How to make Money with Coding

Priyanka Das
3 min readJun 2, 2021

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Programming is a great skill and there are n number of ways you can earn if you know coding. In this article I will talk about the ways in which you can money through coding apart from developer jobs.

So without further ado let’s start!

1. FREELANCING

Freelancing is a great way to earn. It is the most popular way to earn by taking up projects on web development or app development etc. The advantages of freelancing are you can work at your own pace and convenience. You can sit at home and keep earning through freelancing.

The following are few website which you can check out if you want to start freelancing:

www.freelancer.com

www.upwork.com

www.fiverr.com

2. CREATE APPS

You can create Android or IOS apps and publish them on Google Play Store or Apple App store. You can generate revenue by making the apps paid or you can keep the apps free and generate revenue by showing ads to the users. For example you can create a free app and link google adsense to it as a result ads will get displayed to users and you earn money through it.

3. BLOGGING

You can start a blog and keep posting articles on it. Make sure the blog is SEO friendly so that you get good visibility. You can by the following ways:

1. Display Ads

Use Google adsense you show ads to the user and you can earn revenue by doing so

2. Affiliate marketing

You can post affiliate marketing links in your blog to earn revenue whenever somebody clicks on that link and buys a product.

3. Paid promotions

Once you have a good traction on your website, you can pitch to brands to get their products promoted on your blog.

4. CREATE COURSES

You can create courses and teach coding to earn money. There are websites where you can publish your course and whenever your course gets sold you will get a commission. One of the popular websites is Udemy which has huge student base. You can check out my course at Udemy https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-htmlcssjavascript/

You can also create courses on Youtube where you can monetize your videos and get paid by playing ads on your video. Since there are already many creators on Youtube so you must focus on creating better courses to get visibility.

5. ebooks

You can create ebooks and sell them on Amazon Kindle and earn money through it.

Whatever profession you choose make sure you enjoy it. Money is important but not more important than your happiness. So don’t stick to something which does not make you happy

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Priyanka Das

Instructor at Udemy. 6+ years of experience in Web Development. Machine Learning Enthusiast.