22 Successful Methods to Earn Money Online through WordPress Blogging

I know you’ve been searching different methods to earn money online but got frustrated with the scams that’s been spreading online. Yes, there are so many scams around to earn money online that it would be tough to thing that which one to believe in. But is it really possible to earn money online? Well, I would say the answer is Yes.

Don’t worry… I am not going to ask you to buy any E-Books, Online Courses or any subscriptions. All I ask you is “To Understand the Techniques and Dedicate your time”.

How? I am going explain the 22 proven ways to Earn Money Online through WordPress Blogging.

Are you listening the term “Wordpress” for the first time? So, this is for you… If you already have good knowledge on wordpress, you can skip this paragraph. WordPress is the most used platform to build websites / blogs online. It is the content management system which is used to manage and publish the content online without even having coding knowledge.

Almost 30% of the websites are powered by wordpress. There are many ways in which you can use this platform for earning money. So, why waste time? let’s dig into the topic…

A Quick warning: This article is not a “Get rich Quick Scheme” Article. So, don’t imagine yourself in a luxury car, spending loads of money in casinos, working from Hawai beaches, etc…

Unlike the other get quick money articles, this article will help you to understand the best and proven methods to earn money online through wordpress. Some of these methods might require little investments and time. As long as you’re serious and put your full effort, you’ll definitely have benefits of it.

Blogging is one of the proven methods to earn money online. There are other techniques too which requires little or more design / coding knowledge through which you can earn some bucks. I am going to give you a brief about all the methods through which you can earn money but if you need any help in any particular topic or method, feel free to drop a message to me and I will gladly get back to you.

For your understanding, I will be grouping the methods based on the knowledge and experience you need to get started. You may have to spend some extra time for this article but I’m sure you won’t regret it. If you want to skip unwanted topics and read about specific topic, you can choose the topic from the below table of contents.

Table of Contents:

Make Money Online through Blogging:

1. Make money by Displaying Adsense Ads on your Blog

2. Sell Ad Space on your WordPress Blog

3. Publish a Sponsored Post on your WordPress Blog

4. Earn Money with Affiliate Marketing

5. Earn Money with Sponsored Product Reviews

6. Become an Expert Blogger in your Niche and Offer Consultation

Digital / Physical Product Selling:

7. Sell E-Books on WordPress

8. Sell Products through WooCommerce

9. Create an Amazon Affiliate Store and Start Selling

10. Create and Sell through Dropshipping Store

11. Sell an Online Course using WordPress

Offer Services:

12. Offer Freelance Services through your WordPress Blog

13. Become a Consultant and Earn Money

14. Become a Coach

15. Offer Professional Services

Through a Directory Website:

16. Create a Business Directory and Offer Sponsored Listings

17. Create a Job Board using WordPress Plugins

18. Create an Auction Site using WordPress

19. Create a Marketplace Site with WordPress

Technical Methods:

20. Design a WordPress theme and Sell it on WP Marketplace

21. Design a Plugin and Sell it

22. Design a Blog / Website and Sell it.

22 Methods to Earn Money Online using WordPress

Blogging

Before starting, You’ll need to have a Blog. Since we are talking about WordPress, you should have a blog on wordpress. I have covered a Step by Step method on “How to Setup a WordPress Blog” for newbies. You might want to have a look at it.

1. Make money by Displaying Adsense Ads on your Blog

Some blog as a passion, some start blogging as time-pass. Blogging is nothing but writing about the topic which you feel is the best. Whether it might be a product or an opinion about services or even a general discussion about anything, you can blog on your website, but do you know you can earn money while you’re doing so? Yes, you can…

Google Adsense is the easy way to earn money from your web blog. You just have to add a script from Google Adsense account, while you can still concentrate on writing your blog. Google will pay you “per Click” which means when your reader clicks on the ads displayed on your blog, Google will pay you Certain amount. You can learn more about Adsense through my Blog “How Adsense Works – for Beginners”. You can also refer to my other blogs where I explained “How to Optimize your Blog for Better Adsense Revenue”.

Adsense is the easy and best way to start making some money through your wordpress blog and if you don’t like Adsense? there are some other alternatives too. Refer “5 Adsense Alternatives for Bloggers to earn Money”

2. Sell Ad Space on your WordPress Blog

Along with Adsense Advertising, you can also “Sell Advertising Space” on your wordpress blog. Selling banner space on your website. Since Adsense is managed by Google, you just have to add small script and rest will be taken care by Google Adsense itself.

In direct Ad selling, you either have to add banner ad code from the advertisers or use a plugin to do the coding work for you. You can either charge CPC (Cost per Click) or CPM (Cost per Thousand Impressions) Model or you can charge on a monthly / yearly per banner ad from an advertiser.

Using “Wordpress Ad Management Plugins” helps you a lot if you are not much of a coder type. There are plugins that will allow you to manage Banner ads along with the Adsense Ads. You can read our blog “How to Sell Banner Ad Space on your WordPress Blog” to know more.

