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Growing your income as a blogger is a never-ending journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From affiliate marketing to for-profit partnerships with brands, there’s always an opportunity to increase your blogging income.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this post, we’ll cover five out-of-the-box strategies to help you make more money from your blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s get started. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Turn Your Most Popular Blog Posts Into Info Products (Effortless Digital Monetization)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Selling info products like eBooks and online courses is among the staple monetization strategies<\/a> of full-time bloggers<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, building a full-fledged online course from scratch can take weeks \u2014 if not months \u2014 of mind-numbing preparation and content creation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With tools like LearnDash<\/a>, you can effortlessly convert your top-performing blog content into enriching, top-quality educational experiences. <\/p>\n\n\n

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LearnDash is a Learning Management System (LMS) with all the features you need to create profitable online courses directly within your WordPress website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The centerpiece of LearnDash is the drag-and-drop course creation workflow. You can set up everything \u2014 from your supported online course formats to your payment details \u2014 straight from the onboarding process.<\/p>\n\n\n

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For this particular monetization tactic, however, we’re not going to create a course from scratch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather, we’ll take your most popular and valuable piece of content and convert it into a single product. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use Google Analytics<\/a> to analyze your website’s traffic and use data to pinpoint your best-performing blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the “Reports<\/strong>” section, click ‘Pages and screens’ <\/strong>under the ‘Engagement’ <\/strong>submenu. You should be able to identify your top-performing content in the table at the bottom of the report.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tip: <\/strong>Make sure the popular content you choose solves a problem with step-by-step, actionable information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your list of top-performing URLs will most likely contain non-informational pages such as your contact page, homepage, and content category pages. Use your discretion to select a piece of content that makes sense as an informational product \u2014 something with an “ultimate guide<\/strong>” blog post structure<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next step is to use the Post Type Switcher<\/a> plugin to convert your blog post into a LearnDash lesson. Just use the “Quick Edit” feature, unroll the ‘Post Type’ <\/strong>submenu, select ‘Lesson,’ <\/strong>and click ‘Update.’ <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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This will move your post into the lessons section of the LearnDash LMS plugin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To find it, go to ‘LearnDash LMS’ <\/strong>from your WordPress dashboard and click ‘Lessons.’ <\/strong>Here, you can start editing the lesson normally as well as modify settings like video course controls, assignments, supplementary learning materials, course schedules, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now, before you can monetize your lesson, you must first package it into an online course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the “Courses” section, click ‘Add New Course’ <\/strong>to get down to the fun part. This is where you can design your landing page as well as put together the lessons, topics, and quizzes for your product.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Finally, head to the ‘Settings’ <\/strong>tab to set up how you’re going to get paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monetized LearnDash courses can use two formats: “buy now<\/strong>” and “recurring.<\/strong>” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choose ‘Buy now’ <\/strong>if you want your course to be available after a one-time payment. Or, select ‘Recurring’ <\/strong>to generate residual income (perfect if you’re planning to update your online course over time).<\/p>\n\n\n

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That’s it \u2014 you now know the essential steps needed to publish a premium online course and bolster your blogging income. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, let’s say that I suddenly decided to turn my post, 89 Blog Monetization Strategies<\/a>, into an online course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the help of LearnDash, I can easily turn this post into a multi-part online course. I just need to beef it up by creating additional resources, including a certificate, downloadables, or quizzes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember, we barely scratched the surface in terms of LearnDash’s features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a quick list of other things you should check out:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n