3 Ways To Use Your Blog To Make Money Online

Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 7:22 am

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There’s a variety of ways one can make money using their blogs.

Blogging is so flexible that it has become the favorite way of new marketers online to gets started as an avenue to olnine income. The more people blogging the more ways you can make money blogging.

Method One: PPC (PayPerClick)

A particularly good way to make money using a blog is the pay-per-click advertisement approach. Advertisers pay between 10 cents and 5 dollars every time one of their ads is clicked, some markets are way higher than this but I suggest you stay away from those unless you are a pro already. A piece of code will be added to your blog, it will then automatically check the content of your blog so as to make sure that the advertisements match your content.

Method Two: Affiliate Marketing

Another of the common ways to make money using a blog is affiliate programs. These work on a simple concept – you advertise someone’s product on your blog, and you get to keep a good portion of the profits, or visa versa. You can find affiliate products to sell through online affiliate websites, such as clickbank.

Method Three: List Building

An alternative way to make money money using a blog is through list building. This refers to the process of gathering of your visitors e-mail addresses. This provides you with the opportunity to send them information packed emails that will earn their trust. Having earned their trust, you are in a position to recommend a product to them, which might be those of an affiliate or your own.

If you are looking for a way to make money using a blog, give serious consideration to the three methods we have just looked at. Use any of these three ways to make money using a blog today, and you could have a new income stream within the week!

This is a guest post by Matthew Wolfe. He teaches entreprenuers how to create blogs, generate traffic, and make money with his free video tutorials at The Wordpress Classroom. You can also find out more about Matthew, as well as learn more tips and tricks at his personal blog, MatthewWolfe.com.