How to Monetize Your Blog - Make Money From Blogging Starting Today!

If you have a blog, then you already know that you can make money out of it.

Well, merely maintaining a blog and placing ads and banners won't help a great deal. A blog which is regularly updated with good content, which attracts readers, is definitely going to earn you some money. Well, to earn money out of your blog you would have to play really smart and make sure your audience is not much affected by the monetization of your blog.


Here are some of the methods that you can implement to monetize your blog and keep it popular at the same time-

1. You can place contextual ads in your blog. The most popular contextual ad promotion network is Google AdWords. AdWords ads are displayed in your blog and whenever someone clicks those ads, you get paid for it. The idea behind it is very simple- People who would visit your blog might be interested in those ads (as they would be of the same topic as your blog page is) So if you have a blog on "Dog Training", then you might have more Dog Training website ads displaying on that page. Placing contextual ads on your blog is the most popular and easiest way of earning money.
2. If your blog is about a specific product that you manufacture of services that you offer, then you can easily sell them on your blog by directing interested buyers to the sales page. If you don't have any product or services to sell, the also you can join affiliate programmes and still earn commission by selling other's products on your blog.
3. You can place pop-under or pop-ups on your blog which would be contextual as well, but this is risky as most readers don't prefer pop-ups or pop-under. So make sure that those pop-ups are placed very carefully so that you don't lose out traffic to your blog simply because it annoys your readers. Normally pop-under and pop-up promoting networks pay you on the number of impressions and leads that your blog generates. This is also a good source of income.

Well, these are the major source of monetizing your blog. But as said earlier you would have to play smart placing the ads on your blog as ad-placing plays an important role in building up the image of any website or blog. Make sure your blog is not crowded with too many ads, too many pop-ups or links. This would take visitors away from your blog. So let us follow the KISS rule - Keep it simple and straight. Please update your blog regularly with good content which attract visitor to revisit your blog for interesting content.Offer them an option to bookmark your blog. The more traffic your blog gets, the more is your chance of earning money.

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