#2789 - Q&A: “How can I monetize my blog beyond ad placements?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In this episode, we explore effective ways to monetize your blog beyond traditional ad placements. Learn about affiliate marketing, sponsored content, creating digital products—and more! Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week. Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com Email: [email protected] Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions Connect on Instagram: @193countries Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.substack.com If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So a few days ago, we had this failure Friday episode that was 276 for a cautionary tale of blog monetization
0:16.6	about a travel blogger who started a travel blog funny how works, and the income was really taken off and then
0:26.4	something happened and then it fell quite a bit.
0:29.0	Basically Google rolled out a big algorithm update.
0:32.0	Today I have a listener question that's going to tie in
0:35.4	really well to that. You know this listener's question is how can I monetize my
0:40.8	blog beyond ad placements.
0:43.2	And the reason why this is pertinent is because, you know,
0:45.9	if your blog is built around an advertising model
0:48.8	that is then affected a great deal
0:51.6	by an algorithmic update, well then you all of a sudden see a huge drop in revenue.
0:56.4	So what can you do to monetize beyond ad placements?
0:59.7	Now of course you're still affected by traffic, you know you want to get a lot of
1:03.3	traffic to your blog or as much as you can the right kind of traffic I should say
1:06.6	because that's that's then going to affect every blog monetization outlet or
1:11.9	every opportunity you have but nevertheless
1:13.7	diversification is good so let's talk about it welcome to side hustle school every
1:18.3	single day practical creative ways to boost your income without giving up your day
1:21.8	job so grateful for all of our listeners out there to boost your income without giving up your day job.
1:22.8	So grateful for all of our listeners out there.
1:25.4	Today let's hear from a listener who has built a solid blog
1:28.0	and they want to maybe avoid some mistakes along the way,
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