Many people use blogs to write about their own personal experiences, to communicate with their friends and family, especially if they live far away and of course to promote products and services. That's why some people believe them as an online journal or diary and many others as a very effective marketing tool.
What anybody writing a blog ought to know however is that using a few very simple steps they could actually begin to earn an income from their site and it does not really matter if it's a private journal or diary type blog or a blog being used particularly to promote goods and services, the process is the same. It actually doesn't require much effort to get this done either and is very simple to establish, especially if you're using perhaps Googles' Blogger or WordPress to publish your sites.
What exactly are the steps that you need to take to monetize your site.
Advertising
There are a number of websites that desperately want to use your site to place their advertisements and they're prepared to pay you for the privilege, probably the best known company that does that is Google with their AdSense campaigns. You'll need to register with these companies and set up an account which tells them how they could pay you, that you are and where you live etc.. But once that's done it is only a question of following a couple of simple instructions for activating their advertisements on your site. AdSense pays you every time their advert is clicked , but don't be tempted to click on your own ads because you may find yourself quickly banned from participating in the program.

Affiliate Make Money Blogging of companies are seeking affiliate connections either directly or through affiliate advertising companies. Typically you may set what are called advertising banners on you site or if you discover that too intrusive is may be a simple connection that includes a reference back to you as the source of the visitors you send their way. If people purchase products after visiting their website from your connection then you are going to receive some commission.

Text Linking


This is an even easier method of advertising, what happens in this instance is the company (when you've copied their code into your blog) examines your posting and identify what they call key words or phrases. They highlight these words and phrases and flip them into a hyperlink that takes your visitor into a sponsored site offering services or products related to this term, but only as long as your visitor clicks on the hyperlink. Again you are able to make a living from the amount of clicks which are made from the website. This is just about the least intrusive method since they are in fact using the words you have written and embed the advert within those words. Konterra is a good example of a business which works in this way.