Doing something alongside your job that helps your earn money is your side hustle. There are variety of activities that you can choose to do as your side hustle. One of the biggest reason people decide to do side hustle is to earn money from it. Whether you do your hustle online or offline the primary concern always remains to monetize it and make money from it.
When you choose to do your side hustle online, monetizing it is not as easy as it may look. It can take up to months to make your first income from your side hustle. You have to be consistent with your efforts in order to make money online. There are number of things which you can do and make it your side hustle. You can start a you-tube channel, write a blog, do affiliate marketing, sell your own product online, do online tutorials and many more.
One of the most widely used mean to earn money online is blogging. Thousands of people are earning decent amount through their blogs. It is one of the best ways to earn some extra money for yourself but like any other side hustle it also require your time and effort. There are many ways through which you can earn money from your blog. There are some important things which should be taken care of in order to monetize a blog.
Important steps to monetize a blog
- First of all as soon as you have created a blog add different pages in it. Your blog must have home page, about page, contact info and most important of all privacy policy page. If you want to monetize your blog then your blog must have adequate privacy policy page.
- After having all the required pages on your blog download and install the necessary themes and plug-ins. What theme or plug-ins you should have that depends on what kind of blog you want to have and how you want to represent it. Themes and plug-ins help your blog look and perform better which is crucial for monetization process.
- After setting theme and installing necessary plug-ins write at least 50-60 good posts because you will be able to monetize it only if you have good amount of quality posts on your blog.
- Write posts on regular intervals because that will help you get regular views and views are the most important thing for monetizing a blog.
- After writing decent amount of posts make sure that it does not contain any copyrighted image or video. Using an image, video or gif which is copyrighted can be an obstacle in monetizing process.
- After doing all the necessary things you can monetize your blog in number of ways. You can run ads on it, sell you own product, write sponsored posts, do affiliate marketing through it and many more.
Your blog must be at least 6 months old if you want to apply for google ad-sense. Even if your blog does not get monetized in first attempt do not lose hope. Improve the shortcomings and try again after some time. Hope this was helpful to you and good luck for your blogging.