Why Do You Need a Blogging Guide?

If you want to make money online and you don't have enough money to own a website, then you should start with a blog. Many have been earning a living with blog when it was introduced.

But with the high frequency of blogs setting up everyday, how can you be sure that you can make money with blog?

The first thing you need is to invest in a blogging guide.

Why do you need a guide you ask?

For starter, having a guide helps you to stay ahead of the competition. You gain an upper hand against the bloggers who refuse to invest in a guide. A lot of blogging newbie thought they can figure the business out on their own. But by the time they knew what is the right way to make money with blog, bloggers who invested in a guide might already be earning their money in sleep.

Some of you might argue that you can use a free guide instead of paying for it.

In my personal opinion, free guide often act as a teaser for back-end products. It is not to say that authors are cheating you with free guide. But the information about successful blogging found in free blogging guide is usually limited.

A proper blogging guide is going to show you how to build a successful blog. Building a blog is as sophisticated as building a website. Everything you choose is going to impact your readers.

To start off with that, a guide is going to tell you which platform you should choose for your blog. Then, it will analyze with you the advantages and disadvantages of hosting your blog or just get one for free.

Never think that you can just simply choose a template and start posting with it. You need to take into account of your readers to build a successful blog. Do you know that readers are more likely to click on advertisements on their right hand side than their left? A blogging guide will tell you more about the things that you need to pay attention to when you want to make money with blog.

After that, a proper blogging guide is going to let you know how to promote your blog. It will show you the ways to submit your blog to RSS feeds, directories, blogging communities and more. All of this is going to generate lots of traffic to your blog and help you to build a successful blog.

Does Blogging Really Make Money?

By Simon K Williams


Blogging is the same as any business online - if you want to make money at it you have to get good at it. The only way you can do this is buy understanding how it works. You have to first research your product/subject see how many people are interested in the subject you can do this by simply searching on Google under that word or phrase i.e. if you want to sell a internet marketing course the type in internet marketing into Google and see how search results come up.

Next you must find a niche with in that market so let's say internet marketing gets 25,000,000 results you need to do a search on internet marketing course for people that blog and want to make money this might only get 100,00 results this will be easier to get a high page ranking in goggle. When you have done this you can then build you blog around this subject you must use your search query as your blog title and then in you content as often as possible in the middle of you blog and at the bottom this way Google sees your page as important to the search query and puts to the top if you are at the top you get most of the traffic more traffic means more visitors means you get more money. Try not to put sales links on you blog as Google sees this as a bad thing try to have a web site that sells your product and link to the site from your blog.

When you have achieved this you will start getting lots of traffic to your blog so to make the most of the earning potential on you blog you should put other income streams on you blog first I recommend goggle AdSense this puts relevant adds on you site and this way even if someone comes to you blog and does not like it they might just click on one of your AdSense adds they like the look of and you still earn some money also you can add Amazon to you blog and this does the same thing it displays adds that are relevant to your blog so when people come and look at your blog they get nothing but articles and information on your subject so as you can see you can make money from blogging also blogs are free and you can have as many as you like.



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How to Become a Blogger Millionaire

By Valentina P Bellicova

Blogging has reached the consciousness of the internet mainstream. Casual browsers as well as marketing newbies are drawn to a new phenomena: The Blogger Millionaire. Who wouldn't want to join this growing rank of the financially successful doing something as simple as, well, writing. This is not Pulitzer Prize award winning prose we are talking about, it is just plain, every day writing, something along the lines of penning a note to your best friend, only with blogging, instead of writing the letter on paper and sending it off by mail, the "letter" is keyed on your computer and published for all to see.

I often get asked "OK ... but where is the money?"

I get this from newbies and from those who have been blogging for years alike.

As an example my friend's daughter has had a blog on knitting. She writes about spinning her own yarn, dying it, where to find supplies for her natural dyes. Chrissy has had this blog up for several years and has a nice readership of well over 2000. She's not making any money on it. She could be.

The internet is a new world -- a virtual world. Just like the real one, there are geographical demographics. In the real world we visit countries, cities and addresses. On the internet we visit categories, niches and URL addresses. As in the real world, some addresses are places of business. You can buy books, clothes, knitting wool and needles and more on the internet.

