• By Karen Winton
• Published 01/25/2011
• Writing

Creating a blog is not only for those people who love writing, sharing their feelings and opinions to the world, and so on; blogging is also for those who are interested in profiting online. Yes, you actually can get paid to blog, in other words, you can use your blog to make money. How? There are so many methods in which you can earn from blogging. Here are some of those effective methods: Use Your Blog For Advertising Products/Services One way a person can profit as a blogger is if he or she gets a lot of followers, and then, online biz owners, or people who sell products and services over the World Wide Web, decide to advertise on the blogger’s blog because of his or her blog’s popularity. In other words, when creating a blog, you can have the goal of gaining many followers, so you can offer Web biz owners advertising space, enabling you to get paid to blog. You can allow Internet business owners, product creators, and the likes, to place button advertisements, banner advertisements, and so on, on your blog to make money. Earn From Blogging As An Affiliate Marketer

Affiliate marketing is also another method by which you can get cash from your blog posts. If you becom

e an affiliate marketer, you’ll have the responsibility of promoting other people’s service or product over the Internet, of course, through the things you post on your actual blog site. When creating a blog for affiliate marketing purposes, keep in mind the importance of placing relevant keywords in your post; posting content that’s useful, helpful, informative, and of course, connected to the products/services you are marketing; and so on. As mentioned earlier, you also need to ensure that countless people will follow your posts, so that you’ll have better chances to get paid to blog or earn from blogging. Create Product Reviews On Your Blog To Make Money Another method of profiting from blogs is to come up with product or service reviews. For instance, you can offer to write good reviews about a product/service for a fee, also known as a pay per post opportunity. Again, you have to remember to create reviews that people will believe and will entice your readers or followers to purchase or try the products or the services that you’ve written reviews on, so that more and more clients will want to pay you for posting reviews on your blog.

Now that you have clear ideas on how you can earn from blogging, why not take steps that will make you one of the many bloggers who actually profit from their blogs?