Hey guys,

You know that nowadays, more and more bloggers are finding that blogging is a profitable medium to make money. Recently, I collect several ways to help you make money via blogging and I would like to share with you guys here.

Before we start, I’d like to remind you to keep in mind that every blog is unique in how it can make money. Some of the following income streams will work on some blogs a lot better than others - the key is to experiment with as many as possible and see what works best for you.

Now let’s start the money making journey! Good luck!

1. AdSense
Most bloggers use Google AdSense with amazing effect on their blogs. You may need to have them all set to show image and text based ads and find that 250×300 pixel ads work best (usually with a blended design).The normal ads work a treat and continue to be the biggest earner for most of blogs.

2. Chitika
Chitka continues to be a great performer for most blogs. They work best on product related blogs although their recent announcement of their Premium ad unit is exciting as they now offer ads with a non product focus that I’m hearing great conversions on. Chitika offers a range of ad units that I experiment with. If you are an experienced blogger, you will find that their eMiniMalls work best and that Related Product Units are also good. Their Shoplincs product isn’t performing as well as it once did for me - mainly because I’ve been promoting it less and have driven less traffic to it.

3. Private Ad Sales/Sponsorships
Private ad sales directly to advertisers have continued to grow over the last few months and as a result they’re now the third highest income stream for bloggers. This includes ad sales of the 125 x 125 ads as well as a campaign.

4. Amazon Associates
Amazon’s affiliate program has been one of the big movers in the last 12 months. Some bloggers used to make a few odd dollars from it - however in recent times it has become a significant earner for them.

5. Miscellaneous Affiliate Programs
Successful bloggers know that it is important to run as many affiliate programs on their blogs as possible- most of which bring in smaller amounts of money that don’t really justify a category of their own. These include - - Digital Photography Secrets (a camera technique series), Pro Photo Secrets (a great photoshop product) , Yaro’s Blog Mastermind Mentoring Program (about to open the doors again), SEO Book (Aaron’s legendary resource) and the excellent Teaching Sells course (which just continues to grow in what it offers to it’s members in terms of content).

The great thing about many of these programs is that they are of such high quality that they sell themselves and I am being emailed from readers who sign up to them thanking me for the recommendation!

6. Shopzilla
The ads of Shopzilla are similar to Chitika but the click values have been higher to this point. They don’t offer quite as many options as Chitika does in terms of types of ads but for a new ad network there’s definitely promising signs. I’m looking forward to seeing how they continue to develop!

7. ProBlogger Job Boards
The job boards here at ProBlogger continue to grow each month in the number of advertisements that are being bought. This enabled bloggers to invest most of the money that they’d earned a while back into getting a new back end for the boards and to redesign them. They also offer a service to readers and add value to the overall blog.

The only problem with the job boards is that there are so many bloggers looking for work that the demand for jobs far exceeds the supply. On the good side of things is that advertisers are reporting getting amazing quality of applications.

8. WidgetBucks
Another newcomer to this list is WidgetBucks - another ad network that ProBlogger readers will be familiar with.
WidgetBucks is similar to Chitika and Shopzilla in many respects and works well on product related sites. It does best on sites with US traffic, so if you have a product related site with a US audience it’d be a no brainer to try out WidgetBucks. I’m hoping they’ll continue to expand their offerings in terms of ad types and visitor location.

9. Miscellaneous Advertising Programs
There are also a number of other ad networks besides the above mentioned ones. These include ShoppingAds, Feedburner RSS ads, Vizu (a poll advertising system), Kontera and Bidvertiser. Together these don’t add up to major earnings for professional bloggers - not because they are not good, but because a blog can only run so many ads on it and some bloggers will not use them heavily.

I will keep on collecting more methods to making money blogging and share with you here. If you have any good ones, please feel free to share with us by leaving comments, thank you guys, love you all!