Make Money Blogging: 5 tips

Blogs can be a business themselves bringing in money from advertising and product sales and more. Blogs whose primary purpose is supporting an existing business or venture can similarly earn some extra cash.

Some ideas for making money from blogs follow, but first realize that you need a "good blog." There are plenty of resources on blogging well and we won't cover that here.

Secondly realize that although there are plenty of people earning a great supplemental income from blogging, few quit their day job.

Here are 5 different ways you can make money blogging:

1) Pay Per Click Advertisements

You can try "pay per click" advertisements, which pay you anywhere between a few pennies to a few dollars every time someone clicks on an ad.

There are several choices including the extremely popular Google AdSense, Kanoodle BrightAds, Chitika and the Yahoo! Publisher Network. These ads are easy to signup for and you can run them on most blogs, but check their terms of service well.

They perform very well for some blogs but not well on others -- you need to experiment.

2) Sell advertising space

I know the word "sell" scares a lot of people, including me, but blog advertisers will often approach you if you have an established blog, and you can also use advertising networks to do the selling for you such as CrispAds.com, PerformancingAds.com and AdBrite.com.

3) Create and sell information products

Even if the same content is spread amongst six or twelve months of blog posts, many people will happily pay for an updated and organized copy, perhaps packaged as a book, e-book, course or audio product. You can use reader's comments, questions and the popularity of posts to help determine what direction to go. You can even survey readers about what products they would like, which is a great idea.

4) Sell other people's products and services via affiliate programs

This means you get paid a commission if you sell them.

There are lots of places to look for appropriate affiliate products and services you might sell including companies like LinkShare, Commission Junction and ClickBank, which represent multiple merchants including some really major ones like eBay, Sony, and Dell.

5) Blog professionally for someone else, maybe a blog network or some other organization

There are many different payment models including payment per post and payment per percentage of advertising revenue. A great place to look for paid blogging positions is at the Problogger job board at jobs.problogger.net. Essentially you're being paid to be a writer.

So that's some quick ideas on how to make money from your blog.

Remember that there is no one match fits all solution; you need to experiment and find what works for you.

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By Ted Demopoulos, author of "Blogging for Business" and "What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting"

Making Money Roll in With Blogging

Blogging is one of the top ways to earn a living online, and a lot of people out there are doing just that! Whether you are familiar with blogging, or you are looking to begin, blogging is the perfect place to start when looking to earn money online.

The biggest thing you should know about making money with your blog is that you should not be blogging to just make money. Now, while I know this may sound stupid, it really is not. Blogging, to some extent, is about creating a personal journal online. Most people looking to make money with blogging simply put up a blog and search for what is currently "hot" at the moment, slap a few posts on there blog with some ads and sit. What happens? Absolutely nothing. In order for a blog to generate traffic, it needs to be updated often. The more often, the better.

Are you really going to want to blog about Louis Vatton purses if your interests are hunting and fishing? Probably not. By not creating a blog based on your interests, you will most likely give up writing posts, as it will become a difficult task. And by putting a stop to your posts, you are putting a stop to your traffic. No traffic = no money.

By now, you should see where I am going with this. Blogging about something that interests you is the key to making money with your blog. By creating a blog that you have an interest in, you will become more motivated to update your blog often with brand new posts. You might even get excited when you learn something new that you will want to post it to your blog to tell someone else about what you've learned. The more in-depth, unique posts you have, the more traffic you can generate, which obviously, leads to more money in the bank. I think you get my drift.

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