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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Are You Ready to Make Money With Your Blog? 3 Ways to Collect Revenue

By Christopher Morris

Seems like everyone is getting into the blog writing game. It can be a lot of fun. Some people simply like to write about their hobby. Others do it to bring attention to their business offerings. Whatever your motivation you will at some point want to monetize your blog. Once you learn how to start a blog, start writing good content, and gain visitors, you will be able to make some money.

There are many ways to make money blogging. You can sell advertisements. You can join an affiliate program and collect a commission on products you recommend and your readers purchase. You can sell your own products. Just about any method you can think of is available to you for making money blogging.

The following are but a few of the options available to a blogger for making money from their writing and content. Not all are worthwhile for every blog. If you are writing a political blog posting Google Adsense advertisements may not work as well as getting a commission from selling political books.

1. Earn using Google Adsense. What was once just a search engine is now among the most powerful enterprises throughout the world, not only in terms of its reach, but also in terms of its income generating possibilities. You can earn from Google by using their free service known as AdSense. All you need to do is have a blog and allow space on your page for ads to be displayed by AdSense. The service would then allow you to display ad units that would display advertisements related to the topics you write about in your blog.

So how does Adsense work? Let's say you have blog about golf and posted an article about ladies golf clubs. The ad unit would hopefully display ads about ladies golf clubs or at the least, golf clubs. Each time a visitor clicks on any of these ads, you would share in the revenue with Google. How much is really a guess but most people figure it is around 25% of the total revenue.

2. Affiliate Commissions. A lot of online businesses offer affiliate programs. These work by you having their ads posted on your blog. When a visitor clicks the ad and then purchases something from that company, you would then receive a commission or a referral fee. Companies such as Wal-Mart and Amazon.com among many, many other run such affiliate programs. Amazon.com runs their own affiliate program in house. Zappos.com, an online shoe store, has Commission Junction administer their affiliate program. Their are numerous affiliate programs with thousands of companies products to sell at CJ, Shareasale, Linkshare among others.

3. Sell Advertising. If you want more control over your ad space than what Adsense will give you then sell you own ads to companies Some companies will look for blogs that match their products and services and rent ad space. Sort of like using a billboard. You ad space can then be leased for a certain period of time. The only caveat is that you will need to show the company that you get enough visitors to make it worth their while.

The means to make money from blogging are many and quite easy to implement. The difficulty is actually marketing your blog so visitors will buy the products you are offering.

Learn how to start a blog then make money. That is the holy grail of making money online. Learn to write political blogs with conservative views

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