Blogging is More Fun if You can Make Money with It

Because the blogosphere keep growing at a rapid rate, bloggers can't stand to explore the potential of their blog to make money. There is really nothing wrong to use a blog to generate income. More and more people are seeing this great opportunities and setting up their own blog to get into the blogosphere for profit.

It is excited when you are able to turn a much loved pastime into cash. Bloggers who are enjoying sharing their favourite topic can double their satisfaction when they know how they can use their blog to earn money.

Below are some common ways for blogs to generate online revenue:

1. Advertising

All online business owners and e-entrepreneurs need promotion and advertising. They must reach their marketing messages to their target prospect first before they can effectively sell their product or service in the market. For a blog that gained high volume of traffic, selling ad spaces directly to these online companies and e-entrepreneurs will be a great source of income. The types of ads you can offer for sale on your blog are banner ad and text links.

Even a low traffic blog can take advantage of advertising. There are well known program like Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Network that let you display their contextual ads and earn ad revenue for each ad click.

There are also networks that help bloggers to find advertisers. Advertising networks like AdBrite and Text Link Ads provide a marketplace where bloggers can add their blog or site with details on their advertising offers into the marketplace. The interested advertisers will find the blogs and pay for displaying a text link ad or a contextual ad on the blogs.

2. Affiliate Programs

Blog is also ideal for promoting affiliate products or services. You can place affiliate banner ads or text links on your blog sidebars to market your affiliate programs. While this isn't a very effective way of generating affiliate commission but you can possibly get one or few sales each month with this easy technique if you get consistent blog traffic.

Another way you can market your affiliate programs is by publishing product review or recommendation posts on your blog. Review posts work very well in generating affiliate sales when you have built your image as a reliable and well liked blogger with many loyal readers.

3. Sponsored Posts

After trying to sell ads and promote affiliate programs on your blog, if you still not satisfying with the amount of money you made, you can think about posting sponsored or review posts.

There are not strict requirements to get started with sponsored posts. You don't have to get much traffic either. All you need is a blog that is older than 3 months and indexed by Google to participate into the sponsored post networks such as Payperpost and Sponsored Review. In these networks you will find advertisers willing to pay you at least $5 for writing and publishing a blog post about their product, service or website.

There are people posting sponsored posts regularly on their blog and making over $1,000 per month. However, the drawbacks of posting sponsored post regularly are that you will lose lot of traffic because readers don't like sponsored post and Google will soon find out and penalized your blog for posting too many sponsored posts.

Thus, if your goal is to build up your blog and establish a reputation, definitely you shouldn't write sponsor posts on a regular basis. But publishing a few sponsored posts each month would hurt your blog and will earn you extra money.

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4 Tips to Write a Guest Post

Written by Keyrun

Guest Blogging is the one of the popular way of increasing backlinks. It helps to increase visitors to your blog. But some beginner bloggers are sending copy/paste articles to the blog authors and some are sending the articles with no sense or many mistakes. So i hope this article will help you to write a guest post to the blog with your parallel niche.

Here are some tips to write a beautiful and unique guest post:

1. Choose A Blog With Parallel Niche: First be sure the blog you are going to send a guest post has the same niche that your blog have. And then only start to write the post. If u send post to the blog which has not same niche as your blog then it will not work. So be sure....

2. Write On The Not Repeated Topic: Read all of the articles of the blog and write about the topic which is not described so much in the blog but should be on the same niche. If you write about the topic which have previously described at the blog then admin of the blog cannot find uniqueness in your article and may reject it......

3. Reference a Previous Post: This is not a must, but it helps to include a link to a previous post the blogger in question has written. It lets them know that you've read their blog in detail and this will create an impression to the admin of the blog and who know this may be the only reason that why S/he publish your article at their blog.

4. Submit Original Material: All blogger want fresh content so post the self written article which is not posted anywhere else. So send the unique article which is not published even at your blog.