Online sales are the fastest growing segment in retail business. Interestingly, surveys indicate that people go on the internet not to shop, but to get information, to find a solution to a problem. This is why blogs are so useful. Let's stay with Chrissy and her blog which is ChrisysNaturalKnittingWays.com (not a real domain). Here she gives advice on how to spin your own yarn, how to dye it, source of hair for yarn and more. It's an online publication, just like a magazine or newspaper that you buy at your local newsstand, except here she does not have the traditional hard costs of publishing -- no paper, no printing press, no staff, no distribution.

How can she make money with this publication?

Everything on the internet has its twin in the offline world. How do papers and magazines make money? Hint: it's not from the sales of the magazine. Its mainly from the ads.

How many ways can Chrissy monetize her blog?

1. Google AdSense; This is the easiest and fastest way to start earning money. Have you ever visited sites and seen "ads by Google." Owners of businesses, both online and off, realize online advertising is a powerful way to drive traffic to their sites -- both online and off. Of course they want to advertise to their target market.

Chrissy's blog is a unique niche. Not many people spin or die their own yarn. It is a target market that a business which specializes in supplying natural yarn dye would be very interested in advertising to. Natural Yarn Dyes is an advertiser with Google. Google's system finds ChrissysNaturalKnittingWays.com and places Natural Yarn Dyes' add on her blog. A knitter goes to Google, types in the keywords "natural yarn dyes" and is taken to a page on which Chrissy's blog is listed. The knitter clicks on the blog, reads an article on natural dyes with interest, and notices that there is an ad for natural dyes. The knitter clicks on the ad. At that point the advertiser pays Google and Google pays a percentage to Chrissy as payment for displaying the ad.

2. Amazon: This is another source of income. Amazon sells not only books and magazines, but real products. In this case Chrissy needs to open an Amazon Associate account and she can select the products that she wants to promote on her site. It could be a subscription to a knitting magazine, it could be a supplier of unique yarn made from dog hair or any of the many things that serious hobby knitters would be interested in. Every time they click on the Amazon ads on Chrissy's blog, and purchase that product, Chrissy gets a commission from Amazon.

3. Affiliates: Chrissy could search the internet for other suppliers of products that relate to knitting. Perhaps there is someone who has put up a DVD that shows beginners exactly how to knit, showing frame by frame how to execute the knit and the pearl. There are many such merchants who have set up an affiliate program. Chrissy signs up as an affiliate and once again, publishes an ad for that supplier on her blog. The merchant will pay a commission to Chrissy for any visitor to her blog who makes a purchase from that ad. A good affiliate resource is Clickbank.

4. Product: Chrissy is an experienced knitter herself. She could write an e.book on the joys of knitting and put it up for sale on her blog for $27.00. Now she gets to keep all of the money that has been paid for a purchase from her blog.

5. Independent Advertisers: As the traffic to Chrissy's blog grows, she can invite advertisers to put up their banners and charge and upfront fee for the advertising space. What if she has four such ads at only $25 per month each? That is $100 in addition to her other sources of income from her site. As her site gains prominence and traffic, that fee could become $25 per week per ad or a healthy $1600 a month from that source alone.

These are by no means the only way to make money blogging, but they are a good start. Build your money blogging muscles. Write about something you really know well and enjoy. Monetize that blog with ads. Checks will start arriving with increasing regularity. Yes, you CAN become a Blogger Millionaire!



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Monetizing Twitter is What Will Kill It

By Alain Portmann

Less seems more these days. Google AdWords became one of the largest online advertising platforms by restricting advertisers' copy to 95 (25 line 1, 35 lines 2 & 3) characters or less. Twitter has become the fastest growing media platform through a 140 characters-per-message limit. Twitter's internal valuation has reached a staggering $250 million.

Regardless of the hype behind Twitter, one its strengths is the speed at which it disseminates and shares information from the mundane to the highly relevant. Another strength is the simple but effective API that has driven the development of countless third-party apps including TweetDeck, Twitteriffic and Twhirl.

Twitter is nothing more than another attempt to blend real-time communication and search within a social media context. Before Twitter there was Jaiku a Nordic social networking, micro-blogging platform launched in February 2006. Jaiku was purchased by Google on October 9, 2007 and shortly after decommissioned.

There is certainly scope for this type of integration, yet there are those that seem to have forgotten lessons from a decade away -claiming Twitter is a threat to Google and Facebook, (after all Google's search index doesn't keep up with conversations as quickly as Twitter and its user base is growing exponentially). As we learned during the dot-com bust, the value of technology and a user base is not in its ability to become mainstream, but the ability to be monetized. Why? Simple - profitability drives sustainability, R&D and innovation.