3. Publish a Sponsored Post on your WordPress Blog

Since you have a specific niche and blogging about the products / services from that specific niche, there is a chance of being asked to publish paid articles from other bloggers.

You just have to mention that you’ll be accepting the sponsored / guest posts on your blog. You can decide on the pricing based on the Page Authority and Domain Authority of your blog. You can also have specific guidelines on What type of content you’ll accept, how many links other publisher can include etc…

You should have strong user base, traffic, social following in-order to get maximum benefits from your guest post. Also, make sure to accept blogs which suits your existing audience. Otherwise, you might lose your valuable audience.

4. Earn Money with Affiliate Marketing

Being an Affiliate is nothing but selling a product / service using a unique tracking link. For each sale you generate, you will get a referral commission. It’s purely a performance-based marketing, you will get your commission only when there is an action done through the referral link. Unlike the CPC model, Affiliate marketing doesn’t give you money for Clicks and Impressions.

All you need is to write a honest review about the product / service so that it will help the buyer to decide whether to buy the product or make another decision.

There are so many Affiliate Networks in the market, through which you can find the relevant product which suits your niche and include unique affiliate links in your write-up. You can also mention the Buy Now Link where your referral link is included. Below are some major affiliate networks to start with, You can the detailed list of Affiliate networks, their pros and cons here…

5. Earn Money with Sponsored Product Reviews

This one is quite similar to the Affiliate Marketing but here you can charge the advertiser for providing a review about their product / service. Most of the companies now send their products to the Pro-Bloggers, ask them to use their product and have them write a review about the product.

Again, don’t write a fake review to impress the advertiser. Focus on the value that you want to provide to your audience. Since you’re a pro-blogger, your audience will do whatever you want them to do. So, give them your best.

You can charge whatever you want from the advertiser, price may vary from one blogger to another because of the audience reach, social followers and many other factors.

6. Become an Expert Blogger in your Niche and Offer Consultation

Since you are an expert blogger in your niche, with large audience reach and follower base, many beginners who wish to pursue their blogging career in your or similar niche may approach you for the guidance.

Your experience helps both you and your follower to earn more money. You can either charge % from their profit or charge some fee upfront.

Digital / Physical Product Selling

7. Sell E-Books on WordPress

Selling an E-Book on WordPress is the best way to make money online. If you are an expert in something and if your users are ready to pay for your expertise, just put those ideas and suggestions together and sell it to them.

Writing and publishing an E-Book is an easy task since you know what to offer to your users and for the design requirements, you can design your front page and other creatives using Canva.com

People love to pay for the books which are worth buying. You have to make sure to give the best for their money.

8. Sell Products through Woo-commerce

Selling a product in off-line market can be of huge risk, but you can start selling online within no time with woo-commerce setup. Find the products that you want to sell, create a catalogue, upload the products through woo-commerce and that’s it, you can start selling almost immediately.

There are so many other shopping platforms such as Shopify, BigCommerce as an alternative for Woo-Commerce but WordPress makes it easier to setup a new shop or even it allows you to add a shop to an existing website or blog with its free woo-commerce plugin. Our detailed blog on “Start selling online with Woo-commerce Immediately” will help you to setup a store in no time.

9. Create an Amazon Affiliate Store and Start Selling

While with woo-commerce, you can sell a physical or even a digital product, but do you know you can sell without even having any product of your own?

You don’t need to have a physical product, you don’t have to bother about the shipping, you can still sell the product and enjoy the profits. you might be thinking how?

Amazon, as the biggest online marketplace in the world, allows you to sell their products through your store. You can select any product from their marketplace and start selling through your wordpress store. Since the action will be done on Amazon store itself, you’ll get the commission on each sale generated through your store.

10. Create and Sell through Dropshipping Store

Similar to woo-commerce store setup but you don’t have to keep the stock or even worry about the logistics. Dropshipping is nothing but selling other merchant’s products on your store. You will list the product on your store and when the order comes, you’ll contact the original product owner, pay them for the product and ask them to ship it to your customer directly.

As I said earlier, you don’t have to worry about the inventory, you don’t have to worry about the logistics, you don’t even have to invest money, you’ll be using your store and marketing skills to sell the product.

There are plugins available to help you to setup woo-commerce Dropshipping products and you can start selling almost immediately.

11. Sell an Online Course using WordPress

When someone loves to pay you for your work, we would definitely suggest you utilize the option. Create an online course about what you’re best in, sell the course to the interested users.

Online courses are very easy to setup using LMS Plugins. LearnDash with Memberpress is the best option for it. The best part is, you work on the course one time and the course will get you a long term recurring passive income.

Offer Services

12. Offer Freelance Services through your WordPress Blog

Freelancing is the best way to make money online since it doesn’t really need any upfront investment. With your experience, you can offer best services to your clients, but you need to work on the invoicing and payment collections etc.

