Blogging has become a hobby as well as you can make living with this also and It is true.Many bloggers are making good money .So,How you can do it or How you can take further like “blogging for bucks” .
1.Sell Advertisment:If your blog is popular than you can do it easily because many bloggers ,Advertisers,Affiliate marketers, wants to advertise on your blog to get a traffic .If you are not getting much traffic than you can work for days and wait until to get some good traffic .
you can join sites like buysellads.com,puxee.com etc. They have huge number of advertisers from various niches that would like to advertise on your sites.
2.Sell coaching:You can make coaching on some course like, for example:”How to profit from facebook ads” if you are from Marketing niche or hire someone that creates for you .This is really great way to earn also you can Advertise on various sites like www.warriourforum.com and sell there also.
3.Affiliate Marketing:This is cool as some products pay you nice commission when you make a sale from your affiliate link .There are tons of products that you can chose to promote from various affiliate marketing sites like clickbank.com,Amazon associates ,click2sell etc.
4.Ask for contribution:If your blog is for social cause,non profit organization and you helping guys providing great information than you can ask for contribution for promotion of your blog,maintaining staff,support etc.There is nothing wrong if you ask for donation or contribution if this is happening for some cause.You can use paypal donate button on your blog.
5. Market your services:You can make a page on your blog where you sell your services suppose you are internet marketer than you can sell coaching classes on skype or offline at seminar as well ,create webinar ,SEO services,social media services,web designing services etc.
6.Text link Ads:If your blog has great traffic than this is great way to add some bucks in your monthly income.If you have Google Adsense on your blog than avoid this .
Try these website for these type of Ads:Text Link Ads ,Text Link Brokers
7.Feed Ads:You can add Ads to rss feeds as well .If you don’t have Rss feeds for your blog ,you can make here one Get Feedburner(feedburner.google.com).Once done than click on monetize tab and Google Adsense will be added to your feed.
8.Sponsored Post:If your blog is popular and have great reputation than this business model can only make you thousands.
Websites: socialspark.com,payperpost.com,sponsoredreviews.com.
9.CPA:If you not aware of CPA you can read my post here on Guide to start CPA.It is also great way to monetize your blog and get some money .Well ,It depends on niche of your blog .
Websites:Maxbounty,peerfly,convert2media
10.Pop up Ads:This is really annoying Advertisements and I recommend you should not use on your main blog ,well you can use these on blogs looking to exist but not grow significantly.
Websites:Adbrite,Tribalfusion
11.Article Marketing:Yes,you can blog on hubpages,squidoo.At the same time you make quality backlinks to your main blog and also these websites have their own Advertisment program that shows advertisments on your content and add some extra income to your pocket.
12.In Text Ads:These are link with double-lines below them .You can use it on your blog .I am using on my blog as it Adds some extra income.
Websites:Infolinks,Kontera,Vibrant Media
13.Parked Domains:If you have some domains that you not using right now ,you can use it to sell advertisments and it is the easiest money that you can get as you have nothing to do.
Websites:Google parked
14.Sell Template and Themes:If you have designing skills than you can make your own themes and sell it.If you don’t have then you can hire a freelnacer at odesk.com,elance.com.These themes can go from $10-$1000. Sell it online templatemonster.com etc.
15.Private forums:You can install forum on your blog and give some unique tips to your paid members that no other have access to it .you can create forum on your blog by using free software like .
Website:Vbulletin,phpbb,vanillaforums
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Nice article and well pointed. Thanks for sharing with us.
Thanks Amit for the comment
Amit, you have listed out a lot of great ideas that I am not aware too.
For blogging, Affiliate Marketing is my favorite. I hope I could create my own information product one day and sell too.
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Thanks Kent for the comment
Thank you for providing fresh insights into blogging. I intend to try out some of these services in the nearest future.
Thank you Amit for such refreshing article filled with great insights and tips. I am certainly gleaning from your post.
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Hi Amit,
This is nice 15 ways to make money. The best combination for me is Adsense and Infoliks.
Yes smarty,That is great too..Thanks for the comment