Internet Marketing Journey November 2014 | Page 24

They've been totally transformed to fit a whole
range of needs, from a place to house an online
newspaper to a simple way to start an Internet
stream of income. The following five methods will
help you make money from your blog, no matter
what niche you are in and how you are using
your blog.

you will get paid anywhere from a few cents to a
few dollars depending on your niche. These ads
don’t appear within the body of your post, but
they are based on the content of your posts so they
will be attractive to your audience.

1. Affiliate marketing.

Once you have some traffic coming to your blog,
you can be paid to post reviews. There are many
different networks that link advertisers with bloggers. You simply find an advertiser through one of
these networks and promise to post a review on
your blog about the product or service. You'll be
paid a flat rate for your review. Be sure the product
or service is relevant to your niche for best results
with this monetization model.

This is one of the easiest ways to make money
from your blog, and the simplest to start. You begin
by selecting an affiliate program from one of the
popular affiliate networks. You can either post a
review on your blog about the product (complete
with your affiliate link) or post ads along the side of
your posts (also with your affiliate link). Affiliate
marketing is simple to implement because you don’t
have to worry about writing a product.
2. Selling your own product.
If you feel there is a need to be met in your niche
and want to create your own product, you can add it
to your blog for another stream of income. Advertising your own product on your blog is a smart
idea. Your readers have already built a level of trust
with you so they'll be likely to be interested in your
product. You can link to your product’s sales page
directly from your posts and display graphic ads in
the sidebars of your blog.
3. Contextual advertising.
Contextual advertising, like the type offered at Text
Links, will help you make money from your blog
without much intervention on your part.
When you sign up with Text Links or a similar service, your blog postswill automatically have certain
words hyperlinked. These links go to advertiser’s
websites. You get paid when someone clicks on a
link. Unlike with affiliate programs, you don’t get a
commission on the sale but you do get paid whether
or not your visitor buys from the advertiser’s site.
4. Other types of advertising.
Google Adsense and other pay per click advertising
programs will give you code to add to your website.
These programs will display ads in the sidebars of
your website. Anytime a visitor clicks on one of
these links,

5. Get paid for reviews.

As you can see, you have a lot of different options
when it comes to making money with your blog.
Try one or all of these to see what works best for
your niche. •
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