How to make money on a blog?

You already know the basics of creating and maintainingyour blog, you know what the authors of the most popular blogs Runet are reading, got acquainted with the most popular Russian-language blog-services. It's time to talk about what many beginner bloggers set as their goal, namely, earnings on blogs.

Surely you have repeatedly heard about what to earnon your own blog - this is a time to spit! You have to disappoint: creating a blog that brings its owner a tangible, stable income is a troublesome and expensive business. Consider the main ways to earn money on your blog.

Context and banner advertising

Advertise on the blog pages - one of the most common waysearn on the blog. You can show contextual advertising to your visitors, you can participate in a banner exchange network or directly negotiate with an advertiser about providing your blog as an advertising platform for its ads.

To work with advertising your blog should be popular and visited plus to have good indicators of TIC and PR - then the cost of the ad slot will be higher.

How much can you earn on a blog, showingcontextual advertising? If you take, for example, advertising Google Adsense, then practice shows that for every thousand impressions of an ad unit a blog author can earn, on average, 1-1.5 dollars. Your revenue can also be calculated in accordance with the number of clicks on Google Adsense ad units. Total ad units on a blog can be no more than 3.

Some blog services are not allowed to post their own ads on the blog, so in order to earn a blog in this way, it's best to blog on your own hosting (stand-alone).

Affiliate Links

Affiliate links, affiliate programs or just affiliate programs - all are names of the same methodearnings on the blog. You register in the affiliate program and get a special link from the partner. Then place the link in your blog posts and get a certain percentage for each visitor who clicks on this link.

Affiliate programs are best chosen according to the subject of your blog - otherwise the effectiveness of this method of earning will be low. A tangible income from the partners you will begin to receive with the attendance of the blog at least 1000 hosts a day.

Selling links

Selling links is another popular way to make money on a blog. Specials reference exchanges like Sape offer you for placing linksadvertisers a certain amount. The higher the index of your blog's PR and PR, and the higher its attendance, the higher the price for your ad slot. You can sell links from your blog directly to advertisers, it's best if links are thematic.

Paid Reviews

Services such as Blogun pay you money for posting on the pagesYour blog is a thematic article, a brief overview or the so-called guards on the order of the advertiser. You publish a post with the given information in your blog, put an "eternal" link to the advertiser's site and earn money. By the way, you can do paid surveys or publish guards and without contacting the blogger - you can negotiate directly with the advertiser.

The level of your earnings on the blog with the placement of paid posts, again, depends on the popularity of your blog. In blogs with large TCs and PR and good attendance, the chances of earning a real income are higher.

Donations

Popular in the western segment of the Internet, but not yet very widespread in Runet way of earning - this donations. You just put on your blogan ad like "support the development of the project." If your blog has an interesting topic, it is unique and useful, then it is likely that your visitors will want to support you in this way.

Paid access

Earn on a blog by organizing paid access"For the elite" is a good idea if the information on your blog is so valuable that people are willing to pay money for access to it. Otherwise, no one will want to use paid access.

A variety of this way of earning - RSS Subscription. Earn on a blog using this method is also possible only if there is a very interesting and useful content on the blog.

Blog sale, sponsorship

The blog itself can be the object of sale. A thematic blog with unique content can interest representatives of large companies and they will want to buy such a blog for inclusion in a network of professional blogs on this topic. If your blog is interesting just as an author's project, then maybe someone will be interested in the idea of ​​sponsorship and then all the costs of blogging will be taken over by the sponsor.

The described ways of earning on a blog, as you can see, are very effective only with good rates of blog popularity - A novice blogger with 10-20 hosts a day is unlikely to receive hundreds of dollars a month. Therefore, before trying to make money on a blog, you must pay attention to its promotion and promotion.

To paraphrase a famous winged expression, the Council of the Soviets warns you that not all ways of earning a blog are equally useful! About, What ways to earn money on a blog can harm your reputation, read in our next materials.