Author Bio:
I am the author of Make Money Online!!! Blog. If you want more article like this just visit my blog at http://100moneymakingtips.blogspot.com.

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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Freelancing to Make Money Online

Offering your services as a freelancer can be a very good way to make money online. However, just like with every opportunity, online freelancing has both advantages and disadvantages.

The main advantage of being engaged in freelancing online is that you get to work for yourself. You don't have to put up with superiors who tell you what to do, requirements that make you work on crazy schedules, or office policies that limit your earnings no matter how much you've done. When you work for yourself, you get to decide how much you make and all there is to it is putting in the appropriate time and effort based on your income goals. You also don't have to get up early in the morning to avoid rush hours or make insane deadlines by working through your lunch hour. Whether you or a family member is sick, you have to pay bills during the day, or life is just getting too much for you and you want to take a day off at any random period, you have the ability to do so because you're not tied down by a specific set of rules and regulations. You can work in your underwear (if you're in to that kind of thing) or simply make your financial decisions at a table with your favorite newspaper and cup of tea or coffee: A wonderful start to any day of business transactions.

As good as freelancing is, there are a few drawbacks. For one, there are no guarantees of a paycheck. You must make sure that you are doing enough in order to cover all of your expenses. There are also no corporate benefits when you work for yourself. There's no such thing as company dental care or health insurance plan. When you work for yourself, you must pay for these things out of your own pocket. You must also keep track of your own income for tax purposes and set aside your own fund for retirement. It's a lot of struggle when it comes to running your own business because you have to be an employee and a manager at the same time. However, it does pay off especially if you're dedicated to what you are doing.

When you decide to become a freelancer to make money online, you need to know exactly what you are getting yourself into. As long as you're ready to make a commitment to providing your services as a freelancer, you'll be rolling in the big bucks in no time!

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Top 5 Ways to Make Money with Google Free Blogs

Guest Post by Anil Gupta

With this article, I'm going to introduce top 5 techniques that anyone can use to make money from their free blogs created on Blogger.com. So if you have a blog already created on blogger.com and looking for some ways to monetize it, keep on reading:

1. Pay per click advertising programs - one of the easiest and most used method to make money from blogs is using pay per click advertising techniques. There are many advertising companies available on internet like Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network, Adbrite, Bidvertiser etc that paying you for every click made on their ads that are placed on your blog. But Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) are most popular and most used networks.

So apply for an account on Adsense today if you don't have an account on Google Adsense by now. You can even apply for YPN if you are staying in US as YPN is currently open to US citizens only. Once you got approval for your account from any of advertising networks, you have to just paste java script code into your blog template where you actually want to show the advertising widgets. And once you have added the advertising widgets, you are ready to start making money with these pay per click networks where you surely will be paid for every click made by your blog readers.

2. Affiliate programs - Another good way to make money online with free blogs is with affiliate programs if your blog is focused about a particular topic or product. So visit some of popular affiliates sites like Amazon, Clickbank or LinkShare and see if there is something for sale which is someway related to your blog topic.

3. Get paid to blog networks - You hold a good chance to make money with paid blogging networks if you have an active blog. Some of paid networks that you can try to make money with your blog are ReviewMe, Pay per post and Smorty. You need to have an active blog with some real page rank to make decent money with these paid blogging websites.

4. Text link ads selling – there are many text link selling networks available on internet that you can use to sell text links on your blog. Some of popular text link selling networks are text link ads, TNX and Linkadage. You need to have a decent page rank and good alexa ranking to be able to earn any revenue from these networks.

5. Private link selling – try this technique if you have a very popular blog in your niche. If you have a established blog in your niche, create an advertise here page on your blog and mention all advertising option you are open for on your blog.

Author Bio:
Anil Gupta is the owner of make money online blog where he writes about blogging, seo, affiliate marketing and money making programs that one can use to make money online at home

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Article Marketing: Source of Free Traffic with Juicy Returns!!!!

