There are hundreds of different ways for monetizing your blog.Thousands of bloggers are earning from Google Adsense, Chitika, Infolinks, etc. Many bloggers who are making money from affiliate marketing, email marketing, direct banner advertising, etc.
Whatever be the way, the key to making money is a lot of traffic. A more popular film actor gets more payment. Similarly, a more popular blogger gets more revenue. If your blog is not getting atleast a few thousand visitors every day, you should forget about monetizing your blog.
By the way,let us return to the main point. Monetization can be done in two ways- direct and indirect. Some of the popular direct and indirect ways are as follows:
Direct Methods:
1. PPC Advertising Networks
2. CPM Advertising Networks
3. Direct Banner Advertising
4. Text Link Ads
5. Affiliate Marketing
6. Monetization Widgets
7. Sponsored Reviews
8. RSS Feed Ads
9. Sponsors for Single Columns or Events
10.Premium Content
11. Private Forums
12. Job Boards
13. Marketplaces
14. Paid Surveys and Polls
15. Selling or Renting Internal Pages
16. Highlighted Posts from Sponsors
17. Donations
18. In-text Adverting
19. Pop-ups and Pop-unders
20. Audio Ads
21. Selling the Website
Indirect Methods:
22. Selling an Ebook
23. Selling a Hardcover Book
24. Selling Templates or WordPress Themes
25. Offering Consulting and Related Services
26. Creating an Email List or Newsletter
27. Mentoring programs
28. Creating a conference around the website
Daily Blog Tips has writen a well researched article on this topic. For reading in detail you can visit following link:
