How to make money from your blog.

Recently,i have been looking into making money from blogging, and i decided to share what i have learnt, with you. Oh, just want to say, in no way am i earning money from writing this post, nor am i being paid to endorse any of the websites mentioned. They are simply there because i have found them to be the best resources for making money from your blog. I hope you find it helpful.

google ads.
one of the easiest, and best ways of making money from your blog, is to use google adsense. This is where, google places adverts relating to you're blog posts on your site. Anyone who visits your website, and clicks on an advert, you will be paid for per click. If you have a blog with blogspot.com, simply click on the 'monetize' tab in your dashboard, and follow the instructions to set up the adverts. If you have a different blog the best way, is to go to 'blogskinny.com' where you will find a link to enable you to set up your adsense account. You Will find a link for 'blogskinny' at the top of this site.

blogskinny
If you are looking for other ways to make money from your blog, then 'blogskinny' (link at top of page) is an excellent resource where you will find links to advertisers that will pay you to place advertising 'banners' on your blog, and also where you can find company's who will pay you to write sort articles reviewing their products, and giving your opinion on them. You can get paid between £4-£20 per article. You can also promote your blog, and attract people to your site by submitting your blog, and/or individual posts, to blogskinny, helping to increase your traffic.

Traffic
Whether you have chosen to place adverts, and banners on your blog, and/or programs you have found on skinnyblog, to endorse products and retailers, none of these will make you much money if you are not receiving traffic to your site-right? There are a few ways to attract visitors to your site, which i will talk about shortly, but one of the most important things is to keep people coming back, once they have found your blog.

• Make your site easy to navigate, and don't crowd it too much with adverts and banners.
• Build up a readership by using other blogs, and send them to your moneymaking site.
• Use resources that are at your fingertips, such as twitter and facebook, tell your friends about your site, and what they will find there.
• Talk about what you know.

One of the common misconceptions is that, as long as you have good content, people will keep coming back, and this is true to a degree, but you also need to keep things fresh, and update regularly.

• Ask questions for you're readers to interact with you, encourage them to make comments.
• Comments are very important, you need to answer all comments left on your site, to keep conversation open, and flowing.

Blog directory
Use a blog directory like britaine.com (link on top of this page) to increase your blogs visibility. Sign up and submit your blog to other directory's, to increase your chances of your blog being seen.

Ping your blog
Every time you publish a post on your blog, it is best to add ping backs. From what i gather ping backs take the keywords from your posts (this is why its important to add tags) and add them to search engines, also increasing your blogs visibility. To do this, go to www.pingomatic.com and submit your information to "ping your blog".

I hope some of this information helps. If you have any tips of your own, questions, or anything to add (or correct anything I've said) please do so. I know i would be interested to learn from  others, who have been down this road, as I'm sure will anyone reading this. Thanks a lot :)