Posts Tagged ‘making money online’

Plugins to Monetize Your Blog

July 21st, 2009



It’s not a secret that most of us are blogging to earn some money. Thus I decided to make a list of plugins that can help you with this goal.
The most popular way of making money online is Google AdSense. There are hundreds of articles on how to make money with Google AdSense and a number of plugins that make the installation easier and faster:


* Adsense Deluxe WordPress Plugin
This plugin will add a screen to your options panel. From that screen you will be able to create AdSense ad units and manage them, decide what sizes ads should be and at what parts of your blog they should be placed.


The plugins named below will help you easily add AdSense to your blog:


* Adsense Injection
* MightyAdsense
* Google AdSense Widget


As most of the AdSense WordPress plugins require editing your theme you might find Shylock Adsense WordPress plugin to be the better choice for you as it allows to insert Adsense ads to your WordPress blog without modifying the theme.


* AdSense Manager is also a very good WordPress plugin that will help you manage your ads. It generates the code automatically.


* Google Ad Wrap
This fruitful plugin wraps posts and comments at your blog inside Section Targeting tags thus giving you better targeted ads.


And these plugins will help you track your AdSense earnings:


* AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System WordPress Plugin
* Adsense Clicks Tracker
* Adsense Earnings WordPress Plugin


Another popular resource of money for bloggers is Amazon.com. There are several plugins that can help you add different Amazon ad types to your WordPress blog.


* Amazon Autoposter
This free and user friendly plugin automatically posts Amazon products on any keyword you specify, thus helping you earn money with Amazon affiliate program.


* Amazon Associate Filter
This plugin will automatically add your associate id to all Amazon links in the posts and comments at your blog.


What affiliate programs do you use to monetize your blogs?

3 Ways To Make Your Blog Work For You

March 4th, 2009

Dodn’t you know that a blog could bring you not only a pleasure of everyday writing but also certain earnings? Then familiarize with several simple methods for making money from your own blog.

1.Creating Products

When your blog becomes a rather popular place and has a number of regular viewers you can get involved in selling some kinds of products created by yourself. This means that you will have to manage orders and provide customers support but instead you will be the only owner of the income. Besides you can make inquieries from time to time asking your readers directly what they would like to see among items being sold.

After you have decided on your products think of the way you are going to present your small online business. Don’t forget that your readers are your main customers so try to make your commerce mutually beneficial.

2. Affiliation

If you don’t want to accept responsibility of an online seller you can get involved in selling affiliate products. There is nothing difficult being an affiliate as all business issues are already solved by someone else and your only task is to make money from something that is already created and managed. Besides, an income you get from affiliate programs is not that bad so it’s worth involving.

3. Adverts

This mode tends to be the easiest one among listed although the less profitable as well. You place advertisments within your blog and just wait till the readers click on them. The more clicks - the more money you get but practically nothing depends on you. Nevertheless this method of making money via your blog is very popular among web masters and allows you getting some income with minimum effort.