Twitter has four options for a business model - advertising, subscription, research and application download.

Advertising. While Federated Media recently announced an advertising revenue share program on Twitter creating programs such as ExecTweets, a collection of tweets from Microsoft executives, advertising will not be well received by Twitter users unless they are really clever about they way they engage this audience - few companies have been able to do so.

The latest attempt to build an advertising model is in the launch of The Discovery Engine brings real-time Twitter search right into the home page sidebar. When a user conducts a search, the results appear there, too, popping up in the big white box instead of on a new page. Users can also track the hottest trends on Twitter at any given moment within the same space. Think of it as Google Alerts for Twitter, built right into the site. The problem is that most people may never even bother discover it. How often do users actually use the Twitter.com interface?

Subscription. While successfully deployed by a handful of community sites including LinkedIn (Personal Plus and Pro), it would be challenging to justify the cost to the average consumer. With established media outlets such as the New York Times and FT.com struggling to make the "pay to consume" model work, Twitter does not stand a chance.

Research. While Twitter could be used to monitor and track the conversation and word of mouth of its user base, it would not only end up competing in a space dominated by aggregation of word of mouth (Technorati, Brandwatch) and more importantly, end up killing the spontaneous and "information promiscuousness" of its user base.

Application Download. Probably the most promising model - based on idea of offering "power users" - mainly those in the PR industry - unique tools and applications at a cost. Yet, this model in itself cannibalizes the concept of equal access and influence, which is so important to social media.

At one point or another Twitter will have to choose between either remaining the Peter Pan of social media or stepping into the world of social media adulthood. The decision is likely to end up killing Twitter.


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Are You an Internet Geek?

By Bailey St James

Are You An Internet Geek? Do you spend hours on the net just surfing around? Do you spend most of your evenings reading or writing on blogs? How about on line games? It reminds me of an old joke. It goes like this.

Signs You're An Internet Geek

10. When filling out your driver's license application you give your IP address.
9. You no longer ask prospective dates what their sign is; instead your line is "Hi, what's your URL?"
8. Instead of calling you to dinner, your spouse sends e-mail.
7. You're amazed to find out spam is a food.
6. You "ping" people to see if they're awake, "finger" them to find out how they are, and "AYT" them to make sure they're listening to you.
5. You search the Net endlessly hoping to win every silly free T-shirt contest.
4. You introduce your wife as "my lady@home.wife" and refer to your children as "client applications".
3. At social functions you introduce your husband as "my domain server".
2. After winning the office super bowl pool you blurt out, "I feel so colon-right parentheses!"
And the number one sign you are an Internet Geek:
1. Two Words: "Pizza's Here!"

Many people really enjoy being on-line and doing the "fun" things on the net. They spend hours and hours on their computers. Then they go to work 10-hours a day 5-day a week, and wish (all the time) they didn't have to.

Many of them might think to themselves "Man! I wish I had been born rich instead of so darned good looking" (RIGHT!) Never realizing they could convert "some" of that on-line time into profitable endeavors.

It's true there are a lot of scammers (on the net) to take all your hard earned money, but there is also a few really good ways to make an honest buck as well. Thousands of folks just like you and me make a good living working with things like E-bay. Some do survey sites. Many even set up their own website and sell their own products.

One of the best ways to get started is to do "affiliate" marketing. With affiliate marketing you don't have to supply your own product. You don't have to build a web site (unless you want to.) You don't even have to collect the payments.
There are 3 simple steps you have to do.

1) You do have to set up a "Clink Bank" account (which is simple and free to set up.)
2) You do have to pick a GOOD product to sell.
3) You do have to promote it.

You don't have to find a mentor to get started, but I did a lot of research and decided to join a club that helped me out a great deal. So, all you "internet Geeks." Stop using all your time and talent just having fun on the net. Make a few adjustments to you on line time and start having fun and (perhaps) make a few (or a lot) of bucks at the same time.


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Blogging Profits

Picking the Best Free Blogging Site and Blogging For Profits
By Danny Elliott


Choosing a free blogging site can feel overwhelming because there are so many options. There are several large free blog-hosting sites that dominate the blogosphere, but there are also smaller sites. Whether you decide to join up with an established site like blogger or whether you choose to sign on with a relatively new venture depends on what your priorities are.

