How to Monetize Your Sports Blog: 5 Efficient Tips for Newbies 

This is a guest post by Jake Lester.

For those in the blogging world, it is common knowledge that the process of blogging could cost you a lot of effort and time that could be otherwise used for fattening up your bank account.

Have you ever asked yourself, what if there was a way both could be done all at once?

Writing a sports blog is one of the branches of the blogging tree and it supplies many sports fans with sports inspiration, information and at times, both of them. It indeed deserves more recognition from the world at large.

For you to continue blogging without worrying about your lack of pennies, below are some of the best tips that you could use to monetize your sports blog:

In order for you to begin minting money from your sports blog, you should start by first learning how to create one.

It is important to note that you can have the option of spending a lot of dollars in terms of hundreds and at times even thousands in paying web designers to help you build a blog site. 

On the other hand, it is possible to build an equally great blog but by using a little bit of assistance.

You should begin by getting yourself the best domain name you could come up with. This name should stand out by being relevant to the topic of the content that you wish to write in your blog (In this case, should be relevant to sports).

In addition to this, you should ensure that it is something catchy that will enable your blog to have some uniqueness to it.

You can easily search for the available domains by using the Domain service in Google. Another option is for you to head straight to whichever site you have settled upon for hosting your domain.

Once you are there, you can both search for a domain and also buy one all in a single place. There are some sites like BlueHost and SiteGround that give you an allowance of acquiring a free domain once you have signed up with them.

After you’ve passed this step of getting a domain and also choosing your host, you are all set to begin constructing your blog.

It is important to note that blogging platforms such as WordPress are efficient in making your blog building simple, hence you could consider downloading it.

The templates that have been pre-designed and their easy formats are essential in helping to guide you through the entire process with much ease and without requiring any coding skills.

Once you’ve completed building your blog base, you need to lace it up with great content. This can be effectively accomplished by writing blog posts by yourself, sharing some important game updates, news stories and even including various sports video content.

Your options in this arena are practically endless, thus prompting you to exploit as many of them as you can.

At the end of the day, ensure that you’ve included content that can grasp the undivided attention of your audience in order for you to get a chance to monetize your blog. 

Successfully monetized sports blogs go to all lengths to include a mix of exciting content so as to glue visitors to their sites. They recap highlights of various games; give projections concerning the future of different teams on a biweekly or weekly basis among many other ways of making their content exciting.

Now that you’ve succeeded in not only building your blog, but also filling exceptional content in it, you can start making money out of it. There are quite a number of different ways with which you can see this brought to actualization.

You can start by adding advertisements into your blog site with Google or any other relevant providers. They help your site by displaying banner ads in it then ensuring that you get some cash when they get clicked on, or even when a web visitor to your sports blog purchases products from them.

There is also an option where you offer some affiliate links meant for Amazon. Your returns will reach you whenever any of the visitors to your blog purchase the services or products that are being advertised on your site. (This is called affiliate marketing.)

For you to acquire more affiliate links, you could also try to partner with any individual companies that offer these links with the same returns as described above.

In the event that you have a business that is sports related already in place, you could flesh out cash from your blog by selling your business’ services and products online.

For you to maintain the value of the sports blog that you’ve already created, you need to ensure that the quality of content that is posted in it is top notch and vet the ads that run on your site. 

For your blog to maximize on its monetary output, you need to make sure that the ads that are running on it have relevance to the sports topic at hand.

You should not allow adverts like those for diapers for toddlers to be running on your sports blog. This will be counter-productive to the efforts you’ll have made to monetize your sports blog.

Having irrelevant ads might make your readers view your blog as not serious due to the frequency of adverts that appear spammy and thus refrain from visiting your site.

Losing such large numbers of traffic is detrimental to the monetization campaign for your blog and you would do well to avoid reaching such lengths by ensuring that all adverts are relevant to the sports topics in your content.

Adverts that you could allow in your blog are the likes of sports betting sites. If you would want to view one, you could click here.

This is one of the greatest measures that you can put in place in your sports blog.

You should seek to partner up with charitable organizations such as Red Cross whenever disaster strikes within your locality, region or even country as a whole.

Many of your readers would be immensely appreciative for your humanitarian efforts to try and help others in their time of dire need. By partnering with reputable charity organizations, you will have dispelled all the fears of your donation attempts being fraud-like in nature.

You could set up a donate button that connects to the PayPal account of the charity organization you have partnered with, thus making it easier for your readers to donate money.

Such an act is very effective in improving the welfare of those around you and also to the future of your blog. Your readers are bound to be impressed by your efforts and actually end up increasing traffic to your blog even much later after the impending disaster has passed.

Writing a sports blog is not exactly a walk in the park, due to the effort it takes to cultivate one.

Despite all this, you find that a good number of bloggers do not have the necessary know-how of making their work to yield some money for them.

Above are some of the ways in which you can monetize your sports blog with utmost ease, and make your blogging efforts worth your while.

We hope that this article has been of great inspiration to you. All the best in monetizing your sports blog!