Blog Advertising As A Way Of Making Money Online

 Much of the blogs that advertise, (do so with other) companies, people or group products or services. The company pays you directly or indirectly (will discuss this later on) to have you place their products or services on your blog.

The products or services that you’ll advertise on your blog do not necessarily have to be yours, but if you have your own products or services, I recommend that you serve your advertisements on your blog.

To make money with showing advertisements you have work hard, being strategical (just in almost anything in life, if you work without strategy, you’re going to find yourself worn & attain very little results), and lastly being patient. 

Showing advertisements on your blog, usually does not mean you’ll earn anything during maybe the first six months or two years or so, blog advertising is a congested area and the earnings have become too low. 

I’m not saying this to discourage you, but to let you know that you have to dive into the attempt with a clear strategy, and a strong focus in order to get a particular audience, also having learnt the best lessons about blogging for money. 

Four Major Types of Advertisements

Sponsored Posts

Text (Links)

Banner

Video 

Your Own Products

Other Media

Sponsored Posts 

Sponsored Posts are articles that a Blogger is paid by a service provider or person selling a product to have posted on blog.

A whole lot of hard-work and taking the right steps is needed for your blog to start getting sponsored posts.

The purpose of a ‘sponsored post’ is to promote something to an audience, which is a product or service. So your blog needs to have enough value to attract people who would like to sponsor your posts. 

There are mainly two sources of sponsored posts, which I have put into two groups, direct and indirect.

How sponsored posts work

A person wanting to sponsor a post approaches you with an offer 

You make the post on your blog & your blog visitors see the post

They take the required action if they’re interested in the product or service (an event or whatever) 

Where to get Third-Party Sponsored Posts

You can get sponsored third-party services that have readily available merchants or service providers who are looking for blogs with content that relates to their products or services that they would like to have posted on a blog (the sponsored posts).

You can search for these networks and sign up: 

ValuedVoice

BlogHer

SeedingUp

Bloggers also list their inventories on third-party sponsored post providers lists so that their blogs maybe found by people looking for blogs to promote their products or services on. 

Find out more ways to get sponsored posts on ‘Let’s Reach Success’ 

Text Ads/Advertising Links

Text Ads are those that simply used words to describe the company or products that are offered.

A link on internet is simply a doorway from one location to another on the web.

Here’s an example of text advertising links on a football blog:

 Figure : Example Of Link-Text Advertisements  

Links are usually within a section of your blog, usually showing text that leads a user to a location or website on the web with contents of the service or product seller.

Banner Ads or I mage 

A simple photo showing information of products or services or any other promotions. Usually, it links to the stuff that is being advertised.

Banner Ads are the most popular types of ads on the internet.

Video Ads 

Video Advertisements belong to a category of ads known rich media ads, which are interactive, video ads are playable, stoppable ads. Advertisements that are shown within a video media player.

Other Media 

This advertising material that is available on affiliate marketing you will be using.

Examples of where to get ads to display on a blog 

Affiliate Marketing 

Affiliate marketing is when you promote other people’s products or services, and in return you earn a commission when someone buys the service or product. 

Affiliate marketing is usually done through an affiliate network that has products that need promoters, and also tracks details of all activities associated with the promotions. 

Good examples of affiliate networks are Amazon’s Affiliate Network and Gearbest Affiliate Network. 

Advertising services or third party providers 

Examples:

Google Adsense 

Probably the biggest advertising network on the internet that most bloggers make use of, it serves varying types of advertising material that you can find on the website.

You have to find the right 'niche', when using Adsense, and produce good content that draws the right visitors in order for you to earn a good amount of money.

Media

Allows you to monetize your blog, suitable for most blog content, you can make the most of your advertising revenue and take advantage of a huge search market.

On Media You get paid around $2.00+ for one thousand views per advertisement (that's before clicks, and more).

 Propeller Ads

Propeller Ads is another big advertising network that offers different types of advertising material like banners, and

sponsored links.

There are loads of advertising services on the internet, I have only highlighted the most trusted networks, you can always search for more and weigh on your own to find out what would work best for you.

Direct companies or promoters 

You should go with this when starting. This is how most new bloggers earn a steady income in their early years.

If you’re coming up with good, quality, niche content for your blog, another way to earn money on your blog is to get a company, organization with services or products that relate to your topics that wants to reach out to an audience through advertising on your blog. 

