Sunday, January 4, 2009

How To Make Money From Blogs Without Google

Most people who have heard about making money with blogs think about using Adsense alone to make money. This could be as a result of the knowledge available to them. Actually, making money with one’s blog should not just be limited to Google Adsense alone. I for one have been an advocate of discouraging monopoly in every business. And so it excites me whenever I see that there is a relatively good alternative to achieving anything in business. Here I will list to you some other ways to make money with your blog.
· www.chitika.com: this is another site that helps bloggers make more money with advertisements. And interestingly too, you can run it together with Google Adsense. All you need to do is log on to their site, apply to be a publisher, giving them all the necessary and true information about you and wait for them to approve your application. Chitika has made a lot of bloggers some real huge amounts of cash. Some bloggers even say they prefer it to Google Adsense.
· www.amazon.com: a lot of people think amazon is just about books. Not true. Becoming an associate of amazon is an incredible way of making money. Here you send your visitors to Amazon products through links and banners from your blog. If your visitors click on the ads and banners from your blog, then there’s an earning for you on all purchases they make during their shopping session with Amazon.
· Affiliate Programs: Most people already know what affiliate programs are. But for the benefits of those who do not know, an affiliate program is a designed system that allows you to promote someone else’s product and got paid for doing that.
In very simple terms, this is what an affiliate program is: you look for a niche you like (and which must be profitable, of course), you check out products in the niche whose owners run affiliate programs, you study how much they pay you per sale (that is the percentage of the sales price of the product), you check out other things like product quality, and the credibilty of the product owners, you create your blog, sign up with them and start promoting the product.

Now, there are so many sites that are links between those who have products they want to sell through affiliates and those who want to promote other peoples products (the affiliates themselves). As a blog owner, signing up with any of these sites will boos the income that your blog generates. Below are the sites:
v www.clickbank.com
v www.paydotcom
v www.netriches.thesecondtier.com
v www.cj.com
v www.hydranetwork.com
v www.maxbounty.com
v www.moreniche.com
v www.markethealth.com
Using any or two of these to generate income through your blog will be worth the reading of this post.