readers.
The second kind of money making blog is one that helps a single brand improve its image by creating positive associations between the blog and the product in the mind of consumers. Both kinds of blogs can make a lot of money, especially if the creator has a keen mind for marketing.
Other ways to make money blogging which is also a trending one of which most people are also using is Affiliate marketing and Selling your own products and services. Now, it’s left for you as a blogger to know the one you can do more effectively while also planning for the other ones.
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However, If you are among the bloggers that like to be selling advertising space on their blog in order to make money blogging, there are two basic ways that you can go about recruiting sponsors who want to put ads on your site. (1) You can hire someone else to do all of the legwork, or (2) You can do the work yourself and keep all of the revenue.
Within the first group, many people make money blogging by selling contextual ads space through programs like Google’s AdSense, the advantages of this program are numerous, as it requires very little effort on the part of the blogger to begin making profits. But the main problem is that most people make less money through this method than they had hoped that their blog would earn.
Selling advertising directly to companies who want to put banner ads or sponsored links on your blog can take quite a bit of time, yet it is often fairly lucrative. But if you have lots of contacts in industries that are related to your niche, you may want to try to go this route. People who have a strong background in sales and are experienced at pitching proposals can make quite a bit of money by renting blog space to interested companies.
The only problem with this model of making money blogging is that you often have to build a huge readership before you can attract advertisers, which can mean that you have to do several months of hard work before you start to make money blogging. Many people are really making a killing selling this banner ads, check out this comments on my blog by Shan and Greg Nunan…….
Some months ago, I received about 2 emails from two different people telling me that they want to place a banner on my blog but, I turned them down because the first one is not related to my niche and the second one said that he can afford to pay me $10/month which is small so, I had to reject the offers.
Moreover, as blogging becomes a more lucrative business, a lot of established companies are considering how they can get into the band wagon and one way that they are capitalizing on the blog movement is by having blogs that provide a kind of friendly face for their corporation.
Often, a company will employ an established blogger to create a blog designed specifically to appeal to their company’s customers and to create positive associations with the brand in consumers minds. More than one writer who never even dreamed that he or she could make money blogging has been approached by a company and offered quite a pretty penny for this kind of gig.
If you’re planning on renting an ad space on your blog then, you might check out the site buysellads.com. I’ve heard a lot about them but have not really tried them so; I don’t know how they function. Check out this comment on my blog also by SHAN….
Please if you have tried them before, I will like to know how they work.
Make Money Blogging Part 2
As I mentioned above, they are two other most popular ways many people even the big fishes in the industry are making their $$$$$$.
The first is affiliate marketing. Now, i don’t really have to start telling you what affiliate marketing is because I’m sure this is not the first time you’re hearing that word. A lot of bloggers are using this method to make money blogging. Someone like Pat Flynn of smartpassiveincome.com makes most of his money via affiliate marketing. Check out his Freedigitalphotos.net to see what I’m talking about.
The only thing with this one is that you have to know how to write honest reviews if you must make money with this method. And in my opinion, the best way to do it is to either use and like the product or know much about it maybe, through a friend that has used it before.
In order to also be successful with affiliate marketing, you must first of all start building your list so that you’ll have a lot of people to market to. This is one of the make money blogging methods I will be trying soon; I’m already putting things together:).
Recommended Reading: Freedigitalphotos.net
Make Money Blogging Part 3
As I also said above, the last but not the least on how to make money blogging is by creating and selling your own products and services.
In my opinion, this is even supposed to be the number one because it’s simply the best among all the other make money blogging strategies out there. There is no other method that can be compared to having your own products in the market, true or false?
When you create your own products in the form of ebook, video or any other digital format, you can simply list it to one of the many affiliate networks out there like Clickbank, Ejunkie etc. The best part is that once you’ve finished creating the product and uploaded it to those sites, you’re done. They will take care of the rest like processing orders, etc.
You can also write kindle books and list them on Amazon Kindle store. As you can see, the list goes on and like I said above, you just have to pick one and execute because if you start working on all of the above, you’ll simply lose focus. Thanks for reading this far and enjoy your weekend.
