Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The Most Popular Ways to Earn an Income with Your Blog


by James Steele


If you have been attempting to make a little extra cash online as an online marketer, chance are that you have already started up your blog. You may have set it up so that you could expose your business to the public and create new relationships with possible new clients. Why not use your blog as a resource for making money? In error, most people only view blogging as a resource for making a full online income, however, it is also an exceptional tool for getting a few extra dollars per month on a passive or supplemental basis. This article will discuss the many ways that your blog can be utilized to produce a supplemental income.

Try to obtain post sponsors. An effective approach to using your blog to generate additional income is to request that people sponsor your various posts. Adding a footer to your post with information such as the company name, the fact they are providing sponsorship and a link to their site is the simplest approach to doing this. You might even offer to let them put a graphic in the space for an additional fee. You can create a special contact form on your blog for people who are interested in providing sponsorship. Even if it takes a while to decide on a price you can charge, by posting regularly you will increase the opportunities available to you when it comes to generating some cash from your blog.

Write paid posts. Paid posts are not the same things as post sponsorships. The client is the one who chooses what subject a paid post will cover. Take precautions with this. Sometimes people think that paying for a post means that they can influence the opinion that you share in the content of the post. You can choose whether or not you want to accept post assignments like this. You can make it easier for people to find your blog and buy posts on it by joining special networks, which is one of the nice things about this strategy.

Sell Text Ads in your sidebar. Your earnings should be around the same level, even if text ads don't generate as much money but you can get more of them in the same amount of space. Test ads and their low price tempt advertisers because it's a way to test your blog without paying a fortune for a graphic ad. For an average month, text ads sell for about ten dollars per month. A popular blog will automatically mean higher rates. Since you can put two or three in the same area one graphic takes up means you may even be able to make more money with them.

Allow people to submit content to your blog that they have written. It does have some similarities to guest posting but the content usually has links they use to make additional cash and it tends to be promotional rather than informative. Be careful with this. You can charge quite a lot of money for this because you don't get to control the content. Concurrently, though, the lack of any say regarding the content can lead to your readers becoming annoyed with you. You should give yourself a way out by including it in your policy or contract the fact that you can veto the posting of any content. You might have to charge a little bit less for this type of monetization but isn't the control over the final content worth it? There are many solutions to generating income via a blog. Most people toss up some Google Ads and call it good but if you get creative there are many more opportunities out there. The great thing about blog monetization is that you can make a little extra cash while you advertise other projects. It's a great approach from any direction.




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