Every blogger’s dream is to start earning money with their blog as soon as possible. Though money may not be the sole reason or the priority for setting up a blog or website, it is one of the reasons for the several blogs in the blogosphere.
Why $100 you may ask?
- You don’t have to get too much traffic
- You don’t need to write tons of blog posts
- You don’t need a great online community around your blog
- You don’t need a huge email list
To make your first $100 and it’s the best way to start your blogging journey. Once you make some cash through your blogging efforts, it always motivates you to go ahead (to build a profitable blog) in one or two years.
So how do you earn your first $100 on your blog in less than 2 months of starting your own blog?
I am using $100 here because that is usually the least payment cash out from Google Adsense if that is what you intend to use for your revenue drive.
However, in this post, I am going to talk about something more than just depending on Google Adsense and waiting endlessly to cash your first check from them. Haven’t you noticed that a lot of bloggers get their first check after several months? Some even get theirs after a few years.
That is not what you wish for yourself. Hope I am right? I know that Google Adsense has become the traditional way many webmasters depend on to generate revenue from their blogs. But try as much as possible to remove your mind from adsense as you read this post.
Have you just set up a new blog and you are determined to earn your first $100 on your blog in less than 2 months from now? There are several things you are going to do to make your dream a reality.
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How to earn your first $100 on your blog
We are going to take some time to look at some of those important things we need to do in order to increase our chances of earning real income with our blogs or website in the shortest possible time.
Please remember that the following mentioned methods are somewhat like make quick money online. But they will only work if you really focus on blogging for next few months. Try to keep your blog posting schedule consistent and make sure you are working at least 2 to 3 hours every day for few weeks to see the best results. Let’s now see how you can make your first $100 on your blogs in less than 2 months.
Use long tail keywords to start a niche site
To stand any chance of making it alongside the big boys, you should never try to write articles based on head term keywords that they are already ranking for on Google’s first page. Instead, look for long tail keywords of such keywords that are less competitive and write on them.
For example, if you search for “blog”, you will see that “blog host” and “blog hosting” have global monthly searches of 49,500 and 40,500 respectively. They both have monthly local searches of 18,100 each (with high competition). But “make your blog” has global monthly search of 74,000 and local search of 33,100, and the competition is medium.
So you can write on keywords like’10 ways to make your blog stand out from the rest’, ‘How to make your blog attract advertisers’, ‘How to make your blog an affiliate haven’, etc. You can easily make Google first page with those headlines and yet withstand the competition.
Easiest way to make your first $100
One of the easiest ways to make your first $100 is through your email list. You just have to get at least 1oo to 300 people to your email list and then send an email pitch to them. Even any two of them buy your affiliate product (that gives $50 commission each), you can make your first $100.
How much time it takes?
Within 1 or 2 hours you can write an email newsletter to promote your affiliate products. Make sure to give them the benefits. If they find it useful and relevant to your blog, they will definitely buy!
So what are you looking for?
Start building an email list. Use GetResponse to build your email list. Offer something for free to double your email subscribers.
Write paid articles for others
If you have good enough writing skills, you can make money through freelance writing. And you don’t even require a lot of money and efforts to make money from freelance writing.
All you need is to create a page where you can easily attract people to hire your writing services and post some quality contents on your blogs regularly.
If they like your posts, they will definitely come and ask your services. You don’t need to charge $100 per article in the beginning, even if you take $10 per one article, writing just 10 articles can give your first $100. You can also offer a 10 article bulk package for $80 or $90 so that your clients might be interested in it.
Once you are getting good number of clients, you can charge more money. It all depends on your connections and the time you allocate to your writing services.
- Suggested Reading: Ultimate List of Websites That Pays to Blog
Get endorsement
Your next target should be how to get endorsement from authority sites or from probloggers who are already trusted and have a large followership. How do you get the endorsement of the probloggers?
1. Visit their blogs and leave quality/helpful comments. This would get their attention if the comments are non-spammy and they proffer solution to concerns raised by other commenters. Also try to be among the first three persons to leave a comment on each new post.
2. Offer quality, well-researched guest articles. The probloggers sometimes don’t have all the time in this world to update their own sites. If you offer them quality, well-researched informative guest posts, tendency is that they would accept it without minding whether you are new to blogging. Once your articles are published there, their readers begin to know you and visit your site.
3. Another way to get endorsement is to try and write a quality post for a news syndicating website. Once your offer is accepted and published, you are sure to get new readers trooping to your blog in their hundreds.
Use Fiverr to make your first $100 online
Another smart way to make money online is to use Fiverr. It’s a online marketing place and people always search for gigs to get what they want just for $5.
That means you are doing something (logo design, editing or writing an article) for $5, people will constantly look for these gigs on Fiverr. If they find interesting, you will get more gigs and more gigs means you can make more money online.
First start with something that you are good at. If you are really good at writing, offer your services for $5 and if possible showcase your authority so that more people would be interested in hiring your services. Once you get enough clients, you can also offer premium services and you can always upsell your way to make more money.
Read: 10 Fiverr Alternatives to Try in 2024 to Make More Money
Start affiliate marketing
Now don’t rush into adding Google adsense because they would not give you as much. If you add adsense, be sure you are optimizing for high paying keywords, using longtail keywords. The best thing to do at this time is to add affiliate products in high demand. It all depends on your niche. So you need to choose your affiliate programmes based on the niche you have chosen.
For instance, if you are into blogging, choose affiliate programmes related to blogging and webhosting. You can choose hostgator, namecheap or bluehost hosting programmes and promote them by offering free wordpress blog set up for anyone who joins through your link.
