How to Make Money Blogging

If there’s one question that is the foundation for this blog it’s this one and since 2004 I’ve been writing post after post on the topic – to the point where it’s difficult for a new reader to find a place to start.




The following list of links are my suggestions on key posts on the topic of making money from blog from my archives. I hope you find them to be useful.



Methods for Making Money from Blogging

How Bloggers Make Money from Blogs – a guide to making money from blogging that outlines 12 methods that bloggers use to make money online with links to tools and programs you can use to get started.

How I Make Money Online – My Top Earners – a breakdown of the methods that I use to make money from blogging

Making Money from Your Blog – Direct Methods – 8 methods of making money directly from your blog

Making Money Because of Your Blog – Indirect Methods – methods bloggers use to make money as a result of their blog through the profile that it brings them

How to Make Money Blogging – a post looking back on what we wish we knew about making money from blogs

Advertising

Advertising Optimization – A series of posts on how to optimize advertising on your blog including posts on Traffic, Ad Positioning, Ad Design, Ad Relevancy and High Paying Ads.

AdSense Tips for Bloggers – an 8 part series of posts that walk bloggers new to Google’s AdSense (the way I make much of my income) through how to use it effectively to make money on their blogs.

Positioning Your AdSense Ads - a 3 part series on how I literally doubled my AdSense earnings overnight by repositioning my ads

How to Guarantee that You’ll Never Make More than 0.14 cents per month from AdSense – 10 points to help you earn more money from AdSense

How Quickly After Starting a Blog Should I put Ads on it? – one of the most common questions I am asked

10 Ways to Make Your Blog More Attractive to Advertisers – an Ad Guy tells all

Affiliate Programs

10 Tips for Using Affiliate Programs on Your Blog – these tips helped me grow my affiliate earnings many times over

The Power of Getting Readers in the Door at Amazon - a case study on how linking to Amazon can lead to some surprising results

9 Reasons Why I am an Amazon Affiliate – Amazon is one of my bigger earners