Tuesday, October 16, 2007

How to get paid to blog

Blog writing has opened up a new stream of online income opportunities. Bloggers usually make money from blogs in a variety of ways:

* Advertising Programs: The most common way bloggers seem to earn money online is via the contextual ad program from Google -Adsense. Another two popular ones with many is Blog Ads. A more recent addition that many are using successfully is Chitika’s eMiniMalls and Crisp Ads, Text Link Ads.



* Sponsorship: Sponsorship is happening on a post by post basis with some bloggers being paid to write on certain topics by companies - either in one off or a regular fashion - and they are able to make big money from their blogs doing so.



* Affiliate Programs - There are larger affiliate programs like Amazon, Link share, Clickbank and Commission Junction but also literally thousands of others from the large to the very small.
* Blog Network Opportunities - with the rise in popularity of Blog Networks - bloggers are also being presented with more places to earn an income from their blogging - by writing for and with others.



* Business Blog Writing Opportunities - as blogging has risen in it’s profile as a medium more and more businesses are starting blogs. Many of these companies have internal staff take on blogging duties - but an increasing number of them are hiring specialist bloggers to come on and run their blogs.

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