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In 2020 there were 500 million blogs and that figure is set to increase during this year. The growth in blogging is not slowing down which is why if you are wanting to make money from home blogging is an option. While some people blog for a hobby, there are many more who make it into a business. Below are just some of the ways you can transform your blog into making an income in 2021.

Affiliate Products

You can make money by promoting products that offer you a commission. From Amazon to web hosting companies find a product that you believe your audience will need and share it with them.  

Blog Advertising

There are companies who will pay for an advert to be placed on your blog. This is a very easy way of monetizing your blog and if you have enough visitors there are companies you can join who will take all the hassle out of this for you such as MediaNet or MediaVine. 

Sell Your Own Products

As well as selling affiliate products, you have an option to sell your own products by setting up a shop on your blog. This can be anything from craft products, to books you develop. There are now plugins you can download that will take all the hassle out of setting up a shop even ways you can automate Shopify if you want to fully integrate it into your blog.

Consultancy Services

When you set up your blog and start making money from it, you can offer your experience to others. Offering consultancy services to others who also wish to set up a blog is a great way of sharing your experience and making 

Sponsored Posts

When you achieve a good Domain Authority on your blog, you can apply for sponsored posts. This means you are paid to promote a product and write about it. It’s a great way of increasing the income from your blog.

Competitions

An option to increase visitors to your blog and to offer businesses exposure is to host a competition. This means approaching businesses to ask if they will work with you and offer a prize. This is a great way of building up your readership which you can add to a newsletter to keep your readers up to date with what is live on your blog.

Develop an Online Course

A great way to receive income is to develop and design a course that would be helpful to your readers. The course can be anything from how to set up a blog, how to monetize a blog, or something completely different such as how to get healthy, or even how to organize your life. There are so many options. The hard part will be narrowing down the course you want to develop.

Write an eBook

As well as developing a course, you could also write an ebook. Share the knowledge you have as it will be useful to others. You can opt to sell it on your blog or sell it on Amazon.