Blog Monetization

Before you decide to monetize your blog, you will want to evaluate the options available and choose one that blends with your target audience, blog focus and overall theme. In truth, not every blog is easily monetized especially if your audience isn’t fond of commercialized websites, which is what yours will be once you tag in a few modules and integrate a handful of sponsor ads.

If you are sure you want to go this route however, there are many opportunities available to you if you are interested in being paid to blog, as well as additional options as far as making money with the advertising space available on your blog. You can feature sponsors, JV partners, affiliate products through marketplaces like ClickBank or can integrate Google Adsense throughout your navigation system, such as by featuring it in the side bar area of your blog.

In reality, you truly can make a decent income with your blog, as many bloggers are reporting $100 per day Adsense earnings, and even more with affiliate based campaigns. To join the ranks of pro bloggers, however, you need to be willing to roll up your sleeves and dig into the daily grind of creating relevant content, link bait, interesting posts as well as improving on your existing skill set to ensure your blog is taking advantage of the many tools and utilites to increase user interaction and return visits.

Some of these elements include:

• RSS Newsletter/Syndication
• List Building (with autoresponders)
• Trackbacks, Pings, Feed Aggregators
• Blog Carnivals and community participation
• Utilizing SEO plugins to help your blog rank
• Social bookmarketing, contextual advertising

And more..

While you don’t have to be a techy, or a professional web developer to make money with blogs, you should know the basics of blogging including your blog structure and the different tools and resources that will make your blog monetizing even easier.

Other elements could include podcasting, creating videos for display on your blog (or pulling videos from YouTube with blog based video plugins), or you could create your own weekly newsletter that offers tips and resources based on your blogs content. The more interactive you can make your blog, the more likely people will return.

Part of the reason why many bloggers fail when trying to make money blogging is by simply not understanding the various elements that successful bloggers focus on every single day. You need to make a significant effort to learn as much as you can about basic (and advanced) blogging so that you are easily able to take your blog to a whole new level.

Here are a few resources to help you get started:

Contextual Advertising:

Google Adsense

Chitika

Clicksor

AdSonar

Yahoo Publisher Network

Adbrite Marketing

Text Link Ads:
http://www.text-link-ads.com