For a lot of people, blogging is either a hobby or a medium to express their views. However, it is also possible to monetize from your blogs.
In fact, there are many bloggers who are making an insane amount of money from their blogs. According to Forbes, the top blog Huffington Post makes $14 million per month.
Of course, blogging does not give you easy money. Not every blogger earns $14 million.
You must be able to write quality articles and have enough knowledge about SEO to make good money it.
Also, with blogging, you need to be very patient. You cannot start earning from day one. It may even take you a few months to make your first dollar.
But, once your blog starts getting popular, you can start making enough money to make a living out of it.
For starting a blog, all you need is a good topic that is popular among the masses. Needless to say, you must be an expert on the topic so that you can write regular articles about it.
You can also rope in your friends and create a blog with multiple topics, with each friend specializing in a particular niche.
The reason blogging makes to this list of "Making Money Online Without Investment" is that you can either start a blog for free blog at Blogger. However, starting a free blog at blogger is not recommended as it is very difficult to manage SEO for the same.
Starting a Self hosted WordPress blog does not cost much. I started my first blog for just around $12. I used this money to buy a hosting with Special GoDaddy Offer of $1/month that came with a free domain name. Next, I installed WordPress with free themes from WordPress Repository.
For enhancing the WordPress functionality, I installed free WordPress Plugins. That is it, my blog was ready to make money.
You can make money with blogging through any of the below monetization methods.
- Displaying advertisement from Google Adsense or other advertising networks. You get paid per Ad impression (CPI) or per Ad click (CPC)
- Affiliate marketing, wherein you promote a company's product/services. Whenever someone uses your link to buy the product/service, the company pays you a commission for the same.
- Paid articles
- Selling ad space on your blog.