Can you Make Money with Blogs?

In this article we look at whether it is really possible to make money with blogs. In short yes it is very achievable, in fact there are a number of ways to do so.
Clearly the more established your blog the greater the level of opportunity. The more readers you have, the more chance they will see your ads and click on them or buy advertised products. Gaining traffic to your blog is another topic but with a little planning and effort you can gain traffic from search engines through keyword targetting and other seo tactics, article sites, social bookmarking sites like Digg and numerous other sources.

One popular way to make money is to host contextual ads such as Adsense or Chitika, to consider just two of the larger possibilities. With this kind of advertising the providor gives you a code snippet to include in your pages. The system will then serve ads selected to be relevant to your content and share the revenue those ads raise with you. Blending the ads into your site well will be important in order to overcome ad blindness.

Another way to make money with blogs is to join an agency like Payperpost. If your blog is approved you can be paid to write posts on various products. You can make relatively large amounts without large volumes of visitors if you have a flair for writing review style posts.

If you have a well established blog with some google pagerank you might also consider selling links from your blog to other websites. Webmaster forums are a good place to find these opportunities and you can get paid easily through your paypal account.

Similar to the contextual ads idea is the affiliate method. If you have a blog on a particular topic you can sign up for an affiliate account with a merchant who has products or services of interest to your readers. Commission Junction have many many advertisers who will pay sales commissions or lead introduction payments all co-ordinated centrally.

There are other methods such as selling merchandise like t-shirts, mugs, mouse pads etc available from organisations like Cafepress and blog flipping which is the practice of establishing and then selling blogs, has also become popular.



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