Many men and women use blogs to write about their own personal experiences, to communicate with their friends and family, particularly if they live far away and of course to advertise products and services. That is precisely why some people consider them as an online journal or diary and many others as a very effective advertising tool.
What anybody writing a blog should know however is that using some very easy steps they may actually begin to earn a living from their blog and it does not matter if it is a private diary or journal type site or a site being used particularly to promote products and services, the process is the same. It actually does not require much effort to do this either and is quite simple to establish, particularly 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 sites that desperately want to use your site to place their ads and they are prepared to cover you for the privilege, probably the most famous business that does that is Google using their AdSense campaigns. You'll have to register with these firms and set up an account which tells them how they could pay you, that you are and where you live etc.. But after that's done it is just 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 do not be tempted to click on your ads because you will end up quickly banned from participating in the program.

Lots of companies are seeking affiliate connections either directly or through affiliate advertising companies. Affiliate Window is a fantastic example of a company that works from the UK and can help you apply for and organize affiliate arrangements with many different online businesses quite often with a traditional high street presence too, folks like B&Q, John Lewis, Boots the Chemist and so forth. Typically you may set what are called advertisements banners on you site or if you discover that overly intrusive is may be a simple link that contains a reference back to you as the origin of the traffic you send their way. If Make Money Blogging purchase products after visiting their website from the connection then you are going to obtain some commission.

Text Linking


This is an even simpler method of advertisements, what happens in this example is your company (when you have copied their code into your blog) analyzes your posting and determine what they call keywords or phrases. They highlight these words and phrases and turn them into a hyperlink that takes your visitor into a sponsored website offering services or products related to that phrase, but only if your visitor clicks on the link. Again you are able to make money from the amount of clicks that are created from your site. This is just about the least intrusive method as they are actually using the words you have written and embed the advertisement within these words. Konterra is a good example of a company which works in this way.