by: Matt Bacak

You have created a blog and your blog is dedicated to a niche
industry. Have you ever thought that the blog could make money for
you? We would look here in this article, ways and means, to make
money blogging. Lets first have a look at what are the prerequisites
for a blog needed to make money:

1. Blog needs to be dedicated to a niche market.
2. Updated regularly.
3. Enough back links (Don't worry for it. Directory submission would
be enough to begin with)
4. Good blog host or application (blogger, Xanga or typepad
recommended), and
5. High quality articles or news items supported with images.

Get the above criteria in place and Hurrah... You are ready to Make
Money Blogging.

Top 5 Ways to Make Money Blogging

Lets now take a look at top 5 ways using which you could make money
blogging:

1. Google Adsense
Google Adsense delivers text and image ads to the authorized
websites/blogs depending on the content of the website. Small code
is required to be pasted at proper locations on a webpage and Google
automatically recognizes the page. Google shares the revenue it gets
from the advertisers whenever a visitor clicks on these ads.

Google bills advertisers on price per click basis (PPC). Advertisers
are required to pay only when any visitor clicks on their ads. They
bid against each other for the keywords in order to receive better
placement and thus prices for each keyword differ from one another.
It is better to choose keywords for your blog which pays high $ per
click.

2. Amazon
Amazon Associate program is another important way to make money
blogging. The Amazon Associate program gives opportunity to
website/blog publishers to promote any product from its inventory by
adding a predefined code to their website/blog, which, when clicked
by a visitor, takes them to the relevant product page. Once the
visitor buys the product, the blog owner will be compensated with a
commission.

3. Blogads
You can use Blogads as an effective tool to have a better control
over the advertisers in your blogs. You can analyze and compare your
profits with any one of your online agencies. Blogads can be simply
specified as an advertising service used for the web logs or blogs.
From the total money generated by Blogads, it retains 20% of it and
the remaining money is paid to you through PayPal or checks.

Alternative Services:

• Crispads is another useful network focused on the blogs. You can
put your advertisements in their blogs using Crispads. You can move
through their RSS/ATOM feeds that help in generating revenues.
• Tagword – It is similar to Blogads. It makes you select the ads
and their price.

Users can place their text-based ads in the site within minutes and
the ads will be displayed instantly on the website.

4. Affiliate Programs
Your affiliate programs can help you earn a lot of money for
selected products and services. Lot of websites offers you to become
affiliate members. These affiliate programs can provide a better
reach and an in-depth exposure to the products. The commissions for
the sales differ according to the quality of the product, sales and
marketing strategy involved. You can gather information related to
the commissions by looking into the catalogues of Link Share and
Commission junctions.

5. Text Links
Text links has emerged out to be the best form of moneymaking source
that you can use instead of cluttering or crowding the page with
ads. You don’t have to make these text links prominent within your
website. This link can act as an extra value to your site and will
also help to promote the rankings of other sites. In most of the
cases you will find these text links placed in the bottom of the web
pages. The best part of this strategy is that the publishers send
and accept links as the market continues to grow.


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