So how do you make money online by blogging? There are many ways to do that but now we are only going to look at 3 of the most popular ways to do so. That is through a) affiliate marketing b) adsense and c) paid posts.

Affiliate Marketing

What is affiliate marketing? In short, it is earning commissions by finding and leading potential customers to merchant sites where they can buy commercial products and services. Once these potential customers buy something or do what the merchants want them to do (sign-up for a newsletter, fill-out a form, etc…), the affiliate gets paid. The system is as simple as that. At its infant stages, affiliates had to search out affiliate programs manually by searching and sifting through commercial sites to check and see if they had their own affiliate program and if it was profitable. If they are, then affiliates would be given the chance to apply for their program and get approved.

Years came by and these all changed. There are many affiliate directories and sites that serves as the place to meet for affiliates and merchants alike. Examples of these are ClickBank, LinkShare and ShareASale. So instead of manually searching for affiliate programs the affiliate directories above has done the work for us.

Adsense

What is Adsense? Adsense is Google’s advertisement serving program that shows relevant ads in non-Google websites such as this one. So how do you earn? Well, first you have to sign-up with their program and get approved. Once approved, they will give a code snippet that you would have to embed into your site’s code. Once done, this snippet would “sniff” on your content to determine what type of ads to show on your site. This is what they call as “Contextual Advertising”.

Here is the formula to earning from Adsense:

Targeted Traffic + Targeted Adsense Ads = Earnings

You need targeted traffic meaning you want visitors that come from the search engines as against visitors from social sites. This is because search engine visitors are the ones that click on ads. Social visitors do not click on ads (most of the time) because they are there to read and not buy (by clicking on ads). You also need targeted ads. You can do this by having a niche website/blog. If you do not have a niche website but instead have a general one (probably a personal site) then you won’t have targeted ads since the ads would show different ads relating to the different topics on your site.

Paid Posts

This is one of the easiest ways to earn money online. All you have to do is to have your own blog and find programs that pay you when you post something that they want you to write about. In other words, you get paid to post. And one of the best ‘get paid to post’ programs out there can be found at Paying Post.

So why do they pay you to post? Here are the many reasons why they pay you for blogging. For me, the number one reason is blogging has become a powerful medium for advertisement. So instead of companies paying tv commercial advertisements, they now see blogs as a powerful tool to sell products online. This is a win-win situation for everyone. Companies get targeted customers, bloggers get paid while potential customers get first-person quality reviews on products they want and need.

So if you need some extra cash or you are tired of working from someone as an employee in the office, while not try earning money online by using one of the methods above.

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