The fact is most bloggers never make money with their blog because they never put any effort into making money.  At most bloggers slap up a few adsense banners and call it good.  That is not good enough for me, and it shouldn’t be good enough for you either.  The average blogger is doing good to get their $100.00 adsense payout in 18 months, most never get paid before they give up.  Adsense however is not the only way to make money online, and surely not the best.

The other options include CPC advertisers where you get paid each time someone clicks on an ad.  CPA advertisers where a person has to click on an add and do something on the page that loads. CPS ads where a person has to make buy something for the blogger to make money.  Then there is the fine are of writing for profits which can be done two ways.

The first and easiest way to get started in when it comes to writing for money are with pay per post programs.  You sign up with the pay per post company, like the ones I list at the bottom of the page and then you look for opportunities to sign up for.  If you are accepted into the pay per post offer, you write your post following all the guidelines and submit it within the given time limit.  In one to seven days depending on which company you wrote the post for they will either  accept or reject the post based on their standards.  If they accept it you can expect payment somewhere between seven and thirty days depending on their pay out schedules.  It is that easy.

The second way to make money on your posts is selling text links on your site.  This is harder to do since buyers have so many more choices available to them.  It also on average pays less per sell than a post sale. Some text link sales will be as simple adding a link to your sidebar or footer.  Other will be more complex and ad a link within your old posts.  This is sort of like writing for money on speculation.  The plus side is once a link is sold a company almost always renews for several months turning the sell into a long term money maker.

The down side of writing for money is you need a decent page rank to get into most programs.  This isn’t hard to do.  If you consistently write decent material for two to six months it isn’t hard to turn a self hosted blog into a Google PageRank 2 or more blog.  This is enough to start getting decent writing opportunities.  The other thing you should do is work on getting your alexa number in the 1.5M or lower category and your Technorati numbers higher.  You can check out my other blogs for how best to fix your Alexa and Technorati scores.

The second down side to writing for money is Google might slap you with a PageRank penalty of -1 to -2.  This can hurt both your adsense earning and your writing for profits opportunities with that blog.  While lost income potential freaks out most bloggers, I have to say “so what”.  If you know you want to write for money they you need to be writing multiple blogs to get them earning PageRank from the beginning to offset lost earnings from downgraded page rank.  This is something I will go into in more detail in another post, but suffice it to say if you want to write for money then you need to look at it long term.

So how much money can you earn?  The is the question that isn’t easily answered.  The answer really is the sky is the limit if you think long term.  Look at these examples.

With a two year old self hosted PR 1 blog that has been as high as PR 4, but now bounces between between PR 1 and PR 2 that gets 1 original post every seven to ten days I make $17.75 per month in residual monthly text links and get about two writing ops worth about $6.00 each per month.  After deducting a share of hosting costs and figuring domain fees that blogs makes $25.00 profit from the writing either past or present with more from other forms of advertising, call it $12.00 per hour currently spent working on this blog.  It isn’t a lot, but it is certainly better many part time jobs and it is typical of several blogs I have in this category.

The second example is a shiny new blog that I managed to push up to PR 4 after four months, which if you look at the way back machine is obviously not this blog.  With a shiny new blog that went to PR 4 on January the first, I have already have done one hundred paid posts at an average of $7.50 each (range $5.00 to $20.00) and sold more than twenty text links at an average of $12.50 each (note the higher pay for higher PR).  From experience I can the number of paid posts to slide to about 70 a month before the next public PR update, but probably upgrade my sold text links to 25 or 30.  Call it an average monthly profit over the quarter of $950.00 or roughly $18.50 per hour spent. working this blog.  What will be my profits the next quarter?  That is hard to say and will depend a lot on how google ranks the blog then, but guess what even if it drops to PR 2 or PR 1, I can still expect easily between $50 and $100 from 4 to 8 hours work from it.  Who knows since I don’t advertise which blog this is and it is regisetered under a different name, maybe google won’t penalize me for a couple of page rank updates down the road.

To start making money in this exciting market place check out my Making Money Page and sign up with all those different companies to maximize your profit potential!

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