How to Make Money Blogging

How do I make money blogging?

If there’s one question that is the foundation for this blog it’s this one and since 2004 I’ve been writing post after post on the topic - to the point where it’s difficult for a new reader to find a place to start.

The following list of links are my suggestions on key posts on the topic of making money from blog from my archives. I hope you find them to be useful.

Methods for Making Money from Blogging

• How Bloggers Make Money from Blogs - a guide to making money from blogging that outlines 12 methods that bloggers use to make money online with links to tools and programs you can use to get started.
• How I Make Money Online - My Top Earners - a breakdown of the methods that I use to make money from blogging
• Making Money from Your Blog - Direct Methods - 8 methods of making money directly from your blog
• Making Money Because of Your Blog - Indirect Methods - methods bloggers use to make money as a result of their blog through the profile that it brings them
• How to Make Money Blogging - a post looking back on what we wish we knew about making money from blogs

Advertising

• Advertising Optimization - A series of posts on how to optimize advertising on your blog including posts on Traffic, Ad Positioning, Ad Design, Ad Relevancy and High Paying Ads.
• AdSense Tips for Bloggers - an 8 part series of posts that walk bloggers new to Google’s AdSense (the way I make much of my income) through how to use it effectively to make money on their blogs.
• Positioning Your AdSense Ads - a 3 part series on how I literally doubled my AdSense earnings overnight by repositioning my ads
• How to Guarantee that You’ll Never Make More than 0.14 cents per month from AdSense - 10 points to help you earn more money from AdSense
• How Quickly After Starting a Blog Should I put Ads on it? - one of the most common questions I am asked
• 10 Ways to Make Your Blog More Attractive to Advertisers - an Ad Guy tells all

Affiliate Programs

• 10 Tips for Using Affiliate Programs on Your Blog - these tips helped me grow my affiliate earnings many times over
• The Power of Getting Readers in the Door at Amazon - a case study on how linking to Amazon can lead to some surprising results
• 9 Reasons Why I am an Amazon Affiliate - Amazon is one of my bigger earners

Other Articles on Making Money from Blogs

• Monkey Bar Blogging- a post about getting into making money from blogs with balanced expectations
• Principles of Choosing a Profitable Topic for Your Blog - key factors to consider before choosing a topic for your blog
• Should I Blog for Money? - before you rush into monetizing your blog - here is a post on whether you should at all
• A Reality Check about Blogging for Money - before you start dreaming of Millions of Dollars in Your Bank Account…. Read this

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