Have you ever wondered how to earn money blogging? I have, as I suspect many of you have also. This seems to be a mystery for a lot of us. It seems the more we try to figure out the answers the more allusive they become. So hopefully today we are going to peel away some of the mystery and clear up a few things so you can start to make money from blogging. While there are many work at home business models today we are going to mainly talk about monetizing your blog although these methods will work with many different types of websites. Here are a few of the ways to make money from your blog. 1. Google Adsense: This is a good way to add a stream of income to your blog. You sign up for a google account and get your blog authorized. Once you have a publisher ID then you create ad blocks that match your blog and insert them into the post. Google will then display ads relevant to the content of your blog. There are several plugins for wordpress blogs to allow you to insert the adsense ads in your post where you want them. 2. Affiliate Marketing: Affiliate marketing is simply the advertising of other peoples products and earning a commission from the sales of those products. There are many different sites that provide products for you to promote.ClickBank.com and PayDotCom.com are 2 of many web sites that provide products to promote. You simply sign up for an account and then search for products that relate to the content of your blog. You can add links to the products in the sidebars and in the content. 3. Email Marketing: You always hear the money is in the list. This true to some degree but is a little harder since you need to build the list before you can promote and sell services to them. One way of doing this is to put a subscription form on your blog to capture the names and email addresses of your visitors. Once you start to build your list you can begin developing a relationship with your subscribers and slowly start offering products and services to them. These are just a few ways to earn money from blogging. All of these methods can be and should be used at the same time. If you are creating good valuable content consistently and using these and other methods of monetizing your blog then it will just be a matter of time before you begin to make money blogging.