For example if you write about baby products on your blog for a targeted audience, you might approach a company that sells baby products to reach out to people who are interested in baby related topics.

E-commerce store or your own products or e-commerce store

I will speak about E-commerce-in-detail in the section where I will be giving you information about Online-Trading as one of the ways to earn income web. 

But in connection to blogging, an e-commerce store is in my view the best way to monetize your blog.

One of the things an e-commerce store in its first days will depend on is Traffic that is generated from posts on your blog before it can generate it’s own audience. 

Freelance Writing

Web-writing means putting information or publishing (usually named content) on internet platforms using the text format. Much of the text that you see on the internet is written by human beings, just like you, (unless you’re one of those bots I will speak of in the next line. And at-least some of the text is generated by bots, which is some software developed by programmers).

If you would like to start a career as a writer on the internet so that you can earn a side income, I have broken down the major ways you can do it below:

You can start a blog 

Blogs have always been the backbone of the internet. Much of the useful information we access on a daily bases on the internet is available through the various blogs that are written by bloggers. A blog is a knowledge website that is published on the internet, usually done through informally written posts.

A Blogger is a person who runs or writes on a blog. And you are a publisher if you own a blog.

Bloggers know of the necessary information to put on their blogs through researching on the subject, knowledge they already posses from ‘learning’ or from their experience. 

There are many types of blogs you can start and earn income. I’ll discuss about that in the segment after the following part.

Here’s how you’ll earn money if you start a blog

There are several ways in which you could start earning money on the web with a blog. But note, the value of your blog, usefulness to users, is largely going to determine how much you’re going to earn from it.

There are so many ways in which you could earn money from your blog. But these are just some of the ways you can do it.

 Here’s how you can earn money while blogging: 

One of the ways to earn money through a blog is serving product or service advertisements 

I will define advertising as only to make something known.

When you make a blog, the people who visit the blog are called visitors, an audience given their interest to keep returning to the blog remains overtime. You can take advantage of your web-space, the blog, to show advertisements in exchange for money.    

 Figure : Example of a monetized blog

More on Freelance Writing: Next Blog 

Services that you can easily sign up teach on and find teaching work

Website Payment Method Subjects    

Bibo Global

Western Union (Bank Transfer),

English

Tutor

Credit Cards

Various Subjects

Konversai

Stripe (You’will have to transfer funds into your Payoneer Account)

English, Mathematics, and More  

(1) Bibo Global

A learning website that teaches Conversational English, Business English, Reading and Writing Skills, Listening and Speaking Skills, Grammar and Vocabulary, or Useful Language Expression and Idioms. 

Also conducts exam review classes like IELTS, TOEFL and TOEIC. 

Learn how to join Bibo Global as a teacher here.

Ways to teach online – Bibo Lessons. 

Apply for a teaching position at Bibo Global here.

(2) Tutor

You can teach on various subjects or skills via Tutor. You can earn money teaching whatever you want, on your own time, irregardless of your location.

Tutor believes tutors that are signed up on the platform should enjoy, complete teaching freedom, control over their business, and monetary independence.

Apply for Tutor Position at Tutor – Sign up form, or Here.

(3) Konversai

Konversai allows you to teach and educate students all around the world. Teach the English language and become your own boss. 

Konversai is a marketplace for everyone, anywhere to share their knowledge. As a Provider, set up your own marketplace, build your brand, and enjoy a new revenue stream. As a Seeker, simply explore a new topic or take a deep dive in live video sessions. The only limit is your imagination! 

Sign Up form: Konversai

Other online teaching services you could check out:

Website Estimated Pay US$    

Topica Native: 

According to yourrank    

Fluentbe 

$10.00p/h    

First Future 

$16+for 45 min    

Italkie 

You Set Your Own    

Learn Light

$12.00 p/h    

Preply 

Commission  

Services that allow teachers to sell their own courses

On these services you can design your own lessons and find an audience to sell to easily. 

Udemy

Skillshare 

Udemy 

Udemy: Teachers use the site’s platform to easily build courses by combining video Power Point – presentations, PDF’s, and audio files and zip files. On Udemy you can host live classes.

Some classes on Udemy are free. Paid courses typically range from $5 to $250, and Udemy keeps 20% of the money you earn as a service fee. 

