Blogging is a well known way to make money online for full time work at home moms. The earning opportunities can grow from few dollars to five figure income monthly generated from a single blog. It is all depending on the ways that we monetize our blog. Of course, traffic plays important role in deciding amount that we can earn from blogging. Blogging daily with posting contents relevant to our niche consistently will help us to grow number of traffic delivered for free from search engines. We don’t have to pay for traffic from pay per click or search engine optimization campaigns.
A decent blog with daily post updates will get good number of targeted visitors. So, if you want to make good money from your blog, you should start with posting daily content on your blog. Make sure you post unique and high quality contents. Your readers are your potential converting traffic that turns your blog into money. Writing high quality articles will engage them on your blog to spend more time clicking pages, links, adverts and more. This will be greatly helpful in monetizing our blog. We can use several of ways to tap money from our blog.
Unlike any advertising channels, private advertisement will deliver highest profit. You can sell your banners, links, reviews, separate page, contextual links, banners in content section and more. The possibility of earning money from selling advertisement privately is the best way to make money from our blog. We have the full ability to amend our blog the way we wanted and it is greatly useful for private advertisers who prefer unique type of advertisements. Engaging monthly subscription for private advertisement is advisable. This will ensure your minimum earnings possibility from your blog each month. You can find webmaster forums like Digitalpoint, Sitepoint, etc to get private advertisers.
Selling banners just got easier with Buysellads.com (BSA). Of course, there are various banner advertising platforms available but this is sufficient. You can start modifying your blog themes to support various banner sizes and locations to show this type of advertisement. If your traffic is good, then you should find it easy to get good paying advertisers queuing to get spot on your banners. There are some top bloggers manage their banner advertisement with BSA alone. It is a lot easy to manage your banner advertisement with a small fee which is low compared to other advertising networks.
Join several paid post networks like SponsoredReview, SocialSpark, LinkWorth, and more paid post network sites can be found at make money online page. Get your blog approved on these platforms to get more opportunities of paid reviews. You need to have at least 6 months old blogs with minimum of 10 posts per month to get your blog approved easily from major paid post networks. You can get paid from $5-$100+ per post from these networks depending on your blog quality. Again, your blog should develop good number of back links, traffic, technorati authority ranking and page rank to get better opportunities from these networks.
Paid links is another way to increase our blog income. You can use various platforms to get advertisers to buy links from your blog. Google does not stop us from selling links from our blog as long as we add rel=”nofollow” tag on paid links. The same goes with all type of advertising links from sidebar to paid posts. This will secure your blog from getting any penalty from Google. Personally, I was not aware of these rules and lost PR3 to PR0 within 2 weeks of writing several paid post on blogspot blog. That was my first blog. Get the list of paid link networks from here and make sure to check their policy is not against Google’s TOS.
Other than that, you can try contextual links using Infolinks or Clicksor. All you need to do is write more content on your blog and get more traffic to view advertisement highlighted in your contents. If you are tired of not getting any sort of advertisement payment before, then you should try these ads. I used to show Infolinks ads on my blog and eared few dollars within the first day. If you write some reviews or paid post on your blog, then you should not show contextual ads on these posts. Your advertiser will not prefer to see other links on their review or article.
One of the easiest ways to make money from your blog is by promoting affiliate links. With affiliates networks like ClickBank, Commission Junction, Pepperjam, Azoogle, Chitika, etc; we can easily find a easy selling products with good paying commissions. Promoting one to two products each week with detailed review and links to affiliate site can get a few sales at the end of each month. This will increase your affiliate earnings referred from your blog. Even new blogs can get benefits from selling affiliate products using reviews and blog post. Keep in mind that affiliate income generates the highest percentage of blogging income for almost all top bloggers who earn six figure incomes monthly now.
Last but not least is Google advertisement. You can show up to three units of Google ads on your page at any time. So, utilize these slots well to show it on content section, sidebar and header. Make use of combination ad units like links, text and images. Using same color combination of links, text type and size used on your theme for Google ads will increase more conversion and income for your blog. However, if you blog is still new, then you might need to wait for 6 months to get your account approved.
These are all great resources. Also selling paid reviews is another way of generating a new income stream. I know JohnChow does this.