Thursday, January 31, 2008

Ways to Get money from Your Blog ...

It is known that bloggers feels happy to express about their ideas, opinions and interacting with their readers, but bloggers become more happier when they make good income from their blogs,and many bloggers out there are making substantial incomes help them to quit their day job.

Nowadays there are so many ways to make money from blogs, New tools and ways for people to make money from their blogs. Below is a list and short summary of some of the most popular methods.

Advertising

There are so many different ads to choose from, and each have their benefits and drawbacks, so its important to choose the form of advertising which will be the most effective according to the characteristics of your blog.

Contextual advertising such as Adsense is most popular form of advertising right now. AdSense allows bloggers to place text based, content relevant ads on their site.

Another popular form of advertising with bloggers are 'Blog Ads',and it is designed specifically for blogs.I suggest adsense for the beginners as it is popular, easy and help the blogger to understand process of advertising and after you become more professional and have more visitors you can start to add other advertising services as bidvertiser.

Affiliate Programs

Whatever subject you're blogging about, it's likely that the Amazon affiliate program will have something suitable for your site to advertise. Amazon has one of the largest and long-running affiliate programs. Although the typical cut of a sale is only around 10%, the Amazon affiliate program, with its sheer magnitude of categories and possibilities for your site, is well worth considering.

Another one of the big affiliate programs with products and services spanning a large array of categories is Commission Junction. It's very easy to join the network, however don't expect to be accepted by every company that you apply to. Linkshare is also very similar to commission junction, offering a wide selection of banners to its affiliates, to match their blog subjects.

Unlike Commission Junction and Linkshare, Clickbank deal solely with E-books and other electronic information and services. Clickbank affiliates generally receive great profits (often up to 75%), and can do quite well, due to the large demand of E-Books and other electronic information which can be downloaded instantly.

Donations

Some bloggers get donations from readers (about one or two dollars a month) to cover online costs. This is especially relevant for blogger who have a loyal readership.