Those who know a little about “Tech n Techie” or me, they all know that I started blogging back on 2011. I started blogging in a free platform which was blogger. The first blog was about telecommunication information. The name of that blog which is still live, named as “Teleinfo”. I was only using Google Adsense to earn from that blog. As the PR of that blog was not that much high, I was only getting a few clicks from that blog. So, the earning from that blog was very little and it took almost 8 months to withdraw my first check from Google.
As that time as I was only having little experience about the blogging and online earning, this is realistic. But after that I started gathering knowledge about SEO and also started gathering knowledge about other source of online income. Then I got to know that to earn a bit more from my blog I need to transfer my blog from free domain to a registered domain like .com, .net, .info or etc.
So, I decided not to transfer my existing blog. Rather I decided to create on new blog and I choose the topic as technology. The blog that I am running right now is “Tech n Techie”. Though the flow of cash is not like a river from this blog, but I earn a decent amount from this bog.
Google Adsense:
The first source of income from my blog is Google Adsense. Though there are a lot of Google Adsense alternatives still I believe that Google Adsense is the best to provide you a decent amount of income. Right now I am using one side rectangle unit, one unit under post title, one unit below the post and another link unit below the post. I get clicks from all the units. The unit below the post title drives a lot of revenue for me.
Though I am using Chitika ads in my other blogs but I am not using this in this blog because I think that it takes more time to load Chitika ads and also the revenue share through Chitika ad is very low and if you do not have a lot of traffic from Canada or US, you will not be able to earn good amount of money.
By Selling Links:
I used to sell backlinks from my blog. The link that I sell is through two ways, one is direct link sell another is link sell through one article. For the first option I only ask for the anchor text and the url that the client want to put and for the second option I write one article related to the topic and put one author bio and in the author bio I leave the link. The second way is natural for backlinks and I get a good number of article orders for those. The place where I advertise about this is online forums like Worriorforum, Digital Point Forum etc.
By Selling Ad Space from My Blog:
As my blog still did not get approved my BuySellAds, so I am using my own banners to attract advertisers in my blog. People who get interested, contact with me and if they are happy with my pricing then they start showing their ads. Right now I am only charging 15 USD for my sidebar banner ads.
By Selling My Article Writing Service in Freelancer.com:
I also work in Freelancer.com as an article writer and when someone ask for any sample or any experience then I use my blog as my writing experience and people get attracted after checking my blog and award their project. This is also a passive source of income from my blog.
Personal Contact for Writing Article:
Some people collect my email id from my blog and ask me to write articles for their blog. I write article for them according to their given topic or keyword and then sell those articles to them.
If you really want to earn a decent amount of money from you blog or through blogging then you really need to work hard and need to maintain multiple blogs. Right now I am having 2 PR2 Blogs, 1 PR1 blog and other blogs with good number of traffic. I am still working on my blogs and working on the SEO parts mainly. Please let me know if you have any other idea to monetize my blog. I will be more than happy to have those ideas.
Love to see people telling where they earn for a living. Though I am not selling links and not really a pro-blogger like you, there are times that I need to buy content for my blog. I usually buy 500 words of content from BHW and Fiverr at a cost of 5$. I find it more comfortable rather than writing on my own. But before I publish it on my blog, I make it sure that it has no duplicate content co’z I believe big G will punish me if I will do such kind of work. Anyway, thanks for the great thought!
Hello Shane, Thanks for your comment.