Thinking of Using Blog to make Money

[grayhatzone]

Originally Posted by Boss1345

What exactly do you mean "sponsored posts?"

Paid reviews for websites or services. The sort of deals that PayPerPost and ReviewMe intermediate.

Regards, George

[WhoJayBe]

If you REALLY want to make money, you'd commit to buying hosting and a domain... though, I know a few people who make a pretty damn decent earning from those free blogger blogs... like six-figures a year!

So, you definitely have options...

[amjonathan]

I agree, buying a domain constitutes a long term investment in some cases.

Stick to what you know and exploit it.

[bhingie]

Well, i have a blog which talks about money making opportunities.. I am just quite new in this blogging thing though so i am still using a free blog in blogger.. I am looking forward to buy a domain soon..

[mintblogger]

Nothing can beat flagship content on your blog. If you have quality articles in 4 figures, rest assured search engines are going to give you respect and the valuable traffic you need. Just pile up quality content and everything will follow.

[Educator]

Originally Posted by grayhatzone

In my own humble view, PPC is way overrated. Private banners, affiliate marketing and sponsored posts are much better options. Plus they work on WP too

Regards, George

For us, the paid advertisers is working best by far. However, it's a small group and hard to attract new ones. Then again, we have a limit of a maximum 6 site advertisers / sponsors at any one time so we are limiting ourselves in a way.

PPC brings in constant 3 figure monthly income which is nice.

Affiliate revenue is by far the worst performing. I have only found one that was even close to being worth the effort. Most get no clicks at all. Then again, I could put them much higher up on the page but in no time at all that would see my paid advertisers get upset and stop advertising.

Agree with keeping the focus on quality posts inside the niche to attract more and more new visitors from search engines.

[ShortcutSleuth]

Thanks for the good advice. I am fairly new to this whole blogging thing too and am looking for ways to make money over the long term. My site (Shortcut Sleuth) is about saving time, money, and energy and is geared mostly to women so I'm still trying to work out the best ways to bring in a steady income. I have adsense set up so far, but that is it.

[mayantek]

I use adsense on my wordpress blog with a simple plugin. No problems at all.