My Top Blog Monetization Methods

Of the above methods, Affiliate Marketing is my top recommendation (after recursive affiliate income and direct ad sales) because if you can find a good product to sell, even if it doesn’t pay out recursively, you can make good money. Some products I have sold have made me as much as $8,000 in a week - a very good result in a short period of time.

I have also made money from Google AdSense, RSS
Advertising, Text-Link-Ads and paid reviews with
ReviewMe.com and direct for sponsors.

As I’ve stated, I look for low effort, high yield monetization methods that preferably are highly targeted to my readership. Systems like Text-Link-Ads.com and ad brokers that pay by the month are good because they are not labor-intensive. Affiliate marketing is great because you can pick products that you use and directly relate to

your audience that keep paying long after you first publish the article, thanks to traffic coming from search engines.

Contextual programs like Google AdSense, brokering services that pay by the impression, RSS feed advertising and paid reviews are not good because the amount of money you make is directly related to how many posts you produce. You may as well use these services as long as they don’t impact your other, more stable monetization, but I would not want to become too dependent on them.

You can read a detailed breakdown of my top monetization methods based on what has worked for my blog in this article – My Top 7 Blog Monetization Methods.

If you haven’t watched my video on how I make money from my blog, now would be a great time to do so to crystallize how the monetization methods above work.

Here is the link again:

Blogging Is Not Just A Hobby
Blogs are one of the most powerful online marketing tools I have ever come across.

How I Make Money Blogging (Video)