How Bloggers can Make Money Online?

There would be confusion among bloggers whether to blog for money or fun. I have discussed in earlier post that just concentrate on developing content and traffic then dollars flow in automatically. There are various methods through which bloggers can make money.

Contexual Advertising:-

These are most common methods to make money online. This method is utilized by many bloggers online because they are natural money makers. This methods include Adsense , MSN Adcenter and YPN ( Yahoo Publisher Network) which are very popular among bloggers .Adsense is open to people all over the world but where as YPN ( Yahoo Publisher network) is open to US residents only. Bloggers can make money by just embedding a piece of ad-code on their blog. We will make money on click basis. They don’t work better with general/politics blogs. It is advisable to follow their terms and conditions strictly or else there is chance of getting banned. We will discuss later about adsense in detail.

There is also other CPC advertising like chitika eminimalls is also good for making money. It can be used along with adsense. They produce good results in combination with adsense.

Impressions Based Ads:-

We can make money by displaying impressions based ads. The pay varies from program to program. But most of the programs pay per thousand impressions. I did not use the impression based till now. It only works for the blogs which have millions of visitors every day.

Text link ads:-

This is beautiful and quite easy way to make money by selling text links on our blog. The examples are adbrite, Text link ads. We can control our ad space. They have big network of advertisers so we need not look for advertisers. The system is totally automated. The advertiser’s offers ad after that it is in our hand to accept it or not.Having page rank is the eligibility to get in to making money by this method.

Sponsorship:-

This is latest money making system that has been launched for small bloggers in 2006. It has opened gates for small bloggers to make something out of blogging. Bloggers charge $5 at least per sponsorship. The rate depends on the traffic and page rank they have. The sponsorships include Payperpost, Reviewme, Sponsored Reviews and Smorty. These are biggest sponsorship programs through which bloggers get sponsorship assignments. Bloggers also get private sponsorships. I use to get sponsorships on my free blogs from advertisers. Every niche blog can get sponsorships from this sponsorship programs. If a blog have page rank and traffic then he can make quick buck with sponsorship whether the visitors buys the product or not.

Affiliate Programs:-

Every body asks what is affiliate programs? The affiliate programs are a huge collection of advertisers or merchants whose product can be promoted by us through blogs or websites. We make money when some one buys a service or product for the company. Some of the popular affiliate programs today are Commission Junction (popularly known as CJ ), Never Blue Ads(NBA), Market Leverage(ML) and Hydra Network.

It takes lot of time and research to make money with affiliate programs. But if you come to know the key then you will make good decent income from them.

Selling Flipping Blogs:-

I did not sell any of my blog , as you know this is first self hosted blog. But selling flipping blog is done by most of bloggers. It is the bloggers wish that he want to sell his blog or not. In this great financial crisis bloggers realized that every time is not same. I use selling flipping blog only when I need money. Most of the bloggers sell their blogs at sitepoint. But blogging experiment makes most of the money by selling flipping blogs. Blogging Experiment shows how to make money online by selling/flipping blogs.

Donations:-

This is been used by most of the bloggers last year. It will work only if we have large readership.