How to Make Money with Tumblr
Published by Tumble Guy on April 14th, 2012 | make money
How to make money with tumblr? There are actually a lot of ways to make money on tumblr. You just have to sign up with different advertisers and affiliate programs.
How much money will I make on Tumblr?
In order to make money on tumblr, you first need get a lot of followers or a lot of visitors to your site. The amount of visitors you have on your site, generally equates to the amount of money you make–the is no exact amount.
After all, if no one knows your tumblr blog existed, how would they click your ads, or buy products you promote? If you are just starting out you could read this how to get more followers tutorial to get you started.
Ways to Make Money on Tumblr
Google Adsense.
This method is pretty straight forward. First, you sign up for a google adsense account. Once approved, you can then display ads and links on your tumblr blog. When someone clicks on the ads on your blog, you’ll make some money.
Amazon Affiliate.
Let’s say you post your own photos and write tutorials. You could then recommend tools (cameras, lenses, etc) and products to your followers with your own amazon affiliate link. When your visitors or followers buy something from amazon, you can get commission from that sale.
Promote Fashion Items
If you’ve using tumblr for a while you know that a big part of the community is fashion related. If you have a fashion-related blog with a decent amount of loyal followers, then this might be the best fit for you. Basically, you sign up through PLDR (urban/street fashion) or other clothing companies that offer commissions, and then invite others to sign up. For every sign up, you get $10 and you can do this as many times as you want.
Promote your own product
There are a lot of people already doing this. Obviously there are those already established brands that promote their own products, but you can do it too! A lot of people who make money from this method are usually crafters who make custom things. Products ranges from custom shoes, lighters, artwork, etc. You just have to be creative.
Make themes and sell them.
This goes with the “promote your own product” method. If you are good at hand coding themes, then you could sell these. You can sell them on your own, or join a network like themeforest.net where you can display your themes for more people to see and buy.
These are just some ways of how you can make money on tumblr. However, whichever method you use, make sure that they are compliant with the advertiser’s and Tumblr’s guidelines or terms of service.
About the Author
Tumble Guy Tumble Guy is the chief-monster-editor and founder of Tumbtips. He writes killer tutorials for Tumblr, provides great tips for budding Tumblr superstars, and thinks you should like Tumbtips Facebook page and follow them on Tumblr.
