WordPress blog when properly monetized is a great asset to any serious-minded blogger. Statistics show that WordPress blogs are easier to rank than other kinds of blogs. Most readers even believe that all professional bloggers use WordPress. Bloggers are set to benefit more from the pool of new internet users as more people will be searching the internet for valuable content.

There are 4.88 billion internet users in the world today. The total number of internet users around the world grew by 222 million in the past 12 months – more than 600,000 new users each day. Therefore, there is a strong need to monetize and position your WordPress blog in 2022.

You have started your website, or you are planning to create a blog? Your plan for 2022 is to start making some money from this blog. But how do you really monetize a WordPress blog?

You write posts, provide great articles or news, and deliver beneficial content but you are not getting money from your website.

Well, I am here for you. In this article, I will be sharing with you my experience on how to monetize your blog. I will show you 5 ways and tactics to start your first money gain from the site, and even double and triple it with the same number of visitors you are getting.

Why Build a WordPress Blog

Having a blog and writing about important topics that are relevant to your audience establishes you as an authority in the space. It enhances your professional image.

No longer limited to niche hobbies, almost everyone has a blog now in some form or another.

By creating a blog that is of value, you can attract an audience and eventually convert them to customers.

First, WordPress is an open-source content management system (CMS). A CMS is a software application that allows you to easily edit the content of your website without much technical knowledge. Second, WordPress also has lots of free themes and plugins. These tools help make your WordPress Blog rank easily above other blogs.

Having defined what WordPress is, below is a small list of some of its advantages.

1. It is very easy to grow your site/business with WordPress
   Having too many plugins and themes is never enough. With WordPress being open source, developers always introduce new plugins almost everyday which is very helpful for the business.
2. WordPress is great for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
   WordPress is out of the box optimized for SEO. It is the way it is built. If you want to learn more about SEO, check out this article.
3. It is highly secure and flexible to edit and maintain.

If you have already started your blog, check out this article on how to use grammar checkers to write great articles!

Proven Ways to Monetize your WordPress Blog

I will be sharing with you my knowledge on how to monetize your WordPress blog. Outlined below are proven 5 ways to monetize your WordPress blog.

Paid Guest Posts

What do we mean by this? Well, you have your blog up and running and you have a few visitors per month, why not use that for your own good?

When you build a great audience for your blog, people will start reaching out to you so they can post their content on your blog. They can use this to sell their products, take backlinks to their other websites, or simply for the love of sharing their ideas and people reading them.

Even if you don’t have a large audience right now, you should start building them. You can watch the video below on how you can use WhatsApp to run a viable campaign. It will help grow your WordPress Blog.

Just follow the steps and strategies mentioned in the video. They will help you get personalized traffic to kick start your growth journey. Very simple!

The more visitors you have coming to your blog, the more you can charge the customers who want to use your blog to share their posts. So, you must work on traffic first. It is very important.

Now let’s talk about the second way on how to monetize a WordPress blog which is simply running ads.

Monetizing with Ads

The most common way bloggers use to monetize their websites is by using ads.

Just like those who blog with blogger blogs, you can fill your page with paid adverts. Check this blogger blog, austinimoru.blogspot.com for loads of adverts, sources from AdSense, and others.

Advertisers and ads networks like Google Adsense can give you links that contain banners or text ads.

Let’s take a quick tour of AdSense account and how it works.

How to monetize a wordpress blog with Google Adsense

With Google Adsense, and small blog can earn around $200 per month. If you think this is not much. Then, you can sell Ad spaces on your website to others. Also, you can add other networks like Ezoic! Ezoic uses AI to track your audience and find a similar audience that will bring more profit.

Check out the video below on how you can open your own adsense account.

How to monetize a wordpress blog with Native Ads

On your website, you can sell ad space to vendors who will give you their banner to place on your website.

With this, you can charge a little fee. Maybe, $50 per month, and help them drive traffic to their website or their product page. This is what you should start doing. Get visits and sell ads!

Another way to monetize your website is by monetizing your newsletter.

How to Monetize a WordPress Blog by the Newsletter

If you go now to postpays.com which is our main website, you can see that there is an option to subscribe to our newsletter.

Whenever you drive new people to your website, and you offer them something good for subscribing to your newsletter, you are increasing the amount of money you can get from this newsletter. The way to monetize this newsletter is simply selling an ad to anyone willing to pay to advertise their product anything they would like to advertise. The more recipients you have on your mailing list, the more you can price your service!

Monetizing with Repixel

First, what is Repixel. Repixel is a website where you can advertise traffic. Let me explain further.

You must have heard about something called Facebook pixels, Quora pixels, or Google ads pixels. Yes, I know you heard it. Let me explain.

Pixels are small codes you add to your website to track where your visitors are coming from.

Once you have the audience that is coming to your website from Facebook, you can target these specific people with a Facebook ad since they would be high potential customers.

Anyways, let’s go back to our main idea.

Repixel provides the same pixel code to add to your website. Now you may ask me, how does that make money? Let’s explain.

Let’s suppose someone wants to publish a website similar to postpays.com. A good way to start is by targeting the audience that visits our website postpays.com. This competitor can buy this pixel audience and you can earn the money!

One of the best ways to monetize your blog posts is affiliate marketing. Let me explain briefly what is affiliate marketing.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a way to make money passively. It is one of the easiest ways to make money online. It is simply sharing some other products on your blog posts, and whenever someone buys this product from your affiliate link, you will have a commission.

You can Also Accept Donations
If you are somehow giving people great content to help them online, many of them would be more than happy to donate to you so can continue giving them valuable information. You can simply add a PayPal donation button to your website, or if PayPal is not available in your country, you can use a website called Patreon.

Conclusion

Let’s recap all the ways we covered in this article about how to monetize a WordPress blog.

• Paid Guest Posts
• Monetize with Ads
• Monetizing with Newsletter
• Using Repixel
• Affiliate Links

Make sure to follow all the methods we showed you in this article, and I am sure you will triple your income from your website in no time in 2022!

If you have any idea on how to monetize a WordPress blog, please don’t hesitate to share it in the comments section below.

Cheers.