How to Make Money with a Website in South Africa

Beginners who don’t know much about web design or html web design coding should rather get a blog site. Even those people who know how to design websites also use blogs to make money online. You don’t need to know how to design websites to add text content and images to a website or blog. A little html web design knowledge may be required or be helpful, but is not an absolute requirement when trying to make money online with a blog.

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Then, if wanting to use a wide variety of ways to make money online with a blog, it may be a good idea to pay for your own domain name and get hosting for your blog. If part of your ways to make money online involves charging other people to advertise on your blog, they are generally more likely to be keen if your blog is really owned by yourself, and is not a blog that is just part of somebody else’s site.

A free WordPress theme blog may be a good option, with the costs just being getting a domain name registered, and hosting. A little learning may be required while you get used to using your WordPress blog, but this learning and getting used to using your WordPress blog doesn’t have to cost anything, other than a bit of time and effort.

We at TnT Unleashed offer a free WordPress theme package, that includes .co.za domain registration and hosting, and costs just R420 per year. Learn more about this free WordPress theme R420 per year package on our 1pic4twenty.co.za site.

But, how to make money with a blog in South Africa?

What do you need?

A website or blog, preferably a blog, especially for beginners.

A bank account, to receive monies.

Maybe a PayPal account, that is connected to your First National Bank cheque account, to receive payments via PayPal.

Maybe a Google Adsense account, (if you are going to be using Google Adsense on your blog to generate some passive income.)

Plenty of text content on your blog, and you need to often add more content.

A little bit of natural Search Engine Optimization knowledge can help. (There are tons of articles about natural Search Engine Optimization to read for free on the Internet.)

You need to spend a lot of time advertising your blog so that your blog gets lots of visitors. View a list of 42 FREE ways to advertise your blog, as it may help.

Now, how, exactly, do you make money from a blog?

There are quite a few different ways to make money from a blog. Some people use only one or maybe two ways, while others use a whole lot.

1)
Google Adsense or using other CPC advertising networks

2)
CPM advertising networks (you get paid per 1 000 impressions of an advert on your blog) (just by people seeing these CPM adverts on your blog, whether they click the ad or not.)

3)
Displaying affiliate banners

4)
Selling direct advertising space – this may be banner advert space, or even allowing the advertiser to provide you with a whole page of text about their business, for a fee

5)
Selling a product or offering a service

6)
Selling the blog

7)
Sponsored Reviews (companies may pay you to write about their product or service on your blog, if your blog gets a lot of visitors.)

Conclusion:
Just remember that making money from a blog is not as simple as adding just 3 or 4 pages of content (3 or 4 articles) to your blog, adding or using some of the ways to make money from your blog, and then simply forgetting about your blog. If nobody visits your blog, it won’t make you any money. You must work hard at getting lots of people to visit your site.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011