You have created a blog and your blog is dedicated to a

niche industry. Have you ever thought that the blog could

make money for you? We would look here in this article,

ways and means, to make money blogging. Lets first have a

look at what are the prerequisites for a blog needed to

make money:

1. Blog needs to be dedicated to a niche market.

2. Updated regularly.

3. Enough back links (Don't worry for it. Directory

submission would be enough to begin with)

4. Good blog host or application (blogger, Xanga or typepad

recommended), and

5. High quality articles or news items supported with

images.

Get the above criteria in place and Hurrah... You are ready

to Make Money Blogging.

Top 5 Ways to Make Money Blogging

Lets now take a look at top 5 ways using which you could

make money blogging:

1. Google Adsense

Google Adsense delivers text and image ads to the

authorized websites/blogs depending on the content of the

website. Small code is required to be pasted at proper

locations on a webpage and Google automatically recognizes

the page. Google shares the revenue it gets from the

advertisers whenever a visitor clicks on these ads.

Google bills advertisers on price per click basis (PPC).

Advertisers are required to pay only when any visitor

clicks on their ads. They bid against each other for the

keywords in order to receive better placement and thus

prices for each keyword differ from one another. It is

better to choose keywords for your blog which pays high $

per click.

2. Amazon

Amazon Associate program is another important way to make

money blogging. The Amazon Associate program gives

opportunity to website/blog publishers to promote any

product from its inventory by adding a predefined code to

their website/blog, which, when clicked by a visitor, takes

them to the relevant product page. Once the visitor buys

the product, the blog owner will be compensated with a

commission.

3. Blogads

You can use Blogads as an effective tool to have a better

control over the advertisers in your blogs. You can analyze

and compare your profits with any one of your online

agencies. Blogads can be simply specified as an advertising

service used for the web logs or blogs. From the total

money generated by Blogads, it retains 20% of it and the

remaining money is paid to you through PayPal or checks.

Alternative Services:

• Crispads is another useful network focused on the blogs.

You can put your advertisements in their blogs using

Crispads. You can move through their RSS/ATOM feeds that

help in generating revenues.

• Tagword – It is similar to Blogads. It makes you select

the ads and their price.

Users can place their text-based ads in the site within

minutes and the ads will be displayed instantly on the

website.

4. Affiliate Programs

Your affiliate programs can help you earn a lot of money

for selected products and services. Lot of websites offers

you to become affiliate members. These affiliate programs

can provide a better reach and an in-depth exposure to the

products. The commissions for the sales differ according to

the quality of the product, sales and marketing strategy

involved. You can gather information related to the

commissions by looking into the catalogues of Link Share

and Commission junctions.

5. Text Links

Text links has emerged out to be the best form of

moneymaking source that you can use instead of cluttering

or crowding the page with ads. You don’t have to make these

text links prominent within your website. This link can act

as an extra value to your site and will also help to

promote the rankings of other sites. In most of the cases

you will find these text links placed in the bottom of the

web pages. The best part of this strategy is that the

publishers send and accept links as the market continues to

grow.