Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to make money from your website. It includes ideas, tips, and strategies you can use immediately to earn more income from your website.
This guide will show you what you need to do to start making money from your website today!
Listed below are seven ways you can make money from your website that don’t involve selling advertising. Ad revenue is often a source of secondary income for many sites, but it can be hard to make significant dollars off web ads, and almost impossible if you’re using banner ads. Plus, advertisers are more comfortable working with more established sites.
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Instead of trying to flip websites like real estate or used cars, focus on generating recurring revenue streams instead.
Create an email list
Creating an email list can be a great way to earn money from your website. Once you have an email list, you can offer your subscribers special discounts and content that aren’t available anywhere else. And once someone is on your email list, you can send them offers for products, services or both.
You can also use your email list as a channel for surveys; if they see value in what you offer, they’ll be more willing to provide their feedback in exchange for free goodies. Make sure you let people know it exists so they can join and take advantage of your awesome content.
Once you create an email list, don’t forget about it! Send out regular updates so that your audience knows what you’re up to and how they can stay in touch with your work. This will make your relationships feel like more than just transactions.
Make sure your emails are high quality, relevant and interesting to ensure you stand out from all those other automated messages going around; having a high open rate will go a long way toward helping secure future opportunities.
Also keep in mind that when you sign up for any service offering email lists (like MailChimp), they often come with loads of features and templates designed specifically for marketers who want to get started building an audience right away.
Don’t overcomplicate things: Start simple, focus on delivering good content consistently and track your results—this will help you determine where to allocate resources when looking at automation tools later down the line.
Don’t set yourself up for failure by trying to do everything at once. People expect consistency—let them know what type of content they can expect from you regularly and give each piece its own branding.
Oh, and make sure your subject lines are compelling enough to encourage click-throughs: In general, I’ve found that if you say something funny or provocative in a headline but then fail to deliver on whatever it promised there, readers won’t be eager to read whatever comes next.
Sell blog content
When you create good content, you attract visitors. When they visit your site, they can (and likely will) become customers if you provide products or services that address their needs.
Writing great content is one of my favorite ways to make money online because it’s so scalable—once it’s written, it can be repurposed and sold multiple times!
There are many ways to sell your website content: write an ebook, license it via a stock photo site like Shutterstock, sell print copies on Amazon or at local craft fairs, etc.
You might have heard me say this before in other blogs but I really mean it when I say if you’re not selling something, you’re just giving stuff away for free.
So start figuring out how you can turn some of your hard work into cash. And no matter what approach you take, just make sure that whatever product or service you offer has value and does not merely restate information already available online for free elsewhere!
Read more about monetizing your website here. One caveat… there is nothing wrong with sharing free tips and advice as long as your goal is NOT to generate income from those posts alone; however, if you are using your platform purely to promote affiliate links, then please use discretion (or perhaps do not share them at all) since that usually creates less trust with readers.
Why? Because people will find it difficult to trust someone who touts their own wares constantly. They may begin to wonder why any link you share would not send potential customers directly back to your own site… hence diluting its effectiveness as a trustworthy resource. Thanks for understanding. 🙂
Work with brands
If you have a lot of visitors coming through your site, it’s probably because you’re providing something they want. It might not even be something you think is that cool—it could just be an area of interest.
There are companies out there willing to pay for content on a website like yours, but your goal isn’t money (at least not at first). Instead, think about working with brands to create opportunities for others who visit your site.
For example, if most of your readers are young moms and you find a company that wants to connect with that demographic in some way, try offering them an opportunity in exchange for some kind of compensation or promotion.
This doesn’t work for everyone, but if you get lots of traffic and have good relationships with people in your niche then it can definitely help bring in extra income while also creating new fans.
Every blogger I know has had one big post that really blew up—that happened to me after I did a sponsored post from LensCrafters . You don’t need to partner with large brand names right away; take baby steps by finding someone local who will work within your budget and audience.
Start small and grow from there; building trust takes time! In case you’re curious: no, I didn’t receive free glasses in exchange for my post. But instead, I received 25 pairs of reading glasses and sunglasses which were donated to VisionSpring, so it ended up being a win-win all around.
