6 methods to make money on blogging

1. The “Pay per Post” or Get Paid to Blog Route

This is rather simple. Set up multiple niche blogs on either your own domains or free blog hosts like Blogger. Maintain them over a period of time and focus on writing content and building up their Google PageRank, link profile and Alexa Rank.

Submit all of your blogs to multiple get paid to blog websites like Blogitive, Blogsvertise, Review Me, Sponsored Reviews, PayperPost, LoudLaunch and then start writing sponsored posts. I highly recommending using PayperPost as they simply have the largest amount of paid offers available.

• Benefits: The greatest strength of this method is that you don’t even need a large audience to make money. 20 people could be visiting and reading your blogs everyday and you’ll still be able to make at least $15 a day from each blog. If skillfully done over multiple blogs, this method can allow you to easily make over $1.5 K a month.
• Disadvantages: No passive income. You’ll need to spend time writing multiple sponsored blog posts, which can be boring and time consuming. Work will also be needed to maintain your multiple blogs, although that will be minimal after they have been optimized and running for some time.

2. The Automated Blogging or Splog Route

Automated blogging involves the setting up of blogs which automatically pull content from RSS feeds, search engines and news sources to serve as content on your website.

Some bloggers set this to pull partial excerpts of RSS feeds, which does go against some copyrights and one can choose to only include excerpts with a link back to the site in question. Monetization for automated sites is usually done through contextual ads like Google Adsense or affiliate programs.

• Benefits: Very little work needed to maintain these blogs as they do not need you to actively generate or write content. You might need to do a little SEO and regular maintenance now and then. Try if you are adventurous.
• Disadvantage: A weak potential for profit unless you understand the entire process perfectly and if you have quite a large number of blogs.I estimate that a fully automated blog will make you around $5 a month although the actual value depends on the niche and your skills. Assuming that this is so, you’ll need 1,000 blogs to make around $5000 a month. Splogs dwell in ethically gray areas as well.

3. The Text Link Selling Blog Route

The main bulk of your income through this method comes from selling text links to various webmasters and businesses who want to improve their site ranking in Google. While text link selling works for the flagship or other blog models as well, sites can be primarily built for text link sales as well.

The overwhelming emphasis here is on Google PageRank and niche relevancy so you’ll need to focus on these two factors. You can either convert a domain into a text link and sponsored post selling blog or you can purchase a domain with existing PageRank to sell text links for a quick buck. I suggest looking for link buyers directly through webmaster forums.

• Benefits: Selling text links or contextual text links is rather easy and doesn’t involve much work. Potential for profit will correspond to your Google Page Rank and niche. A site with a high PageRank and a profitable niche (mortgages, credit cards) will be very attractive to link buyers. Like paid review blogs, traffic is not a factor in these blogs as well.
• Disadvantages: Over Reliance on the Google PageRank algorithm means that your income may rise or fall depending on your actual Page Rank. There may also be a limit to the number of links you can sell which leads to an income ceiling.

4. The Made-for-Adsense or Made-for-Affiliate-Program Route

This involves setting up a blog around a specific topic with moderately high priced keywords (e.g. teeth whitening, car loans). You’ll only need to create around 25 keyword rich articles on the topic, optimize it for search, set up Adsense or affiliate programs and then leave them alone.

The main emphasis is on building links to the specific webpages, according to the long tail keywords you want to target. Search engine visitors will then find your blog and either click on the ads or convert on a product.

• Benefits: Not a lot of time involved as you can usually contract an experienced writer to develop the keyword rich articles. Not much time is needed to update the blogs as well and new material can be added on a bi-weekly or even monthly basis.
• Disadvantages: There might be a lot of competition in a profitable niche and search traffic might not lead to sufficient income, unless you go for volume and set up dozens of similar websites in other niches as well.

5. The Blog Network or Contract Blogging Route

This involves joining a blog network and getting paid to maintain and create content for blogs. You’ll get paid according to the amount of pageviews, possibly receive a token base fee in the hundreds or a share of the blog’s ad revenue.

• Benefits. Relatively stable monthly income because of the base fee. Contract work usually leads to more freelance blogging or writing assignments because of your proven ability or association with a specific organization.
• Disadvantages: Why bother? If you’re that good at creating and promoting a blog, set up your own website and keep all the profits. However, it is useful to note that a lot depends on the type of network or contract agreement you receive.

6. The Blog-as-Marketing or Branding Route

This method will only apply if you own an online business or provide a freelance service like web design, copy writing or marketing consultation. A blog can be used to help promote your personal or business brand and attract more customers.

This is an indirect method of making money. Ideally, this sort of a blog shouldn’t be plastered with ads or paid reviews because it can tarnish the image of the brand.

• Benefits. A blog can help your brand or business to develop much more search visibility because it allows you to easily create more fresh content that caters to specific demographics as well.
• Disadvantages. Your blog will only be as useful as the quality of the service or product you are pushing. The amount of money you earn doesn’t entirely depend on the quality of the blog but the value of your service/product as well. Income is therefore indirect and can be inconsistent.

