Blogging 101: The Basic Ways Of Monetizing Your Blog

Blogging has become extremely popular all around the world. And it did not became so because it is cool or it is a fad but because people know that they can make money online with it. People will always be lustful for money and they see blogging as a potential.

But a lot of blogger-wannabes don't know where to start. Many would say that they know blogging can bring in money but most of them don't know how. Here's a list of the basic ways of earning money from your blogs:

• Pay Per Click Ads
• Paid Reviews or Paid Posts
• Affiliate Marketing
• Product or Service Selling
• Donations
• Surveys
  

Pay Per Click Ads

These kinds of ads will bring in money whenever they are clicked or have been viewed by a lot of people (impressions). The most popular is Google AdSense. Others are Bidvertiser, Yahoo! Publisher and ContentLinks.

Paid Reviews or Paid Posts

Probably the most popular among money making schemes through blogs. Payments can be as small as $5 but can be as high as $200 depending on your blog's statistics. However, this kind of scheme has ringed in a lot of controversies like how Google penalizes blogs doing this kind of thing. Paid posts can also bring down a blog's over all quality. The most popular and controversial among these is PayPerPost. The rest include several networks like Blogsvertise, ReviewMe and Smorty.

Affiliate Marketing

This is next to paid reviews but probably the hardest to be successful in without proper training and guidance. Affiliate marketing needs hardwork and effective skills. If you mastered this kind of marketing, you'll reap big rewards. Affiliate marketing offers are scattered everywhere and some are not localized. The most common include being an affiliate for a web hosting company (like Hostgator) and being an affiliate under Motive Interactive.

Product or Service Selling

Selling your products online can be a good thing. Internet marketing is very effective. (Visit DoshDosh.com for upper-level details) If you also have skills (programming, writing, handicraft), you could advertise yourself, your achievements, etc. through your blog. Online marketing's full growth is one reason why a lot of businesses turn online nowadays.

Donations

Sounds hilarious but possible. When you write extremely good content and the rich came upon your blog and somehow got inspired or changed or their problems solved, they would possibly donate some amount if they see a Donate widget (e.g. from PayPal). This is not really popular though.

Surveys

Some surveys like dNeero require you to post the surveys after application somewhere, and a blog is one of the options (aside from social sites). After five days of posting it live on your blog, you get an amount of money. Simple.

Those six are the ways to earn money from blogs explained in a brief or basic manner. Always remember that a poorly-established blog won't do good even on at least one of those. Always put the blog's health in top priority. Money should be second as it won't come in without the first one.

Do you know any other way to earn money from your blog? If so, please leave a comment and we'll tackle it. If you have more in-depth questions regarding the basic ways to make money through blogs, also drop by a question on the comment area.