What you must know is that the best way to make money as a blogger is not to focus on the money. The money doesn’t come in because you want it so badly. The influx of money is a result of something which if you discover, you’ll forget about the money and focus rather on it.

I believe that by the time you go through this post and begin to apply these tips, it won’t be long before you start seeing great improvements in revenue from your blog.

Reasons your blog doesn’t generate income and how to correct it

1 – Your main drive is to make money

If you are so obsessed with seeing money coming in from your blog, chances are that you’ll lose focus on the things that matter. The way to make money blogging is to focus on producing value. Money is not like search spiders that have been automated to regularly visit your blog. The money you are looking for is in the wallets of your readers. If you don’t focus on your readers, they won’t spend on your blog.

Here are quick tips to help you on this point:

• Identify your audience
• Find out what they face as problems
• Help them with answers to their problems

Once they find answers and solutions to their problems, the money will flow from their pockets toward your blog. On one of my blogs which is focused on teaching people to make money with their websites, in as much as I’m making money from this blog, I do not focus on the money. My priority is to help every website owner generate income from their sites. Visitors enjoy the content and follow my tips to properly monetize their blogs. In the process, some contact me for paid coaching, others buy my products, I recommend products and earn commissions, etc.

Basically, investigate the problems of your community and find solutions to those problems. The money will definitely follow.

2 – Your traffic isn’t targeted

One key factor affecting the success of any website is traffic. A lot of people have invested so much in terms of time and money into driving traffic to their websites. Unfortunately, even with massive traffic stats, many website owners are still wondering why the money is coming in drops.

It’s not just about getting people on your blog. It’s about getting the right audience. Attracting readers who have the problems you seek to solve. Test your different traffic channels and see which of them drives targeted traffic to your blog. If you are promoting human hair for ladies on a blog that’s predominantly visited by male readers, you will have a problem with the conversion.

If your blog is to teach coders how to develop websites and web applications, I don’t see your business promoting healthcare products. How many of your readers will be interested in such products? Ask yourself these questions:

• Who are the people I’m writing for?
• Where can I find them and how do I attract them to my blog?

One of the traffic channels that help you drive super-targeted traffic is Search Engines. If optimizing your blog to drive traffic from search engines isn’t part of your strategy, you have to sit back and rethink. Search engines can drive long-term traffic to your blog if you do it right.

3 – Your traffic is low

If you and your grandma are the only ones reading your blog, then tell grandmom to step up her spending habits if not, you won’t see income improvement.

If you want to see improved results, work on increasing your targeted reach. With 1000 targeted daily readers, you should be averaging about $50+ daily revenue. That puts you on about $1500 per month which is quite low if you get that kind of traffic.

Gaining more readers means your marketplace is expanding. This gives you more people to sell to, more people to click your ads and more people to buy and provoke commissions for you. whatever you are doing that gives your current level of traffic, boost it for more traffic.

4 – You don’t choose the right ways to monetize

There are many ways to monetize your website. That doesn’t mean you should randomly pick any of them and apply them to your blog. Depending on your niche and even traffic stats, test out what’s producing the best results for you. Once you find the gold spot, focus on it and dig deeper.

If you visit the income reports of many bloggers, you’ll find out that what makes the most money on their list is what they put a greater portion of their energy into. It’s not bad to have several monetization models on one blog. But if some of these are not working for you, stop wasting time on them. Turn your resources to what works for you and scale it to a bigger profit.

5 – You are inconsistent in content

Consistency keeps your blog active and up to date. If you are an affiliate blogger (doing affiliate marketing), keep creating and publishing content at regular intervals. Not all articles on your blog will have the value to generate income. I admit that sometimes, I publish articles just to make a point. But while blogging consistently, I’m able to create a growing number of money-making blog posts. The more of these articles you have, the more money your blog stands to make.

6 – You don’t have blog posts that can generate revenue

I advised earlier that you focus on helping your readers. Right now, I’m not contracting my point at all. While not being a salesperson, you can still sell without the buyers knowing you are trying to sell to them. If your readers can find value and solutions by spending money on your blog, they will definitely do spend without twisting their faces.

One of the ways I monetize some of my articles is to cut a solution into two sections:

1. Free section: Here, I teach my audience to solve a certain problem for free
2. Paid section: In this section, I present a solution that will require some payments.

Here is an example…

If you are able to guide your readers into removing a certain virus from their Windows Operating System by themselves, also present a solution for those who have the financial capacity to purchase an antivirus. This way, you generate commissions from the sales of the product.

Many readers who are affected by the virus will like to follow your steps, dig into the software registry and remove the infection. Others will be frightened by the complexity and technicalities of the solution. A quick recommendation of a paid automated method will catch the attention of fearful users.

7 – Your blog is new

If your blog is new, one of the things you have to do is give it time to grow in audience and content. There are some things you can’t do with a new blog to earn income. For instance, many news websites don’t often attract sponsored content. The reason is that new websites are generally low in traffic and SEO benefits. Advertisers often turn their attention to aged domains with reasonable Domain Authority and a massive audience. So do not be worried by the fact that your new blog isn’t making any money. Focus on content and promotion before beginning to consider how much money it can make.

8 – Your niche has limited possibilities

Some of us are blogging in very rare niches. I was told of a guy who is an Ant Blogger. Maybe you are one of these rare bloggers whose topics have limited money-making options. If you are writing about elephants, you may not easily find good affiliate products to promote in this niche.

