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How You Should Be Making Money from Your Niche Blog

How to Start Making Money from a Niche Blog

Now get back to the topic for the day and let’s discuss some tips which should help you make a good amount of money from your niche blog:

Apply for Google Adsense

Google Adsense seems to the obvious choice whether you want to monetize your general web site or niche specific blog. You could make good amount of money for every click especially on a niche specific blog. No doubt you could try several money making programs on your blog, but I would recommend keeping Google Adsense as one of method you are actually going to implement on your blog. No doubt I have already blogged about some Google Adsense Alternatives here. You should check them if you are looking to find some real money making alterative for Adsense.

Recommended reading: YouTube Advertising Formats: The Essential Guide Discover ways to start making money from AdSense on your YouTube channel

Sell Niche Specific Products

My second recommendation will be selling some products that matches your blog niche and the kind of content found on your blog. Best situation for you will be creating one or two products of your own around the chosen niche as that will give you huge money making opportunity. And in case you want to look at much easier ways to earn money from your blog, you should start promoting other’s people product on your blog.

You should only choose products that are matching your blog niche and you are recommending them to your blog readers because they are very high quality products and will be helping in fixing lots of your reader’s problems. Your only intention behind promoting a product should not be just about getting maximum profit. I have seen some affiliate marketers are able to make a good income just by referring good affiliate products with their target audiences.

Some websites you could actually try to find targeted affiliate products for your niche blogs are Amazon, ClickBank, LinkShare and Commission Junction.

Rent Ad Space On Your Blog

As you are producing very high quality content around a particular niche and have already established it as one of best blogs in targeted niche, so there will be lots of advertisers in that niche who would be interested in getting a presence for their product on your blog. They may be interested in placing a banner or text advertisement on your blog in exchange for some monthly fee.

You should set up an advertising page on your blog mentioning all advertising options on your blog. Be sure to include some social proof , page rank and Alexa rank. You can also try selling banner space on your blog using BuySellAds type of ad networks.

Apart from that, there will be some advertisers who want you to review their product based website on your niche blog in exchange for some monetory benefits. Writing reviews about products that are matching your blog niche is going to be very beneficial for you. In this case, you are going to update your blog with a fresh and targeted content and at the same time, going to get paid for your blogging efforts. In long run, you could expect receiving lots of targeted traffic to such posts from search engines.

Sell Your Expertise

So by now, you must have established yourself as an expert in your niche. Now it’s time to use your expertise to make more money. No doubt, you can use your expertise to create more niche blogs and thus end up with more profits. But at the same time, you can make a good amount of money by helping other bloggers and website owners in your niche to set up their blogs. If you have established yourself as a blogging Guru and know how to make huge profits, no doubt you can help other guys as well repeat the same kind of success with their blogs.

With this intention, there will be some people who will be interested in receiving your one on one coaching or training to get answers for their specific questions.

If you ask me personally, I have so far made good earnings from Google Adsense, selling other people’s products and selling ad space on my niche specific blogs. So far I have not created a product of my own. These days, I’m trying to sell my expertise in the blogging niche in the form of guest blogging services and WordPress installation services as a good way of making money.

I know many of you want to make some good money with adsense right?

But it’s not easy to get into adsense program now a days. You have to do few things before applying for adsense.

Google Adsense is world’s larges Ads Network and works at Pay Per Click system. It’s paying rates are better than all of other networks which is the biggest reason it is sopopular to all Bloggers and Webmasters. But since everybody is running behind them, they have made the approval system very strict. You make little mistakes and get disapproved every time. So you need a complete guidance and list of thing that you need to do before applying for Google Adsense and supposing that you are ready.

12 Things to Do Before Applying for Google Adsense

1. Privacy Policy :

One of the common mistakes that every Blogger makes and that I made many times before finally getting approved. Even though there are people out there who say that having a Privacy Policy for a Blog doesn’t makes sense but they are wrong.

A Privacy actually describes to your readers about what they will get on your Blog , what they should do and what they should not. So obviously there is nothing bad in having a Privacy Policy. While it can affect somehow on your Adsense Approval, you must give it a try. You can write it yourself or find Privacy Policy Generators online (You don’t need a lawyer anyway).

2. About Page

An About has major role and importance if you don’t want to apply for Adsense. But when it comes to Adsense, they are about Zero chances of getting approved if you are not showing this page.About page simply describes about you and your Blog . This will not only help you establish a relationship with readers but it will also make them trust upon you.

3. Contact Us Page

It’s quite obvious that everyone has his/her own opinion. What one of your readers likes may be bothering someone else. Than it is better to give them opportunity to speak up to you and tell how they feel about your Blog, what they want to be edited , what they liked or hated.

It will also show the Google Adsense Team that is viewing your site that you actually care about your readers and not only the money and Adsense.

4. Name/ Email Verification

Make sure to put you Name and Email address in some easily visible area like About Me and Contact Us pages. It will confirm to Google Adsense Team that it is the same person who applied for Adsense and not some spam, crappy bots.

5. Age Verification

I’m really laughing out typing this.

Why?

Because this is where I encountered a problem. Instead of 18, I accidentally published my age as 17 while on Adsense Application Form, it was accurately 18.

Hence there started a problem . Because Google Adsense is not for under 18 people. I realized this problem after being disproved a few times without any legitimate reason. So I advice you to be accurate while typing your age.

6. Minimum Number of Posts

There is no exact answer. Not even one. Because I have seen very established Blogs with 400+ posts and their owner telling me that Google Adsense is rejecting them while somewhere ,people with 40,50 posts are enjoying making money. Exactly what I said that there is no actual answer. However, we can always predict things. According to my experience , you should only apply after you have more than 70 posts. Posts length should must be 500+ words too.

Read : Difference Between Short Length Post Vs Length Posts – What’s Best?

7. Design

Your Blog is the biggest thing after Content. This represents your expertise ,experience and Professionalism. So be careful because anything can kill your Chances.

8. Content Type

Be careful with what type of content you are publishing. Because it is something that truly matters. Google Adsense is not for Pornographic, Illegal Items, Drugs or other Blogs / Sites like that. Also Adsense team won’t be willing to allow you to step in if you own a Non English Blog. Having posts shorter than 300 words in length is also Red Signal.

9. Providing Value

Don’t complain about not making money and don’t clearly state that your are Blogging for Money only and have no other interest in it. Because this will show them that you will not be providing values to your readers any day. Hence another Red Light glows up.

10. Top Level Domain

Those are gone far away when Adsense used to approve “Blogspot” and “WordPress.com” Blogs. As for today, you must have your own unique domain that specifies your Blog. If you don’t have one yet, stop dreaming about getting approved with Sub domains and go buy a Top Level Domain.

Another important thing about domain is it’s age. Because for most of Asian Countries, Adsense has placed an age restriction. They don’t accept any sites before they are 6 months old.

11. Other Ad Networks

If you have any other Ads placed like Chitika, Clicksor or anything, it’s time to drop them off.

Even Google Adsense allows you to use other Ad Networks along with them, it’s better to remove the ads before Applying and don’t put them back until you get a reply from Adsense Team.

12. Paid Traffic

Google hates the sites that are getting Paid traffic and mostly penalizes them so there is not a damn chance of getting Adsense Approval letter for a site that is getting paid traffic. You can bring traffic from Search Engines or any other way you want but if you want to earn via Google Adsense the right way, paid traffic is not a solution.

Over To You!

This will take your few time and you have to Do these things Before Applying for Google Adsense. I guess these are not too hard. Don’t be sad if google adsense not approve your blog!