Neo Bux Pay per Click

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Affliate Marketing

Your success in affiliate marketing part depend on the kinds of affiliate programs your are marketing.To make your affiliate marketing campaign works, you obviously need to participate in an affiliate program that offers worthy and quality products. Below are some tips that can help you choose an affiliate program that is good for you:

1. Affiliate programs that are associated with many experts in that particular niche usually are in certain level of standard and quality. Joining one of these programs will assure you that the products of the program you will be promoting are in good standard.

2. The program that is catering to a growing target market. This will ensure you that there will be more and continuous demands for your referrals. Ask question. There are forums and discussions you can participate in to get good and reliable feedbacks.

3. A program with a compensation plan that pays out a residual income and a payout of 30% or more would be a great choice. There are some programs offering this kind of compensation. Look closely for one. Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts.

4. Be aware of the minimum quotas that you must fulfill or sales target that is too hard to achieve. Some affiliate programs imposes pre-requisites before you get your commissions. Just be sure that you are capable of attaining their requirements.

5. Ask for program recommendations in the community forum of your niche. The experienced marketers who see your question may recommend you the reliable programs they have success with. Other things you can ask about are like is the program offers a real and viable product? Does the program provide a lot of free tools and resources helpful to affiliate? and any other questions you think are essential.

Start Earning with Paid Survey in 3 Steps:

• Step 1 - Create a new e-mail account specially for receiving paid survey invitations. You can use Yahoo, Hotmail and other free email services. This will make finding your survey invitations easier compare to using an existing email that receives plenty of mails daily.

• Step 2 - Go to Yellowsurveys.com to sign up with as many online market research companies as possible. The site compiled a long list of market research companies that offer paid surveys. Sign up with the companies in "Most Popular" category first and then continue to join the rest. This can take few days of work.

• Step 3 - Wait for paid survey invitations send to you. It can take fews days to months to receive your first survey invitation. You shouldn't rely on paid survey as your main source of income. It can only be a way of earning extra money.

Protect Your Adsense Account

Below are some of the tips to protect your AdSense account:

1) Do not use autosurf programs to promote your websites that contain AdSense. Autosurf programs can substantially increase your website traffic or hits, AdSense page view and ecpm but people who surf your site only to earn advertising credit or other type of incentives. So the traffic generated from autosurf programs aren't counted as real and thus against AdSense policies.

2) If possible, do not involve in any traffic exchange networks and programs. If you have join one or more programs or networks that can make you a steady AdSense commission, you should start worry about your AdSense account as this could mean that members of the program(s) were clicking each other AdSense ads all the while whether intentionally or unintentionally. As soon as Google detected a group of people were clicking each other AdSense, many of the members AdSense account in the program will be suspended. Also traffic exchange can be another mean to artificially generate tons of unreal website traffic or hits and boost up AdSense page view & ecpm and it is strictly prohibited by Google .

3) Do not join AdSense exchange networks. They are similar to traffic exchange programs except members are participate just for clicking each other AdSense. This should be a guaranteed way to be banned by Google.

4) Read all the Google AdSense policies at http://www.google.com/adsense to see whether you have against any policies and make the necessary modification.

Making Money Online

Here is a list of 15 monetization methods which you can make money with a blog or without a blog :

1) Advertisement Network
This is one of the most popular way that people use to make money with their blogs. There are many advertisement networks out there, the most popular and well known PPC network will be Google Adsense, other advertisement networks such as Adbrite, Bidvertiser, Nuffnang, etc. Let’s take Google Adsense as a sample, you just have to display the ads on your blog, if there is someone click on the ads, you’ll be getting paid for a rate from range of $0.01 to $5.00 per click, it depends on what keyword you’re optimizing for and how much advertiser pays for it.

2) Selling Text Link
In order to make money online by selling text link, you’re required to have a blog or website. Selling text link is meaning that someone is paying a flat rate for you to place their text link or we call it hyper link on your blog or website. Besides of this, you can also join the companies which act as a broker, they have their marketplaces and they’ll help you to sell the text link on your blog. Of course, they will charge you a fixed percentage as commission. You can join company such as Text Link Ads and TNX.

3) Selling Banner Ads
It’s a simple monetization method that you can actually make a lot of money by selling ad spot on your blog. I was getting paid by BuySellAds months ago and I found it quite interesting. In order to make money online by selling ad spot on your blog, you need to register with the company and they will do the rest for you such as getting advertisers and making payment. As long as your blog has huge traffics and better rank (Alexa, Pagerank, etc), you just need to sit down and wait for the money to float into your paypal account.

