I know the feeling of starting a blog and wanting to make a living from this new baby of yours. I know you want it to be successful and I know it brings you joy to work on it either every single day or at least when you have free time.
And I want you to be a successful blogger, someone who makes a good part-time and/or full-time income from their blog. As new bloggers, you'll soon understand that in the blogging world there is no such thing as instant gratification, and with intense competition each year the road gets just a little tougher every single time.
Don't worry though, I don't say these things to make you feel like you'll never make it, I would rather tell you the truth from the get go. I want you to be prepared for the hard work, and I don't want you to feel that you will start making money the minute you start your blog. With that said, I've been receiving a lot of emails about the "right time" to start monetising a blog.
The ideal time to start monetising a blog
My personal advice for this would be to not wait for a later time, when you finally get around to monetising your blog. This is also the advice I usually give to most of my blog coaching clients. I understand why some bloggers, and coaches feel like it's better to wait for around "x" number of sessions or visits monthly before you monetise but I feel, if your blog is able to get accepted into affiliate programs or be approved for showing ads then you should just go ahead with it.
Sure you won't see a lot of money rolling in, but the small amounts you do see will benefit you.
Why?
Because it will motivate you! It will help you to keep blogging, and help you believe that this goal or dream that you have can be turned into a reality. I see so many bloggers calling it quits after an year, because they never earned anything from their blog. And honestly, I feel sad for them. I feel sad for every blogger out there who has had to quit simply because they couldn't afford to blog anymore and were not earning from their blog anyway.
And to be completely honest with you right now, I hate it when that happens. You see, I love blogging. I've been in love with blogging since late 2014 when I hadn't even started this blog. When I used to blog about all the random happenings in my college life... I liked blogging so much, I decided to not take up a job, to study design and development which I'd never done before and then in 2016, I launched this blog.
I want to make sure you will be able to blog long enough to start making an income out of it, but do you know you're leaving a few bucks here and there on the table when you don't monetise your blog from the get go? And that seeing those few extra dollars, or whatever currency is used where you are can really help motivate you be consistent and keep working hard? Not to mention you can use the extra cash for investing in your blog at a later date.
I remember when I first made my first $100 blogging, it was not a huge amount but it made sure that I didn't quit, it motivated me. And as a blogger, self-motivation will help keep you going in the first few years of your blogging journey where you'll probably only be making a part-time income.
I'm in my 5th year with this blog at the time of writing this blog post, and my blog helps me bring in clients every single month that help me run my small home-based business. I'm so thankful for it. I don't monetise too aggressively on this blog, as I don't want you to have a bad experience reading content on my blog, so I politely ask for donations to help fund this blog.
So, if your blog has a decent amount of content on it I suggest you apply for Adsense, and affiliate programs to start making an income, no matter what the amount is right away. Another reason I like the monetise early method is because when you monetise early you won't have to go back to old posts (one less task to do) to update them all with affiliate links all the time.
Wondering how to monetise your blog?
Generally speaking, most bloggers will monetise their blog in the following way:
- Advertisements
- Affiliate marketing
- Sponsored posts
- Selling a service or a product
- Donations
As you may have already guessed it, for Balkeni Studio, I sell my services and products as my main income bringer. Apart from this, you'll see me monetise this blog with a few advertisements and a bit of affiliate marketing (I'm picky with this as I only want to recommend something I use and really like). But as advertisements and affiliate marketing on this blog is negligible, I rely on donations to help fund the blog.
Depending on your blog and what your aim with it is, you'll be relying on these methods to monetise your blog. I'll be writing on these means of monetisations in depth in an upcoming blog post, so you might want to subscribe to the blog to receive these blog posts directly in your inbox.
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It's March already! Ever since I decided to to say "I'll start next month" to the gym membership I'd been planning to enroll myself in 3 months ago... time sure has flown me by. Jokes apart, I'd like to bring you the wallpapers for this month. As always the smartphone/iPhone version is free for download for all as a token of thanks for supporting my small business.
