Make Money Blogging

By: Matt Bacak

You have created a blog and your blog is dedicated to a niche industry. Have you ever thought that the blog could make money for you? We would look here in this article, ways and means, to make money blogging. Lets first have a look at what are the prerequisites for a blog needed to make money:

1. Blog needs tobe dedicated to a niche market.

2. Updated regularly.

3. Enoughback links (Don't worry for it. Directory submission would beenough to begin with)

4. Good blog host or application (blogger,Xanga or typepad recommended), and

5. High quality articles ornews items supported with images. Get the above criteria inplace and Hurrah... You are ready to Make Money Blogging.

Top 5 Ways to Make Money Blogging

Lets now take a look at top 5ways using which you could make money blogging:

1. GoogleAdsense
Google Adsense delivers text and image ads to theauthorized websites/blogs depending on the content of thewebsite. Small code is required to be pasted at proper locationson a webpage and Google automatically recognizes the page.Google shares the revenue it gets from the advertisers whenevera visitor clicks on these ads. Google bills advertisers on priceper click basis (PPC). Advertisers are required to pay only when any visitor clicks on their ads. They bid against each other forthe keywords in order to receive better placement and thusprices for each keyword differ from one another. It is better tochoose keywords for your blog which pays high $ per click.
2.Amazon
Amazon Associate program is another important way to makemoney blogging. The Amazon Associate program gives opportunity to website/blog publishers to promote any product from itsinventory by adding a predefined code to their website/blog,which, when clicked by a visitor, takes them to the relevant product page. Once the visitor buys the product, the blog ownerwill be compensated with a commission.

3. Blogads
You can use Blogads as an effective tool to have abetter control over the advertisers in your blogs. You cananalyze and compare your profits with any one of your online agencies. Blogads can be simply specified as an advertising service used for the web logs or blogs. From the total money generated by Blogads, it retains 20% of it and the remaining money is paid to you through PayPal or checks.

Alternative Services:
•Crispads is another useful network focused on the blogs. Youcan put your advertisements in their blogs using Crispads. Youcan move through their RSS/ATOM feeds that help in generatingrevenues. •Tagword – It is similar to Blogads. It makes youselect the ads and their price.

Users can place their text-based ads in the site within minutes and the ads will be displayed instantly on the website.

4. Affiliate Programs
Your affiliate programs can help you earn a lot of money for selected products and services. Lot ofwebsites offers you to become affiliate members. These affiliate programs can provide a better reach and an in-depth exposure to the products. The commissions for the sales differ according tothe quality of the product, sales and marketing strategy involved. You can gather information related to the commissions by looking into the catalogues of Link Share and Commission junctions.


5. Text Links
Text links has emerged out to be the best form of moneymaking source that you can use instead of cluttering orcrowding the page with ads. You don’t have to make these textlinks prominent within your website. This link can act as an extra value to your site and will also help to promote the rankings of other sites. In most of the cases you will find these text links placed in the bottom of the web pages. The best part of this strategy is that the publishers send and accept links as the market continues to grow.


About the author:

Matt Bacak became "#1 Best Selling Author" in just a few short hours. Recent Entrepreneur Magazine’s e-Biz radio show host isturning Authors, Speakers, and Experts into Overnight SuccessStories. Discover The Secrets To Unleash The Powerful PromoterIn You! Sign up for Matt Bacak's Promoting Tips Ezine ($100value) just visit his website at http://www.powerfulpromoter.com/ or http://promotingtips.com/