Sources of Income for Your Blog

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Make money from your blog from the following sources:

1.  Ads - This is a targeted advertising where an ad is displayed on the blog based on the blog page that your reader is visiting.  When your reader clicks on the ad, you will receive a commission from the advertiser.

For example, if your reader is browsing a blog post related to computers, an ad related to computers and accessories  is displayed on the blog's ad space.

Types of ads include: (a) contextual ads, (b) text link ads, (c) image ads, (d) video ads and (e) affiliate ads.

2.  Sponsored Review Posts - An advertiser will ask you to review a product or service in your blog in less than 500 words.  If your review is accepted, the advertiser will pay you from $20 to $200 per review.

3.  Sale of Merchandise - You can sell merchandise from your blog.  First, you have to open a free account with Google Checkout or PayPal to access the merchant services in accepting payments from your customers.  When a sale is made from your blog, Google Checkout or PayPal will remit to you the net sale amount after deducting the transaction fees.

4.  Direct Sale of Ad Space - You can offer to some advertisers to display their ads in your blog for an agreed fees and terms.

5.  Sale of E-books - When you have a lot of blog articles, you can organize and copy them to be converted into an e-book and then, sell the e-book through your blog or third-party e-book sellers.

6.  Other indirect sources of income:

6.1.  Guest Blogging Compensation - You can visit other blogs and submit your proposal to be a guest blogger for a certain fee.

6.2.  Speaking Tour - You can advertise in your blog that you are available to be a guest speaker in seminars and conventions related to your blogging expertise.

6.3.  Consulting Services - You can also advertise in your blog that you are available to be a consultant in blog development, blog promotion and search engine optimization.

6.4.  Asking for Donations - You can plug in a button in your blog asking for some donations from your blog readers.  You have to open a free account with either Google Checkout or PayPal to avail of its merchant services to accept the donation from your blog readers and remit the net amount of donations to you after deducting the transaction fees.

6.5.  Accepting Other Job Offers - Aside from speaking engagements and consultancy work, you may offer your services for other jobs such as a newspaper contributor, blogging teacher or a book author.

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