3 tips to finance your blog

Usually blogging is a hobby. But why not to earn some good money from it. The worse can happen is that your earnings will cover the hosting costs which is not bad since the blog will be self sustaining.
So let’s set as primary goal to cover hosting costs. This is not hard to achieve but you also has to do something to achieve it.

The very first tip is AdSense or AdBrite. Yeah, I know, this is a subject covered by so many people already that it hurts. But this is awesome for starters and can bring you some nice revenue. Well, nice in this case means it can cover your hosting costs quite easily, once you implement the ad-code into your blog theme, in the right place, the ads will immediately start showing up. If somebody click on an ad, you get money, that simple. Of course you should never click on your own ads, that’s just bad and your account will be disabled in no time. This method usually will bring you lower earnings, but it’s not uncommon to earn some very nice sums with AdSense. There are people who earn thousands of dollars per month with AdSense and all they’ve done is to place their ads in the right place, chosen the right color and format. An example I know about Is Andrew Wise; he implemented his AdSense ads in the right place, chosen the right format and colors. He earned about $100 in 3 months, that covered his hosting costs. And he’s only one example.

Another good method is to sign up to an affiliate network and advertise products on your blog. This option is recommended for blogs with higher traffic, since you have to be at least a bit authoritative to make people believe the product you recommend will suite their needs. After a user buys a product, you will get a percent. Simple enough to be a very attractive financing option. Just remember that for this you’ll have to have quite high traffic and users should think you trustworthy.

And the last one: why paying commissions for advertising networks when you can go on the in-house advertising method? This practically means that you sell space on your blog for advertisers. Usually no one will contact you so you have to contact other blogs, websites and web services and ask them if they would like to advertise on your blog. In the worse case they will say “No, thanks”, in good case they will try it out. While, for example Adobe, $10 per month is nothing, for you means that the hosting cost is already covered. Just be sure you have a quality blog, without spammy posts, and you should succeed.

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