Reliability is perhaps the best reason to opt for a large and well known free blogging site. When you choose to have an established brand host your blog, you can feel secure that your blog will not crash often and will not disappear in the middle of the night. A company that has been around for a while is likely to have the resources to make sure that its clients aren't unpleasantly surprised by any technical glitches. However, many bloggers decide that this isn't enough of a selling point.

The bloggers who choose to go with smaller, newer blog hosting sites do so for a variety of reasons, but perhaps the number one advantage is a fairly abstract one. Bloggers tend to relish the fact that the internet is a place where the underdog has a strong chance of success, and by choosing to have a small company as a blog host, a blogger is casting his or her vote for David against Goliath.

Blogging for Profit Begins With a Long Term Plan

Many people dream of blogging for profit, and this goal is not far beyond the reach of someone with average intelligence, a willingness to work hard, and a basic grasp of blogging technology. However, very few people manage to reap the profits they want from their blog. Most people who attempt to make money with their blogs do not succeed for two reasons. Often, bloggers have unrealistic expectations of how fast their readership will grow and how much money they will make, and when these expectations are not met the disappointment can crush the desire to continue blogging. The other trap that many bloggers fall into has to do with lack of planning. If you want to turn a profit as a blogger, the key to success is to make a realistic plan and stick with it.



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What Are Some Benefits of Blogging?

By Thiesha D Frazier

For Internet Business Owners

* Price (affordable)
* Higher Targeted Market
* Traffic Exchange
* Link Popularity - Exchange
* Higher Google Rankings

You can very well find some blogs for publishers that are free or either very affordable. On the other hand if you are a marketer, there are as well some sites that will allow you to post to there blogs and also allow you to put a link on their site back to your site. Being that everyone is pretty much blogging, there is a higher targeted market out there (ex. MySpace), which means that, out of every 100,000 bloggers, if you do not catch the eye of every reader, you will catch the eye of at least 100 readers, depending on whether or not you are a publisher or a marketer, also depending on whether or not you are linked to a site that already has a high volume of traffic.

If you link to a site that is bringing in traffic in a high demand, which is also linked to another site in high demand, your traffic exchange levels will rise tremendously. As we know, Google is one of the top ranking marketers over the internet. They have this thing called link popularity, and to get listed with one of the top largest internet marketers getting people to link to and from your web site is a major plus. The Higher your rankings with Google, the more your web site becomes visible. The more your web site becomes visible, the more people will get to know who you are and what you represent, and the more products and-or services you will sell.

For Community Business Owners

* See the benefits for internet business owners
* Community Awareness

For community business owners you get the same benefits as an internet business owners plus community awareness which alerts the members of your community about your business, products and services that you offer. Especially if you are a small business owner blogging is "what's hot" in the social media. There are over 10,000,000 people who use the internet world wide and as we can see from our online college classes, they have several people that are from PA. With that in mind, think of how many other people out there that is from PA who are blogging on a businesses web site gaining insights of the businesses products and-or services.

So you see, blogging benefits all styles of businesses over the world. Whether it is over the internet or community based, as a business owner, you can most definitely benefit from blogging.


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Blogging From A Commercial Perspective

By Yonas K

Web logs, or blogs as they are better known, have taken the internet by storm. Surprisingly, they have achieved popularity and gained momentum thanks to its inherent dynamism that has catapulted it into a position in the online arena. Blogs at the outset were in the doomed list with most online guru's under-rating it as a superfluous option but all those prophecies turned out obsolete as blogs slowly yet spontaneously began their way up to online hierarchy. As in any new development, no matter online or offline, blogs also became victim to their own popularity, being labeled as a place where teens communicate nonsense. The predominance of young users did to some extent compromise the dynamic application of blogs, but thanks to a wave of new generation sites like zatsit.com, that has true potential to unravel the robust and powerful applications of this remarkable new online phenomena.

