{"id":2653,"date":"2022-10-13T10:07:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T09:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iscabrands.com\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2022-10-14T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:32:47","slug":"make-money-from-your-blog-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iscabrands.com\/make-money-from-your-blog-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Money From Your Blog In The UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are lots of routes to make money from your UK blog. These include affiliate marketing, display ads, digital\/physical products and offering your expertise in the form of consultancy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this may sound simple, the journey from a blog making \u00a30 to even \u00a3100 a month can feel like a world away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this post, we’ll discuss the different ways that you can make money from your blog in the UK (including honest advice on the pros and cons of each) and give you some helpful tips on how to get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If haven’t started your blog yet don’t miss out step by step guide on how to start a successful blog in the UK.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create a product that you can sell on your blog<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Creating and selling a product on your blog is one of the best ways to make monetise your blog without any input or help from external entities (people or organisations help you monetize your blog).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In simple terms, it means you can keep complete control over what you promote and sell to your audience because you’ll be making it yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that in mind let’s look at some of the best practices you can follow to create a successful product to complement your UK-based blog:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create a product that is relevant to your blog. If you have a beauty blog, then selling makeup or beauty products is going to be an easy sell for you. If you have a food blog, then it might be great to try selling cookbooks using recipes from your site.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selling physical items can be more expensive than selling digital products because there are overheads associated with manufacturing and shipping physical goods. However, selling physical products is typically easier because you can display the value clearly with images and descriptions, unlike digital products where the value is very specific to the use case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever you sell make sure to include some kind of return policy just in case someone receives an item they don’t like or doesn’t work properly after purchasing it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sell an e-book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another great way to make money from your UK blog is by selling e-books. You could even sell a bundle of them as part of a course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-books are a popular format for writers and bloggers because they’re less expensive than print books and they allow you to reach people worldwide without being constrained by physical shelf space or shipping costs (and if you want them in hard copy form, there’s always CreateSpace<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essentially you’ll be compiling a selection of posts on the same topic to offer as one complete solution to a problem. Creating your e-book doesn’t require huge amounts of investment and can be completed without the need for any expensive publishing services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use affiliate marketing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Affiliate marketing is the process of promoting products or services (that you don’t own or produce) on a commission basis. You add relevant links to your articles and if someone clicks on that link and buys the product or service, you receive a commission on their purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this is simple in practice you need to make sure that the products or services you affiliate are relevant and most importantly helpful and good value for your readership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Promoting poor affiliate programs is a quick way to lose the trust of your audience.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how do you go about starting affiliate marketing on your blog?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Amazon Associates<\/a> is probably the most widely used affiliate program in the world due to its gigantic catalogue of products and relatively easy signup process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a UK-based blogger, it gives you a handy feature called OneLink that allows you to send US traffic to Amazon.com so you still get an opportunity to get some commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you’ve signed up you’ll get access to SiteStripe which sits at the top of your browser when you search the Amazon website. As soon as you see a product that looks like a great fit for your readers you can simply click SiteStripe and copy the links it gives you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now head over to any relevant blog posts and add your link. Voila, you’ll now make a small commission every time one of your readers clicks through to Amazon and makes a purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember, the more information you provide about the product and incentives to purchase the more clicks and in turn conversions, you’ll get. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just adding links all over your website won’t do the trick, guide your readers to the purchase, explain why it’ll help, what made you recommend it and anything else that might improve your chance of a revenue-earning click.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scaling your affiliate marketing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Now you’ve mastered Amazon Associates you can start to entertain other affiliate programs available online. Some of the most popular options are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n