Tuesday, August 5, 2008

BEST WAYS TO MAKE MONEY

Many people every day are online trying to find a decent source of income.
Almost 80% of the bloggers want to bring in a little extra money, while others are looking towards the idea of being fully employed working online.
But how many of them have achieved their goal. My answer is not much.
This blog is NOT a Cinderella story, you must invest a huge amount of time making blogs, promoting them and bring a lot of targeted traffic. Generating traffic to your blog is a very hard thing to do. Again you must invest a lot of time promoting your blog (SEO, forums, blogs comments, chat rooms, you tube and others, DO NOT SPAM, EVER).

Don`t get me wrong you CAN and I say CAN make money from your blog.
You just have to hustle your way out:)
And REMEMBER write articles that you enjoy AND UPDATE THEM DAILY.

HERE ARE THE BEST WAYS TO MAKE MONEY BLOGGING:

1. Contextual Advertisements-CPC

This is far the best and most used way to monetise your blog. There are a number of popular contextual ad networks out there, but the most popular of all would be Google AdSense program. It`s simple Google finds advertisers for your blog (based on your content), put ads on your blog and if someone click on them you earn some money. There are other alternatives of course like Chitika, Yahoo publisher Network an others. This is a great way to earn money, and its used by most of the bloggers . Use the Google AdSense tips articles on the net to max. your revenue. Ad placement is the maybe the most important thing about this kind of advertising.


2. Be a middleman
Many companies run "affiliate" programs: Post an ad provided by Amazon.com or Lands' End, for example, and receive a small fee every time your readers click on the ad, go to the company's Web site and end up buying a book. Referral fees -- the cash you get from these transactions -- vary (you can earn as much as 10 percent per sale from Amazon). Link Share claims to run the Internet`s biggest "affiliate marketing network," with more than 600 companies on its roster of advertisers.


3. Paid Blog Posts

Many blog readers don’t realize that a certain amount of the blog posts that they read are paid for. A paid blog post can promote an product, service, or website; it can also be a post that is there for information purposes but some advertiser has paid for certain keywords in the post to link to his site in order to make profit. This is a great idea, but you have to be great writer, or a damn good promoter.

4.Text Link Ads

The advantage of this method is that it is not intrusive. One can sell text links directly through his website or use specialized networks like Text-Link-Ads and Text-Link-Brokers to automate the process. They are easy to implement in your content and does not bother the audience like the classical ads.

5. Monetization Widgets

These services sometimes operate under a PPC scheme, others like text link ads, others yet leverage affiliate links. This is maybe the latest trend on the web so I will recommended to use it.

Their main advantage is the fact that they work as web widgets, making it easier for the user to plug and play the service on its website.

6.RSS Feed Ads

This technology is quickly adopted by millions blog readers and general internet users. Website owners have begone to monetize this new distribution channel.

Feedburber has its own publisher network, and you also can join them and start displaying CPM banners on your feed footer. Bidvertiser introduce a RSS feed ad option as well, with a PPC scheme.

7.Job Boards

First in order to create an active and profitable job board you need to have a blog focused on a specific niche, and a decent amount traffic. This is a passive income of making money.

Once you have the structure in place, the job listings will come naturally, and you can charge them anywhere from $10 up to $100 for each.

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