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Make Money Blogging
by Christopher ClaytonDo you want to make money blogging? If you do - you’re not alone. More and more bloggers are finding that blogging is a profitable medium. Whether it be to earn a few extra dollars a week to feed their coffee habit, or making enough money to stop them having to get a part time job to get through college, or whether they’ve got it to a point where they are able to make a full time living from their blogging - there are tens of thousands of bloggers making money from blogging.
In this page I want to share some information for beginners on making money from their blogs.
I will start by sharing my own top Money Making Methods (updated regularly) but below that point you to some great resources and teaching on how to increase your income from blogging.
What
follows is a quick summary of my main income streams from blogging.
Before you read it though - keep in mind that every blog is unique in
how it can make money. Some of the following income streams will work
on some blogs a lot better than others - the key is to experiment with
as many as possible and see what works best for you.
The following income streams (from a number of blogs) have helped me to earn a six figure income each year for the last three years from blogging. I’ve ranked them from highest to lowest.
I hope you find it useful to see the mix and variety of ways that I earn a living from blogging.
1. AdSense
Despite
not using it here at TeenZoned any more I continue to use AdSense with
real effect on my other blogs. While I do use AdSense Referrals and
their search feature it is their normal ads that work best for me. I
have them all set to show image and text based ads and find that
250×300 pixel ads work best (usually with a blended design).
2. Chitika
Last
time I did this sort of summary Chitika ranked #1. This time around it
has been overtaken by AdSense - not because Chitika slipped in how much
it earned but because AdSense went up and because I also replaced a few
Chitika ad units with WidgetBucks ones. Chitika offers a range of ad units that I experiment with. I find their eMiniMalls work best and that Related Product Units are also good. Their Shoplincsproduct isn’t performing as well as it once did for me - mainly because
I’ve been promoting it less and have driven less traffic to it. Over the time I’ve been using Chitika they’ve now earned me over a quarter of a million dollars!
3. Amazon Associates
This has been one of my big movers in the last 12 months. I used to
make a few odd dollars from it - however in recent times it has become
a significant earner for me.
This quarter it overtook TLA as my third biggest earner - largely on
the back of me directing traffic to Amazon from my product related
sites - mainly digital cameras. While the commission on cameras is only
4% this adds up when those that you refer buy higher ticket items.
4. Private Ad Sales/Sponsorships
This includes ad sales of the 125 x 125 ads at TeenZoned as well as a couple of private ad deals that I did
with sponsors on my camera blog (including sponsorships with Canon,
Kodak and Adobe). This area has jumped up since last time also as a
result of the new design here at TeenZoned and our expanded sales team
at C5 who now sell TeenZoned' ads for me.
5. Text Link Ads
The
income from TLA has dipped slightly over the last few months simply
because I took the decision to stop selling them here at TeenZoned and
most of my other blogs. This was because I wanted to focus more upon
selling the 125 pixel ads instead and felt that the ads I was
attracting were not as relevant to this site as they could have been.
As it turns out this might have been a good move because it seems
Google has been penalizing blogs that run them lately.
6. Miscellaneous Affiliate Programs
I
run a variety of affiliate programs on my blogs - most of which bring
in smaller amounts of money
7. Miscellaneous Advertising Programs
I
also play with a number of other ad networks. Some I run as tests to
see if I should review them here - and some are just advertising that
run in the background on some of my smaller blogs. These include AuctionAds, Feedburner RSS ads, Vizu (a poll advertising system), Kontera and Bidvertiser.
Together these don’t add up to major earnings for me - not because they
are not good, but because I don’t use them heavily (a blog can only run
so many ads on it).
I think that that covers most of it. Since last quarter I’ve also been experimenting with WidgetBucks as well as one other ad system that is still in a closed beta test. I’m certain that WidgetBucks will feature in next quarter’s list because I am getting good returns on that so far. In fact at it’s current earnings it’ll debut at at least number 4 on the list and perhaps even at number 3.
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About Christopher Clayton 
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I like to learn more about making money with blogging, I want to try,good information for me
I have 1 blog on blog spot.com but no body click ads.
my blog here
http://hearmaninfo.blogspot.com
Yah .. really I still not understand how does it work.
Nice article
Thanks
May 2nd 2008 05:33