Why should you care about making money with your website? You’re a photographer after all.

Is monetizing your traffic worth the time and effort?

Affiliate marketing

What is affiliate income? 

Examples:

• Education promotion (courses, guides, ebooks, etc)
• Preset reviews/promotion
• Camera gear reviews/promotion
• Website services reviews / promotion (themes, plugins, hosting, galleries)
• CRM reviews/promotion (honeybook, etc)
• AirBNB
• Amazon
• Etsy
• Private affiliates with many companies (search brand + affiliate)

Ad Networks

• Share A Sale
• CJ Affiliate

Sell your own products

Presets/Luts

Templates (Instagram stories, etc)

Style guides

Sell your own education

Consumer facing (How to take better photos with your iPhone)

Industry facing- other photographers, other vendors

Monetize your traffic
Ad Networks (typically 10k hits /mo min)

Featured spots on high traffic roundup pages (venues, vendors etc)

Paid referrals to other photographers