6 Ways to Make Money From Your Blog

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6 Ways to Make Money From Your Blog

First Choose your topic and start generating traffic. Focus your blog, blogs that make money usually target a specific market and audience. Be passionate about your subject and generate as much traffic as you can. If you’re obsessed with your topic then others will be as well.

Tip: dont expect to get rich from your blog (at least not right away)

Some blogs report up to 40,000 dollars a month in earnings, but unless you have millions of visitors already then don’t expect to quit your day job yet.

1. Sell PPC Advertising Space

The best Pay Per Click advertising network today is Google Adsense. They will place relevant ads directly onto your pages based on the keywords and topics your write about. If your reader clicks on the link then you get paid.

Exactly how much depends on your traffic and the topic you are writing about.

Tip: This method is easy but you don’t get to choose which advertisers show ads and how much they pay you.

2. Sell Dedicated Ad Space

Some networks like BlogAds will allow you to directly contact an advertisers and sell them your space.

Tip: this method puts you in control, but you might make poor choices about advertisers and prices.

3. Write Paid Reviews

Sites like Pay Per Post will match your blog with people who are looking for paid reviews. You can earn money by writing paid reviews.

Tip: stay credible, be honest and don’t post too many paid reviews.

Be careful because if you overdo it, you can lose readers and traffic.

4. Sell Your Own Merchandise

If you have developed your own brand name or slogans that have become popular then you can find people who will buy your products. Company’s like Zazzle and Cafepress will manufacture and ship products for you and give you a commission on each sale.

5. Sell Affiliate Products

The most popular affiliate program is with Amazon. You can embed items from amazons marketplace directly into your website and earn commissions off of each sale. This method works very well if your blog is centered around a certain product.

Tip: affiliate sales are the best route for newer blogs

6. Take Donations

Sometimes this is called e-begging, but you can use paypal to ask your readers for donations