4) Private Ad Sales
This is what most of the bloggers will do on their blogs, such as selling banner ads, selling text link, or writing sponsored review. I noticed that not much people is doing well with this monezation method on their blogs, the critical reason is either offering unreasonable prices or lacking of targeted traffics. In order to make money online by doing private ad sales, you have to create a killer “Advertise” page on your blog to let people know that you’re actually selling ad spot on your blog. Before you can do this, you need to increase your blog traffics especially targeted organic traffics. Also, the advertising rate must be reasonable. Otherwise, you’ll not be able to make even a penny. You can either waiting advertiser to approach to you or you go and ask them whether they would like to advertise in your blog.

5) Affiliate Program
Affiliate program is a way where you can make money online by selling others’ products or referring someone to join an affiliate program under your affiliate link. In my opinion and from what I observed, article marketing helps a lot in making money online from affiliate program. Of course, you need to know a little bit of marketing strategies to promote your product as well. You can make money online from these affiliate programs such as ClickBank, Chitika, T3Leads, Logical Media, etc.

6) Selling Own Product
Instead of selling others’ products, you can also make money online by selling your own product such as ebook, blogging tool, software, or something that you can build by yourselves. Writing useful ebook will be a good one because you earn 100% profit without any investment. Nevertheless, you need to write something that really helps people and interesting in the ebook, otherwise you’ll not be getting any sales. Also, I recommend you to offer people a 100% money back guarantee.

7) Writing Paid Post
Paid post means that advertiser is paying you a flat rate and asking you to write about their products in your blog, you need to insert their links in the blog post as well. Years ago, writing paid post was very famous and was the most popular monetization method for all the bloggers. But many people quit it because of the penalization of PR from Google due to the outgoing links that were requested by the advertiser. There is few companies that pay you for writing paid post such as Pay-Per-Post, SponsoredReviews, SocialSpark, etc.

8 ) Selling Domain Names
In order to make money online by selling domain names, you may need to put some efforts in promoting your business. In my opinion, you can actually telling your friends around you and asking them to look for you if they want to buy domain names. You can also offer them an attractive price or give them free gift such as ebook if they buy domain names from you. If you do like to do some investment, you can actually buy some profitable or potential domain names and sell it at a higher price. However, there is a risk because you may lose money if you’re not able to sell that domain name. You can join GoDaddy’s affiliate program to start selling domain names.

9) Building Profitable Niche Blog And Sell It
This may brings you 10x or even 20x profit of your investment in return, but you have to take some times in doing keyword research, writing keyword optimized content, promoting your blog and selling it. It may takes you months to earn back your money, it’s a long term investment. However, you need to know how to do keyword research and SEO techniques. When your niche blog is making money, try to sell your blog at the price of 12x of your monthly earning. You can actually selling your blog in SitePoint marketplace.

10) Providing Services
Many people make use of their skills and knowledge to make money online. You can actually help people to design a web page, create Wordpress Themes, setting up website, SEO services, proofread articles, etc. As long as you’re having some skills and expert in your field, then you can make money online with your skills because there are many people out there looking for services like these. Be sure you have a blog or website to tell people about your services, it’s to make people feel confident with your services.

11) Freelance Writer
If you’re a writer and having good writing skills, you can actually make money online being a freelance writer. Many people out there are looking for writer to help them write SEO articles in topic that they’re not familiar with. You can actually promote your services in CraigsList and wait people to contact you. I believe that you can easily make few hundred bucks a month by being a freelance writer.

12) Advertorial
Advertorial is another monetization method which a company is running a campaign and asking you to write about the campaign, the purpose is to create awareness for the campaign. I’d get involved in advertorial in the past, a company hired me for 6 months to write about their campaign, they paid me a flat rate every month. The differences between paid post and advertorial is the company doesn’t require you to insert any outgoing link in the blog post, this is the reason I like advertorial instead of paid post. Thus there is not much company offering this job for blogger, I have no idea where to get it too, we can only wait for the company to hire us.

13) Joining Blog Contest
As you know, many people run a blog contest on their blogs to get more traffics, backlinks and etc. Many blog contests out there are giving out attractive prizes and cash prize for the winners, so you can actually join the blog contests and stand a chance to win the cash prize. Thus it’s not a 100% “get paid” way to make money online, but it’s fun and interesting to join.

14) Doing Online Surveys
Instead of making money online with a blog, you can also make money online without having a blog. Make money online doing online surveys is a popular way for starter or beginner who first step into make money online field to make money. It’s simple to earn money by doing online surveys, you just have to fill in the survey forms that are offered by the company, you’ll be getting paid for a completed survey form. It’s a legitimate way to make money online. Not all the online survey companies pay well, some of them even don’t pay or they’re scam. Thus you have to be careful and read the reviews of the company on the internet, you can try if there was someone had been getting paid by the company before. Also, you can read my previous article about online surveys for some ideas.

15) Participating And Posting In Forums
This was a monetization method that I’d discussed in my previous article about “How To Make Fast Money With Forum“. I found it quite interesting to make money in forums, you just have to participate the discussions in the forum, you will get paid by leaving honor comments. I found it quite interesting because we can share experiences and get new friends in the forum. You’re not required to own a blog, you just have to register with the forum, leaving honor comments, and you get paid!