Blogs were originally thought of as online extensions of human expression and it unfortunately turned out as a medium for expression of all that was gist-less, silly and obscene. People, it seems, were carried away by the bad publicity and nonsense content that plagued the blogs from getting the serious kind of users who had more substance to discuss and express than romance, racism and rubbish remarks on anything and everything. Dominant players in the blog arena also went with the tide as they received a large number of hits, and by virtue, a stream of ad money which they otherwise could only dream about. This strategy from a long term point of view, however, revealed some inherent fundamental flaws. First, in due course of time , as the number of users increase, targeted traffic will descend, directly resulting in advertisers being less and less interested with not wanting to invest in an awful situation. Secondly, allowing uncensored, useless, biased and nonsense content will ultimately backfire and if things go as present, the service providers are most likely to be in the wrong end of lawsuits, copy right infringements and intellectual property violation.

A new generation of sites is needed , where blogging is the same minus all the nonsense and irrelevant content. The key to a good, contextually relevant and serious online following as it turns out is categorized blogging where each and every one knows where he is and who all are around him safe guard the sober spirit of online expression. Areas like art, architecture and self-help, largely ignored by others have found justice with these new generation site like zatsit.com, where bloggers are given a fair share of its resources and bandwidth.

It is indeed unique that the same peculiar and strange relationship between art and architecture, serves as a passion that transcends beyond geography, language and ideology have been grossly neglected by the dominant players in the blog arena. Art and architecture, which happen to be one of the everlasting passions of man kind, are worth the time effort and bandwidth it consumes. Moreover, these subjects are hotbeds of dynamic and diversified ideas from a host of like minded individuals who are passionate and serious about their corresponding areas of interest. For example, if you are an artist who just cannot afford the financial implications of going global to monetize your works then, a place at these sites like zatsit.com where people of different places and color is where you should look for expanding and diversifying your artistic exposure. You can share your ideas, debate, discuss and deliberate on issues of outstanding interest and witness what's going on in your area of interest and all this for nothing. If you wish, you may show case your products like your painting works or your services then and can also take note of the specialized services these sites offer for a premium which will enable you to highlight the various offerings from your part.

You need not bother about hosting or search engine optimization with these sites making sure the pages are well presented and reached. Given the fact that these sites are a specialized hang out for specific people , what you get will be a considerable amount of relevant traffic to your pages. Remember when it comes to monetizing your online presence or exposure or if you just want to have more contacts and like minded people, then quality rather than quantity is imperative. So just give these sites a try. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.


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Blogging and Article Marketing

Untapped Home Business Resources
By Sara Bilden


The most valuable tools to promote your home business are free. Yes, they are completely, totally free. Blogging and article marketing are the most important things you can do for your online business opportunity. You can use blogging and article marketing to promote any niche that you want.

You can sign up for a free blog online and start posting entries. This blog will then have its own address where people will be able to view the information you post. If you set this blog up to offer some great tips that relate to your services or products you are showing yourself to be an expert and people will start to trust you.

Blogging can be a trust builder but it can also be a traffic builder. If you establish this blog and post regularly you will want to include links to your website where you sell your products and services. When you create links to your website you are optimizing your website and the search engines will find your site more attractive. When search engines find your site attractive you will rank higher in searches for your keywords.

Article marketing works similarly to blogging only instead of a website that you are posting to, you post your articles to article directories. You can do this by submitting them manually to directories you find by searching or you can find a reputable company to do some of this work for you. Companies of this sort charge a monthly or yearly fee to submit an agreed upon number of articles per month.

When you write these articles you will include an author's resource box that will include some information about you as well as a link to your website. Submitting these articles to article directories creates links to your site and gets you valuable free traffic as well as search engine optimization.

Here's a tip for those of you who are interested in utilizing both of these tools: When you write a post for your blog, make it about 300 words or more. Then when you finish, you can use that same post as an article to submit to article directories. By doing this once a week you will be creating your own traffic out of thin air!

Home based businesses that tap into blogging and article marketing will see results that others don't. These can be two valuable tools that don't cost you a dime and add dimensions and dollars to your business that you never thought possible.




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Why Do You Blog?

By Joe Howard

Maybe you are looking for the next hot tech toy or perhaps your blogging is more politically motivated and you are looking for the latest quotes from the politicians of the world. Whatever your reason, chances are there is a blog out there that has exactly what you are looking for.

You can read blogs that will help you find a good restaurant to eat at, blogs that tell you about a country or town that you are about to visit as well as hundreds of blogs that will give you advice on topics ranging from financial to technology, from personal issues to where to get the best deal on a product.