You can also decide to promote affiliate programmes that have to do with plugins, wordpress premium themes, etc. You simply write a special post on them, add your link and make your promise to help with the set up and also offer free wordpress blog support. A lot of people are working on a lean budget. They would see this as an added advantage and swallow your bait. You are sure to make your first $100 on your blog in less than 2 months if this is well done.
Product reviews
You can also offer product reviews on your blog. Make sure you do a thorough research on the product before writing your reviews. Write on both the good qualities and the bad side of the products you are reviewing. A balanced and well researched review would make your blog visitors want to buy such products.
If you have an affiliate link to that product, you make money each time someone buys it through your link. You can also do a paid review in which case you are paid for writing an unbiased review on the product.
Create an eBook and sell it
Creating an eBook is not a rocket science. If you have enough knowledge related to your blogging topics, you can create a paid eBook no matter what niche you are in.
All you have to do is to focus on few unique things to cover. You can analyze your competition, check out top blogs in your industry and find out what products they are selling. So that you will get a better idea on what to sell.
If no one is selling any eBooks in your niche, then you start it. Who knows you can even make thousands of dollars only by selling eBooks if you have enough people attention (and great stuff).
Even if you put a value of $10 on your eBook, by selling just 10 eBooks (one book every week), you can make your first $100. Or you can also create and sell products like themes, or plugins if you are good at coding. All you have to do is to find out what you are good at and start selling them from your blogs.
Ask your friends to launch a WordPress site
By driving your friends to sign up at Bluehost, you will receive $65.00 per referral. Even if you convince at least two people to launch their websites using Bluehost, you will easily make your $100 and of course they will make you payments after 2 months (after a successful sale from your links).
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FAQs
Yes, blogging was profitable, is profitable, and will be profitable in the coming future. Indeed, now people take blogging as a professional career.
The sky is the limit. There is no specific limit to the money you can make from a blog. Following the right approach is the key.
There are so many ways like Google AdSense, Affiliate Marketing, Sponsored Post, Freelancing, eBooks, video courses, consultation, just to name a few.
To start a blog you will have to register a domain name along with web hosting.
You can start a blog for free on various platforms like Blogger from Google, or even on WordPress. But if you really want to make money from your blog I would suggest you go with a self-hosted platform.
Around $40 a year. If you pick any reliable web hosting it will cost you around $2 – $3 per month plus domain charges (approx. $10/year).
Conclusion about earning first $100 from your blog within 2 months
It is easier to earn your first $100 on your blog if you work meticulously following the above mentioned tips. So once again, to earn your first $100, you need to update your site regularly, ask your friends to start their own WordPress blogs using your web host affiliate links, use long tail keywords, start affiliate marketing, get endorsement and do products reviews on your blog.
What do you think I have left out? We would love to hear own contributions. What was your easiest way to earn the first $100 on your blog? How do you think new bloggers can also get their first check online? Your personal opinions could go a long way at helping someone out. Share this post with your friends if you find it helpful.
Really amazing tips you share with us Anil sir,
In my perspective starting Affiliate marketing is the best way to earn at least 100$ per month. Because I already tried Adsense & Affiliate and find if I get at least 1000 targeted visitors per month then I can able to earn 100$ easily by Affiliate marketing.
thanks for your Amazing post.
Sir my blog get AdSense Approve
I have 750+ page views
But AdSense showing only 70 views
And my earning is $0.01 per day when i get 7 click per day what is do please reply sir , i am following your blog last 2 years please help me please please please
Hi. Google says the website must be older than 6 months, so in that case, my domain is older than 6 months but the contents aren’t. Should I wait for 6 months or should I give a try?
Hi, You have come up with yet another great and insightful article. making money online is very difficult when starting out. i wish i had this type of information 5 years ago, it would have help a lot. i struggled a lot to make money online until i later created ebooks that make sales on amazon.
this post will really help new bloggers because money is a very important motivation for bloggers.
thanks for the wonderful post.
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Hi Simon,
It’s good to hear that you are already making money with your blog. Yes, it is always difficult at the starting point especially if there is nobody to mentor you.
Creating an ebook is one of the fastest ways of making money with your blog. All you need to do is to promote it to the right audience and money will start coming in. Just ensure it is rich in content and that the price is not too exorbitant.
what a great site Oh my God, that is a very awesome resource for all the new and pro bloggers. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Mukesh, for being an ardent reader of this blog. I am happy you found this write-up useful.
Do have a wonderful day.
Yes, you are right Zirish. Google Adsense used to be very easy to start earning money for beginners but these days, Google is making it difficult to get approval. However, there are alternatives. One of such alternatives is to sell affiliate products on your site. If you have some traffic, you can easily earn good money with affiliate marketing.
Your article gets the job done perfectly as far as to what extent it takes to begin profiting!
Starting a new account with Google AdSense is one of the easiest ways to start monetizing your blog. While Google AdSense might not make you rich, it’s a simple and useful tool. It’s usually the first step bloggers take to earn an income from their blogs because it is so easy to get started.
Thanks. It’s what I was looking for badly . Started 6 website and few more will start soon. I hope i will also earn my first 100$. Previously my adsense got blocked with $250+ in it ?
Thank you for sharing, earlier before now I thought all you need to do to start making money with your blog is just AdSense cos am a newbie but now I know better
Favour,
Thanks for your comment. Adsense is not the only way to make money with your blog. Though, it seems to be the means by which you can earn money without doing much.
However, to be able to make any meaningful money with Google Adsense, your traffic must be huge otherwise you end up with a few cents at the end of each month.
But with affiliate marketing and some other methods, you can make a sale with even fewer traffic. The sale you make with affiliate marketing does not depend on the quality of your traffic; it depends on how many people can trust your advice enough as to use your link to make a purchase or subscribe to some services.