There are numerous ways to generate revenue from your blog. The obvious option and the one that is used throughout most of the blogs you will find on the Internet is banner advertising. Banner advertising these days is very flexible, due to the vast amount of media types and sizes available from most advertisers. There is always a format available that will suit the style of your blog / layout and not 100% detract your visitors from your content… Admitedly, some of you may want to do that, but I personally believe the aim should be to get an even balance. I don’t want to get started on the argument between what is a good ad, blended or not, I will save that one for another time.
Another popular advertising method, particularly on high traffic sites is pop ups / pop unders. Whilst these are slowly dying out to be replaced with the aforementioned banner style ads, there is still great income to be made if you don’t mind making your visitors a little angry from time to time.
An additional method is to include contextual links within your blog posts. Single word links that link to the advertisers website. This is becoming extremely common and several of the major ad agencies are beginning to offer this format as well as the usual banner advertising methods.
You might also want to consider sponsored reviews for your blog. This is a great way to generate blog content, generate revenue and give your readers something new and unique to read at the same time.
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