How to Make Money from Your Blog

Blogs are great just to be able to write whatever you want about a job, a hobby or even yourself. In the last few years, millions of people started blogging when the news outlets picked up on the fact that blogging was making some people a lot of money. Many people were disappointed when they did not get the riches that others claim to have made. Blogging will not make you rich and if you start blogging just to make money, chances are that you will fail. If you have a successful blog with a lot of visitors however, there are a lot of things that can be done to make money from your blog.

Make Money From Your Blog - Affiliate Ads

Affiliate ads was one of the first ways that people made money with there personal websites and it also translates to blogs. A blogger can search through a lot of online stores who sell products that fit with their blogs or they can go a website such as Commission Junction. At Commission Junction there are thousands of online stores to choose from in each category and it is simple to find affiliates that will compliment your blog.

Make Money From Your Blog - Sell your own products

If a blog has a great following they might be able to make money with their own t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc. This is especially true if a blogger creates personal graphics and logos that visitors are familiar with. Using a site such as Café Press it is then easy to upload the graphics and blog logos, set the individual selling prices and post the links on your blog.

While Café Press started with t-shirts, they offer a wide array of different products now that include: hoodies, mugs, sweatshirts, books, magazines and even audio and data CDs.

Make Money From Your Blog - Blog Ads

There are a lot of websites that place ads on a blog and pay the blogger a flat fee or a pay per click fee. One of the most popular is Blogads.com but good luck on getting in. Blogads.com is so popular that they stopped accepting new applicants a long time ago. There is a massive waiting list to get in and the only way to get on that list is to have a friend on the inside. A blogger needs another blogger to refer them to Blogads before they will even be considered. Some people have been on the list for a few years. The good news is that there are many other alternatives like crispads.com, blogsvertise, and payperpost,

Make Money From Your Blog - Adsense and Pay Per Click Ads

Google changed the world of blogging forever when they created Adsense. Bloggers place text links on their blogs and they can change the colors to make the ads match the overall blog theme. When a visitor clicks on a link, the blogger is paid. While the pay is usually a few cents, Adsense quickly started to add up and bloggers with a large base of viewers were quickly seeing a monthly check worth hundreds and even thousands of dollars.

If you don't feel like placing ads on your blog you can always place a tip jar using Paypal or create and sell your own products such as ebooks, audio files and crafts.