7 Tips for Earning Money From Your Blog...

1. Advertisements
It is much easier to get advertisements for your blog today than it was, a few years back.Thanks to Google, and Yahoo, you no longer have to run from door to door to impress advertisers, and wear off your shoe-sole in the process. Advertising programs like Google AdSense, Yahoo Publishing Network (YPN), and Microsoft Content Ads, have made earning from advertisements easier than opening your fridge and taking a bite from a piece of cake. To know more about how you can possibly place contextual advertisements and banners on your blog, do visit the following:

• Google AdSense: http://google.com/adsense
• Yahoo Publishing Network / YPN (formerly Overture): http://ypn.yahoo.com/
• Microsoft Content Ads: http://advertising.microsoft.com/microsoftadcenter/
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Your earning comes from the advertisements in two ways.
• Every time someone clicks on the advertisements, you earn.
• You also earn from the number of times people ‘see’ your page (that is, the
advertisements).

As you agree to the terms of any one of the advertising programs, advertisements will start appearing at various places of your blog, and an account will be maintained that registers how much you are earning. On reaching the minimum earning, or the pay-date, they dispatch you your paycheck. Cheers!

2. Affiliate programs
Your blog can get you revenue in one of the most traditional ways on earth; commission
in exchange of business. Hundreds of companies/websites (established brands inclusive), who pay commission to you for sending them customers. Examples of such are Commission Junction (http://cj.com) or clickbank (http://clickbank.com). They supply you with a java code that you have to paste in the HTML of your blog, and their banner appears. If any reader of your blog clicks these banners and becomes a paid member of the affiliate site, you get a percentage of the payment. Hey, that’ s not bad at all.

3. Get noticed, get hired
No luck, if you decide to write the type of cliché content that thousands of other bloggers are writing, but if the content of your blog is unique and style is crispy, you are bound to get noticed and get offers that sound like, “ I like your blog; how much, if you write a daily blog for me?” I leave the rate part for you to decide. You can easily charge anything between $15 and $25 for each article you write; and as such can earn around $150 per day.

4. Sell stuff
Set up your virtual store and sell stuff through your blog. It is absolutely free to become a PayPal (http://paypal.com) member and start accepting payments through your blog. You have to decide what you are going to sell. There are some items, that need to be shipped, and other items that have less hassle, and can be straightaway downloaded after a payment (for example, ebooks). This can become big business if you are serious and full hearted in your effort.

5. Become a sponsored blog owner
Things work if you can turn the right key. If you can impress others (read, business owners) by your writing, it may so happen that they want you to write about their products, and website through your blog. This is like direct advertising of someone via your blog. Your articles will also carry links to the site that is selling the products or service mentioned in the articles. Needless to say, you don’ t do this for free, or as a social service. You will get paid for writing about others’ products in your blog. What, if you aren’ t confident to write? Do you miss all these great scopes of earning? Never! Just go ahead and hire a writer. It is worth, even after paying him/her on per article or per month basis.

6. Promote your other site or service
You can use your blog to write interesting articles that will promote your other ecommerce-websites, or talk of the services you provide. Thus, by building awareness, you will get indirect earning from your other sources.

7. Donations
If your blog deals with social issues and charity, you are likely to attract donors who would be interested to donate for charity. A serious and honest effort is bound to attract donors.


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