Become a ghostwriter for entrepreneurs
Overcome your fear of rejection by seeing your job as providing a service rather than getting hired for one gig. By taking on ghostwriting work, you can make money from website clients that don’t want or can’t afford to hire an in-house writer.
If you’re persistent and polished, it won’t be long before ghostwriting gets you noticed, too. And if it doesn’t? Well, at least you’ll make some cash! Either way, consider adding ghostwriter/blogger to your list of skills so more potential clients know they should contact you.
Or look into services like Clarity — they provide project management and other support to freelance writers who might need it with big projects.
There are also lots of reputable sites where you can find people willing to pay top dollar for content creation help. Upwork is a great place to start because it allows you to filter through thousands of freelance writers; there are many successful freelancers earning six figures doing nothing but creating content on Upwork .
Take advantage of these income opportunities—write good things and earn money from your website—and see what happens! It will almost certainly be better than waiting tables.
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Write ebooks
There are a variety of ways you can create and distribute an ebook online. Depending on your needs, some will be more useful than others. For example, if you want to create a product that anyone can read from anywhere, opt for using tools like Canva eBook design.
Since you don’t need to set up any servers or track downloads, it’s easy for anyone to access your work. These tools also have built-in analytics that help you keep track of how many people read your book and where they came from.
You can even add links in your ebook so readers can buy related products directly from their browsers. Another option is to use eCommerce software such as Shopify with downloadable files.
This requires a bit more technical know-how, but gives you complete control over how people download and purchase your ebooks. One drawback of self-hosted solutions is there is no direct way to earn money off your content; in fact, some providers may even prevent downloading entirely unless you pay them (or offer advanced features).
But with free open source options like WordPress available, most users find setting up shop not too difficult once they get started.
Sell printables or digital downloads
You might have heard of digital downloads, but there’s another way you can sell your products – printables. Printables are an easy and affordable way to create a one-of-kind product that doesn’t require too much time investment on your part.
Even better? This type of offering makes it easy for buyers to reorder again and again (which is great if you want repeat customers). To get started with printables, simply put together a collection of photos or other artwork related to your topic area, put it all into a pdf file and then sell that file online.
You can distribute it through various marketplaces or host your own shop directly on your website. Oh, and don’t worry: when we say one-of-kind we mean just that! People won’t be able to buy exactly what you made anywhere else online.
This model works particularly well in art communities like Etsy or Zazzle as well as in niche areas like children’s clothing where parents tend to go straight to sites like Pinterest when they want something they haven’t been able to find elsewhere.
Just make sure your content is good enough quality so customers will be happy paying for your creation! Like selling printables? Want more info on how to sell digitally? Click here!
Get paid for your photos
If you have a way with words, an even better way to make money from your website is with affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing means that you promote someone else’s product or service on your website for a commission (sometimes called pay-per-click, or PPC).
For example, if you’re interested in cameras and photography, instead of writing about camera reviews for photographers on your own site, you can sign up as an affiliate for Amazon .
In your Amazon sales page, include links back to pages on your site where photos are hosted; once someone buys from Amazon via one of those links, they go up and up in rank—you might end up making tens of thousands of dollars per year off just those images.
But again: It takes time. Set aside several hours at least twice per week to work on content marketing so it doesn’t take over your entire schedule. You won’t be able to quit your day job anytime soon, but it will become more rewarding over time.
Even small monetary success adds fuel to motivation when things get tough (and they will); consider all of these side-business ideas to be long-term projects. As your business grows, you’ll need help handling all of these tasks.
The good news? Once you write a company into existence, you don’t need to do any legwork yourself anymore—your employees will take care of everything while earning their salaries at the same time.
A few suggestions here: First and foremost, hire interns!
Here’s a tip on how to implement one way to make money from your website. Start with one and work your way through it. You’ll learn something new, add some knowledge and grow your skills in one direction.
Oh by-the-way, I had fun writing my 7 Ways to Make Money From Your Website. That being said, please comment down below ways you’d like to know more about how to make money from your website so I can add them here.
You may have noticed that we’re talking about earning money on a website rather than making money from a website. They’re actually two different things; you can earn money from a business (like an Internet business), but creating an Internet business is what we’re doing when we set out to make money online via our own site.
