Blogging for Money - How to Make Money With Blogs

You might have heard of some people making some extra cash or maybe even a lot of cash with blogs and wondered how it is done. In fact making money with blogs is fairly simple with several ways to build up traffic and several ways to monetize that traffic.

Blogs are really just a form of website though the idea is that they are updated frequently a bit like an ongoing diary. They are structured to make it easy to find previous posts and in general tend to be a little more search engine friendly by virtue of their navigation structure and interlinking of posts.

If you pick a topic that has lots of people looking for information you will likely find plenty of visitors to your blog even with only a small amount of promotion and link building. Once you have traffic interested in a particular topic you can promote affiliate products very easily or even just host some affiliate ads in a sidebar. Of course the products should be relevant ones to your audience but with so many affiliate programs to choose from, you should not have any difficulty finding these at programs like Amazon, Commission Junction or ClickBank.

If you are not interested in joining affiliate programs you could instead host some contextual ads on your site. These are ads that are automatically placed on your site based on their relationship to your site's subject matter. All you need to do is sign-up for an account with Google's AdSense program or Chitika and place the code they give you wherever you want the ads to appear on your site. Relevant ads will be shown there automatically and the program will automatically track the traffic you send and pay you for every click on those ads.

These are just two of the ways to make money with blogs, there are several more, why not check out the links below for more killer methods of profiting from blogs.