5 Ways To Make Money Blogging With Less Than 10,000 Pageviews

AD affiliate links | When it comes to making money from your blog you may not be sure what the best option is for you. If you read my monthly income reports you’d know that I have a steady income from my blog. This is from hard work over years to increase my domain authority, to provide content my readers want, affiliate marketing and having long lasting relationships with brands.

If you’re newer to blogging, or haven’t built an established following you may be thinking ‘What ways can I make money with my blog with less than 10,000 pageviews’ and today I’m going to share some ways you can do that. How you make money will change niche to niche so take that into consideration!

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Scope Out The Best Referral Deals

When it comes to affiliate marketing, if you have low page views you may struggle to make money because your click through rate might be lower. You might also find that most platforms that you are able to sign up for have a lower commission rate (Amazon Associates we’re looking at you) meaning you struggle a bit to make significant money from them.

Here’s where you need to work smarter and not harder. There are so many affiliate platforms out there that offer great referral deals per sign up. For example one purchase through my Bluehost affiliate link is worth $65. Which could be more than 50 Amazon sales.

I often see fellow bloggers cultivate this with the FreeTrade Referral Scheme – for every sign up you also get a new stock worth between £1-200. Why this isn’t a platform I’d suggest using unless you have been using it before and understand the basics of investing I think it’s a really good example. It’s a solid way to make money weekly from something you may already be using or that is valuable to your readers.

If you’re struggling with affiliate platforms to use head over to The 10 Best Affiliate Marketing Platforms For Beginners. I also highly recommend signing up to the affiliate platform AWIN.

Use SEO To Your Advantage

If you don’t have an established following or you’re struggling to bring in pageviews you’re going to want to use SEO to bring in more viewers, which you can use to make money. For this you will need to know the basics of keyword research. You’ll need a keyword research tool, that can test the difficulty of keywords. You’re ideally going to want to look for something that is easy or moderate to rank on.

Some keywords are worth ranking on because they’re going to bring you in decent money. For example my 8 Beautiful WordPress Blog Themes You Need To Check Out. now ranks on the bottom of the second page of google. It’s a keyword that has an extremely difficult keyword to rank on (it was 80+ on KeySearch). That one post now brings me 100s of ££ regularly. This can be done with easier keywords too, and the aim is always to get the top spot on Google. You just need to think about, will someone will be searching this keyword with the intent of purchasing something mentioned in the post, or the item the post is based around?

Things to consider when looking for a profiteable keyword:

• Does this fit my niche?
• Will I be able to rank on it?
• Is it something my current audience would be interested in?

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Utilise Your Mailing List

With a mailing list you can start making money from day one. Growing your mailing list isn’t an easy task but 10 engaged subscribers can make you 10 sales. When I started out with mailing list I invested in the Blog To Brand Email Marketing Guide (it’s around $19/£15). It was the best resource I found on learning everything from setting up your account to creating highly converting opt-in forms + landing pages. It has over 80 Pages of Advanced Email marketing tips & strategies.

I personally have my mailing with Convertkit, and I use these evergreen templates for my sign up sequence. My sequence makes me around £800 per month, having a welcome sequence really is important.

Here are a few tips to utilising your mailing list for sales:

• Know your target audience and great content that fits that
• Find relevant affiliate links or sponsored opportunities for your mailing list
• Don’t over-send emails, quality over quantity.
• Have a solid sign up sequence
• Email out on holidays and for trends (black Friday etc)
• Analyse all your conversion analytics after you send an email.

Sponsored Posts

As your blog grows you’ll be taking on sponsored work/ADs. In many cases brands will reach out to you for this, but you can openly pitch to brands yourself. This is something that I recommend doing to get your foot in the doorway with sponsored work, and because you’ll have more control on charging.

Brands do not always look for high blog views, sometimes they are after a higher Domain Authority because this is beneficial to them. They may even look to sponsor your socials, such as an instagram AD or Pinterest ADs (yes this exists). So if you have low blog views for a decent amount of social followers this could be for you. Depending on your niche, you could take sponsored content on just about any subject, whether it’s baby clothes, software, courses, or even guides on how to buy Ripple (XRP). Stick with brands that you know your audience would be interested in, and make anyone you work with is a good fit for your blog.

A few tips for looking for sponsored work:

• Find relevant blogging platforms (be aware that you’ll be paid less than organic collaborations in most cases)
• Reach out to brands who have previously done ADs
• Find sponsored opp facebook groups with under 1000 members (the less the better)
• Check recent hashtags on social media for job opportunities
• Find yourself a friend with similar stats so you can make sure you’re not undercharging.
• Pro tips: remember sorting out VAT if you are in UK.

Affiliate Marketing

How you make money from affiliate marketing with come down to your niche, viewers and much more. It is completely possible to make money with low blog views. You just need to be smarter with. Seek out new affiliate links, that people in your field don’t promote. Cookie data might mean that you will find it highly competitive with sharing the same links as others.

You’re going to want to seek out affiliate links that have a higher commission so you make more money per sale. This might mean signing up to affiliate programs directly through a brand rather than through a 3rd party. This could look like becoming an affiliate for products created by other creators. This obviously depends on your niche but you need to do as much research as you can.

If you’ve ever purchased one of my ebooks, and want to be an affiliate for my ebooks, I offer 50% commission.

Top tips for making more affiliate sales:

• Use Pinterest to promote your affiliate links ( you need to learn what links you can and can’t share before you do this)
• Create content around your affiliate links
• Look for the best deals and promotions for your affiliate links.
• Recommend things you’ve used before ( don’t just share links for thing you’ve never used)
• Be consistent.

I think it’s really worth noting, that you don’t need to do what other bloggers are doing. For example if you have a complete different niche to mine, doing the same as me isn’t going to make you money. You need to grow your own unique following, and do you own thing. It doesn’t matter what everyone else is doing.

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