Tips on Blogging for Dollars

As we all can see, blogging for dollars is the latest craze to hit the Internet. Bloggers began blogging for a number of reasons, but as the blog movement has increased in popularity, they have found ways to monetize their blogs and are seeing their commitment pay off (i.e. they are blogging for dollars)!

The blogger's focus may either be to communicate with customers or just to have fun, but they have begun looking at ways to earn revenue from their blogs. The most popular ways for bloggers to turn their blogs to dollar printing machine are:

1. Google Adsense Program

Google AdSense allows webmasters to dynamically serve content-relevant advertisements in blogs. If the visitor clicks one of the AdSense ads served to the blog, the website owner is credited for the referral. Webmasters need only to insert a Google-generated java script into the blog or blog template. Google's spider parses the AdServing blog and serves ads that relate to the blog's content. Google uses a combination of keyword matching and context analysis to determine what ads should be served. There are alternatives to google adsense which are in my other post (check my blog achives).

2. Affiliate Programs

Affiliate Programs work when an affiliate web site receives income for generating sales, leads, or traffic to a merchant website. Generally, bloggers will mention or endorse specific products and if site visitors purchase the product, bloggers will receive a portion of the sale. In order to really blog for dollars through Affiliate Programs, you can read my other posts (Check my blog achives) on affiliate marketing and others.

3. Product Promotion

Businesses use blogs to detail how specific features or product add-ons can increase functionality and save time. Content-rich product promotion will help with search engine placement.

4. Banner Ads
While less popular than in the past, websites with high traffic levels can still earn decent revenue by selling banner space.

As the Internet evolves bloggers will continue to seek out ways to monetize their opinions and thoughts. Daily journals and online blogs have become more than just a communication means to many.