Skillshare 

Skillshare is an online learning platform where anyone can teach. 

Teachers at Skillshare are everyday creators, entrepreneurs, and professionals who are passionate about what they do – people like you. 

There’s no need for you to have experience or be well known to publish your first class and grow a following. 

Other similar platforms to teach; 

Skillwise    

WiziQ  

Besides using third-party services you can also deliver lessons independently, through your own means;

Here are other ways you can teach online 

Start a blog on a subject of your choice

Let’s say you’re a highly gifted person in the field academics, or you have mastered certain topics or fields you know some people might be have trouble understanding, all you have to do is make lessons, but paying attention to your context.

This doesn’t have to be necessarily a killer topic or subject, this can be something you just know about, that will be useful to someone.

(Keep in mind that at times lessons are already available for free on the internet, but if you'd take a deeper look you’ll find out that much of the lessons are meant for people from specific geographical locations, those lessons may not apply or be exactly suitable for someone in your country. 

Let’s say an Ordinary Level, student looking for lessons in the subject of mathematics may find lessons on the meant for students of a ‘universal’ board like Cambridge, and that wouldn’t be any much good to the student. 

But if you find a way to package the lessons for your countries’ students you’ll definitely get students who are interested in your work. - if you find lessons on the local web (they’re usually in a one size fits all)

And also just because someone else has done it already don’t mean you shouldn’t do it – just find a unique angle to it.

Learn how to start a blog later in the book. 

Write short e-books with simple and easy to understand

An E-book (E-Book short for Electronic Book) is a book that is in a format that can be presented or

downloaded online.  

Write an an e-book on your subject of expertise and sell it, or a smaller market, (you can simplify instructions): 

How to earn money with e-books 

E-books are sold for money.  You can sell an e-book through your own website through a shopping cart that you can make for free on a website like Paynow (a local payment gateway), or a third party store like Amazon, you just head over to Amazon Kindle Publisher and you will be shown steps to publishing and selling your e-book.     

How to get started with writing e-books

Target your market (niche, know who you want to write for, know their needs).

Choose a topic you are knowledgeable or passionate about

Get Writing (Be informative)

(Note: Your level of language skillfulness doesn’t matter, we all know you speak grammatically horrific Shona or Ndebele, that shouldn’t keep from saying what you want to say, content is what matters, what the book is saying, or trying to say at least). 

Make videos with lessons

Another way is to teach a subject or lessons in a series of videos and start a Whatsapp Group with a paid membership and advertise to get member on the various social media platforms.

You can learn how make videos for your lessons here or at least get an idea of how it’s done if don’t know already: learn how to do it on this link.

What To Teach Online

Figure : Snippet From Hacker 2016 Movie 

A lot of services look for teachers to carry out classes through the internet. But unfortunately most of the services require that you’re from certain certain geographical locations in order to get work, or do not support payment gateways that would allow a teacher from any country around the globe to receive payments, and those are usually the ones that pay well. And you can’t blame those websites for those websites for loads of reasons I am not going to discuss in this book.

But still, that would mean the opportunity to a capable teacher to provide lessons to students is shut.

I have compiled ways you can teach on almost any subject and income.

What you can teach online 

The simplest way to find a subject to teach online is to assess your skills or knowledge and make lessons, or you can simply find out what you can teach on some of the services for teachers that I have listed below:

These are some of the things you can teach through the internet:

But before that you could discover what you might want teach by answering these simple questions, don’t worry it’s not an ‘exam’:

What do you love doing?

What are you naturally good at?

What do people ask your help for?

If are you good at your hobby if you have one? 

What’s your field of expertise?

Education

Mathematics 

Shona

Ndebele

English

Accounting

Food 

Baking (Unique Baking Recipes)

Cooking 

Beauty

Some teach about make up

 Skills

Anything you can do that you know, that can be useful to someone

Online-Freelance Teaching

One of the things the internet is highly accessed for on a daily bases, or useful for, are lessons that are available whether for free or paid. 

Anyone can package whatever their skill or knowledge into lessons and deliver through the internet. 

And the guy from this movie, ‘Hacker’ a 2016 movie, claims that he learnt coding, and hacking entirely on the web. Fiction? I have learnt a lot too. See Next Post