What is the best way to monetize a tech blog?
I'm struggling in blog monetization. I have around 2000 page views per day and AdSense is enabled. The revenue per day is something around 0.15$ which is nothing. Any advise or support is highly appreciated.
If you've managed to build trust with your audience (like, they subscribe to your newsletter and read it eagerly), you could sell them another fix for their problems (like a book, workshops or software)
Sling products you sell directly, instead of allowing other advertisers distract your audience with off-topic products. Simple Logo T-Shirts, Stickers, anything than improves brand loyalty - consider what value you're offering with your blog, and capitalize on that.
Try to provide affiliate marketing for well-known products and services to boost your revenue
A few ideas that I've seen out in the wild:
- Engage with your most consistent readers and find out what makes them such big fans. Use that to create premium/paid content.
- turn into a paid newsletter (or paywall for the blog). Keep some content free but write additional content for paid subscribers.
- add a premium content tier that could include: slack community, monthly "mastermind" or guest events, job board access, etc
- turn each article into a podcast episode, youtube video, twitter thread, etc. to earn more advertising revenue and/or grow audience