How to Make Passive Income Blogging

Freelance bloggers can make passive income from blogging in a number of ways. It may take a while to do this but if you are patient and persistent, you too can make money blogging. If your blog has already taken off and your audience becomes sizeable, you can then take positive steps to monetize the blog in the following ways. These are all viable ways/techniques to generate income from your blog:

Selling Your Own Products/Services: If you have the knowledge, skills or expertise in a particular field, you can create and sell your own products or services on your blog. You can create and sell products like eBooks, online courses, or expert consulting services. You earn money by way of outright sales or through consultancy fees.

Display Ads: You can sell ads spaces on your blog to make passive income. If your blog has a sizeable readership, a large audience and is popular enough, businesses will pay to advertise their products/services on your blog website. As a blogger, you can also earn money as a publisher if you allow some ad networks like Google AdSense to display ads on your blog. Anytime a blog reader views or clicks on any ad on your blog, you earn income as a publisher.

Affiliate Marketing: Affiliate marketing is performance-based marketing model where affiliates help product merchants promote their products in exchange for commissions. As a blogger, you can promote affiliate products/services on your blog through a unique affiliate link on your content. Anytime a reader clicks on your affiliate link and makes a purchase, you earn a commission. If the traffic to your blog is good, you make more sales as a result. Attracting considerable traffic to your blog is therefore of utmost importance to your ability to make sales.

Membership Sites: You can make passive income from subscription fees on your exclusive and highly valuable content on your membership site. If you have such valuable and exclusive content to share with readers, you can create a membership site where readers can pay some prescribed fees to access your exclusive content. This could include content like gated blog posts, webinars, or online communities.

To make passive income blogging, these here tips will help you out:
 
Aim to Solve Problems with your Blog: Yes, everyone who blogs probably has intent to sell something but this should not be too obvious. Aim to solve your readers’ problems first with your blog content and you can make sales along the line. Inspire your readers with the lessons from your own freelance blogging career and you can sufficiently arrest their attention enough to notice the products/services you are marketing. Blog extensively about your work-life experiences that could be valuable or inspiring to your target audience instead of throwing products or services you are marketing in their faces. If your aim is obviously to solve problems for your blog readers, they’ll trust and value you enough to do business with you.

Choose a Niche: It’s of utmost importance to choose a niche for your blog. This niche must resonate with your audience and you must have enough knowledge and expertise about it to help you market successfully in the niche. It helps too if you are extremely passionate about the niche. Marketing in such niche will make it easier for you to consistently create high-quality content that your readers will find valuable.

Create High-Quality Content: Blogging is the most popular form of content marketing among digital marketers. All it takes is to consistently create high-quality, impactful, informative, and educational and even entertaining content that your readers will find valuable. The content must be well-written and packaged in such a way as to make it highly engaging.

Blogging Host Sites: If you cannot immediately set up your own website for blogging, you can blog on host websites like Blogger, WordPress or on LinkedIn as an author. These host sites help you with valuable in-house blogging tools to make your blog successful. They have provisions for monetizing your blog on their platforms to enable you to earn passive income.
 
Widely Promote your Blog: The more popular a blog is the more income it earns for the blogger. As soon as you start creating valuable content on your blog, you need to widely promote the blog so that people can find it. The best places to promote your blog are, on social media, in online forums, and through guest blogging.

Guest Blogging: You can be a guest blogger on very popular blog sites in the same niche you are. By leaving a link back to your blog on the guest blogging site, your blog earns good traffic and valuable backlinks. These backlinks are important factors in the SEO of your blog. The blog could thus benefit from good organic traffic as a result.

Summary

Always bear in mind that it takes quite some patience and persistence to be a successful blogger. If you use the foregoing monetization techniques and tips, you too can build a successful blog to earn passive income in perpetuity. By the time you start creating content, don’t be discouraged if you don’t see good results immediately. Just be patient and keep creating great content and promoting your blog as widely as possible. With time, you’ll start to see results.