Just create a page “Hire Me” where you highlight your skills and your users will get in touch with you.

13. Become a Consultant and Earn Money

Starting a Consulting is another way to make money online. Unlike the freelancing services, Consultant offers strategies and advice which can get better ROI from client’s business.

You can start by creating a form on your blog / website asking the customers what they’re actually looking from you. Get maximum inputs from your client so that you can give best consultation services to your customer.

You can charge the customer based on their requirement and your involvement in improving their business. This would be a win-win situation for both parties.

14. Become a Coach

Becoming a Coach is a combination of freelancer and consultant services together. A coach offers Advice, guidance and accountability for setting up goals and improve the performance.

Whatever your area of expertise, you can become a coach and offer one-on-one support to your clients to improve their performance.

Allow them to book you for helping them through Appointment forms which can be easily setup using Appointment and Booking Plugins on WordPress.

15. Offer Professional Services

Since you’re a successful blogger, you will definitely have some skills where other can be benefited using your services. You can offer those services who are looking for them.

You can offer Professional content writing services if you’re good at content writing of you can offer SEO Services through which you’ve been in the current position. Services are not limited to any niche or category. If you feel others can be benefited with your services, simply offer them those.

List out what all services you can provide on your wordpress blog and let your customers get in touch with you using forms and other communication sources.

Directory Websites

16. Create a Business Directory and Offer Sponsored Listings

Local Business Directories are always best option to earn some bucks. Earlier, web directories were very popular. But these days, having a genuine local business directory helps local businesses to get more leads through your directory site.

Creating a Web directory is very easy with wordpress. There are also many plugins in wordpress that makes your work easy in creating and managing local business directory. You can allow Free and Paid Listings on your directory once your directory becomes an authority web directory.

17. Create a Job Board using WordPress Plugins

Another way to earn money through wordpress is to create a job portal where you can onboard companies and people who are looking for the jobs.

Narrow down to the specific niche where you can make some money through a job portal and have the companies list their job postings on your portal. Once you have the enough job listings on your portal, you can start promoting to the users who are looking for the jobs in that niche.

Creating a job board easy with wordpress, we have plenty of plugins which helps you to create using simple steps. You can charge either on a listing model or lead generation model using the job portal.

18. Create an Auction Site using WordPress

With an e-commerce addon (WooCommerce) and an Auction Plugin and a Multi-Vendor Plugin, you can start your Auction website immediately similar to the eBay Auction portal.

Auction website allows multiple vendors to list and create an auction to the customers and customers can bid and get the product if they win the auction.

You can charge either per listing or you can ask for the commission for each transaction that’s been done using your platform. Simple to create and easy to manage, this would definitely fetch some money from your wordpress site.

19. Create a Marketplace Site with WordPress

Similar to the above option, Market place website is nothing but like an Amazon or eBay store. It allows your users not only to buy from your marketplace, but they can even sell their products through your marketplace.

WC Vendors is one of the finest plugins through which you can convert your WooCommerce into a multi-vendor marketplace platform. You will have all the features like any other marketplace with this plugin.

You can make money by offering subscription model to your merchants or you can get the commission for each sale generated on your marketplace.

Technical Methods

20. Design a WordPress theme and Sell it on WP Marketplace

With your coding skills and experience on your wordpress blog. if you like, you can start creating wordpress themes and sell them on the marketplace.

Designing a theme requires both design and development knowledge. Using wordpress frameworks such as Genesis you can start creating a theme almost immediately.

Once you’ve developed a theme, you can offer it for free with limited features and users who liked your theme and want to customize will buy a pro version from you.

21. Design a Plugin and Sell it

Plugins make the wordpress website customization very easy. Since wordpress is flexible CMS, plugins work like modules which can be used whenever required.

With clear understanding or wordpress technology, simple PHP knowledge, you can start creating your wordpress plugins.

Once you have the plugin, selling them wordpress marketplace is easy. You can also have a website and sell it from there and also there are sites like MOJO Marketplace where you can list and sell your plugins.

22. Design a Blog / Website and Sell it.

Since you know building a website using wordpress, you can create and customize a professional website with ease. Many established companies who can afford buying a readymade website can buy and ask you to customize it according to their requirements.

There are also websites like Flippa where you can list and sell your readymade website. All you need to know, understand the demand in a specific niche, build a beautiful website and flip it for money.

Conclusion

That’s it… There are so many other methods which allows you to earn money online using wordpress blog and you’ll get them as you become an expertise in your niche.

As I mentioned in the starting, These Methods are not a “Get rich Quick methods”. With hard work and perseverance, you can make good money from your wordpress blog.

I hope I have covered most of the techniques here but if you feel I missed any specific point or you have a best method which can fetch some good money using wordpress, feel free to let me know. I would be very glad to add them to the above collection.

Also, If any of you already tried any or some of the methods mentioned above and they worked for you, drop a message in the comments box so that the other readers might get motivation with your words.