Google Adsense is a quick and easy way for webmasters to monetize their web sites. By putting up relevant and text based Adsense ads on their websites, many webmasters start to make money as soon as they start driving traffic to their web sites. As the Adsense ads are normally related to what your visitors are looking for on your web site, you can both monetize and enhance your content pages using Adsense ads. As you know, you can only make money if visitors to your site click on the Adsense ads display on your site. If your site displays Adsense ads with high paying keywords, your Adsense earnings will be much higher compare to low paying keywords.

To start making money with Adsense, you need to sign up for a publisher account with Google. If you do not have an Adsense publisher account, you can sign up here.

Once you sign up, you can start inserting the Adsense codes which is inside your Adsense account to start displaying Adsense ads on your website. One good thing about Asense ads is that you can customize the ads to suit the look and feel of your webs site. Once the Adsense ads start displaying, you can start driving traffic to your site make some money.

There are many types of formats that you can choose to display these Adsense ads on your website. Normally the ones on top of your content or inside your content will do the best in terms of click through rate and earnings; however these locations may not work that well for you. To understand which ads format and the ads locations works best for you, you need to do a lot of testing through trial and error.

As you can see, Google Adsense is probably the easiest and fastest way for newbies to monetize their web site. If you have not join the Google Adsense bandwagon, it is seriously time for you to consider doing that.

Depending on your niche, page rank, traffic and other factors, the amount of money you make from these paid programs will varied from the hundreds to the thousands in a month. Although the income may be good, the income is not passive or what you call self generative and you need to spend certain number of hours to do these paid opportunities daily. After a while, you will find things repetitive and will be hard for most people to continue unless you really like to write about different stuff every day. That’s why it’s important to have a long term plan in place.

Otherwise if you don’t mind about writing stuff every day, paid posting are a good way to make some good decent money. If you approach paid posting opportunities in a proper and correct method, you will be looking at an income of USD $1000 – $3000 monthly from paid posting opportunities alone.

BloggerWave

One of the earlier paid post program but opportunities are limited from what I have seen so far. BloggerWave has been under heavy criticism in the past few months due to a lack of opportunities and late payments but it seem that things have been back to normal. They have done a revamp on their site but after the recent fiasco, it remains to be seen whether they can regain back the trust from bloggers.

BloggingAds

A paid posting program that allows you to make some pocket money to cover your hosting fees, it’s not for the serious blogger as BloggingAds only allows you to take up to 3 opportunities a month a blog.

Blogitive

Another paid posting program that offers limited posting opportunities. Although you can probably make about USD $50 – $100 a month just on a low Page Rank and low traffic blog but at least it’s better than nothing. From their official blog, it seems that they have not been updating for quite some time even though opportunities are coming through.

Blogsvertise

One of the better paid posting program out there but you can only take up to 1 posting opportunity a day. Depending on your niche, your posting opportunities may also be limited.

LoudLaunch

A new paid posting program which is recommends to me by a few highly respected sources but from what I have seen so far, I’m not that certain. I tried signing up with one of my blog but it seems they will need to take months to approve it. It has been 2 months and I have not seen my blog get approved or any updates from them. Recently, I tried signing up using a higher Page Rank blog but it has been 2 weeks and nothing again. I wonder whether there are too many blogs that need to be approved or that my blogs are not good enough for them. Anyone has any experience to share regarding LoudLanch?

PayPerPost

PayPerPost is one of the best paid posting programs. Even on a normal blog with little or no Page Rank, you can make up to USD $200 -$ 300 a month. But times are changing as more and more bloggers are joining PayPerPost and opportunities are scarcer as compared to a couple of months ago. Opportunities are more for those of you who have a page rank of at least 3 to 4. One good thing about PayPerPost is that you can take up to 3 paid opportunities daily; making PaidPerPost one of the most lucrative paid posting programs out there.

ReviewMe

Another highly recommended paid posting programs. If you r blog is relatively new and low in traffic, opportunities will be limited. Opportunities will be offered to you by advertisers or ReviewMe and it’s up to you to take or reject them when offered.

Smorty

This is one of the better paid posting programs out there although opportunities are limited. Most of the oppoertunities seem to come from a few advertisers and I’m getting these paid opportunities from the same advertisers time and time again.

SponsoredReviews

Another paid posting program which I highly recommended. Opportunities are not offered to you but you will have to be bid for them making SponredReviews something like a auction site whereby advertisers will put up their paid posting opportunity and anyone who fits the requirements stated will be able to bid for them. The bad thing about SponsoredRevies is that they will take a 35% cut of your bid price. That means for every $10 you make, they will take a cut of 35%. Ouch! I rather they don’t reveal the cutoff!

There are a couple of paid posting programs that I did not put in but will do so after I have explore them. I will be updating this section from time to time, be sure to come back often! If you are aware of other paid posting programs that are not listed here, please feel free to share with us.

For a list of good resources on blogging, check out my “Recommended Resources” section.

In order to make more money from paid posting opportunities, it’s best to have a high Page Rank and also Alexa ranking. The higher your blog’s Page Rank and Alexa ranking, the likelihood of getting more and higher paid posting opportunities are there. The list is by no means comprehensive but these are the sites that I’m currently making good money from. If you have any recommendations besides the ones on the list, please feel free to suggest.

1. Adverlets
2. BloggingAds
3. Blogitive
4. Blogsvertise
5. PayPerPost
6. Smorty
7. SponsoredReviews
8. ReviewMe

For good resources on blogging, please check out my “Recommended Resources” section.

Shoot your own photos and sell them

Well, you have nothing to lose if you shoot your own photos and start selling them on stock photo sites. Invest in a good DSLR camera; learn some decent photography skills and you are good to go.

Sell Your Friend’s Photos

Let’s say if you have a friend who is photography fanatic, it’s time to meet up with him for a decent meal. Make a proposal to sell his photos in exchange for a 50/50 split. You do the marketing, he do the shooting. You can either place the photos on stock photo sites or set up a site to sell them.

Become a Bulk Buyer And Seller

Go to photography forums and offer to buy photos in bulk. Make sure you are given the rights to resell them. The reason to buy in bulk is to get bigger discounts. You have to drive a hard bargain though, just make sure you see some samples first. When you get the photos, get someone to touch up on the photos again and resell them on stock photo sites. You can also divided these photos into different niches and resell them to internet marketers.

So what do you think?

As you see, there are probably many more ways you can monetize with photos. These few are just some of the ideas that I can shoot off my head right now. I will probably be exploring some of them when I have the time. For now, I will just focus on one thing at a time.

I’m sure you have heard of The News Room by now, if not you can go down to their site and have a look.

Basically, The News Room is a resource site where you can find interesting and fresh news and videos content from around the world. These content come from more than few hundred news sources and best of all, these content are made available for you to display on your site and in the process you can make money out of it.

So how does it work?

You earn money by embedding these text, image or video feeds into your blog or website.
Every time someone click on a video feed, you will earn a CPM (Cost Per Mile which is also known as Cost Per Thousands). Same thing applies to the text and image feeds. You will earn a CPM every time the ads at the side of the feed is rendered.

The payout is something like that:

Video Feed: $4 / 1000 = $ 0.004 per click

Video Story: $3 / 1000 = $0.003 per click

Text Feed: $1 / 1000 = $0.001 per render

Image Feed: $1 / 1000 = $0.001 per render

Although the amount you can earn is probably very small unless your site have a lot of daily traffic, there is a method for you to generate more income and best thing of all it’s perfectly legal and within the TOS of The News Room.

Now let’s say you own a blog, you select those content feeds that are similar to the nature of your site and embed them.

Select only the text or image feeds as video feeds requires your visitors to click on them to earn you impressions. Whereas for text or image feeds, every time they are shown and the ads rendered, you earn an impression.

That’s where the beauty of this method comes in, every time when an ad is rendered you earn an impression. Now imagine if you embed 5 text feeds on your blog’s homepage, your impressions earned will multiply 5 folds right!

You get the idea? Now if you increase it to 10 feeds , it will be 10 impressions earned each time a visitor come to your blog.

Now before you get all excited, be careful and do not in your haste for monetization, turn away all your loyal readers.

These feeds can be nicely integrate into your blog if you can come up with your own views and commentaries on these content feeds. In a way, it will encourage more readers to participate in your blog.

If you do this nicely, you will attract more readers and get to make more money at the same time.

Isn’t that wonderful!

Now the problem is in getting people to come to your site!

Disclaimer: I have gone through the TOS and have not found anything that disallow this method. So you can safely use this method without worry. However I will not responsible for any misinterpretations or if in the future, Voxant change the TOS and disallow or restrict the use of this method.