Blog Monetization: How You Can Make More Money With Your Blog

Are you looking for ways to make money with your professional blog?

Do you want to know how to leverage your content to monetize your site?

To learn how to make more money with your blog, I interview Leslie Samuel.
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Listen to Leslie Samuel explain how you can make more money with your blog.

In this episode I interview Leslie Samuel, whose Interactive Biology blog makes biology fun for students and teachers. He's also the man behind Become A Blogger, a large site dedicated to the craft of professional blogging.

Leslie shares how to make more money with your blog.

You'll discover the many ways you can leverage content on your blog to make money, the benefits and pitfalls of display ads and affiliate marketing and the strategy behind selling your own products and services through your site.

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Here are some of the things you'll discover in this show:
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How blogging has changed Leslie's life
To say that blogging has changed Leslie's life is an understatement. It has done so much and opened so many doors for him, which is why he is so passionate about it.
Blogging changed the way Leslie attracted customers to his business. In the past, he had to consciously, constantly and actively find customers.

With blogging you can build a platform and if you do it right, people will actually find you. Leslie says this was a game-changer for him. The other big way blogging changed Leslie's life is that it allowed him to start making money online exclusively.

Leslie started blogging 6 years ago while teaching at a Christian boarding academy. He launched the site, Interactive Biology, which explains biology concepts, one at a time, with short 3- to 5-minute videos.

Leslie has since left teaching and now focuses entirely on his blogging business.

Listen to the show to find out how Leslie first discovered blogging and came up with a completely unique approach to it.

The right point to begin a monetization strategy for your blog

Leslie's philosophy on blog monetization has evolved over time. Where he once advised people to just start a blog and worry about making money later, he now insists that you must start to think about the monetization before you even build your blog.

If you are looking to launch a professional blog, start putting things into place from the very beginning. People think of selling as a bad thing, but it's actually a way to provide more value to your audience. There's no reason to hold back from the very beginning.

Listen to the show to hear how selling on your blog can be a way to provide more value to your customers and readers.

Some of the most common ways bloggers make money from their sites

When it comes to making money with your blog, there's a bunch of options. The top four blog monetization strategies that you'll hear about in the show are display ads, affiliate marketing, selling your own products and providing a service.

Of these monetization options, Leslie considers display ads from networks such as Google AdSense to be the simplest way to make money on your site. It requires very little work on your part, but you have to make sure you have a decent amount of traffic for this monetization strategy.

Listen to the show to discover the pros and cons of display ads, as well as affiliate marketing and selling your own product or service as methods to generate more money from your blog.

Best practices for display ads

Relevance is the key to making money through display ads on your site. According to Leslie, there are people making as much as $10,