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How to Make Money from Your Google Blogger Blog

If you decide to include advertising on your Google Blogger blog, you need to begin reviewing advertising and moneymaking options to find the ones you want to try. As a Blogger user, you can sign up for a wide variety of blog monetization programs.

Contextual link ads

Contextual link ads can consist of text or images, and they're based on the content of the page on which they appear:

  • Google AdSense: Because Google owns both AdSense and Blogger, you can add Google AdSense ads to your Blogger blog extremely easily.

  • Kontera: When you sign up to serve Kontera ads on your blog, its ContentLink function automatically links contextually relevant keywords in your blog posts to ads.

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Text link ads

Text link ads appear as simple text links on your blog based on the content of your pages:

  • Text-Link-Ads: As a Text-Link-Ad publisher, you can approve or deny all ads that are purchased to display on your blog.

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  • TextLinkBrokers: Accepts applications from blogs with a Google page rank of 1 or higher.

    Google ranks pages based on the number of links other pages make to that page, as well as the relative ranks of the linking pages.

  • ValueClick: An easy-to-use, impression-based advertising program that offers banner ads, pop-unders, videos, and rich-media ads.

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  • *TribalFusion: Offers a variety of ad formats to publishers that receive a minimum of 2,000 unique users per day.

Affiliate ads

A visitor clicks an ad placed on your blog through your affiliate ad network membership, and you’re paid when that visitor makes a purchase. With so many programs to choose from, research each one and test several to find the ones that are the best match for your blog and your audience:

  • eBay Partner Network: An excellent way to use the popularity of online auctions to generate revenue from your blog. You can create banners and links to products on eBay or an eBay storefront.

  • LinkShare: A large affiliate advertising network that works with hundreds of advertisers to provide ad inventory to publishers such as bloggers.

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  • Commission Junction: A well-known affiliate advertising program with a wide variety of advertisers in its CJ Marketingplace network.

Merchandising and mini-malls

No matter what topic you blog about, you can likely find a way to link merchandise to it:

  • CafePress: One of the most popular online merchandising Web sites, where people can upload custom designs to appear on products such as clothing, posters, calendars, and mugs.

    Make sure you own the copyright for (or get permission to use) any images or artwork you use on merchandise you sell.

  • Chitika eMiniMalls: Offer an interactive product merchandising service.

Feed ads

If you have an RSS feed set up for your blog, you might want to consider monetizing it with one of the following feed advertising programs:

  • FeedBurner ads: Because Google owns both Blogger and FeedBurner, you can easily add Google AdSense ads to your FeedBurner feed.

  • Pheedo: Offers RSS feed advertising from a wide variety of well-known brands and companies, including Microsoft, Ford, and ESPN.

Direct ads

Rather than rely on ad networks and third parties to provide advertising content for your blog, you can sell ad space directly. Selling ad space can be difficult until your blog grows to a minimum of at least 1,000 visitors per day, but it’s certainly not impossible, particularly for niche topic blogs.

Sponsored reviews

Advertisers search for bloggers to write posts and reviews, for example, about their brands, products, and Web sites to create an online buzz, increase Web site traffic, and boost sales:

  • PayPerPost: Set up your blog’s profile, select your blog’s category, and begin looking for opportunities.

  • ReviewMe: Set up your blog information for advertisers to find you.

  • SponsoredReviews: Bloggers can search for opportunities and bid on jobs, and they can create a blog profile and let advertisers bring offers to them.

Other monetization options

You can find great opportunities with a little creative thinking, effort, and commitment. For example

  • Donations: Ask visitors to donate money to help keep the blog going. You can use that money toward hosting costs, contest prizes, design costs, and other costs.

  • Guest blogging: Writing a post to be published on another blogger’s blog. Guest blogging works well as a promotional tool.

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