14 Best Ways To Monetize A Blog Without Ads For Beginners: Get YOUR Share!

Best Ways To Monetize A Blog Without Ads

Let’s take a look now at the different ways to monetize a blog and start making money or scale up big. 

1. Affiliate Marketing

Take my advice and do affiliate marketing.  

It’s honestly one of the best ways to start earning money from a new blog because it’s so easy to do.

Here’s the steps on how to start affiliate marketing on your blog or website: 

1. Find a company or software that you enjoy and can support.
2. Sign up to be an affiliate – usually a link to sign up in the footer of the company’s website or just search for “[company name] affiliate program” in Google
3. Once approved, start creating both informational posts and review posts around the product with affiliate links inside the posts

2. Email Marketing (Build An Email List)

Email marketing is powerful because it’s an asset that you own.  

Whenever you want to send traffic to a new blog post you created, YouTube video, or sales funnel it’s simply a matter of writing up a quick email campaign to your email list.

Here are the main steps on how to build an email list for your blog:

1. Sign up for ActiveCampaign (my favorite email autoresponder)
2. Sign up for Thrive Leads (allows you to build opt-in forms to integrate with your email autoresponder and split-test different opt-in form ideas)
3. Create a lead magnet (free item for someone who subscribes)
4. Create the opt-in form and connect with your autoresponder – I recommend creating both an exit intent popup and several in-content popups across your entire blog or website
5. Create info posts to send traffic and a certain percentage will subscribe
6. Split-test opt-in forms to increase subscribers 🙂 
7. Build out email automations for new subscribers and send email campaigns to direct traffic back to new posts and occasionally direct link to affiliate offers  

3. Create An E-book

Creating an e-book doesn’t have to be difficult in the sense that your e-book doesn’t have to be at least 10,000 words long.

The main goal here is to create some that first and foremost provides value to your audience.

Here’s a few ideas for e-books to create that relate to your niche:

• Step-By-Step Guide To [fill in the blank]
• The 10 Must-Have Tools For More [fill in the blank]
• The Ultimate Guide To [fill in the blank]
• The Hidden Truth About [fill in the blank]
• [fill in the blank] Ways To Be More [fill in the blank]

4. Create A Course

A lot of people brush off creating a course… because let’s be honest… it seems like a ton of work!

Well, it actually doesn’t have to be and can bring in massive returns for years to come.

You can either create a free course or a paid course.

What I recommend is either making a free course sent by emails to your subscribers or a separate area that requires a login (I use DropFunnels for my courses).

From there you can gain email subscribers for people who opt-in to gain free access and also include affiliate links within the course.

By the way, you don’t need to create videos for a course.  It can simply be several emails over the course of a few weeks or a few blog posts.

5. Develop A Software

Developing a software is probably the one that requires the most time, money, and effort on this list.

Chances are that you’re not an amazing software developer and you’ll need to spend money to get your idea built.

You’ll then need to pay to host the files a server and tons of other logistical nuances that can get complicated and time-consuming pretty quick.

However, the end result is a software that you can sell to your audience for a monthly or yearly fee and can bring you recurring money.

I actually have a free link tracking software that I paid to have developed and you can get free access.

6. Free Tutorial Or Training With Affiliate Links

If you want to go all in with a specific affiliate program for your niche, then I highly recommend creating a training program or tutorial for your readers.

Inside the training you’ll want to include the use of the product you’re promoting with your affiliate link.

7. Allow Sponsored Posts On Your Blog

A sponsored post allows for someone else to promote their content on your blog.

These vary from traditional advertisements since they’re meant to blend in with your own blog posts but direct to an external website.

8. Private Forum/Membership Area

Creating your own forum or membership area is a really great way to start earning monthly recurring income from your blog.

I personally use DropFunnels to create my membership areas.

Here’s some ideas of what to include in your membership site or membership area:

• all of your lead magnets for readers who opt-in
• all of your courses
• software that you’ve developed

9. Offer Niche Specific Consulting

So… did you want to know the fastest way to earn money from a blog?

Well, I’d consider consulting to be the fastest way to start making money from your blog.

This is because a lot of people are looking for individual help on topics such as SEO and many more.

The main problem is that consulting is very difficult to scale in the long-term, which is why typically many sites have extremely high prices for their consulting to make it worth their time.

10. Content Lock Certain Posts For A Small Fee Or Email Address

A really easy way to start gaining subscribers is by content locking certain posts for someone to enter their email address and receive access.

I use Thrive Leads to easily do this.

11. Generate Leads For Other Companies

Generating leads for other companies is all about mastering converting traffic to your blog into email subscribers.

Here’s a few ideas to start generating leads from your blog:

• Run a giveaway
• Turn blog posts into guides to giveaway
• Create shareable content to draw in more visitors and eventual subscribers

12. Create A Specific Page Of Tools You Use With Affiliate Links

I do this particular strategy myself with my own tools the I use for my online business.

You can take a look at all of my favorite marketing tools for some ideas.

13. Create Your Own Affiliate Program

If you’re promoting any of your own digital products (courses, e-books, etc), then it’s a good idea to create an affiliate program around it.

By creating an affiliate program, you allow your audience to promote and do the marketing for you with their own audiences.

This dramatically increases the overall revenue for your business.

14. Embed Your YouTube Videos On Your Site

Embedding your YouTube videos on your site might seem simple.

However, there’s some pretty amazing benefits for your blog that you can get out of it.

Here’s a list of just some of the benefits of embedding YouTube videos on your blog or website:

• Increased time on page for visitors
• Higher ranking in Google due to time on page increasing
• Higher rankings in the YouTube search algorithm
• More views and ad revenue from YouTube when using your own videos
• Videos create more trust with your audience