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Please, I will like you to tell us in the comment section if there is any other way you’re using to make money blogging that I did not include here so we can also learn about it remember, it’s all about sharing our ideas. Also, have you used Buy sell ads before, what was your experience with them and if you’re selling banner ads on your site, how did you get to the advertisers?
I will also be very glad if you’ll tweet and share this post with your friends, they might also be asking this same question.
Photo Credit: Freedigitalphotos.net
Enstine Muki says
Hey Theodore,
I’m happy for you bro. You’ve got back your Adsense account. That really sounds good and congratulations bro.
I’m still to decide whether to sell banner space or continue with affiliate banners. currently, affiliate banners are not too bad but I may replace these. However, $10/month for banner space is under minimum. I’ll be going for something more comfortable
Theodore Nwangene says
Thanks Enstine,
I really appreciate your concern. Selling ad space is really what i might also consider later. For now, i will be working on how to start my affiliate marketing. Thanks for coming man and have a fabulous weekend.
VISHAL VERMA says
Google also reinstated my adsense account….I guess there was some problem with their algorithm…
Theodore Nwangene says
Great to hear that Vishal,
Congrats man.
Oluwaseun Babajide says
Theodore,
Congratulations bro, good to know you now have your Google adsense back. There are so many ways to make money online.Google also reinstated my adsense account. Your cant just compare anything to google adsense!
Theodore Nwangene says
Congrats too bro,
Yea, i remembered we were on it together and now, we have to guide it well.. Lol. Thanks for coming.
Harleena Singh says
Congratulations Theodore on getting your Adsense reinstated!
However, you’re right that one should have the alternative income streams ready and deployed in case Adsense lets you down again.
I guess I’m quite clear at present to just have two ways of making money in order to self-sustain my blog, and they are having Adsense or similar service and rent out the advertising space.
I agree that your site should be attractive enough for the advertise to put its money on it, and readership, traffic, and ranks matter a lot. To be honest, affiliate marketing is not my cup of tea, but it is sure rewarding to who opt and work for it.
Selling your own products like eBooks through Clickbank and Amazon etc. is really good in the sense that once the eBook is uploaded, you’re free and it’s like passive income. Of course, you can spend time and effort to promote your product. I still need to do this.
I’ve heard people making money through Twitter but I haven’t personally tried it so can’t say much.
Thanks for this detailed post on making money while blogging. Have a nice day ahead 🙂
Theodore Nwangene says
Hello Leena,
Thanks a lot for your concern and support all these while in fact, i was on the process of going by your advice before i got that email, isn’t that a miracle? I’m very happy because it came as a surprise.
Yea, its really good to have a close substitute in case something unexpected happens and just like you, some people don’t like affiliate marketing too and thats why the say that one man’s meat is usually the other man’s poison.
I’m also planning on creating my own products, time will tell.
Yea, i remembered when Lisa wrote an article on how to make money with twitter, i don’t know much about that too. Thanks for the visit Harleena, really appreciate and have a nice weekend.
Babanature says
Hello Theodore,
Glad to hear that Google has re-enabled your ad-serving, aint that great? There are lot of ways inn which you can make money online and i’ll say adserving is one of the best ways. Google adsense is great but Infolinks is becoming my favorite now. thanks for this lovely post and the ping back. do have a lovely week ahead
Theodore Nwangene says
Its really great my man,
And thanks a lot for your concern. We all have our favorite based on what is working for us right? Thanks a lot for the visit.
Akhil kumar says
Now am struggling to get approved by adsense . they reject my first request . and Selling advertising directly to companies is a great idea but its hard to find such companies !
Theodore Nwangene says
Hi Akhil,
Welcome back to TBC, I’m sorry to hear that. But, did they gave you any reason why they rejected your request? How old is your site and i hope you have enough and quality posts in place because its part of the things they consider before approving any account.
Just work more on your site and try again hopefully, it will work this time. Please, do let me know of any way i can be of help.
Thanks for coming and good luck.
