So you want to make money blogging? If you do, then there are 10 ways you can monetize your blog to make a profit.

1. June 11th, 2013 Published by: Shaun Messick
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Top 10 Ways to Make Money Blogging by Shaun
Messick
So you want to make money blogging? If you do, then
there are 10 ways you can monetize your blog to make a
profit.
Countdown of The Top 10
Ways to Make Money Blogging
Make Money Blogging
A couple of years back, I set out on a quest. A quest to make
money blogging and make hundreds of thousands of dollars
every single month; enough to retire from my job and live the
life of my dreams. But alas, that didn’t happen after my first
blog post.
C’mon man! What? People didn’t just rush to my blog after
the first post. They didn’t even come and give me their money
after my 9th, 10th, 11th, and so on…
What the heck?
Did I have my hopes too high? You bet I did. No one is going to
be the next Tymothy Sykes or Cute Girls Hairstyles guru (a blog
run by the wife of one of my best friends, by the way) overnight.
This career field is relatively new with the advent of the
Internet (and No, I will not give Al Gore props on his claimed
invention). Thousands of people have jumped on the so called
band wagon. According to DazInfo.com, a technology blog,
there were over 111 million bloggers online by the end of 2011
(Old data, for sure, but I didn’t want to waste time from writing
this post to do more research, so I will stick with the outdated
data).
You see my point here. I’m not even going to try and speculate
how many bloggers are out there in 2013. You get it – too many
to count. Nonetheless, there are thousands of bloggers that are
making a nice living online.
So what do these bloggers do to make money? The answers
are pretty simple. So simple, in fact, that you’ll say to yourself,
“Darn-it, self, why didn’t I think of that?”
Admit it, we all do this when an invention is put out into
the market place that we thought of years ago, or one that
is so effortless we should have thought of it, like the Tricycle
Lawnmower (that would be the best gift ever).
But I digress, I better get back to my countdown of the Top
10 Ways to Make Money Blogging, before my mind-numbing
introduction puts you to sleep.
10 Ways to Make Money Blogging
Countdown
Here we go…
The Number 10 Way to Make Money Blogging-
Dress Like Your Favorite Superhero and Act Like a
Moron in Front of the Camera
Like this guy…
The Pros:
• This guy has over 1,000,000 views on YouTube, enough
said.
The Cons:
• If your not comfortable running around your house in
your PJ’s and totally acting like and overgrown ADHD
child who had 100 Pixie Stix’s for lunch, then I don’t
suggest you use this strategy.
• Don’t get me wrong, I think his guy is hilarious. And he is
probably making a nice passive income each month from
YouTube. It’s just not my style. But if it’s yours, go for it.
The Number 9 Method to Make Money Blogging –
Placing Ads on Your Blog with Google Adsense
Google Adsense is a program in which you can place ads on
your blog through Google. You get paid when visitors click on
an ad on your site.
The Pros:
• You make a little bit of money.
The Cons:
• You make a little bit of money.
• Google Adsense is a nice way to earn pocket change, but
you will never earn a full-time income off of Adsense if
this is the only way to generate income on your site.
• Moreover, Adsense ads on your site takes the traffic that
you worked so hard to attract and points them to another
seller.
The Number 8 Practice to Make Money Blogging
– Become an Associate of Amazon and Sell Their
Products
This program works much like Adsense, only you are selling
products for Amazon. I use this program to promote my books
and others that I feel will be of use to my visitors. But again,
there are some pitfalls with just depending upon Amazon’s
Associates Program.

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The Pros:
• You can create your own Amazon store on your website
and sell every single one of Amazon’s products.
• In addition, you get paid monthly.
The Cons:
• You only earn 4% commissions on the purchase price.
• Consequently, you will need to sell an unheard of amount
of Amazon products from your site.
• Also, visitors, once again, are taken from your website.
• Isn’t the point of having a blog to keep your visitors
there?
The Number 7 Strategy to Make Money Blogging –
Sell Your Own Ad Space
A creative way to make money blogging is to sell your own
advertising space on your website. I’ve seen this done on many
blogs with success. Just remember that the ad space you sell
should be related to the niche your blog falls into. I wouldn’t
recommend selling ad space to a candle collector blogger if
your blog is about new and upcoming technology.
The Pros:
• Selling ad space on your blog can generate a nice monthly
income.
• You can also build your search engine rankings by
stipulating that the bloggers who buy ad space on your
blog link back to your blog somehow.
The Cons:
• If you are a brand new blogger, I wouldn’t advise that
you try to sell ad space. If you’re only getting 50 to
500 visitors per day, bloggers won’t be enticed to buy
space from you because you aren’t getting enough traffic
to your website. I suggest that you start considering to
sell advertising space on your blog when it is averaging
around 1,000 visitors per day. That way potential
customers will be motivated to buy from you because the
return on their investment is worth the risk.
The Number 6 Way to Make Money Blogging – Write
Reviews for Money
This is a pretty straight forward way to make money blogging.
It is also an excellent way to create content, which is a must for
all bloggers … Content. Content. Content. You will have to do
your research, however, to find companies that will pay you to
write reviews, such as PayPerPost and ReviewMe.
The Pros:
• Like I stated before, reviewing products is a great way to
generate content ideas for your blog.
• Customers, when faced with purchasing decisions, are
using the internet to find reviews on the products they
are looking to buy.
• Some companies even pay you a nice fee for a product
review.
The Cons:
• Some of the companies that pay bloggers for reviews
have stringent requirements. You will need to do your
research to find out which ones will best meet your needs
and skill-set.
• Also, they don’t pay very much per post. I have seen,
however, some that will offer up to $200 per post, but
they will limit you to how many you can write each
month.
The Number 5 Strategy to Make Money Blogging –
Ask for Donations
Now, I don’t personally ask for donations on my blogs, but
I have seen it on others. I usually see donation buttons on
personal blogs where the blogger isn’t trying to sell their
visitors products. This is perfectly suitable for these kinds of
blogs. But, in my opinion, if you are trying to sell products on
your blog and you are still asking for donations, you look a little
needy. Moreover, this tells your visitors that no one is buying
from you because you’re asking for money.
The Pros:
• Free Money. That’s about all I can think of.
The Cons:
• Not very many people donate to blogs unless their is a
cause attached to it. For example, if your blog is about
helping find a cure for child’s cancer, then – by all means
– slap a donation button on your blog. If that doesn’t fall
into your blog niche, don’t do it.
The Number 4 Method to Make Money Blogging –
Sell Other Peoples’ Products as an Affiliate
I have already mentioned one way to become an affiliate
in number 8. To make money blogging as an affiliate, you
essentially sign up to sell another company’s products for a
commission. In fact, most of the major retailers now offer
affiliate services to help them sell their products.
The Pros:
• You don’t need to create your own products, which save
a lot of time.
• You can earn a steady income each month.
The Cons:
• To make money blogging just as an affiliate, you will
need to sell a lot of products just to produce the kind of
income you want. For instance, you only earn 4% with
Amazon.
I have seen other companies on the web, however, that do
offer up to 25%, even up to 75% in commissions. There is only
one company that I know of on the internet that offers 100%

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commissions on sales from their products (click here to learn
more).
The Number 3 Strategy to Make Money Blogging
– Offer a Membership to Your Website with a
Monthly Fee to Access Exclusive Content
Many writers are now offering memberships to exclusive
content on their blogs in order to make money blogging. These
memberships range anywhere from a small monthly fee to a
large one time fee. For example, ESPN offers a monthly access
fee to their premium content on ESPN Insider.
The Pros:
• You can charge as much as you like for access to your
exclusive content, just be sure it is reasonable.
• This will also create a nice monthly income for your blog.
The Cons:
• In order to offer memberships to your site, you will need
to write or create content that is somehow different from
your free content on your blog.
• This premium content must also offer some kind of value
that your visitor cannot find anywhere else for free. In
addition, I suggest that you only offer memberships for
exclusive content when you are receiving an average of
1,000 visitors per day.
The Number 2 Method to Make Money Blogging –
Create and Sell Your Own Products
Now, I would normally put this way to make money blogging at
number 1 because it is by far the best way to make money from
your blog. Plus, your own products also give you authority in
your own niche and make you look like an expert.
The Pros:
• Visitors see you as an expert in your niche.
• Allows for full creativity of what you want to sell.
• You control the price of your products.
The Cons:
• Creating your own products takes a tremendous amount
of time; time that should be spent attracting a following
for your blog.
• Overhead and cost, if you are mailing products.
The Number 1 Way to Make Money
Blogging – Find a Company that
Will Give You the Resell Rights
to All of Their Products at 100%
Commissions.
While the above 9 ways to make money blogging are all
effective in their own way, the number 1 way I have found
to make money blogging on the internet is to find a proven
company that has already created the products and gives you
the resell rights at 100% commissions.
This may sound too good to be true. But there is one
company out there that practices this. As a result, they have
exploded in sales since their launch in 2011, paying out nearly
$40,000,000 in commissions to their affiliates.
C’mon. I know what you’re thinking, Becoming an affiliate for
a company like this must cost an arm and a leg.
Well, if your arm and leg only costs $25.00, then it does.
The Pros:
• Everything
The Cons:
• Not doing anything will earn you $0
All in all, all of these are good ways to make money blogging.
In fact, you can employ every single one of them as multiple
streams of income. The point is to be diligent, persevere, and
be creative. It will take a lot of blog posts to drive traffic to your
blog and gain a loyal readership. It won’t happen after just 10,
so keep going and good luck to you.
Until Next Time – Keep Blogging and Making Money,