How to Make Money Blogging in 2024 (7-Figure Entrepreneur Secrets)

Hey, do you want to learn how to make money blogging in 2024?

I’m Adam Enfroy, and I’m a former pizza guy turned 9-5 drone turned blogger who’s made more than 3 million dollars from blogging.

This post will take you 10 minutes to read, but it could change your life forever. If you want to learn start a blog, but:

• Aren’t sure where to even start
• Are confused by the barrage of AI THIS, BUY THIS, SEO THAT information
• Are too worried about failure to take the leap
• Are wondering if blogging is even viable still in 2024 with Google updates and AI

This post is going to solve all of that.

I had a regular pizza job most of my adult life. But I felt stuck…like I was wasting all of my potential working some dead-end job.

And not even my high-paid 9-5 digital marketing job in Austin could cure that feeling. I knew the only way to fill that void was to have my own business. I knew in my heart that I just couldn’t work for someone else. Not if I wanted to feel happy.

I just felt like I wasn’t meant to sit in a cubicle all day working for someone else’s dream instead of my own. Something HAD TO CHANGE.

I decided to take the leap and start my own blog back in 2019. Within 7 months, I was making $40,000 per month. That’s when I finally achieved my life-long dream: I quit that job and started traveling the world working from a laptop on my own personal businesses. No alarms. No schedules. No boss. No nothing. I finally felt like I was living my dream.

In just 10 years, I’ve gone from a nobody pizza boy to a successful blogger running multiple 7-figure online businesses and a YouTube channel with 200,000 subs. Now, I run my blog and teach my students how to start their own $10,000+/month blogs at Blog Growth Engine.

In today’s post, I’m going to show you all of the ways to earn money online through blogging that I teach my 6,000+ students at AI Income Blueprint.

It’s easier now than ever before to earn a full-time living through your own blog. You just need to know how to monetize your website, how to bring in traffic, and how to do some basic marketing with automations.

I’m about to show you all of that and more.

By the way, this is the same information I teach in my community that has helped some of my students earn $5,000, $10,000, and even $15,000 per month blogging.

Ready to make money online? Let’s take the plunge…

Making Money Blogging in 2024 (Quick Rundown)

Let me just give you the TL;DR on making money with blogging in 2024 in case you’re in a rush.

My blueprint for monetizing a blog is simple:

1. Use free (or cheap) keyword tools to find a niche.
2. Find a web host for your WordPress site. I like Bluehost because it’s cheap and fast. It’s $1.99/month, so it’s practically nothing. Plus, they’re the most beginner-friendly host out there.
3. Use AI tools to help generate blog posts quickly and efficiently. Some tools are so good you can’t tell the difference between human and AI writing. It’s amazing.
4. Monetize your blog by running ads, earning affiliate commissions, and creating your own products.
5. Scale using AI.

I teach this process to thousands of people in my AI Income Blueprint course because it works. Blogging isn’t nearly as complicated as most influencers – or Google – want you to think it is. We’ve tested this method across hundreds of websites and keywords, and we regularly see sites ranking Page 1 on Google using affordable tools and AI automations.

OK, let’s get to how to make money from your blog once it’s up and running.

5 Ways to Make Money Blogging That Still Work in 2024

Here are the 5 best ways to generate money from your blog that still work in 2024.

Become an Affiliate for Other Products

Pros

• No overhead
• Mostly passive income
• No customer support
• Easily scalable

Cons

• Commissions can be low
• You’re reliant on the product owner to make the sale
• Requires moderate to high traffic

Affiliate marketing is still the #1 way to make money blogging in 2024, especially if you’re new to making money online and want to generate passive income.

Affiliate marketing has totally changed my life. It’s the main reason I escaped the 9-5 rat race and built a life of total financial and personal freedom.

There’s no overhead, low startup costs, and once your articles are ranking, you can generate passive income on autopilot (so long as your content ranks).

Not trying to brag here, but some of my articles generate $10,000+ per month in income, and I haven’t done any work on them in months. Like this online course platforms article:

In case you’re totally new to this, let me explain…

Affiliate marketing is when you promote other people’s products in exchange for a percentage (sometimes up to 50%) of the sale price. You recommend a product and if the person buys it, you get a cut of the sale.

When people who want to build their own courses search “best online course platform”, my article pops up:

Inside this beast of an article, I recommend my favorite platforms:

When someone buys it, I get a cut of that sales for the entire lifetime of their subscription. That means every month when Thinkific gets paid, they send me money right to my bank account.

But Adam, everyone says affiliate SEO is dead. Does it still work?

Yes, affiliate marketing still works. If anything, it’s easier now than ever before with AI.

Before, you needed a lot of money and a big team to launch an affiliate site. Now, you just need to know how to leverage AI and you can do it all yourself.

Most people are doing it the wrong way, trying to take shortcuts, and then crying online when they don’t succeed.

Our students are crushing it right now based on the tips I teach in my AI Income Blueprint course.

