If your blog’s receiving good traffic, you might consider whether or not you’d like to be rewarded for your efforts. Many bloggers have discovered they can earn good money through their blogs. If this interests you, there are several programs available.

1. Pay Per Click Advertising

It’s possible to earn a decent income through Google Adsense or other pay-per-click advertisers. While some bloggers report earning a meager income with the pay-per-clicks, it’s indeed possible to earn up to six figures. If you have a popular blog, you can do well. Installing Adsense on your blog is simple, it’s just a matter of pasting code on your website. Every time a visitor clicks on one of the links in the ad, you’ll collect a percentage of the ad revenue. Because you can fine tune the ads to match your blog, they’re not as unattractive as other forms of advertising.

2. Blogads

Invitation only sites such as Blogads sell ads for placement on high traffic blogs. The good news is that this isn’t affiliate income. Bloggers receive a flat fee for every ad sold. The bad news is that Blogads doesn’t accept just anyone. If you don’t know anyone who can offer a recommendation on your behalf, try emailing a request to be placed on the waiting list. But don’t hold your breath, some bloggers have been waiting years.

3. Affiliate Revenue

Many online retailers will pay a percentage of a sale if it results from an advertisement placed on your site. Amazon.com offers a popular program, or you can visit an affiliate super-site such as Commission Junction to find retailers catering to your particular niche. Bloggers report mixed results. While it is possible to earn a decent commission, it’s not as easy to earn with these advertisers as with the pay per click programs. Still, some do well. The flashing, colorful ads are a turn off for many because they’re so distracting. Fortunately you can choose codes for the ads that work best for your site.

4. E-Books

If you’re an expert in your field you might consider writing e-books and selling them through your blog. This would be a good way of expanding on some of the information blogged about in the past. Check your stats to see which topics garnered the most interest and take it from there. If you have loyal readers and good traffic, you might have a best seller on your hands!

5. Café Press

If you have a recognizable logo, why not Café Press it? Café Press allows you to place your blog’s logo or catch phrase on merchandise such as mugs, t-shirts and calendars. Sell them on your blog for a percentage of the earnings.

6. Tip Jar

Some bloggers place “tip jars” on their blog’s sidebars. Tip jars are donation buttons leading to the recipient’s paypal account. Some bloggers report earning hundreds of dollars through tip jars alone. While this isn’t recommended for every blogger, those who put in hours to provide a useful service are certainly justified.

Here is a list of over 250+ DoFollow Blogs. Don’t know what a DoFollow Blog is? DoFollow Blogs are Weblogs that have DoFollow Plugin installed. DoFollow Plugin removes the “NoFollow” tag from the comments. It means that if you submit a comment with your home page to these blogs then Search Engines will count that link as a back link. If you don’t use ‘DoFollow’ Plugin then search engines will ignore those links.

When submitting comments to these blogs please write some relevant and useful content. Don’t Spam! If you submit just one comment to all of them then it gives you more than 250 back links to your Website/Blog. And these 250 back links alone can get you a PR of 1 assuming you have quality search engine friendly articles.

 Steps :

1. Find a decent blogging provider that appeals to you. Some may include MuseCrafters.com, Livejournal.com, JournalHome.com, Blogger.com, WordPress.com, TheDiary.org, Mindsay.com, Blog.com, Diaryland.com, Blogdrive.com, or Xanga.com. Most of these sites are pre-made with templates and push-button publishing that don’t require much technical know-how.
2. Once you sign up, you’ll have a gallery of ready-made templates to choose from. Select one and personalize it. Add your name, interests, images, etc.
3. Add blogging freebies like buttons, images, blog chalks, imoods, tagboards (for example, myshoutbox.com), guest maps, guestbooks, comment boxes for readers’ input, etc.
4. Explore other blog sites that offer more features for a small fee, such as Typepad.com.
5. Decide on whether or not you want your blog to be private or personal: do you want any Internet visitor to be able to read your blog, or do you just want your friends and family to be able to read it? Most blog sites offer the ability to password-protect your published posts so only those who you approve of can view what you’ve written.
6. Decide on how you want your blog to look. You can pick a color scheme and layout. Most sites come with a set of predefined layouts and schemes that you can choose from, or you can edit your own.
7. After you’ve set up your blog, write a few posts to test it out, and make any adjustments to the layout or style that you see fit. At first, it will seem tough to figure out what to write, but once you get into a routine of daily blogging, you will find it addictive. Write about your day, your thoughts, events, ideas, fears, pleasures, the news, current affairs, art, or anything you are interested in!
8. Visit other blogs to build a blogging circle. When you leave comments, add your blogging address so they can visit you too.
9. If you want to make your blog look more attractive, there are some sites up that have many “skins” that might make it look better. One example is blogskins.com, which also comes with Photoshop and HTML tutorials.
10. Publish your blog by sending the URL to your friends or publish the URL on your website. Add the URL to posts you make on other blogs. Done

