Make Money With Blogs – Online Money Making Models
July 1, 2008 by Albert
Filed under Make Money Online
There are many ways in which one can monetize and profit from a blog. However, that’s not the main reason why blogs remains one of my favorite ways to make money online. A blog is very easy to set up especially if you use Wordpress as your blogging platform. The best part of it is that Wordpress is a free blogging software.
Even though Wordpress is essentially a blogging software, it is powerful and flexible enough to be used as a content management system (CMS). Besides that, the easy availability of free plugins and themes make Wordpress the most ideal software for building websites of any nature.
A blog can be monetized through many channels such as:
1. Advertising
If you have a blog with decent traffic, you can monetize it through selling of advertisement space on your blogs. Advertisers will pay a premium for blogs that have high levels of traffic and traffic that converts well.
2. Affiliate Marketing
Through your blogs, and especially if you have loyal following of readers, you can try recommending products or services to your readers in return for a referral fee. The key point is not to overdo it and only recommends products or services that you genuinely believe in.
3. Google Adsense
Google Adsense remains one of the most popular ways for bloggers to monetize their blogs. It is very easy to sign up for a Google Adsense account and besides that; setting up of Google Adsense ads is very easy.
4. Paid Postings / Reviews
Paid postings or reviews are another popular and easy way for bloggers to make money. How much you can make through paid reviews is dependent on a number of factors such as traffic and especially page rank. The higher your page rank, the more amount you will get for each paid posting or review.
5. Selling text links
Selling of text links is actually prohibited by Google. The key is to do it discretely and through established companies such as Text Link Ads. Another way is that you can try selling text links through your own blog.
Now you can see why blogs remains one of the best and most popular money making models online. There are probably more ways you can monetize through a blog, but these few ways should at the very minimum get you thinking of starting a blog if you do not currently have one.
