Blogger Steve Pavlina writes a 7000+ word post on his blog about how to make money online. Steve has grown his blog from $5 a day to more than $200 a day in the last 12 months, according to the Blog Herald.
He outlines the following as his current choices for blog revenue:
- Google Adsense
- Donations
- Text Link Ads
- Chitika
- Affiliate Programs: Amazon & Linkshare
- Individual advertising campaigns
In the end, how one monetizes their blog is really up to them. Steve outlines a fine process of constantly examining what works - and what does work - on his blog and then makes changes appropriately. It's well worth the read.
I can't believe his able to make all that money from a blog. It's incredible!
Steve Pavlina's blog was launched on Oct 1, 2004. By April, 2005 Steve was averaging a whopping $4.12 in daily income, about $124 a month. By October 2006 he was earning over $1K a day, over $30K a month. That's quite a respectable increase over 19 months. The full story as told by Steve is How to Make Money From Your Blog As you will see when you read Steve's blog.
If you have never heard of Steve Pavlina you are missing out too much. Not only does he talk about monetizing your blog. He offers insight on motivation, traffic, links to other sites with valuable information about monetization. His site is Personal Development for Smart People, and the site is worth adding to your favorites for that reason alone. Lots of great stuff on making money online you can find here: http://www.affiliated-business.com/make_money/index.html. There you will be provided with an array of Internet business & site monetization technics.