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We’ve ranked monetization strategies below, from the least to most technically intensive.
- Brand partnerships and sponsored posts: These posts require more offline work to find and establish relevant brand partners, but they oftentimes don’t require any technical knowledge beyond a typical blog post.
- Affiliate links: Affiliate links, like the ones you can generate through the Amazon Associates Program, are an easy way to earn a small commission on items you recommend through your blog. They don’t require any additional site infrastructure. Simply insert your unique affiliate URL in your post to ensure you get credit from your affiliate partner. Be sure to disclose when using an affiliate link as well.
- Display ads: If you have a lot of blog traffic but aren’t interested in courting brand partners, you may want to display ads on your website. The process for enabling advertising may vary depending on your website type and host.
- Tips or donations: To accept tips or donations directly on your site, you need a digital payments service like Stripe or PayPal, or a tool that integrates with them. Regardless of how you enable tip or donation functionality on your site, some technical know-how will be required.
- Subscription content and paid newsletters: Offering subscriber-only content or a paid newsletter requires a site with paywall functionality and the ability to connect to a digital payment processor.
- Ecommerce store: If you dream of one day offering readers products or services through a virtual shop, you will need the ability to add store functionality to your site. One of the most popular ecommerce tools is WooCommerce.
You can explore more ways to monetize your WordPress site in this detailed guide.