Guest Post by Collins Roy

Article Marketing is by far one of the best ways of making income online, getting ideas of what kind of topics to write on and then proceeding to writing the article shouldn’t take lots of time, there are lots of topics regarding making money online, whether it be SEO, blogging, affiliate marketing and a hundreds of other different topics, not preparing articles and submitting them to the appropriate directories makes you lose the huge advantage this medium offers.

I know lots of people who get articles prepared but at the end of the day, they don’t actually submit these articles, being an article writer myself, I have made lots of discoveries with people who write articles, I found out that people don’t actually know how to submit articles, it may seem a little confusing but it’s the truth.

There a whole of article directories out there and they all have guidelines that everyone has to follow. I’d advice that for every article directory you go to, read the rules that govern article submission before actually proceeding with submitting the article, that way you have a high chance of getting the article directory to accept the article.

By submitting to a whole lot of directories, you would finally get used to submission of articles, there are chances that your article might get rejected, in those kind of scenarios, go again and review the particular article directory’s guidelines, see if you missed out something, correct any discovered error and then re-submit. I always advice people, your articles should be between 400-600 words and the content should be one that captures the reader’s attention and contain valuable information, be it a product review or website review articles, make the article content be so intriguing, so as to make the reader look for more related articles on that subject, maybe from the writer of the article itself, I have had people emailing me about tips on certain articles topics I have written.

Also, article title and keywords, for the article title, don’t be so “boring”, there are lots of articles out there, the question is why should anyone click on yours? The article title is what differentiates you from the rest of the others, whatever you title you use for your article has to contain text that would make the user click on your article when given like 10 different article options.

Keywords are what individuals’ type when they looking for an article for a topic, your articles should have these keywords and also some article directories have a certain area where you could type in the keywords related to the article, make sure these keywords are relevant to the article.

An article summary is also necessary, it describes what the articles is about in just a few sentences and also the author’s resource box, information about you would be put in there, usually and also generally I always tell people not to over hype themselves in the resource box area, just put a simple summary about yourself and that is that!!!!. Your resource box should have your name and website link.

For internet and affiliate marketers, one of the best ways of promoting your products is through article marketing, it is a free source of traffic and it gives you backlinks to your site. Take advantage of article marketing now!!!!!

Collins Roy
Forex Analyst and Making Money Online Expert
http://www.myforextruths.com

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Big Mistakes Made in Affiliate Marketing

You have heard of all of the positive things that can happen when you start an affiliate marketing website but have you heard the negative effects of it? There are a few things that can stop a website dead in the water if you don’t know what you are doing. Here are a few tips so that you will aid you in your search to find that perfect business for you and how to make it thrive in today’s sluggish economy because there is still a lot of money to be made and everyone wants to get apart of the money to be made.

One thing you have to make sure you don’t do is to not to pick a dead product. If no one is interested in the product you’re selling then no one is going to buy it. You want to make sure the product you are going to be selling is something you know a lot about and has a good market base. If the market base is there you are going to have no problems in finding the clients that you want. You need to be sure the product you choose is going to be demand for many years because you don’t want have a short term product that sales start dropping off in a month or so.

Another problem that people face in affiliate marketing is that they are trying to promote so many products that they are trying to sell that they can not keep their own merchandise straight. If you have a lot of products that you are trying to sell you want to keep the descriptions of the products short and to the point. The simpler you keep the description the more products you can have but you need to keep them straight. You don’t want to end up putting the wrong description on the wrong product.

Many people who are starting up an affiliate marketing website make the mistake of not taking advantage of the free marketing tools that are offered on the internet. Take advantage of all of the free internet marketing tools you can because it can create a whole new avenue of income that you might not have discovered otherwise.

The other thing that you should not do is to give up. Think positive and keep your head above the clouds because you can make a lot of money working from home and with the affiliate marketing programs that are scattered all over the internet.

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