Best ways to make money blogging
Posted in: Blogging, Online money making, adsense, affiliate marketing, create a blog, money making ideas
You can make money online using your web site and a mixture of following money making methods. It took me lot of time to write this post as I wanted to give you the best. I hope you will be able to get the best out from this list.
If you do not have your own blog yet, I have given you step by step instructions on creating a blog site here. It covers all the information you needed for a start up.
01. Pay per click Networks.
You just have to copy paste the code given by them and they will start displaying ads in your web site. You will be paid for every click your web site visitors make or you will be paid a set amount for standard number of impressions ( Mostly 1000 views) their ads receive on your web site.
Recommended Pay per click/ Pay per impression Networks.
Probably the most popular way to make money online. They pay up to $5 for a click although there are rumors that some clicks value over $100. Nowadays with too much popularity it is impossible to earn such high amounts from a single click. I average $0.40 – 0.50 per click in this web site and the highest amount received for a click being $4.73 last month.
2. Chitika
You can use it with AdSense or as an AdSense alternative and Chithika is one of my favorite ad networks.
Simply display the BidVertiser text ads on your website and let advertisers bid against each other.They will always display the highest bidders to maximize your revenue so you will make more money.
4. Widget bucks
They display products based on the buying trends of 100 million U.S. shoppers. Spanning hundreds of categories and millions of products, WidgetBucks’ CPC-based shopping ad widgets give site visitors eye-catching designs to attract their attention and clicks.
Their products include text link ads, paid blog reviews, in-text links, in-content pay per click ads, rotating text ads, hosted content pages, article submission, directory submission and many more.
Simply display ads that are relevant to the content of your site and earn money from qualified clicks. No investment is required and setup is quick and easy.
7.Adbrite
AdBrite can help you monetize your site with advertising that fits the content and user base of your site. Their base of advertisers includes top brands like Live Nation, GM, AT&T and Verizon—at the same time, AdBrite serves ads on nearly 1 billion pages daily, providing massive scale opportunities.
Worth a look Pay per click/ Pay per impression Networks.
Vibrant In-Text Advertising campaigns will increase your advertising revenue without adding more clutter, allowing you to expand advertising real estate with relevant in-text placements. A user must mouse-over a highlighted word to view a relevant advertisement. Vibrant In-Text Advertising is a 100% user-driven advertising experience.
Get listed in their blog catalog and they will shop us around to their advertising clients. Earn 70% rev share per click displaying keyword-targeted text ads. Choose from more than 6,000+ advertisers by keyword. Even small blogs can realize earnings faster than other ad networks. Minimum payout is only $5.
Earn revenue through their ad network platform by running ads from hundreds of quality advertisers on your web site. Receive some of the highest eCPM rates with unmatched fill through a wide variety of standard banners, pop-unders and rich media.
11.Ad genta
AdGenta is an easy and powerful way for you to unlock the revenue potential of your website or blog. AdGenta is a unique way for you to embed ads anywhere you can place a picture – in your blog post, on your website, in your RSS feed.
12. Tribal Fusion
Tribal Fusion represent only the highest quality websites, so they can secure high CPM rates for your valuable ad inventory. They sell your site inventory at increasingly higher CPMs based on the level of targeting: Run-of-Network (untargeted), channel specific (targeted), and site specific (highly targeted).
13. Industry Brains
Their technology enables vertically-focused publishers to monetize their Web sites and deliver relevant pay-per-click and display ads. With their site-specific model, publishers can leverage their brands and charge a premium for their quality audience and content.
02. Affiliate Networks and Programs
You will be paid every time one of your visitor perform a desired action required by the advertising network.
This can be,
Filling up a form.
Sign up for a program.
Participate in a survey.
Email Submission.
Buy a product or service….ETC
If you have searched for a way of making money online, you should have come across the term ” Affiliate marketing”. Affiliate marketing concept fall in this cost per action category.
Wikipedia Definition for Affiliate marketing.
Recommended Affiliate Networks.
My Favorite affiliate network and without a doubt the best in the business. Pays for leads, sales, clicks and they were the company invented most technologies related to affiliate marketing.
This is not an affiliate network as they only promote their own financial product. You get paid up to $200 per one lead and this has been my best money maker for the past 9 months.
15.2 HY Affiliate
This is also a network like retailfx and they offer 2 plans giving you a chance to earn from $75 to $200 per referral.
