Category: Blogging

How To Make Money Blogging

You have a blog. You enjoy writing about a topic or several topics.

Now some of you may just be happy writing posts but there are also some of you that may want to take your blog to the next level and monetize it to make some money as well.

I may not be a top earning blogger (yet), however, I have learned about some ways in which to earn money with my blog and I am sharing them with you.

Affiliate Programs: There are so many affiliate programs out there today that it can be very confusing for bloggers that want to monetize their website. I continue to learn about new affiliate programs and do a little bit of research before I just go ahead and join them. I would prefer to not use too many different affiliate programs and just stick to a couple that work for me and my blog.

Here are a few affiliate programs I have/or currently used: Skimlinks, VigLinks, Linkshare, Pepperjam and ShareASale.

Paid/Sponsored Posts: Sometimes a company will approach you to do a paid or sponsored post. They will agree on a price for you to write a post and usually to promote the post on your social media as well.

Digital Downloads: If you’re creative you can create booklets, eBooks and other digital downloads and have your visitors pay to access them. There are websites that can host these and take care of the whole transaction for you. If you promote them enough you can basically sell them in your sleep.

Courses: If you have a skill or information that you believe you can teach others some bloggers also offer courses. You can offer teaching videos via special access. Some bloggers offer one course that people have access to. Others offer a series that goes on for a couple of days and is broken up into small chunks of information.

What are your favorite ways to make money blogging? If you have a post about making money blogging add it in the comments or link back to this post if you write one.

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Podcasts You Need In Your Life NOW

Sometimes you don’t want to just read an article, sometimes you want to give something a listen. Whether you sit down and take notes or just listen to them in the background here are some podcasts you need in your life now.

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The School of Self-Mastery: Business, Money, Life By Adrienne Dorison

Where has this podcast been all my life? The first episode I listened to was Episode 180: What To Do When You Don’t Feel Like It and I am hooked

Uncommonly Moore (Hit the Mic with Stacey Harris)

This digital marketing agency podcast is full of great tips and practical information that you may not get elsewhere or from a google search

My Taught You

Myleik Teele gives you no-nonsense tips about business and life. She is a business woman (entrepreneur), mother and so much more. She has inspired thousands around the globe and I love that she is just straightforward and someone that doesn’t waste time.

Happier Podcast by Gretchen Rubin

This podcast has great life tips – from relationships to creating habits and as the title hints to – lots of tips on how to live a happier life.

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Link Love: Episode 1

If you’re anything like me there you frequent a lot of websites and blogs around the globe – there really is a blog/website available for nearly everything. I read a lot of blogs and visit a lot of websites but I thought it would be cool to share a couple of my favorite ones that I continue to go back to.

MayaElious.com: If you’re looking to upgrade your personal branding Maya is the perfect person to contact. She gives a lot of free tips if you’re not ready to work 1 on 1 with her just yet, however, from the reviews I have seen she will really help you to focus on your brand and take it to another level. Make sure you also follow her on Insta.

GalaDarling.com: I have been reading Galas blog for as long as I can remember. I think of her as my magical friend that I have never met. If you’re ready to turn into a manifestor of your best life Gala offers so many great tips. She is also into EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and has a bunch of FREE videos to help you. Also follow her Insta and YT channel.

SheKnows.com: This websites main focus is on parenting, however, they offer a lot of practical solutions for everyone. They have fitness & nutrition tips, recipes and mind & body articles as well.

ABeautifulMess.com: This lifestyle blog is one of my favorite places to go for inspiration and tips. They have a lot of great tips and advice about crafting, cooking/entertaining and style. Make sure to follow them on Insta for tons of beautiful images.

Dooce.com: I have been following this blog for as long as I can remember. I love that Heather is so honest and shares bit of her life with the world. Make sure to also check out the podcast!

PositivelyPresent.com: If you’re looking for some positive inspiration and tips on self-love and being present, be sure to check out Dani’s website. She has so many great articles that I sometimes spend hours just reading through them and getting inspired. If you want to take it up another level you can check out one of her books as well.

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Reader’s Input: Help Me Out

Hi readers! Thank you for stopping in and reading. I hope you were able to take a look around and read some of my posts that are available. I appreciate your love and support.

I just wanted to check in with y’all and see what you think about the blog. I enjoy sharing with my reader’s but I want to make sure I am touching on the topics that y’all are interested in. I consider this blog a lifestyle blog and like to touch on different topics when I can.

My posts are mostly personal posts and/or opinion posts but I would love to know what y’all think is missing from here. If you have been following me awhile or have checked out a few of my posts I would love some input on what you enjoyed and what you would like to see more of here. I want to make this blog something that you enjoy coming back to so your input would be great.

Please leave your input in the comments! I look forward to hearing from you.

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Blog Post Ideas

Though I love writing and blogging I often get stuck on what exactly to write about. I’m thinking that I am not alone in this and I hope that this post will be helpful to someone out there that may be stuck on what to write about. So here are some blog post ideas that will inspire you to write a post:

  • Write about your best friend.
  • Write about your favorite meals.
  • Write about your favorite exercises.
  • Write about your favorite TV shows.
  • Write about your favorite vacation and travel tips.
  • Write about your favorite recipe.
  • Write about what you do for self-care.
  • Write lists such as Top 10 recipes
  • Write about your home – what you love about it, show us your garden
  • Write about people that inspire you
  • Write about your favorite tech tips and products
  • Write about something nobody would think about you
  • Write about your favorite things
  • Write about the best things to check out in your city/town/state

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My Favorite WordPress Plugins

Since I use WordPress for all of my websites I thought it would be cool to share some of my favorite WordPress Plugins.

Jetpack

If you want to protect your site from malware and other threats Jetpack is the way to go.

Akismit

Protect you r comments from spam using the Akismit plugin. It cleans up your comments so that you don’t have to go through time-consuming process of doing so yourself.

Broken Link Checker

This plugin scans your site and does at is stated in the title – checks for broken links. Pretty nifty plugin that I have been using for years.

Pretty Link

If you use affiliate links it helps to make your links “pretty” instead of those long links that are created for you. It also tracks clicks to the links as well.

Revive Old Post

Sick of having to go back in and share your own posts over and over on social media? This plugin does it for you! You can spend more time writing posts than sharing them.

Wordfence

This plugin is also a malware scanner and provides security to your website from hacks and malware.

WP to Buffer

If you use Buffer to share your posts this plugin helps you to do so quickly and easily. It automatically adds your posts to your Buffer queue.

WPTouch

This plugin creates a more mobile-friendly version of your website so that mobile users don’t have to waste their time scrolling up and down and back and forth. It enables a clean mobile website without having to add any additional code in the back-end.

What are your favorite WordPress plugins?

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