Chadrack says
Hi Theodore,
First, congratulations. From what others have said about their accounts being re-instated also it does appear that Google had problems on their end. But all the same congratulations.
On making money with your blog, I must say I’ve read so many bloggers with varying ideas on making money blogging. I must say your segmenting the different methods into 3 makes it real easy to understand. For me what ever method you use does not matter as long as that is working for your blog and your audience. Only thing is that whatever method you use the success will be determined by the volume of your traffic and how targeted that traffic is.
I’ve tried the various methods at various times except selling my own products. But the results have not been much. But that does not mean we cannot continue to test and see what works for us. Once you find a method that work for you, you can focus on that.
I just got contacted by a company a few days ago desire to advertise on blog and after much discussion we struck a deal and right now I look forward to seeing how that goes. One thing I can say is that ones your blog is doing well either in the search engines or driving good traffic, you will definitely get the offers.
Thanks for sharing and again congratulations!
Theodore Nwangene says
Hey my man,
All the thanks should really go to because of your wonderful and priceless support all these while, i really appreciate it bro, thanks.
Yes, as you said, the main thing is trying the other methods out there and then focusing more on the ones that works for you. Affiliate marketing and all the other methods i mentioned here really require huge traffic and also targeted before you can start seeing some reasonable outcome.
Wow, that’s a good news man, hope the deal is good and they agreed to pay. Wishing you good luck bro because you deserves it.
Thanks a lot my man and have a great weekend.
BTW: Where you able to set up the modem?
Suresh says
Hi Theodore,
Thank you for sharing this great post . Congratulations for getting your adsense account back. 🙂 Yes affiliate marketing is a great source to generate revenue. The problem with other adsense alternatives is that their CPC or CPM is low compared to adsense.
Theodore Nwangene says
You’re very right Suresh,
When it comes CPC, adsense is simply the best and can’t be compared to any other one. Thanks for coming to my site, hope you’ll come again.
Adrienne says
Well congratulations Theodore, I’m so happy for you. I know you were so upset about this and didn’t feel it was fair. Google has slapped me a few times with my blog and I bet you won’t find anything on there that I’m doing wrong. I think sometimes we just get caught in the crossfire.
That was explained rather well. I would say those are the main ways you can make money online but let’s not forget consulting. I kept having people tell me that I needed to offer consulting and I refused for the longest time until a few people begged me to help them and they would pay me for my time. I finally broke down and added that to my money making activities last summer. It’s not one of my big income earners but I’m doing really nicely with it.
Now I know that eBay is still big although I would find that really competitive now days. For me personally, I prefer affiliate marketing, consulting and my own product. Yep, that’s in the works for this year so you’ll see one from me in the near future. I think when you’ve been online long enough to know that you can truly help others through information that they can benefit from then you should go that route. What that will do for you is help make a name for yourself, grow your list and then you’ll become very attractive for other joint venture partners for promoting their products as well. It can be very lucrative.
Great share and again I’m so happy for you. Now you can get back to what you know and jump in and start conquering affiliate marketing.
~Adrienne
Theodore Nwangene says
I really appreciate those kind words of your Adrienne,
You has really made my day. I was really sad about their quick decision because i knew i didn’t do anything but, maybe they finally got back to their senses.
I agree with you, having your own products will not only make you money but, it will also make you more popular and important especially when the people that bought it has some good testimonies to give. Consulting is really another big thing and i don’t know why i forgot to add it here.
I also gets a lot of such invitations but, i normally turn some down because of time. That is also what i will look into later, one step at a time. Thanks a lot for your concern Adrienne, I’m indeed happy 🙂 that i was able to get it back.
Now, have a fabulous weekend.
Vijesh says
Congrats Theodore on getting back your Adsense account back very few people get it back. So this one month you researched for other means of making money. Affiliate marketing is also a good source as you said and even buy sell ads as stated by shan.
Theodore Nwangene says
Thanks a lot Vijesh,
I really appreciate your coming to my site. I’m indeed happy for that because i never thought i would get it back. Yea, affiliate marketing is really the main thing and i will focusing more on it.
