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However for an increasing number of bloggers, they are looking to make a website that generates an income, and why not?, the top 1% of bloggers earn in excess of $200,000 per annum, so the rewards are most definitely out there. Learning how to tap into those rewards is not rocket science, here the top 3 ways to make money from your blog;
Advertising
This is an easy way for your blog to generate an income. There are a number of ways that having advertising on your blog can pay. The easy part is getting people to advertise on your blog; the hard part is getting the adverts to earn money. Some advertisers will actually pay to advertise but this will depend on the quality of your website, whilst other advertisers will pay when someone clicks through. This might only be a few cents at best per click and with advertising it is very much a numbers game. If you have good content and attracting thousands of visitors the more likely an advert will generate income, but even if you do not generate a great deal of traffic there still programs that will place contextual ads on your website. If this is the case, a good ad program to register with is the Google AdSense which is the most comprehensive and popular advertising program, regardless of the traffic.
When it comes to getting advertisers don't be afraid to ask. If you think you can add value to their website then actively pursue them to pay to advertise. Placing banners from advertisers on your blog could mean that they will pay per click of the banner or links, or per tracked sale or pay which falls into the realms of becoming an affiliate. However, if your blog is good enough and popular enough advertises will pay a small fortune just for a presence, with the top blogs making tens of thousands annually from the advertising alone.
Become An Affiliate.
Affiliate marketing has boomed over the last decade or so and has proven to be a great way of generating healthy income for your blog. You can be an affiliate in just about anything online and depending on what subject matters your blog is in, there is almost always some business offering the opportunity to become an affiliate that is relevant to your blog.
The two main forms of generating income by being an affiliate is CPA which is Cost Per Action and Revenue Share. CPA will pay for a sale or a sign up whilst the revenue share option will pay a share of whatever income has been generated.
What you become an affiliate in will largely depend on the content of your blog and its overall purpose. It is possible to produce a blog that functions purely to benefit from being an affiliate and the very best of these that tick all the content and SEO boxes generate large sums of affiliate money.
Pay-Per-Post
There are a lot of companies that are more than happy to pay you to write about the goods and services of their website or even just the website itself. This is different to sponsorship where someone pays for your website to carry corporate branding. You can register for pay-per-post straight away and a quick search on Google and you will find a whole host of pay-per-post programs. The amounts paid vary and will depend largely on the amount of traffic your blog generates.
For those deciding to make a website, a blog can be a good source of income. In order to maximize its income and using the top three ways listed above, it is important that the blog and its content is the best it can be, all grammatically correct and interesting to the visitor. Finding your niche in the blogging sphere will help your cause greatly.
