How To Make Money With Your Blog

There are a number of different ways to make money with blogs. First we will deal with the basics, text ads.

Text ads are fast becoming the most affective type of internet advertising there is. Below are two types of text advertising systems.

• Google Adense - Google Adsense is probably the most popular text based advertising there is. You see their ads everywhere (including this site). Google charges a certain amount to advertisers and then give a cut of that to you the ad publisher. Here are a couple of ebooks about how to get the most out of Google Adsense's system.
  • Adsense Revenue Exposed - A good introduction to Google AdSense, not as thorough as the two below, but not near as expsensive either.
  • Google Adsense Secrets - 2nd Edition - Incredible Google Adsense secrets revealed by Pro who earns over $500/day.
  • AdSense Gold-Your Fast Track To Profits - Triple your CTR, skyrocket your EPC, track your clicks by search engine, referrer and more! Learn how to join the AdSense ELITE.
• Chikita - Chikita is one of the newest forms of "text" advertising out there. So far it has received quite a good review from the blogosphere. We have just started to try it here at Sports Blogs and have had pretty good success so far.

BlogAds.com is another company that is focusing on only blogs. They have a unique advertising format that combines both text and graphics. Both advertisers and publishers have had claimed great results with this company.

• Art.com - The Art.com Affiliate Program is a fantastic way to make money with your web site. Art.com has over 100,000 prints, posters and photographs from many categories including fine art, sports, movies, music, celebrities and more. All you have to do is link to Art.com images on your website and you’ll earn 25-30% commission on all sales through the website.
• Amazon Associates - You can sell any product on Amazon's website and earn a commision from it. Thats a lot of products! They have a very easy to use link building tools that make adding their products to your website a snap.

As you can see, there are a number of different strategies you can take when trying to make a little extra cash off of all your hard work. Experiment with them, see what works best for your particular blog. Good luck!

You'll need to make sure your blog is properly optimized to get the most traffic from search engines. This report outlines the steps you need to take.