Siegfried says
interesting, I thought they decided against – did you contact them again?
I am glad you have your account back
best regards!
Theodore Nwangene says
I never contacted them again Siegfried,
I just left everything after they rejected my appeal, I’ve even started making plans to create another account so, I’m also very surprise as to what really happened. I see it as a miracle anyway.
Thanks for coming.
Pawan says
Wow! You got your adsense account back buddy. Cheers!
Coming back to the money making article, I’ve been trying out various advertising platforms but to my bad luck, they never resulted in excellent earnings. Since, I had a blog on droid, there were hardly any advertisers who were willing to advertise. Things went terribly wrong when Ad-sense disabled my account for wrong reason. Since then, I’ve stopped using ad-sense advertisements on my blogs.
Affiliate marketing is something that I’m still learning and will take a lot of time to understand its aspects. The initial results of my affiliate marketing are so good that I will never give up on doing affiliate marketing.
Regards,
Pawan
Theodore Nwangene says
I understand how you feel Pawan,
But, i will not call it bad luck. Trying and failing does not make you a failure, it only means that you’ve not succeed yet and you have to keep on trying. What other ads program did you try before?
Affiliate marketing is really a good choice and i will advice you focus more on it as i will also be doing.
Thanks for the visit Pawan, wishing you extra ordinary success.
Sergio Felix says
Wow man, big congrats on getting your Adsense account back!
I think Adsense is great but for any newbie out there they should know they don’t have to use Adsense right away on their blogs. Google does not like to display ads in websites with no content or barely any content at all (no traffic and money wasted for people paying to display those ads).
For affiliate marketing I believe it’s the easiest way to make money online, I can practically set up a blog right now for a friend (in Spanish) monetize it with the hosting company and the email marketing company that I use and instruct him on what to publish for the next five days.
If he manages to drag the attention of ANY of his friends (for a starter) and his posts are about how he got that blog setup and how he got it online, you can rest assure he’ll make money from those two ads.
The “problem” here, is that it is not money place immediately in your hand and that’s what most people believe.
For my hosting company it takes three months to receive the first payment and for email marketing it takes (I believe) a minimum of $50 to get paid.
That’s why I always say that Internet Marketing takes TIME.
What can actually put money in your bank account and FAST is coaching or services of some kind. You can charge for it with a number of services and that is actually quite fast compared to affiliate marketing or website ads.
Great article man and love it that you’re getting more inclined towards money lately! 😉
Sergio
Theodore Nwangene says
WOW Sergio,
Well elaborated indeed. I’ve also learnt something new from you just now, thanks a lot. Yea, i agree with you that Internet Marketing is really not a quick way to make money, it seems that most hosting companies takes that 3 months too.
But if you don’t mind, which host are you using? I’m using Arvixe and they also pays out their affiliate once the person that purchased via their links stays up to 3 months man, that’s really a long time.
I also agree with you that the best and fast way to make some money is by offering some services because your clients will have to pay you even before you start working for them.
Thanks for your concern my man, I’m also happy that i was able to get it back.
Enjoy your weekend man.
Sergio Felix says
Right now, all my sites are hosted on Hostgator.
I have heard that you can get a $100 commission from a Hostgator sale if your affiliate link is through ShareASale and you’re supposed to be paid a lot quicker but I’ve honestly never even looked the database to see if it’s real.
I’m already used to HG regulations. 😉
Theodore Nwangene says
Wow Sergio,
I’ve never heard of that before. If that i true then, i will definitely give it a trial. I will have to find out more. Thanks for letting me know about it man 🙂
Jennifer Cunningham says
Hitheodore,
Thanks for reminding me of the google incident. I don’t think I will ever aspire to Adsense. A lot of people seem to have problems with that account. I am constantly growing traffic to be able to help people. Once I have achieved that goal I will add an affiliate program and maybe an ebook. Being new, I choose the slow and steady approach as I lean more and more about blogging and increasing traffic.
Theodore Nwangene says
I understood all you said Jenni,
Just focus on improving your traffic first then, you’ll now plan on the best monetization method that you’ll like. Creating an ebook is good and i might have mine out there very soon.