I hope you'll enjoy this freebie!
You can get your hands on this wallpaper for free. Or you can buy me a coffee and get the entire pack of matching wallpapers here.
OR
If you already support me on buy me a coffee (if you're a member), this set of wallpapers is free for you!As always, I hope you like the content I create for you and that it helps you. If there's anything, a tutorial, or a request you'd like me to address, get in touch with me or leave a comment below. Happy to hear from you.
IMPORTANT : These wallpapers whether the free version or the purchased set is/are only for your personal use, any commercial use is prohibited. Also, please be nice and don't claim my work as your own.
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This tutorial has been highly requested. The first request for the tutorial landed in my inbox through the tutorial request option that I have available on my website. However I did not get around to publishing it until now due to lots of client work and personal projects.
Not to mention, I started a membership that bloggers on blogger could enjoy. Many of these things kept this tutorial as a draft in my post. But here we are and I'm happy to bring this tutorial for any of you who need/needed it. And that too in 4 easy steps:
01. Navigate to the backend of your blogger template
Make sure that you are logged in to your blogger dashboard. Then go to:
Theme > Customise (Click the dropdown instead of the button) > Edit HTML
02. Search And Add Code
Once you are in the HTML editor of your theme, click anywhere on the code once and press Command + F (For Mac users) or Control + F (for windows users), this will open a search dialogue in the editor, now, search for this code:
.post-body
TIP : Copy this piece of code and paste it directly in the search box.
You will now hit enter once and add the following code right after the curly bracket ("{"):
line-height:1.6;
TIP : increase or decrease the number in the code (1.6) above to experiment with the line height you think is best for your blog posts.
03. Save your work
Once yo made all these changes, make sure to click the save button and save your template to commit to the changes you just made.
TIP : Remember to back up your blog before you start tinkering around with the theme HTML, it's generally a good idea to keep weekly backups of your blog content and theme. Also, please work in a fresh window, I know some of you have multiple blogs and you don't want to edit the wrong blog! Always check to see if you are editing the right theme.
That's it, you're done! You'll now notice that the distance (spacing) between the lines of a paragraph in your blog post has increased. Obviously a lesser or greater number will decrease or increase this spacing respectively. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!
I tried to make it very simple so that even people that are not tech savvy can approach this tutorial and follow through with it easily. If you have any questions and/or doubts, suggestions, please feel free to leave them in the comments down below. And as always, comments with links and/or spammy comments will not be published.
Don't wish to put up with the hassle of doing this all by yourself?
Custom Work - Minor Customisations
Let me take care of making any line height and blog post text related issues and problems for you if you find the tutorial too complex. Just sit back and relax while I work out the styling kinks for your blog. Trust me, I love working wih blogger and have helped 60+ bloggers with their blogs till date. This number inceases every month by God's grace. I'd love to help you out as well. Still not sure? I've been a product expert for blogger in the official forum for years now! Let's touch base and help you with your blog.
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This year I decided to start a free resources section for all the wonderful readers of this blog. I love writing for you but now it's time to start offering free wallpapers! I love making them and have been designing my own for a very long time. Ever since I learned to design I believe?
I hope you'll enjoy this freebie!
You can get your hands on this wallpaper for free. Or you can buy me a coffee and get the entire pack of matching wallpapers here.
OR
If you already support me on buy me a coffee (if you're a member), this set of wallpapers is free for you!As always, I hope you like the content I create for you and that it helps you. If there's anything, a tutorial, or a request you'd like me to address, get in touch with me or leave a comment below. Happy to hear from you.
IMPORTANT : These wallpapers whether the free version or the purchased set is/are only for your personal use, any commercial use is prohibited. Also, please be nice and don't claim my work as your own.
Let's be inbox buddies! I'll only e-mail you when a new blog post goes up, there's a freebie up for grabs or it's something you might be interested in.
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