I was sceptical about my ability to make money through blogging. In fact, at one point I set the arbitrary goal of earning £1 to even prove that it could be done!There are various methods of earning money blogging, however, these either require you to:

a. Convert traffic to buying a product.

b. Affiliate links such as Bluehost.

c. Advertisements.

Make Money With Advertisements

Let’s focus on the latter, you could try the 3 below options, but you need amazing traffic, or you’ll have to settle for a pittance.

• Google Adsense: No minimums but you will earn about £0.05 per click.

• Mediavine: Requires 25,000 sessions a month (usually around 30,000 page views)

• Monumetric: 10,000 page views to apply.

Personal Side-Note

Before I continue, I just want to put it out there, that my goal from blogging is not to simply extract money from everyone who visits my site.

I actually enjoy connecting with people and sharing my ideas. I originally started blogging simply because I had a lot of unspent energy and information bubbling around in my brain, I wanted to do something productive with it.

However, I would like to be able to break even on the cost of the site and maybe even contribute towards my financial independence goal. The real goal would be to blog full time, but I think that’s more of a long-term goal! That’s why I have ads on my site.

How I Got Lucky And How You Can Too

I was lucky enough to come across a great company which has allowed me to not onlypush past my £1 goal or the $25 goal and $50 goals I later set. This is coming from someone who started blogging in March 2019.

My page tends to receive around 1k to 1.5k page views per month, according to google analytics, however, I am surprised to say that for many months I managed to earn between $12 and $18 USD.

How To Actually Make Money From Blogging

There is a company called Interactive Offers which can help. They are based in the USA, Florida to be specific. As I am blogging from outside the US and you are paid in USD, I received payment through a company called TransferWise which allows me to convert the USD into any currency at a low rate.

Interactive Offers is a startup company and a new player in the digital marketing world. I can genuinely see their site and user interface improving all the time now, with increasing frequency.

They use a cost-per-click (CPC) model, which has drawn in some financial advertisers and publishers that offer great rates, meaning that people like you and me can earn decent rates from putting ads on our sites. Interactive offers say their average CPC is $2 but my average CPC is currently $3.31 (last updated 07.12.19).

Are You In The Personal Finance Space?

Interactive Offers Is especially good news if you are blogging about personal finance and/or investing. The advertisers that Interactive Offers use are focused on showcasing their financially related products to a targeted audience.

If your finance-hungry audience wants to help fund your site, they can help you get paid with every click delivered, whilst checking out some relevant ads. As your traffic grows up to the 10,000 level (required even for Monumetric), you may find that with an average CPC of say $2, your earnings could be off the charts.

Real Life Projections

I just want to give you some projects based on my actual earnings. As an example, in October I had 1,000 page views and earned $12.27 from Interactive Offers. This is a conversion rate of 1.23%.

Scaling this up to 10,000 page views, you would be earning $123 a month with a conversion rate as low at 1.23%.

How To Sign Up And Start To Make Money Blogging

1. Visit InteractiveOffers.com and register as a publisher. Once the registration is complete, one of their account managers will contact you to familiarise yourself with the company and explain the process of picking up offers.

2. Test an offer in order to validate the traffic quality each publisher will bring. This step is crucial, as the company wants high quality leads that convert for their advertisers (you get to keep the earnings from the test, which is good too)

3. Following this you will gain full access to the platform and all of the offers available. The vetting of publishers is completed within a week of registering.

4. Once on the platform, the publisher will have several options in regards to the type of offer they wish to send. They currently have campaigns in the form of Dedicated Emails, SMS, Push, and Display ads. Each available offer will display the CPC you receive per click delivered, as well as the name of the offer, time remaining, link preview and remaining clicks. With dedicated email offers you can even schedule out clicks 2 weeks in advance!

To give you a live example, here is the type of ad that you can copy onto your site using an html code.

You can click through on this ad to see what’s on the other side but please remember I will earn a small amount from your click.

If for example, you didn’t like or agree with the ad displayed, you could block it from showing on your site via your interactive offers account.

I hope you have found this post on how to earn money blogging helpful. It’s hard to believe that anyone can start blogging and make money with minimal traffic. So, take action and start earning – Sign up by clicking HERE.

If you are looking for some other resources to build your wealth or improve your finances then you may find my resources page interesting. You should also find out the best 15 plugins and tools to build, backup, optimise and share your blog.

As Interactive Offers pays in dollars, here is a link to TransferWise for those of you based in the UK or elsewhere in Europe. There is more information about them on the resources page of this blog.