Really depends on the content of the blog. Here are a couple ideas
1. Sell courses. If it's a technical blog teaching people how to do things, you can sell an ebook or a video course that dives deeper than the blog itself.
2. Affiliate links. Is the blog teaching people to build websites? Why not strike a deal with Linode or some other hosting provider, and encourage your readers to use that service. In return, Linode will send you some kickback for each successful referral.
3. Google ads. You can go the regular route, get some google ads, and just add them somewhere on each page. You need a lot of traffic for that to be anything meanful though because the ad targeting kind of sucks and adblockers impact these majorly.
4. Native ads. If you have enough traffic, and it is targeted well to an audience that fits a specific product, reach out to the company selling said product, and offer them a native ad on the site. (This, in my experience, is the best option. I am receiving monthly ~$4k from a company suited to my niche on my own side project)
I get what you mean, but in this case I think the risk is low because even though I have one native ad on my site, there are probably a dozen other advertisers that would love to take that spot. Thats the game :)
No, unfortunately contractrates.fyi is not quite yet at the $4k mark! The site I am referring to I try to keep quiet because it is very niche and I'm without any competition.
But, hoping to take the things I know from that initial project and leverage what I know with contractrates. So far, so good.
1. Sell courses. If it's a technical blog teaching people how to do things, you can sell an ebook or a video course that dives deeper than the blog itself.
2. Affiliate links. Is the blog teaching people to build websites? Why not strike a deal with Linode or some other hosting provider, and encourage your readers to use that service. In return, Linode will send you some kickback for each successful referral.
3. Google ads. You can go the regular route, get some google ads, and just add them somewhere on each page. You need a lot of traffic for that to be anything meanful though because the ad targeting kind of sucks and adblockers impact these majorly.
4. Native ads. If you have enough traffic, and it is targeted well to an audience that fits a specific product, reach out to the company selling said product, and offer them a native ad on the site. (This, in my experience, is the best option. I am receiving monthly ~$4k from a company suited to my niche on my own side project)