Blogging has become a habit of almost 2 people out of 5 today. If you walk around you will find many people saying “I love blogging”… So there are thousand of people out there creating blogs that make money for them. So if you blog then you can blog for money too. Here in this article I will tell you many ways of making money as a blogger because I find many bloggers asking me: How can I get paid to blog? or How to make money on blogs? or How to make money blogging and many questions like these.

 

What is Blogging?

Blogging is like writing a book. The difference is just that you “type instead of write” in blogging. Many people out there are blogging and are making money online  with their blogs. And the cool thing is that you can blog on any topic of your choice. Like if you are a big fan of Liverpool then you can set up a blog where you write about the players of LP and their Bios and blah blah blah…….. So it’s up to you what topic you choose for your blog. But it is advisable that you go for the one that you are interested in or at least you have some knowledge about it.

How to Blog?

There are many people who are always confused and ask questions like How to set up a blog?, How to start blogging, How to blog? or How to own a blog? etc.. The answer to all these questions is very simple. You just go to any blogging platform, sign up and start a blog for free. Here is the list of some of the free blogging services :

• Blogger
• WordPress
• Xanga
• Typad
• MySpace
• Weebly
• SquareSpace

 

Just sign up with any blogging service and they will guide you step by step How to blog.

 

Ways To Make Money From Your

Blog:

Now I will tell you some ways for making money from your blog. With these ways you can start earning  money as a blogger.

1. Publisher Programs:

Monetizing your blog by displaying some contextual ads (text or banner). Basically there are some publisher programs that you sign up for. After that they display their relevant ads on your blog. And you get paid for each click the visitors of your blog make on these ads. The amount of money that you earn with this way depends on the CTR(click through rate) and CPC(cost per click). Normally the ads placed with in the content  and blended with the theme of the blog have higher CTR…Where as ads that are in the side bars get less attention so they have lower CTR. And the CPC depends on the niche (topic) of your blogs… Blogs on insurance, forex trading, mortgages and college education have higher PCP(as high as $10) whereas the examples of lower CPC are niches about technology and health etc (as low as $.01).

Traffic also affects the money you make with your blogs. Higher the traffic, higher would be the CTR thus higher would be your earning. Just try to bring a lot of traffic to your blog through back-linking,social bookmarking,URL submission,forum posting and blog commenting.

 

Some of the popular publisher programs are listed below:

• Google Adsense
• Yahoo Publisher Network
• BidVertiser
• Chitika
• Clicksor

2. CPM Networks:

There are some advertising programs that don’t pay you per click rather they pay you depending on the impressions their ads get on your blog. CPM means Cost Per Mille…. that mean the money you earn per 1000  page views. For example a blog has 100,000 per month displaying an ad with a CPM of $1 then this blog will earn $100 per month.

here is the list of popular CPM networks:

• Casale Media
• Burst Media
• Value Click
• Advertising.com
• Tribal Fusion
• Right Media

3. Direct Banner Advertising:

You can sell your advertising space. The benefit of this advertising is that there is no middleman in this type of advertising and secondly you determine your rates yourself. But the hard part is that it is a bit difficult to find qualified advertisers and managing the sales and keeping a record of it.Most popular formats of direct banner advertising are 728×90 leader board, 120×600 skyscraper, the 300×250 rectangle and the 125×125 button.

4. Affiliate Marketing: 

If your blog is about an interesting niche and is popular among the search engines and has got a huge traffic then why not to go for affiliate marketing. This is the most popular way of making money online. There are some merchants out there who are ready to pay some commission for each sale you make for them. They provide you the links or banners. If some one who reads your blog, click on these links and buys the product through your link then you earn handsome commissions. Sometimes these commissions are as huge as $200 per sale. 

In order to start affiliate marketing, you need to sign up with some affiliate networks and if you get approved then you can start selling their products on your blogs and earn commissions. Here is the list of some popular affiliate networks that pay good commissions:

• Clickbank
• Paydotcom
• Commission Junction
• Amazon Associates
• Hy Affiliates
• Link Share
• Affiliate Window
• Shareasale
• Google Affiliate Network
  

5. Make Money With Widgets:

This is the latest technique to monetize your blog with the widgets. Some of these services pay you under PPC scheme and some like text link ads.  And some display affiliate links.