Don’t panic though. Do more research to find out income possibilities in your niche or start a new blog in a more popular niche where you can easily make money.

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As a matter of fact, it’s one of the biggest income earners for many bloggers. Take a look at the Income reports of these money-making bloggers and you’ll find out Affiliate Marketing is often on top of the list.

But to be quite honest with you, Affiliate Marketing isn’t a bed of roses. It’s really tough and one of the reasons is that competition is growing by the day. Again, many of us are too lazy to conduct proper market research and promote the right products.

Grabbing banners and pasting them on our sites, and adding hyperlinks to blog posts as is the habit of many bloggers don’t really amount to anything worth depending on.

There are however advanced Affiliate Marketing methods that will push your earnings through the roof. On my About Me page, you are going to be able to grab my free report in which I discuss an unknown Affiliate Marketing technique that will never fail.

What I’m about to share with you in this post is not part of the report at all. It means, though the marketing model is Harsh, there are still some golden nuggets around the corner.

Many of my blogging friends rely on Affiliate Marketing to make money blogging. According to Andrew Dominik of Quality Guest Post, besides offering guest post services, Affiliate Marketing plays a huge part in his income.

My ebook titled “Affiliate Marketing For Bloggers” has been well received. You may want to grab a copy if you want some more actionable tips on growing your blogging income promoting and selling other people’s products.

Take advantage of events

If you are going to follow these simple tips, you’ll see a remarkable boost in your affiliate marketing commissions. One of the reasons people don’t see results is lack of practice. Sometimes, we read and assume we know. That keeps working against us. But my tips here will help you earn the kind of income big guns in the industry earn.

Note however that some of the things you are about to read here are not totally new. You might have practiced a couple of them but I will be giving out some little tricks to make it more effective.

Every day around us there are events and some of these events are marketing opportunities. Companies take advantage of these events to cut down prices on their products in order to generate more sales.

These are just crazy opportunities. When these prices are sliced (Sometimes by over 50%), talk to your community about the huge discounts offered by these companies and see a rise in sales.

People are always looking for ways to save money buying online so an occasion to buy something for less than half its price would always see buyers scrambling for it.

BlackFridays and Cyber Mondays

Don’t even ask me why Fridays are black. But this is one of the biggest events in America that has taken over the whole world and Affiliate Marketers are making a killing in it. It’s an annual event that runs in the month of November of every year.

Companies always have a massive discount on their products during this time. What’s even more interesting is the fact that (for the most part), the discounts don’t have an impact on the amount you earn per sale as an affiliate.

This is typical for digital products. Siteground, WPX Hosting, and 2Ahosting for instance always have a huge drop in their prices during Black Fridays but the amount you earn per sale grows with the growing number of sales you generate.

How to make Black Friday work for you?

To make Black Fridays work for you, you must be ready for it. The fact that this is a recurring annual event is an advantage.

For best results, create a single Black Friday post per product and each year, update and repost the same article. It’s unwise to create a separate post for each year.

Each year comes with its particularities. All you have to do is update that same article before time. You may want to contact the affiliate manager of that company (whose product you promote) before the time for some useful updates on the current promotion.

Another thing I have found to work like magic is to create a roundup post for different offers in an industry. A good example is something like web hosting Black Friday deals. In this example, you may want to bring out the top 10 web hosting companies and their Black Friday offers.

Every year, you just have to update and re-post the article for better search engine results. Once the event is over, don’t fold your arms and sit. Go out to build some backlinks to the article.

Doing this for the next few years, you will be dominating Google page #1 for most of the Black Friday-related keywords. This will lead to massive growth in income.

Other Annual Events

There are other annual events where you may want to apply the same working methods and empower your blog with more earning powers.

Take note of industry-related events. If you are in the sports niche, we have international tournaments like FIFA World Cup competitions,  FIBA International Basketball Competitions, etc.

Some of these events come with ticket sales and seat bookings. Travel agencies and hotels offer special discounts to event participants moving from across the world, opening more income opportunities to travel bloggers.

These events always present mind-blowing marketing platforms for affiliates. Religious events like Christmas come with a bag full of money and many opportunities.

As a blogger,  events can really put a smile on your business if you think differently.

Anniversaries

Now, this is something few bloggers exploit but it’s such a powerful income-boosting avenue. There are two phases to this:

1. Your own anniversaries.
2. Others anniversaries.

Talking about your own anniversaries, it could be your birthday, your wedding or even your blog’s anniversary.

If you have a following, you may want to announce your anniversary and offer them something to celebrate with you. What you may want to do is request a unique discount code from a product you promote as an affiliate to offer your readers.

Simply get to the affiliate manager with a friendly request. For the most part, you may be given a unique coupon and a co-branded anniversary page. Make this only available for a short period of time and watch as your readers love and increase your earnings.

What about other anniversaries?

Some companies do their anniversaries and offer their customers gifts. If they run affiliate programs, it’s an opportunity to celebrate with them and boost your earnings.

If you are an affiliate blogger, don’t let the next big event pass you by without trying to boost your affiliate commissions. Don’t announce your own blog’s anniversary without trying to offer something to your readers as a price reduction from a product you promote.

These tips will go a long way to boost your affiliate marketing commissions and make you a successful affiliate marketer.

Thanks for reading and let me know what you think about this in the comment box. If you’d like to create a blog and make money with Affiliate marketing, check out these tips on how to start a blog.

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