Last Updated on November 16, 2021 by Scott Charleboix

This post is called how to make money from blogging because it’s a frequently asked question (FAQ) about how do bloggers make money. Which is principally selling their own products/services, or promoting affiliate links on their website.

How to make money from blogging.

Naturally, one of the main reasons for me to set up this blog (in addition to increasing the numbers of followers to my Pinterest boards) is to make some additional money. Below are some top earning blogs that I’m going to take a look at to get some ideas.

Updated: July 27th, 2020: This is one of the very first blogs I did. When I wrote this post, I had no idea how bloggers made their money.

To learn a lot about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) please visit the post I wrote called 10 Steps for the Ultimate Roadmap for Learning SEO. There’s a wealth of information about SEO all located on one page for you to learn from SEO experts like Brian Dean from Backlinko, Neil Patel from UberSuggest, and Matthew Woodward.

Updated: Sept 12th, 2020: I’m spending more time on writing blogs about Pinterest and there’s one blog that I still need to knock out before revamping this post that deals with how to do an SEO Audit. Doing the internal SEO Audit has been an eye-opening experience. Within 12 hours of making some suggested changes to pages/posts that didn’t have meta descriptions I noticed an immediate difference. One of my popular post pins raised from 149 shares to 216 shares within 12 hours.

Top Earning Blogs and How they Make Money Blogging

14% of bloggers earn a salary through blogging.

According to the graphic below:

• The average annual earnings for a blogger is $24,086
• The average annual earnings for corporate bloggers is $33,557 and
• Half of bloggers paid per cost earn less than $25 on average and less than $1,000 per year.

The common ways to generate revenue are: display ads, affiliate marketing links, and search ads.