Making Money from a Blog?

[southernhorizons]

How do people really make money from blogs? I was thinking about starting a blog not specifically about money-making sites, but one of those "homestyle" type blogs that have a variety of posts about various things I do online and offline, like Photoshop designing, etc. But I don't understand how blogs make money. How do you get enough traffic to the blog, especially when it's a new one? I don't want to spend hours a day posting my blog link all over the internet, in the vague hope that somebody will actually click on it and visit my site.

[Liquidfire_43]

Blogs make money through ads, referrals, and sponsorships

If you have unused space on your blog, you can fill out that space with ads... One well known ad service you can use is Adsense from google.. Or AdHitz Ads (which Fusioncash use or something)... Just be sure the ad is not driving away users from viewing ur blog.. Too many ads can make people dislike your website even if it is good.. Also be sure to find a ad service that is not shady. You don't want your readers signing up to some shady site that steals, sell, or spams their information. Make sure the ad is relevant to your blog. Ads might not be the best way to get revenue due to adblocker and the cpm

If your reviewing a product/site you can get money through referrals. For instance if I have a blog reviewing or talking about GPT sites, I would include Swagbucks, Fusioncash, etc referral link in my blog. If they sign up through my referral link I get signup bonus from whatever the site puts up. Just make sure to inform ur readers that it is through ur referral link. Some people I guess don't like it when you don't inform them that it is through a referral (seems scummy to some people)

And lastly is sponsorship.. If your blog is doing very well and has a lot of web traffic you can apply or get sponsorships from company or services. Some will provide free products to test out and review to ur readers. Others will pay u a base price and through xxx amount of sales you get commission through referrals.. For instance if you are a streamer in Twitch tv. You can be sponsored by companies that sell computer/game related products.. Companies like Ibuypower, Cyberpower, Digital Storm, G2A, Greenmangaming, etc

[cathy37]

I'm not sure how you make money writing blogs, but a lot of people do it.  I don't know how you would start doing this, but it might would be fun to try.

[sunwaters]

.I really wanted to try being a blogger and get paid but it seems difficult to start/

[yisa]

.I really wanted to try being a blogger and get paid but it seems difficult to start/

yeah me too

[crisstar]

Whatever topic your blog is on, find affiliate offers related to that. You then can put those offers via a link or banners on your blog.

The way to get traffic for free is by posting links to it from your social media accounts, commenting on other blogs in your niche, using appropriate keyword phrases you want your blog to get found for in your blog posts etc...

[sdenimandlace1]

I have a blog maybe I should look in to that.

[southernhorizons]

Thank you LiquidFire, that's a good explanation! I'm not sure how much any of those options would relate to what I have in mind. Probably Adsense would be my best bet, but like you said, Adblockers make it hard to earn from ads. Occasionally I might review a product or site, but that won't be my main focus. I think my toughest job will be getting traffic. I don't have a lot of time to spend posting my link, and the only social media sites I'm on is Facebook, twitter, and Pinterest.