16. Never Blue
Over 3000 offers to choose from and they have high converting simple offers which your readers can complete at no cost. It makes them a network you should join if you are serious about making money online.
17. Market Leverage
Do not need to explain much. A must join network. This is the first affiliate network I joined after launching this web site and I have no regrets. You will get a very helpful affiliate manager who will assist you in every possible way to make you more money.
18. azoogleads
You will have access to many exclusive offers you won’t find from other networks and reap the many benefits that come from working with the unequivocal leader in affiliate marketing.
What are a few things that set them apart? Their superior tracking technology, new product development, and proprietary publisher tools to name a few.
They do have a cool iphone application for easy account access when you are on the move. They support social media campaigns such as facebook applications which make them a unique choice for a professional affiliate marketer.
19. Click Bank
A 11 year old company with a proven track record. They specialize in digitally deliverable items and payouts go as high as 75% per sale. They recently approached $1.3 billion in Payouts.
Founded in 1998, ClickBank is a secure online retail outlet for more than 12,000 digital product vendors and more than 100,000 active affiliate marketers. ClickBank makes a sale somewhere in the world every 2-3 seconds, safely processing more than 26,000 digital transactions a day. The company serves more than 200 countries, and is consistently ranked as one of the most highly-trafficked sites on the web.
20. CPA Lead
Require your visitors to complete a survey to access your premium content or reward. When your user completes one of CPA lead surveys, your content is revealed. Every time a user fills out a four page survey, you earn about $1.
Their famous DP forum thread. Look what other web masters are saying about this program.
21. Link Share
You can make money online from your Web site traffic. Earn commissions from some of the world’s best known and fastest growing brands. You’ll be joining a trusted industry leader that has helped thousands of publishers earn millions of dollars. You earn commissions by simply linking to products and services that your audience is likely to purchase.
Advertise amazon products in your blog and get paid up to 15% when someone buys from Amazon.
Worth a look Affiliate Networks.
23. Link Connector
LinkConnector has introduced exclusive technologies to the market that give their merchants and affiliates a strong advantage.
24. Lead Pile
They are very different from other affiliate networks and based on a innovative concept. Give it a try.
25. Cafe Press
Earn money by selling your own personalized branded merchandise.
i.e T-Shirts, Mugs,Art and posters, Gift items
26. Clix Galore
You can browse around their offers and pay rates even before you sign up with them. Have a look.
03. Make money from your RSS feed
27. Pheedo
Pheedo retrieves your RSS feed several times an hour and updates your FeedPowered advertisements with any newly published items. Great for time-sensitive content and frequently updated offers.
Here is a PDF file explaining the overview of the concept of Pheedo.
Now you can link your feedburner account with adsense and start earning money through clicks generated from your feed.
04. Get paid for writing to your blog
How about getting paid to write blog posts? There are more than 20 companies do exactly that…. Pay you for your writings. I have listed the best pay per post companies here.
29. Pay per post
I know few people who are making more than $500 a month using this service.
30. Review me
This is the most popular company of this kind and have a proven track record. Came to the peak 2 years ago and now they have lost their edge a little bit. But still they are at the top of this particular industry. You get paid for reviewing and promoting products. Some product reviews comes with a very healthy price tag and when your site is getting popular you can get paid up to $500 a post. At the beginning of your blogging career you will find many $15-$25 per post offers.
31. Smorty
Write your opinion about peoples products and services to turn your daily blog updates into money.
32. Blogvertise
You will be emailed tasks/new assignments to write about in your blog. You do not have to endorse the website’s products or services, just mention it, discuss it, or relate to it somehow in your blog/journal entry. Once your blog entry is approved , you will be paid after 30 days for your entry via paypal.
You review their advertiser’s products and services and then post the review on your blog. Each advertiser has his or her own requirements (i.e. length, link info, etc.).
Earn hundreds or thousands of dollars writing reviews in your blog.
34. Loud Launch
If your blog and interests are aligned with an advertiser’s campaign, then write about them in exchange for pay. Not in exchange for a pre-determined outcome but for a fair assessment.
Monthly compensation: $84-140 paid via PayPal or Moneybookers. 3-5 posts per week are required and minimum of 70 words each.
05. Get paid for your uploads
You can earn money by sending traffic to your uploaded images, videos through your blog (This can be done without having a web site since all the page views will count.) The programs listed here could be included in some other categories.But I wanted to seperate all the download/ upload related programs in this section.
