One of the first and easiest route bloggers went when it comes to monetize their blogs is through displaying ads. While there’s nothing exactly wrong with making money through ads, another more lucrative alternative is often overlooked, especially to bloggers seek to monetize their blog for the first time. I’m talking of course, about affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a way more lucrative way to monetize your blog compared to ads and it’s almost as …

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As part of my ongoing series on content marketing and blog monetization, I’ve been covering the strategies, the skills, and the actions content producers have to take to make their blog make money. In that time, we’ve still only scratched the surface of the thing that actually makes the money. Let me be clear: it isn’t the content. It’s never the content. The content is a medium to leverage your audience into taking an action. …

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Just over a year ago Neil Patel set himself a challenge: to create a blog that within 12 months would pay him $100,000 a month. That’s 1.2 million dollars a year. From blogging. It sounded crazy, but in March of this year, he did it. Even crazier? Anyone can. Theoretically, that is. There’s a huge journey to undertake in order to be able to successfully create that kind of money solely from content. I’ve pored …

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