Another positive of the blogging experience is the ability to speak up. With the age of the Internet and the chance for people to be anonymous, it seems like more and more people are turning to blogs for a chance to voice an opinion that they might not otherwise have the ability to. This is one of the many reasons blogging has become more popular. Blogging is a also great way for you to read about things that you might otherwise miss out on, and an opportunity for you to weigh in on a wide range of topics.

Personally, I have a short list of blogs that I frequent daily as well as a longer list of blogs that I like to check out every couple of days. Some of my personal favourites are popular, some a little more obscure. I find that personal blogs are more appealing, I enjoy the human factor that is missing in the more commercial blogs.

One of these sort of blogs is called, "The Stories You Cannot Tell" In it, you will find close to a hundred stories or secrets, ranging from stories about sexual escapades to secrets about family and friends. People that post in this blog can remain anonymous if they choose and can even decide if they want others to be able to make comments. The blog is easy to read and most people posting their stories or secrets seem perfectly comfortable doing so.

The more blogs I read, the more I am exposed to people like never before. I enjoy reading about people's lives, experiences and places they've been. I enjoy reading other blogger's opinions, and often I'll add my own voice to the fray, making sure I too am heard.

Blogging can be a great release for you if you let it. If you get a rush from getting a great deal on a new products, you'll find that in a blog. Does having conversations with faceless people around the world appeal to you? You'll get that in a blog. Maybe you are someone that like to share experiences in hopes you might help someone else.

Whatever your reasons for blogging, keep up the good work. The popularity of blogs has exploded over the last year, with everyone from famous people to politicians to movie stars to business people now blogging on a daily basis.

What are you waiting for? Get out there and get your blog on!



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Five Fabulous Ways To Monetize Your Blog

By Mark Flavin

You've heard about the blog and ping strategy to drive traffic to your main website, right? It is for this reason that blogs have taken a level of prominence in the online marketing world as powerful tools - nay - weapons that can help any internet marketer succeed in this industry.

Blogs, by their very nature, are the easiest, most accessible content management systems in the World Wide Web. And because they are easy to update, search engine spiders love them! Just run a search of any topic in any search engine and you'll be greeted by blogs occupying the prime spots in the results pages.

Blogs also have a connectivity feature that is unparalleled in cyberspace. Other blog owners will link to you, even if you never invited them. Also, submit your blog to a blog directory and more people will link to your blog as well.

Blog entries can also be converted into RSS feeds automatically. This means the content syndication is made easier if you're using your blog to launch your content.

But blogs are not just an internet marketer's weapon to make his business prosper.

Blogs can also be monetized. They can become an income stream on their own, and an affective one at that. Given the traffic and the page rank that blogs command, it will be easy to imagine the earning potentials of these wonderful creations once they are optimized well for monetization purposes.

Here are 5 fabulous ways by which you can DIRECTLY earn from your blog.

1. Use your blog in lieu of your sales page. You can actually pre-sell, or even directly sell, your products through the entries in your blog. This can be in the form of an announcement, or even a positive review or a strong recommendation. Since people are expected to flock on your blog, might as well create a channel by which you can instantly convert those visitors into paying customers.

2. Don't have your own products to sell? No problem. Sign up with any affiliate program over at http://www.clickbank.com , http://www.cj.com, http://www.linkshare.com or http://www.paydotcom.com and you will be given an appropriate affiliate link. You can promote this affiliate link through your blog entries and you can earn some generous commission for every sale you will manage to refer. Best of all, you can join as many affiliate programs as you'd like. You're not limited to just one program. Each affiliate program you will join will provide an income stream for your web log.

3. Integrate a PPC program to your blog. Enroll with AdSense or any other ad hosting services. You will get paid every time a visitor of yours will click on the ads that the service will display on your blog. And since you're sure to generate a large volume of traffic for your blog, you'll be able to win a lot of clicks and a lot of dollars to boot.

4. Find sponsors. If you want a surefire income, build the reputation of your blog by regularly posting quality entries. Once you have achieved at least 50,000 unique visitors per month, and a page rank of at least 4 (quite easy by today's standards), you can sell valuable real estate in your blog to some willing sponsors. An easy way of sourcing out some sponsors is by advertising in http://www.adbrite.com and displaying your blog's relevant stats.

5. Once you have achieved the reputation mentioned above, you can also sell links to other webmasters. Since your number of unique visitors will be high and your page rank will be desirable, your blog will be an important commodity for webmasters who are looking for quality links.