blogger (How to make money from your website)

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Once you have some kind of traffic, your website can then be monetised in dozens of ways!

The most lucrative opportunities for new bloggers to make money tend to be:

• Sponsored articles
• Google AdSense
• Product reviews
• Consultancy (or freelance work)
• Email marketing
• Affiliate marketing (the big one!)

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What is affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is earning commission from a company for promoting an online product or service to your website visitors. The retailer or merchant provides you with a unique link that will track any sales which originate from you. The link could be placed within a relevant article, an email or on social media.

This is now a huge industry in itself, which is unsurprising when you consider how many e-commerce websites there are today!

But don't get overwhelmed by the scale of the opportunities yet!

Sign up to Affiliate Window from day one. They are an established and large affiliate network giving you instant access to thousands of online retailers and services who pay you a commission for any leads. It's just a case of copying the link across and including it within your content!

For more of an insight into how websites generally make money, have a look at our guide to making money as a blogger.

Take action

I started my first site way back in 2002, it wasn't pretty, but honestly it was the best decision I ever made. It ultimately led me to found STS in 2007 and kick-started my career (read about my 10 year journey).

Every week I come across more and more bloggers who have quit their 9-5 job and are making a living from blogging.

Obviously this doesn't happen overnight, but you have to start and take the first step.

That's why I wrote this guide to starting a website, and thankfully today it's MUCH easier to get a site live. You don't need to know a thing about coding or servers – as my own grandma has proven! – thanks to Bluehost and WordPress.

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