How To Make Money With Your Blog Without Using Ads Networks

What made you want to start blogging? Is it passion or because you wanted to earn some money. I believe most people are into blogging nowadays because there are less job opportunities recently they just want to make money for themselves. If you are into blogging because of money then no doubt you've looked for several ways you can earn from your website. 

 Most popular ways people make money via their website is through ads networks such as Google adsense, propeller ads, mgid, ezoic, etc. How does this work? As a Blogger you sign up on one these ads networks as a publisher and you agree to their terms of displaying ads on your website. You get to earn money from the ads being placed on your website either through cost per click ( CPC ). That is, everytime those ads on your website are being clicked or you earn through Cost per impression ( CPM ). That is, every time your visitors view pages of your website that has ads displayed on.

 Some ads networks would pay you both for CPC and CPM while others will only pay you only by CPC or otherwise. Some of these ads networks takes a longer time before you could be approved to start displaying ads on your website while others are approve you instantly. For example, propeller ads. 

 Most used ads networks are Google adsense and ezoic. This is because these ads company tends to pay her publishers more than any other company. But at the same time it becomes a situation of, "The better the ads company the harder it becomes to be approved".

 Well, you must know that you should not be too worried if you never get approved because of missing the qualification requirements. There are other ways you can monetize the traffic on your website without having anything to do with ads company. So that's what we'll talk about today, how to make money with your blog without using ads networks.

 

1. Affiliate Marketing

If Ads Company haven't accepted your approval to work with them yet you can still earn income from your website by means of affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is simply marketing a product either physical or digitally and in turn earning commissions anytime you make a sale or someone purchases the product using your personalized referral link. These products could be physical products like mobile phones, wears, kitchen utensils, etc. Or it can also be in form of an ebook probably a type that lectures you on a particular skill.

 If you want to start affiliate marketing on your website you might need to sign up with a particular company as an advertiser. For example, Jumia. After signing up as an advertiser you will be given customized banners that has your referral link with it. Some that sees the banner and buys a product from it doesn't see your referral link which makes it so unique. So you don't have to be worried about some categories of people that doesn't like to buy via someone's referral link.

 Some affiliate companies you sign up with might offer different commissions per sale. So make sure to do your own personal research before you decide to be an affiliate to any company. This way you'll already know what to expect so no surprises. 

 

2. Sell/Rent Ads Spaces

 As someone who has a lot of daily visitors on his website he can choose to monetize it by selling ads spaces. What does it actually mean? Selling ads spaces means that someone after seeing that amount of traffic you have will pay you a particular sum of money and have his ads displayed on your website. The money he paid to you to display ads simply means that you are selling that particular space on your website to him to advertise is services or products.

 So you will charge him based on your traffic, what services or products he wants to advertise and for how long he wants the advert to appear on your website. With this method you can actually make up to N100,000 per week judging by the amount of traffic your website generates daily, monthly and annually. This strategy is one of the most effective way of making money on your website. So if you want to use this means then you must work on your traffic. That is, you must ensure that your website is generating a good reasonable amount of traffic within a required period of time. 

 Even those that are making use of ads networks are also into selling of ads spaces. This shows how lucrative this field can be. So no need to be worried about not getting approved by ads networks or getting low earnings from them. All you need to do is to work on your traffic and you are good to go.

 When you are ready to go simply put up an advert on your blog that you are ready to accept sponsored ads or links while also necessarily making known your rates. You might do a little write up while also putting up your traffic graphs to show how your website is doing in terms of page views.

 

3. Sell Online Courses

Another way you can make money off your blog without going after these ads networks is through selling courses. Ask yourself, what do i know better than the majorities? What knowledge can i confidently pass on to others while charging a token? If you're particularly good in a field digital marketing for example then you should start creating a course about it.

 Online courses could come in different formats be it videos, audios or E-books. Depending on what course you are selling you might choose to implement either one or two of the mentioned formats. Another thing is that for you to make enough sales you should try and make your course affordable. This is because there are thousands of others selling a similar if not the same courses. So you have to make sure yours stands out. People are also more likely to purchase something that comes in a cheaper rate.

 When it comes to selling courses there are lots of them you can sell provided you have the knowledge of it. If you are someone that is good in video production you can simply create a course based on your skill and sell. If you are good in graphics design why don't you start selling a course about it?

 Another method of selling courses without actually spending time to create one is reselling. You might have someone who needs to sell his courses but doesn't have a platform for it like a website with huge traffic. But then you have the traffic so you make a deal with the person to get commissions from his courses that you put on your website for sale. 

  Conclusions 

 I believe that there are many other ways you can make money from your blog without signing up as a publisher on an ads network. So don't give up on your blog if your are limited to these kinds of monetization opportunities.