Make Money From Your Blog

The “How To Make Money From Your Blog” series is an ongoing series of articles covering ways to monetize (monetise) your blog. Covering topics such as contextual advertising, text link adverts, RSS adverts, affliate links, donations and paid blogging, the series aims to be a starters guide to how to begin making an income from your blog.

1. Introduction - How To Make Money From Your Blog
   Resources:
   • Copyblogger’s Copywriting series
   • “What is your information product about?”
   • Wordpress blogging software
   • Wordpress hosting from Uplinkearth and MidPhase

2. How To Use Google Adsense
   Resources:
   • Good Adsense placement
   • Tubetorial - Adsense plugin guide

3. Sources Of Advertising Revenues
   Resources:
   • Text Link Ads ($100 starter kit)
   • AdBrite
   • Blogkits
   • Chikita

4. Get Paid To Write Reviews
   Resources:
   • LoudLaunch
   • PayPerPost
   • ReviewMe

5. Make Money from your Videos
   Resources:
   • Video Comparison eBook.
   • Video summary matrix
   • 26 different video sharing sites
   • Revver
   • Metacafe
   • Adbrite video player

6. How To Test The Effectivenes Of Your Adverts
   Resources:
   • How to reduce ad blindness
   • A/B Testing setup

7. PageRank and AlexaRank
   Resources:
   • PageRank - Wikipedia
   • PageRank Explained
   • How AlexaRank works
   • SearchStatus Firefox extension

8. Great Money Making Links
   Resources:
   • http://www.stevepavlina.com/
   • http://www.masternewmedia.org/
   • http://www.problogger.net/
   • Rich Schefren
   • John Chow’s Make Money Online
   • Yaro Starak’s FREE Blog Profits Blueprint eBook as a prelude to his paid Blog Mastermind Mentoring Program

9. The Secret to Top Search Engine Rankings
   Resources:
   • Brendon Sinclair’s excellent Tailored blog
   • What is link bait?
   • Search Engine Land