36. Rapidshare
Now you can earn money by referring customers to one of the world’s most visited web sites, ” rapidshare.com”
Whenever a new customer purchases a Premium Account using your ReferrerLink, you will receive up to ten ReferrerPoints.
Collect ReferrerPoints and redeem them in rapidshare’s rewards program or have them paid out in cash. You can Earn up to 20 Euro for gaining them a new customer.
37. Share a Pic
They pay $0.22 per 1000 picture views. They also allow you to add your Bidvertiser code to your image and gallery pages.
You will be paid a minimum of $1 and a maximum of $20 per 1000 downloads. Every successfully completed download will be counted.
The minimum payout amount is $30. Payouts are sent via Epassporte, AlertPay, PayPal and Webmoney.
06. Sell private advertising
This is one of the most lucrative method of making money online. You can sell space in your web site for banners or for text links for a monthly fee. 728* 90 leaderboard and the 300*250 rectangle are the most famous banner types.
You can determine your own prices. But you need to have high traffic and a well established web site in order to attract advertisers.
07. Create Premium Content and get paid
Who said all your blog content has to be free. You can always charge to access your premium content. Your readers can access most of your content free of charge and if you are offering quality content you can convince them to pay a monthly fee or a one time fee to get access to your most valued section.
08. Earn Money Through Job Boards
You can see a good example of how this works here at pro-blogger’s job board. Pro blogger is a very popular blogging related web site and it’s job board make use of that popularity to earn some extra money while offering a good service. You should be well placed in a highly targeted niche If this is to be successful.
The job boards normally charge a minimum of $10 per listing and there are web sites which charge even $100 per listing.
This is the best script I found for a job board.
09. Sell a product or a service
The most popular method of making money in this category is to sell an E-book. But it is not limited to do that. You can also sell,
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Hardcover books
Softwares
Selling web design templates
Wordpress themes
Offer Consulting and Related Services
I listed only the most popular goods and services offered through blogs. But you can think out of the box and create a product according to your expertise.
10. Other monetizing methods.
These are my least favorite methods of making money through a blog but this article will not be completed without at least a mention of them.
43. Donations
Placing a donation button in a blog which do not use other advertising method can make you good amount of money if you are offering valuable content. A good example of a web site which made a 5 figure income through donations was Steve Pavlina’s blog.
44. Pop-ups and Pop-unders
If you do not mind annoying your visitors while making few bucks, go ahead and use them. But if your plan is to create a loyal readership base and if have long term plans for your blog please stay away from pop ups and pop unders.
45. Audio Ads
The reason I do not like this advertising method is, our visitors do not have an option not to listen this ad once the page loads. But due to this very reason there is a 100% conversion rate for each of your unique visitors. You can sign up with the company NetAudioAds and do a test run of Audio ads.
46. Private forums
Setting up a forum is a very easy task now a days with the kind of plugins provided by web hosts. I posted a video of how to set up a forum here.
Not all forums have to provide FREE content. You can build a forum around your blog and charge a monthly fee or a one time fee from your members. It is not advisable to do this when you first start out. But you can start charging a fee when your forum is filled up with adequate quality threads.
47. Selling your blog
This is a good way to make money especially when there are recent reports of some blogs being sold for a price tag of over one million dollars.
It is obvious that you should have a high quality blog site if you are to sell it for a good price. That is why I prefer keeping them once they reach that status. If you wish to sell your blog once it reaches a certain level, you can put it for sale at Digital point forum or at sitepoint market place.
I will keep adding new online money making methods to this list whenever I find good opportunities. You can share your experiences in the comments field. If your money making method deserves a place at the main article body, I will not hesitate to add it with a link to your blog.
Most of the methods discussed here needs you to have a blog or a web site. If you do not have your own blog yet, this “create a blog” series will assist you to build one TODAY.
00. Can you make money from blogging?
01. Getting a dot com name for the cheapest price.
02. Setting up the host and installing the blog.
03. Giving your blog the perfect foundation.
04. Let’s give your blog a great look with a beautiful and professional theme.
05. Make your blog work the way you want with world’s best plugins
06. Where to find content, how to write blog posts and how to keep doing it?.
07. Get Google to send thousands of visitors to you.
08. There are over 100 ways to make money when you have a blog. Let me tell you the best methods.
09. How to get more and more visitors to make you more money?
10. Become a king of social media.
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