There are many ways to make money with a blog and most of these ways involve advertising one way or the other.
This could be by placing text link advertising along the side of your blog, including links to different products and service within the body of your entry, or letting your readers know about a specific product or service that you or someone else is offering.
Text Link Ads Text Link Advertising is probably the easiest and most passive way that you can make money with a blog.
After monetizing your site, you site is crawled over by the search engine and then an advertiser sites are linked to your site through the key words.
The better you are at coming up with relevant keywords and texts, the more relevant the ads will be pertaining to your subject manner which equals better chances of getting one of readers to click on the link and buy the product.
Since most text link ads pay a small amount per click, the only way to make any serious cash form them is to have a high amount of traffic to your blog site.
Revenue sharing If you are maintaining a popular blog about a particular niche market it may also be possible skip the whole web crawling process and appeal directly to products or services that you know your readers will enjoy.
Many companies are more than happy to let you advertise certain products for them and then let you have a piece of the profit.
This takes a little bit more work than just pasting on an AdSense ad, but then you are calling the shots on which products you want to represent.
Sell you own stuff Blogging has also become an effective tool for people who have their own service or product that they which to put out there.
Many people with a small business have taken to the blogosphere to write about their own particular service or product in order to sell it to the online public.
These small business are learning to how to make money with a blog the focuses on their particular niche market.