How to make money from blogging

Your blog has the potential to be a money making magnet, if you know the right steps to take. Blogs once started as a sort of online diary. They’ve been totally transformed to fit a whole range of needs, from a place to house an online newspaper to a simple way to start an Internet stream of income. The following five methods will help you make money from your blog, no matter what niche you are in and how you are using your blog.

1. As An AFFILIATE.

This is one of the easiest ways to make money from your blog, and the simplest to start. You begin by selecting an affiliate program from one of the popular affiliate networks. You can either post a review on your blog about the product (complete with your affiliate link) or post ads along the side of your posts (also with your affiliate link). Affiliate marketing is simple to implement because you don’t have to worry about creating a product. Popular places to find affiliate offers are Click Bank and Commission Junction.

2 The AFICIONADO blogger

Perhaps you feel that there is a need in your blogs niche topic for a digital product, such as down-loadable eBooks or videos. This is a smart way to make money with your blog especially if you have loyal readers already, who trust you. The best part about selling your own products is that you develop a list of costumers to sell to in the future. You can build a sales page right there on you blog and ad text links or side bar ads to bring your readers to your offer.

3. The ADVERTISER nethod.

Contextual advertising is very easy to do. You sign up with a contextual advertiser such as “Text Links” and certain words on your blog posts become hyper-linked to an advertisers website. You won’t earn commissions from the sales made like you would with affiliate programs but you do earn a small amount each time someone clicks on one of these links. This is very easy to do, and probably the best model for a blog that really has nothing to do with a particular niche.

4. ADSENSE ads.

Google Adsense and other pay per click advertising programs will give you code to add to your website. These programs will display ads in the sidebars of your website. Anytime a visitor clicks on one of these links, you will get paid anywhere from a few cents to a few dollars depending on your niche. These ads don’t appear within the body of your post, but they are based on the content of your posts so they will be attractive to your audience.

5. Be the ASSOCIATE.

This model can be very lucrative if you have plenty of traffic coming to your blog. You get paid a flat fee for posting a review of a product on your blog. There are many net works out there. If you search for paid to review sites you will find several to choose from. You get paid for simply posting a review of a product on your blog. That simple. The so called “mommy bloggers” with huge following can get paid sevral thousand dollars to post a product review.

Well, there as you can see there is money to be made by blogging. So blog away and make some cash. Try one or several of these methods, and see what works for you.

Article by Jason Dean read more about how to make money from blogging at his blog. J.C. Dean Online