Resources & Tools To Make Money Online Blogging

Do you want to make money online blogging? Of course, you do. It costs money to keep a blog running. You have your domain costs per year, hosting (monthly payments), outsourcing payments and even it can cost money for themes and plugins.

In the past and present, I have made money online blogging with the following affiliate programs or just selling products individually. These products I have either made money from or have used in the past and even still currently using. Take a look at their affiliates pages and see what you will earn for a commission.

I strongly suggest you take your time and read what’s on their page, explore the website and even contact the owner to get questions answered.

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Resources & Affiliate Programs For Bloggers

Sell Individual Products

• Shareasale – Promote other people’s products for a commission. (My Review)
• Clickbank – Promote other people’s digital goods for a commission or become a publisher. (My Review)
• Amazon – Make money sell anything & good potential
• CJ.com – Thousands of products to promote, I belong to 6 products on there

Web Hosting – Earn Residual Income

(some are 1-time commissions)

• Kinsta – $50 to $500 per referral
• Blue Host – receive $65.00 per referral
• Godaddy – receive up to 40% commission (Migrate To Godaddy)
• Host Gator – Earn Up To $125 Per Qualifying Sign up
• Dream Host – Residual Income or a flat fee of $97
• Theme Cloud – 50% commission plus potential residual income (My Review)
• SiteGround – Up to $125 per sale
• CloudWays – WPOutcast’s current host and awesome affiliate program (My Review)

Ad Networks (Sell Ads)

• CB Pro Ads – Promote Clickbank products with many different methods
• OIO Publisher – Sell advertising space on your blog. (Check out our tutorial on The OIO Publisher.)
• Adsanity – Sell banner ads for money
• Infolinks Earn money when people click on your ads

Freelancing Websites

• Outsource – The only place I hire from.
• Freelancer – A member for over 10 years and still earn a commission every now and then

Email Marketing (Autoresponder )

• Aweber An autoresponder program (Monthly commissions!)
• Optin Monster Alternative to Aweber but much better
• Gravity Forms – Advanced Forms for WordPress, earn online
• WPForms Features & Addons – 20% commission per sale (My Review)
• Feedblitz – Email Marketing RSS Feed and Subscriber List Solution (UPDATE: 12/4/2016 – Now using MailChimp)

Social Blogging Networks/Products

• BlogEngage – Social Network for bloggers (residual income). Still, have a membership.
• Revive Pro – Premium plugin for sharing old content to some social media accounts. Check out our guide on Revive Old Blog Posts plugin.
• Social Warfare – Increase Social Shares & Drive Traffic (My Review)
• Stencil – Create images for social media marketing, an endless money pit

WordPress Theme Marketplaces

• Envato Market – Tons of themes & products for WordPress plus good payouts
• Mojo Themes – Market any theme online and earn $
• InkThemes – Another awesome marketplace that isn’t just for WordPress themes.
• Themesnap – Another place for quality themes that pays
• Creative Market – Fantastic WordPress Marketplace (Earn Good)
• Code Grape – Buy and sell scripts, purchase themes plus much more. A huge potential to earn big with this affiliate program

Premium WordPress Themes

(Themes pay out commissions & some are residual)

• Tesla Themes – Quality themes and a very generous converting affiliate program. (My Thoughts on Tesla)
• Agent Evolution – Real Estate Themes & Custom Framework
• Themeisle – Quality Themes with a Theme options panel
• CSSIgniter – Premium Business Themes
• Engine Themes – Premium App Themes for WordPress. (niche themes)
• Themify Themes – Trusted by 58,000 customers!
• App Themes – Business themes & Marketplace
• Gabfire Themes – Mostly Newspaper style themes
• RichWP – Premium themes since 2009
• Divi theme Framework – By Elegant Themes
• 7theme Themes – Affordable business themes
• Swift Theme – One of the fasting loaded things out there right out of the box.

WP Security & SEO

• Sucuri Security – WP security plugin – Recommended by web hosts. Good commissions
• Monitor Links – check backlinks, make money off the paid version. WPOutcast Still using this software
• SEM rush Residual income
• Link Trackr – tracking links – Good payouts
• DIY SEO Course – Learn SEO easily by following this course
• 1 Month Free Trial – Local Search Rank Checker

Excellent Blogging Plugins

(Quality plugins for genesis framework & nonframework blogs)

• Imagely – The best WordPress themes, plugins, and hosting for photographers.
• Short Pixel – The best image optimizing plugin by far. Try it for free. (My Review)
• Business Directory Plugin – The best web directory plugin (Free) | Check out our Directory Tutorial on this plugin
• Beaver Builder – Easily build responsive WordPress websites without touching code
• Child Theme Development Tool – For developers to use to create child themes very easily
• Get Site Control – Perfect widgets for your website: surveys, email opt-in forms, contact forms, pop ups, follow, share buttons and live chats.
• Styles for Genesis – Genesis font and color customizations without coding
• CM Answers – Q&A Forum, the premium version is a money-maker. Check out our Q&A Section short review.
• Comet Cache – The leading Caching plugin for WordPress and being used by WPOutcast. (My Review)
• Grammarly – The best tool proofreading tool for anyone blogging.
• WPtouch – WordPress Mobile responsive Plugin
• Monarch Social – A premium plugin WPOutcast is still running. Do check out our tutorial on how to Create A Side Bar Widget using this plugin.
• Fancy Author box – This is an awesome plugin, I used it on other niche blogs of mine. Do check out our tutorial.
• WP Core – Easy way to manage all your plugins. I used the paid version before I switched to the Genesis Framework

Logo Designs

• 48 Hour Logo Professional logos done fast – Good payouts
• Logo Nerds – Quality logos, rewarded with commissions

Like I’ve said earlier, all these programs I have either earn commission from, used in the past and currently using. Do explore each program in great details before you make a decision. These are just recommended by WP Outcast and in no way forcing you to join them.

More resources will be added in do time as I have had a chance to use them.