Plenty of lifestyle blogs make money—and yo

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Plenty of lifestyle blogs make money—and yours could, too. With any type of blog, the more traffic (visitors) your blog has, the easier it is to make money. Many bloggers find that it takes six months, a year, or even more to start making any significant amount of money. But from your earliest blogging days, you can pave the way for monetizing your site.

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Here are some of the best ways to make money from a lifestyle blog, as soon as you have an audience flowing in:

1. Sponsorships and Advertising
Lots of lifestyle blogs run sponsored posts. A sponsored post is either written by a brand, or written by the blogger to promote the brand. The brand benefits from increased exposure, the blogger gets paid, and the blog audience gets to know about a product or service that is—hopefully—a great fit for them.

You can offer sponsored posts at any stage, but realistically, sponsors will want to see some regular traffic.

Advertising works in a similar way, but instead of running a full post, you might place an ad in your blog’s sidebar or within an existing post. There are also lots of advertising networks you can use—Google Adsense is probably the best to get started with to begin displaying ads & earning some income—but check out these best blog advertising networks as you grow.

Here’s the catch: advertising very much depends on your blog traffic. You’ll likely need thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of visitors each month before you can make a meaningful amount of money through running ads.

2. Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is one of my favorite ways to make money online. It’s easy to get started with, and it’s a great fit for lifestyle bloggers in particular because you’re likely to be mentioning products or services that you’re using anyway.

As an affiliate, you get a special tracking link to use when you mention a particular product or service. Then, when someone buys after clicking your link, you get paid a commission.

This commission varies depending on the type of product/service you’re promoting. For digital products, it can often be as high as 50%. For products sold through Amazon (which has a huge affiliate program), it’s likely to be around 5%.

To get started with affiliate marketing, take a look at this list of affiliate programs and see whether you’re already using any of those products or services. If so, sign up as an affiliate, blog about them, and you could make some very easy money.