Ask HN: How to Make Money Blogging?

Posted by iio7 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @09:16PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have a friend that has a blog that he's really dedicated to. The blog gets about 100K visitors a month, but he doesn't earn a dime on the blog. He would like to, but don't feel comfortable putting ads on the website and he also really hate tracking.

Is it possible to earn money on a blog without ads? Or with ads, yet without turning the blog into one of those smeared in ads from top to bottom?

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Re:Ask HN: How to Make Money Blogging? by gadders on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:33AM (#26191203)

It seems like a lot of people are turning blogs into Newsletters via SubStack or similar. Maybe he could look at that?

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Re:Ask HN: How to Make Money Blogging? by alexmingoia on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:04PM (#26189547)

There’s three ways:

1) Ads.

2) Affiliate links. Affiliate links work well if your blog is an authority on products, especially for expensive products like musical instruments.

3) Promoting your own product, like an ebook, course, etc.

Which monetization method you use depends on how it fits into your blog’s content and audience.

Personally, I would do all three to maximize revenue.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Make Money Blogging? by DoreenMichele on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:05AM (#26190247)

Tell him to set up a Patreon (or similar -- it is not the only one) and tip jars (PayPal, Venmo, Stripe). Look up services like Buy Me A Coffee.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Make Money Blogging? by dazc on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:19AM (#26191136)

What does your friend do for a living, can he monetize his blog by promoting himself?

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Re:Ask HN: How to Make Money Blogging? by blackcats on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:04PM (#26199751)

Make a product and link to it

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Re:Ask HN: How to Make Money Blogging? by dang on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:53PM (#26200208)

Please stop posting these. Users are complaining to us that you're spamming the threads, and they're right.

I actually banned your account but since you've posted other sorts of comments in the past, decided to unban you. But please don't do this sort any more!

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Re:Ask HN: How to Make Money Blogging? by troydavis on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:03AM (#26342542)

The scammy thing is that the links contain Amazon affiliate tags -- that is, it's just sleazy attempts to earn affiliate revenue, not even book recommendations as an attempt to be helpful. If they didn't include an affiliate tag, they'd be a little strange but not really a problem.

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