1. Advertising or Affiliate Program
Put some ads on your blog is the most obvious way to derive an income from your blogging efforts. Ads can come in the form of text links or banner ads, and advertising options are available that you can easily tap into through pay-per-click, pay-per-post and affiliate programs online. Google AdSense, Amazon Associates, Clickbank, eBay Affiliates and Pay-Per-Post are just a few of the most common advertising programs available to bloggers.
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2. Writing or Selling Ebooks
Another great way to make some online income from your blog is by writing an ebook and offering it for sale through your blog. Ebooks are particularly successful for bloggers who have positioned themselves as experts in their fields and advertise their ebooks as additional or exclusive information just for readers of their blogs. You can join Kobo or Amazon books affiliate program to monetize your blog.
3. Merchandise
This is a simple way to monetize your blog by selling merchandise through a service such as CafePress. CafePress is the world's creative minds join forces to provide an unparalleled marketplace. They give you the power to create custom products and personalized gifts on a variety of high-quality items such as t-shirts, hoodies, posters, bumper stickers and mugs and also allows you to set up online shops where you can design and sell your own unique merchandise.
4. Reviews for Pay
Bloggers can make money by reviewing products, events, businesses and more through blog posts. Many businesses will look for these posts on your blog before they'll consider sending you free products to review and pay you. Create a category and use tags or labels to identify product review posts, so it's easy for visitors and businesses to find them. When you request free products from a business, you'll need to be able to prove that you publish well-written reviews. Popular per-per-post site are Payperpost and ReviewMe.
You can write a request for free products that you can email to businesses, share all of the data gathered above as well as links to prior product review posts. The goal is to make your blog sound like a place where the business is sure to find a sizable number of people that match their desired target audience.
5. Sell Your Blog Ad Space Directly to Advertisers
You can attempt to sell your own ad space directly to advertisers, but unless your blog is established with a sizable audience and high traffic, it can be difficult to manage and make money selling ad space directly. Fortunately, there are sites like BuySellAds.com that link online publishers up with online advertisers to make selling your ad space easier.
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