A blog is nothing but a type of personal website. A typical blog consists of text, images, link to another blog, web pages and many more things. But the question is how to earn money through blogging? There are many ways to make money through blogging. The ways are as follows:-
- PPC Advertising Networks- There are many popular advertising networks but among them Google Ad Sense is the most popular. You have to just sign up in the network and paste some code information on the website. Afterwards the network will post related ads on the website and on every click you will earn money.
The money mainly depends upon the traffic level of the website and also on click through rate (CTR) and cost per click (CPC). The well known CPC Advertising networks are – Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN), Bidvertiser, Chitika and Clicksor.
- CPM Advertising Networks- CPM Advertising Networks are very much similar to PPC Advertising Networks. CPM stands for Cost per Miles and paid according to the number of impressions. It generally refers to 1000 impressions. CPM depends upon the network and the position of ads. If the ads are posted at the top of the page the CPM is more. Some of the popular CPM networks are – Casale Media, Burst Media, Value Click, Right media, etc.
- Direct Banner Advertising – It is used to sell your own advertising space. It is also profitable as there is no middleman. The famous banner formats found on web are the 728*90 leader board, the 120*600 skyscrapers etc.
- Affiliate Marketing – In this system, there is a merchant that will allow other people to sell their products and in return you will get commission. This is also known as CPA (Cost per Action) or CPL (Cost per lead). Some popular affiliate market places are Azoogle ads, Commission Junction, Link Share, etc.
- Sponsored Reviews – You can write sponsored reviews on a certain range on topics and for writing you will be paid. But at first you have to join a market places. Some of sponsored review networks are PayPerPost, ReviewMe, Smorty, etc.
- Job Boards – It is one of the famous methods to earn money through blogging. All blogs use job boards for their extra income. The famous job board software is JobThread, Jobbex, Web Scribe Job Board, etc.
- Paid Services and polls – There are certain websites that will pay you to arrange polls on that site such as Vizu Answers.
- Selling or Renting internal pages – This concept is very popular. The websites sell or rent their internal pages in case of heavy traffic. But in case of small websites implementing this can be quite difficult.
In-Text Adverting – In text links are different from normal links, as it comes in the form of double underline. When a visitor clicks on that link, the advertisement will pop and the owner will make some money. The well known In-Text Adverting networks are Kontera and Vibrant media.
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Very useful article for blogger. thanks