Most bloggers (about 90%) fight for Adsense. They believe it is
the best and only means of earning big from your blog. Well, I
think it's high time they knew they have been wrong all this
while. I run two other blogs and I don't post ads as a method
of monetization. Rather, I monetize with other techniques.
If you are among those fighting to get Adsense approval, have
you ever thought to wonder what you will do with it? Because
getting the approval is one thing, making money with it is
something entirely different while keeping yourself from
suspension or ban is a little bit tricky.
There are some other reasons why I don't monetize my blog
with ads. They are:
Click through rate is usually low
The payout may be too high
Different payment methods
Some are scam networks
LAck of quality ads for visitors
Ads take a ton of space on your blog
That's just a few of the reasons why I don't use ads as a
method of monetization. I'll rather go with any of the following:
Selling products
Sell services
Affiliate marketing
Sell links
Sponsor a post
Information marketing
Selling products: What products do you make relative to your
niche? You can sell digital and physical products on your blog
and earn more than those who use adsense. All you need to
do is create a page, set it's SEO and write a short description
of the product you want to sell. Then promote that page.
Sell services: Tech bloggers use this as another method of
monetizing their blogs. There is this particular strategy some
use which I love so much. What they do is: apply for adsense,
get approval and sell it then apply all over again as much as
they like. You can also offer to create blogs, run ads, SEO, sell
templates etc. The best things about selling your own services
apart from making money are:
it gives room for negotiation
It establishes a good blogger-visitor relationship
It builds trust
It improves your reputation
Affiliate marketing: You don't necessarily need to sign up on
Amazon or Jumia to become an affiliate, you can just become
an affiliate of a friend. Help a friend market his/her products
and earn your share of the cash.
Sell links: This is one of the most uncommon methods of
monetizing a blog without ads. People actually pay other
bloggers to link to their blogs. All they do is look for top
performing posts, check the blog's DA and traffic then pay
them to link their blog.
Sponsor a post: Companies and individuals pay good blog
writers to write a product description or a sponsored post
about their blog, services, events and many more. I have heard
of bloggers who earned their first money online through
sponsored posts. An example is one of my favorite bloggers:
Emmanuel Ekanem.
Information marketing: The most untapped marketing in
Nigeria is information marketing. Information is power and
power brings money. You can sell ebooks on your blog and
make a huge income. If you offer to sell one book for $10 and
make at least 100 sales per day, that's a total of $1000 per
month. This was how I got my first money online.