Here is the list of some popular programs that serve you with monetizing widgets:

• WidgetBucks
• ScratchBack
• SmartLinks

 6. Get Paid to Review:

There are some reviews website that will pay you if you write reviews the products that they ask you to. When you sign up for these programs, you submit your blog URL in their listings. The interested advertisers contact you and ask you to write reviews and publish them on your blog. I have seen many bloggers making money through this way. If your blog has a huge traffic then you can offer direct sponsored views to people visiting your blogs. Here is the list of some popular get paid to review websites:

• PayPerPost
• Sponsored Reviews
• ReviewMe
• BlogVertise
• Smorty

 7. Sell Your Blog:

You can sell your blog. Yeah its true. The largest example of this blog sale is of Weblogs Inc (a blogging network) that was sold AOL for $25 million. You can’t dream for millions but as a small blogger you can at least get some what like $1000 or more if your blog has a good PR. When you start setting up a blog with the intention of selling, you must do a lot of surveying before. Analyze what type of blogs are selling out there and what the buyers really want. in this way you will be able get a good reward and earn a great cash. The places where you can sell your blogs are Ebay , USfreeAds, Craiglist and other classified ads sites. You can also sell it in forums posting.

8. Donations:

  If your readers love you then you can get the price for this love…. … Place a donation button some where in your blog and it will bring in something. Jason Kottke is an example of it.

9. Merchandise Your Blog:

Build up a store on your blog and earn money through sales. There are many affiliate networks that offer you a complete store of yours that you can display on your blog. Zazzle also offers you to create your own design T-Shirts, mugs,mouse pads blah blah blah… And you can sell this stuff on your blog and earn money with your own ideas. Some of these websites are :

• Zazzle
• CafePress
• CoSwap
• Spread Shirts
• Blue Cotton
• DesignAshirt
• You Design It

10. Provide Premium Membership:

If your blog is interesting then you can categorize your content. Provide free content and then ask the readers to upgrade to get access to premium content. Before doing this you must be satisfied with the performance of your blog. An example of such money making idea is TimothySykes.com.

11. Get Paid To Guest Blog:

There are some blogging platforms that pay you for blogging. There are many blogging networks where you can make money as a writer. Here are some of the popular blog networks that will pay you as a blogger:

• LinkPost
• Shoovng
• 451 Press
• About.com
• BlogBurner
• Blog Feast
• BloggerWave
• Blogitive
• Blogsvertise

12. Paid Surveys And Polls:

Some of the websites will pay you for displaying a survey or a poll on your blog. You have to sign up with them first then you choose what type of surveys or polls you want to display on your blogs. Vizu Answers is one of the polls provider network.

 13. Pop Up Advertising:

You can make some extra cash from pop up advertising networks. But if you are loyal to your readers and do not want to destroy your blog then its better that you stay away from this. The reason is that today there are many pop up blockers so your blog will also hide somewhere due to pop ups on it. However some of the pop up advertising programs are listed below:

• Tribal Fusion
• PayPopup
• PopupAd
• Adversal

  14. Sell Templates & WordPress Themes:

If you are a good programmer and can creat your own templetes or website themes then you can make money by selling them on your blogs. If you cannot creat them then you can try TemplateMonster or you can find individual designers who are interested in selling their templates and themes on your blogs.

15. Display Job Boards:

Many popular blogs out there are taking advantage of this way of making money online. You can show job listings on blogs and make some extra money from them. Examples of blogs that are making money through this way are Guy Kawasaki, ReadWriteWeb, Problogger.The Advantage of this is that the job listings will automatically display on your blog and you can set any price for it ranging from $10 to $100. Below is the list of top job board software:

• JobThread
• Web Scribe Job Board
• SimplyHired Job-o-matic
• Jobbex

I hope this article regarding making money from blogging will help you a lot. You can now start blogging from now onwards and go for some passive income online by adopting any of the above mentioned ways to make money from your blog.

 

You can also read:

• Make Money with Affiliate Marketing.
• Get Paid to Write- How to Make Money Writing Online?
• 13 Websites to Make Money by Answering Questions.