 Tips :

• If you update your blog frequently, more people will return on a regular basis to read it. Establishing a reader base will motivate you to write more and in turn more people will read your posts.
• Get into a routine of blogging. Make it part of your day. Soon, you will notice things during your day and think, “Hey, I’ll blog this.”
• Personalize your blog. A pretty blog always catches the eye. Visit blogger.com for ideas; they have a list of their 10 most recently updated blogs.
• You could Google for “blog California” or “blog Shakespeareans” (or anything else), depending on location, interests, etc. For instance, if you have a blog on lawns, you may want visit allaboutlawns.com’s forum and other similar type blogs. Circles of interest are the essence of blogging, and it can start to develop you as an authority in the “blog-o-sphere” on lawns or whatever area of interest you choose.
• Keep the posts interesting. Try to avoid focusing on things that most readers won’t find worthwhile (such as “I went to the mall today and saw Kelly.”) Write about things you noticed, thoughts you had, and feelings or ideas. Blog about a recent trip to Spain. Write about the chemical explosion during class.
• Spell check your writing before posting.
• Some sites allow you to make money off your blog by using an Amazon Associates ID or by placing Google AdSense advertisements. If popular enough, your blog could start to pay your bills.
• Don’t feel bogged down if no one visits your site for the first few months. As with communities this large, it will take some time for your blog to get noticed.
• If you want a broad (international) readership, do not use too many abbreviations or slang terms that might not be easily understood by people who are not from your country/area.
• Get interesting news from Yahoo Oddly Enough…, other Yahoo stories, Crayon.net and other websites that you frequently read.
• Blog on a specific subject. You can’t please everyone, so target a specific audience and go with it.

 Warnings :

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Have a new weblog? But don’t know how to get some free backlinks to your blog? Then read my quick tips on how to get free backlinks to your blog.

 1. The first tip is to Write Quality and Unique Content. Content is the King. If you just copy and paste from other website and blog then it doesn’t makes any sense. But what if your articles are original. Then people will link to your article from their websites or blogs.

  2. Update your blog regularly. If you update the blog regularly then it increases the visibility of your blog in Search Engines like Google, Live Search and Yahoo and Blog Search Engines like Technorati, Google Blog Search e.t.c. You may write your blog posts daily, or weekly but do it regularly.

  3. Ping search engines when you update the blog. (See List Of WordPress Ping Services)

  4. Insert Technorati Tags in your posts so that you get backlinks from Technorati.com.

  5. Ask your friends to Digg your post so that you get traffic from Digg.com and if it’s some valuable information then more and more people will Digg it and it generate a lot of traffic to you. And what if it appears in the home page of Digg? Then it’s a backlink from a PageRank website! Use a Plugin like Sociable, Share This or Digg This so that it’s easy for your visitors to Digg your story.

  6. Do Comment on others blogs and don’t forget to leave your URL in the URL field. If it’s a DoFollow Blog then you get both traffic and backlinks from your comment.

  7. Read the top blogs in your niche. If your blog is about “Make Money Online” then read ShoeMoney, ProBlogger, John Chow daily and leave your comments there. So that they will most probably visit your website and may even link to it. Also, in some of those blogs if you are the top commenter then your blog URL will appear on their home pages.

  8. Feel free to link other blogs if they have an interesting article so that they may link back to you if you have a good post.

  9. Increase the page view of your blog by installing the Related Posts Plugin.

  10. Submit articles to Article websites like GoArticles, Article City, Ezine Articles e.t.c. I’ve submitted many articles to Ezine Articles and they all have PageRank 4 to PageRank 7. Hence it’s a quality backlink.

  11. Submit your blog to Free Web Directories. (Submit your website to 850+ Search Engine Friendly Web Directories)

  12. Blog about Celebrities people like that stuff very much and will link you from all over the world.

  13. Visit Yahoo! Answers and answer other people’s queries. You can include your Blog URL if its related to the topic.