Millie Pham is making $5,000 per month writing about AI tools (her passion):

Another student is ranking #1 and #2 on Google’s results over major competitors for high-value keywords using AI:

Those products retail for $2,000+. That could easily be a $1,000 payout for her for a single commission.

Does affiliate marketing still work in 2024? Yes it does. You just need to know what you’re doing. Don’t listen to the quitters who tried to cheat the system and failed.

Further Reading: Check out my complete guide on affiliate marketing. It’ll teach you how the industry works, as well as how to find affiliate programs and my top affiliate programs to sign up for.

Running Ads

Pros

• Easily scalable
• The quickest win in the game
• Works in any niche
• No time investment or products needed

Cons

• Low payout per transaction
• Requires an audience
• Annoying for visitors

Paid ads are the fastest and easiest way to monetize your blog. If you have the traffic, you can make steady income off your visitors by turning your site into a billboard for advertisers like Mediavine.

I love paid ads for a few reasons:

1. They’re extremely easy to implement
2. You just park them on your site and they generate 100% passive income
3. You don’t have to rely on 3rd-parties or building your own products to make money

You get paid when a visitor views an ad. It doesn’t matter if they buy anything or not. Think of yourself like the landowner who gets money from the billboard company. You just sit there and collect checks regardless of whether someone pulls off the Interstate into the McDonald’s or not.

At one point, I was earning $14,000+ per month just from running ads on my articles.

Mediavine even did a report on it:

Let me give you a few tips for running ads on your site based on how I make six-figures per year with ads:

• Don’t run them right away: Ads are a numbers game. You need traffic or you’re going to be scraping pennies off the ground. I remember when I was making $1.50 per day with ads, and pulling my hair out trying to bring that number up. Get your traffic first!
• Don’t use AdSense: Google AdSense is a waste of time. They lure you in with a low traffic threshold, and since everyone wants to monetize right away, people fall into the trap of running AdSense (like me when I was making $1.50 per day). Use Mediavine instead. They pay up to 4x more than AdSense IF you have the traffic to qualify. You can also check out some of my favorite advertising platforms in my guide to the 7 best advertising platforms to scale your business.
• Don’t run ads on all of your posts: Ads can be annoying for visitors, so if you’ve got a post that’s important for sales (like the affiliate post I showed you before), don’t run ads on it. Run ads on less important posts and on posts that don’t have any other means of monetization.

3. Sponsorships (Sponsored Posts, Insertions, & Advertisers)

Pros

• High earning potential
• Very low effort
• High demand

Cons

• Requires oversight
• Requires website authority and traffic
• One-time payments
• May affect your credibility if you do it wrong

Here’s another way to make money from your blog that could add $3,000-$5,000 to your online income with minimal effort.

Sponsorships are when you utilize your blog’s audience and search engine optimization (SEO) power to offer paid placements for other companies.

This typically comes in one of 3 forms:

• Sponsored Posts: This is when a company pays you to publish a post promoting their company on your blog. Typical fees for high-traffic sponsored posts range from $500 – $1,500.
• Sponsorships: Once you build a name for yourself, other companies will take notice and want to work for you. You know how sports leagues always have “the official car of the NBA” partnerships? That’s what you’ll be doing.
• Link Insertions in Old Posts: This one is a bit tricky if you’re new to this space. I’ll explain, though. Links are super important for your Google rankings. Every time one site links to another, this tells Google that the site is trustworthy, and they get a boost in rankings. So you can utilize the posts on your site by selling links to other websites inside of them. Say you have a post on “the top dog breeds for families”. You could sell a placement in that article to a dog toy company or another pet blog. They pay you a few hundred bucks, you insert a link in your post to that blog, and everyone walks away happy.

Selling Your Own Services (SEO, Consulting, Content Writing, etc.)

Pros

• No traffic needed
• Make money right away
• Stable income
• No up-front investment required

Cons

• Very competitive market
• Not scalable
• Time intensive

Selling your own freelance or agency services is a great way to earn fast, stable income from your blog without needing any traffic or products.

Some of the quickest wins are to start selling:

• Content writing (AI and human)
• SEO services
• Consulting (web design, link building, SEO, etc.)

Your blog will automatically lend you credibility and earn trust in a prospect’s eyes. All you need to do is reach out to them and make them a proposal…someone is bound to bite.

It’s not “easy”, but it’s the fastest way to generate income from a blog. You’re doing this to make money, right? Offering your own services is the fastest way from A to B in that case.

Here’s a great example of one of our students, Millie, absolutely killing it with services from her site:

And one of our coaches, Kevin Meng, offers content writing, copywriting, and consulting using his website:

You might not make much money to start, but it’s possible to start earning $100-$200/hour for consulting and upwards of $500 per blog if you can deliver results.

If you want to take a shortcut to learning SEO, writing, and consulting skills that you can turn into your own freelancing or agency business, myself and my team of coaches teach them inside AI Income Blueprint.

All you need to do is:

• Learn how to prospect for leads
• Learn how to write cold outreach emails that actually get responses (99% don’t and most responses are “never email me again”)
• Learn how to write proposals that actually land clients

And, of course, you need to actually have the skills to back it up too.

