Trending Ways to Make Money Online

Without a doubt, the internet has greatly transformed the ways people do business around the world. It has managed to find a way around artificial boundaries and borders, removed limitations imposed by geographical regions and locations. It has greatly improved the ease of doing business even with limited financial resources. With just a computer, tablet or smart phone and access to the internet, you can get down to business and make money online. There is no shortage of clever and even highly ingenious ways to make money online. What is trending with most marketers right now are:

Email Marketing
Online advertising
Google Ads
Social media ads: particularly on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube etc etc.
Search Engine Marketing, SEM
Social Media Marketing, SMM
Influencer Marketing
Search Engine Optimization, SEO


 
Here now is the real catch: Blogging for money.

Blogging and bloggers are currently taking the internet by storm. Blogs are simply informational websites where writers share their views on subjects of their choice where they know something and have some measure of expertise. What matters is to choose a niche industry you really know something about which you’ll gladly share through your blogs. To make money, you need profitable niches you can blog about. Such popular niches like travels, hospitality, food, photography, health, fitness, career, fashion, gardening, and finance are some great niches many marketers now blog about.

Having settled for a great niche to blog about, bloggers next settle for ways to make money from the blog. They do this by monetizing the blog. Among many other ways, here are the commonest ways blogs are monetized:

You can sell digital products such as photos, music, apps, online courses, and videos.

You can engage in Affiliate Marketing. This is done by blogging about an advertiser’s product. You get paid commissions for every sale that comes via your blog website.

You can sell private ads and sponsored posts.

You can sell memberships on your blog site. If for example, you own a career blog, you can charge fees for members to access a private job board.

You can place ads on your blog site as a publisher. With that, you make money through Pay-Per-Click, PPC or Pay-Per-View, PPV. For PPC, you are paid for the ad-clicks when readers click on your ads, while you are paid as per the number of people who have viewed your ads in case of PPV. Bloggers preferring these methods of monetization, depend on using Google Adsense for effective, fraud free calculation and payment method.