Make Money with Blogging

We’re all looking for ways to make money with blogging. I’ve been doing it for awhile, and what works for me may not work for you. On the other hand, you may do great with an area I don’t succeed in. Knowing the different types of income streams available to bloggers lets you feel out what might work for you.

Blogging can be a fun and worthwhile way to spend time online. Many people set up blogs as a personal record of themselves or their family, many others use blogs as a way to keep distant family and friends up to date on what is going on in their lives. There are also a great deal of people that blog on a more commercial basis. This can be in relation to a website or offline business or their own or it can also be done as a way to generate income. Anyone looking to blog for money should know the basics income streams available to bloggers.

PPC Advertising

Often beginning bloggers first foray into online money making is through PPC, or pay-per-click, advertising. The most popular PPC advertising network is Google’s Adsense, although there are other viable options on the market too. A PPC advertising network allows a blogger to display their ads on the blog and then pays out a specific amount each time one of their advertisements is clicked. This method is not just for beginners, there are a number of blogging experts that continue to make a decent amount of money through PPC advertising.

Affiliate Sales

Many blog owners choose to sell items themselves using their blog as a sales vehicle. This is most often done through affiliate sales where the blog owner has signed up as an affiliate and then recommends certain products to their readers, keeping a percentage of each sale that they make. When the right product is chosen and it is combined with a related blog that gets attention from people who would be interested in the product, this can pay off well.

Paid Blog Posts

Writing paid blog posts is a proven way to earn money through blogging. Many advertisers are willing to pay blog owners in exchange for them writing a blog post about their website, service or product. This brings value to them because of the exposure to the blog’s audience, as well as the backlinks they gain. For blog owners with extremely popular blogs this can be a very lucrative income stream.

Link Sales

There is a great deal of debate over the the subject of selling links on a blog. There are search engines, Google in particular, that claim they will punish websites they determine to be selling links with lower rankings in their search results. Despite this, many people claim there are still ways to successfully sell links without search engines, or anyone else for that matter, finding out. The value of a link is often determined by the popularity of a blog and how much traffic it receives.

While there are a number of reasons that a person may choose to run a blog, should that person be trying to either blog for a living or just to make some extra money, you’ve got a couple ways to make money with blogging. Building a blog into a reliable and successful website takes time and effort, those efforts should be rewarded and these are just a few samples for how they can be.