Sell Your Own Courses (Using This Step-by-Step Blueprint)

Pros

• You keep all the profit
• Highest earning potential
• No limit to what you can do (course, community, products, etc.)

Cons

• Expertise required
• Up-front work required

If you want to build a 7-figure business, your end goal needs to be your own course and community. Of all the 7 and 8-figure entrepreneurs I know, the vast majority of them have a flagship course with a community attached to it.

Affiliate income, ads, and sponsored posts are how you escape the rat race and earn $100,000 a year or more. Next-level products like courses are how you generate true wealth and gain financial freedom.

I’m doing well over two million dollars per year, and my blogging course and community are the main money maker.

And the best part?

There’s really no magic to it. Find something you’re good at, make a high-level course on it, attach a community, and build a funnel (I’ll explain this below) that brings people to your course automatically.

You could make a course on:

• Using AI
• Learning a hobby that you love
• Learning a language
• How to improve your mental health (e.g, anxiety relief)
• Building a niche business
• Personal development
• Cooking

And once you establish yourself as an expert, having a course opens you up to consulting gigs, podcast appearances, conference speaking events, and high-paid sponsorships.

This is all relatively simple to do with the right knowledge and automations.

Let’s use an everyday example like woodworking.

Say, for some odd reason, that you just happen to be the best woodworker to ever walk the planet.

You could easily make an online course that retails for $1,000-$2,000 or more.

Don’t believe me?

Want to guess how much this guy sells his in-person woodworking course for?

Any guesses?

$30,000.

Yes, you read that right. Thirty-thousand United States Dollars.

You could probably sell yours for $3,000 and make bank.

How to Build a Marketing Funnel for Your Course That Brings in Clients on Autopilot

OK, so now that you’re totally committed to the idea of building generational wealth by making the best woodworking course in the history of human civilization, here’s how you’d market it.

You’d need to build what we call a funnel. Funnels are a marketing technique consisting of a series of automated steps that take an interested prospect and turn them into a buyer. It would look something like this:

1. Get them to give you their email address by offering an interesting piece of free value
2. Create a sequence of emails slowly warming them up to purchasing from you
3. Create a great offer, sales page, and video sales letter
4. Hit them with a great offer and send them to your sales page with a limited time discount

Here’s a real-life example…

If they’re interested in woodworking, you might offer them an interesting guide about building things out of wood, then automatically send them a series of emails taking them through a transformation from beginner to expert craftsman with his own thriving business.

And finally, after they’ve been through those steps, you hit them with a one-time discount offer for your new woodworking masterclass. This sends them to a targeted sales page (or checkout page) describing the benefits of your offer.

This could all be automated with tools like ConvertKit and AI integrations that will help you optimize the funnel.

I teach how to build a sales funnel like this in my AI Income Blueprint course, and there’s also a free training video on my YouTube channel of how I built a 7-figure funnel step-by-step. 

How Do Bloggers Make Money?

Now that you know all of the income streams, I want to quickly show you how to grow your blog so you can start making money from it.

Making money from your own website requires one thing: Traffic.

You need people to visit your website every day, or else you’ll have no audience to sell to.

This is actually easier now than ever before if you use AI to help you. Your costs will be way lower, and you might not need to outsource anything. You can start and grow a blog 100% on your own with very low costs.

You just need to follow these steps:

• Find a Niche: Find a topic that you are knowledgeable on and passionate about. This could be woodworking, AI, or dog training. It’s your blog, I don’t care what you choose. Many of my students build their blogs around their 9-5 jobs. Yes, you can turn your professional skills into a profitable blog that generates you passive income.
• Get Your Website Online: Get a web host, build a simple WordPress website, and get that thing online. Once it’s ready, you can start publishing content.
• Start Creating Content: Do keyword research to find topics that people are actively searching for. You can use free AI tools plus some cheap keyword tools to find high-traffic, low-competition keywords that you can rank for quickly. You just need to publish blogs on that topic, and when you have enough content, you’ll start ranking.
• Monetize Your Blog: Once you have enough traffic, you can start signing up for affiliate programs and running ads. And when you’ve built your brand, you can start building your own products, too. This entire process can take as little as 6 months (some of my students make money within their first 3 months, but that’s rare).

Now You Know How to Make Money Blogging. What’s Next?

The next step is for you to take action.

You now know:

• Blogging is still viable in 2024
• How to grow your audience
• How to monetize your blog

All that’s left is for you to learn how to do it step-by-step from people who’ve done it already.

First, get started with Bluehost for $1.99 per month.

My free AI blogging masterclass shows you everything you need to know to start, grow, and monetize your blog. With some hard work and patience, you can build an online business that makes $5,000 – $10,000 per month or more.

If you’re hesitant, I understand. Just know that nothing happens until you make it happen. And anyways, it’s free. So, what have you got to lose? Check it out now and let me know what you think.

Whatever you choose, I wish you luck.

• Adam