Thanks for coming.
Akhil kumar says
Hello Theodore,
Google Adsense is really a blessing for blogger. without adsense our blog was just wasted , because everyone wanna make some bugs from their blog. And Mr.Theodore can you say any alternative for adsense?
Theodore Nwangene says
I agree with you Akhil that Adsense is helping bloggers.
Yea, there are many alternatives to adsense, you can simply check out this post i wrote on that regards…. https://topbloggingcoach.com///top-50-google-adsense-alternatives-for-bloggers/
Thanks
Akhil kumar says
Thanks bro. for giving informations about google adsense alternatives:)
Theodore Nwangene says
You’re welcome Akhil
Temilola Globalwalyy says
Hello theodore,
i am so much happy for you over our adsense account be reinstalled, but i guess Google turn a new leaf, because five of my friends adsense account also got re install back..
Theodore Nwangene says
You’re right Tami,
Two of my friends were also re-instated. Thanks for your concern and have a great weekend
Shehu Awwal says
Thanks Theodore for this wonderful post even though alots of Bloggers have been banned and they think they can’t make any money without it.. Great tips
Theodore Nwangene says
Thanks a lot for the compliment Shehu,
I really appreciate your visit, hope to see you here again.
Kate Elisabeth Dircksen says
Marvelous, what a web site it is! This website gives helpful information to us, keep it up.
Theodore Nwangene says
Thanks kate
Jordan Singh says
Hello Theodor,
I’m glad you’ve got your adsense account back. It is always recommended not to depend on adsense as we can’t imagine its results. I guess its time to start products and services at our blogs.
Thanks for sharing case studies.
Theodore Nwangene says
Sure thing Jordan,
We really have to start putting other things together, products creation is another thing i will be focusing on soon. Thanks a lot for your concern and for the visit, i really appreciate it.
Have a blessed weekend.
Neamat Tawadrous says
Hi Theodore,
First, Congratulations on getting your Adsense reinstated!
That’s a great comprehensive explanation on how to make money blogging. You are right that we should have several income streams incase one stream got deployed. I am not quite clear which direction to take yet as I am still new to the blogosphere but I think the best way is to have your own product and your own coaching program. I am still exploring which direction to go but not settled on a decision yet. But I will keep this post as a resource for future reference.
Thanks Theodore for this elaborative post on making money from blogging. Have a great weekend.
Be Blessed,
Neamat
Theodore Nwangene says
Yea Neamat,
Having only one income stream can be disappointing sometimes so, its always good to have something to fall back on in case of any uncertainty. I also agree with you that having one’s own product is the best way to make money online but, i think all you have to do now is to take time and analyze your strength before going after any income source.
Thanks a lot for the visit Neamat and be blessed as well.
Ambika Choudhary Mahajan says
Great write up!
It teaches us all not to rely on one source of income.
Never ever rely on adsense alone
You never know when it might get disabled for no fault of yours
Theodore Nwangene says
You’re very right Ambika and I’m happy we’ve learnt the lesson. Thanks for coming.
Sourav says
Great to hear that you have got youyr Adsense account back. Readin some of the comments, it seems that Google has really decided to do some good to the bloggers by giving back the adsense accounts to many bloggers.
Theodore Nwangene says
Thats exactly what i seems like Sourav,
Maybe they realized their mistakes. Thanks a lot for your wonderful contribution dear
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Carlie Hamilton says
Do I want to make money from my blog? Yes. But indirectly. I am hoping that I can become an authority and eventually start selling my own products – right now I am using my website to sell services, but I am ultimately hoping to sell my own information products. That is my dream goal for the future.
Theodore Nwangene says
That’s a very amazing goal Carlie,
And to be honest with you, that’s also what I’m planning to do soon in fact, it will be great to have my own product out there before the year runs out and I’m working on that :). Thanks a lot for visiting my blog Carlie, hope to see you again.
Have a great weekend.
Gautam says
Congrats for get back your adsense
Theodore Nwangene says
Thanks man
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