A blog is actually a dynamic website where one can publish informative articles. In layman's term, it's a journal, wherein you can write and publish whatever you have in mind. Famous blogging platforms include Wordpress, Blogger, Livejournal and Tumblr.
I know why you are reading this post because you certainly want to earn money from your blog! There are actually two things you can do to earn money from blogging.
- review or feature a service or a product (directly to the business or as an affiliate)
- run ads from several ad publishing network like Google Adsense
Product Review/Feature
For the first option, you can contact the business owner or representative that you will be writing a review or feature of their products on your blog. Of course, to convince them, you have got to show statistics of your website traffic, number of followers, and how popular you are to a particular niche. They will be paying you for your blog's popularity and your authority in a specific niche that their products or services are categorized into. Who would want to pay someone if they aren't sure that the review and feature of their products/services will be read to the right audience, right? If you are not comfortable in contacting business owners because it might take some convincing or time, you can join affiliate marketing sites like Amazon.com. Amazon.com sells diverse range products from electronics, clothing, books to magazines. Amazon also feature third-party sellers. To earn money from Amazon, you can review or feature their products (with your affiliate code in the product link) on your blog. You can earn money when someone buy the product using your affiliate link.
On the other hand, don't be surprised if a business owner will contact you to feature their products that is to assume that you are already popular in your niche and your authority is undeniably high. Mostly, business owners will send the product for you to review and test. The product will be yours! This is very common to those who are already running popular and authoritative gadgets sites like pocketables.com.
Running Ads from Ad Network Sites like Adsense
You can become a publisher of various advertising network by signing up on their sites and run their ads on your blog. Once you will become a member, all you have to do is to copy the advertising code or a script and paste it on your blog. You will get paid when your visitors click on that ad. These script or codes are programmed to display ads based on the content of your blog. You don't have the total control of what product or service is to be displayed from Google Adsense unlike when you are writing a post about a product review or feature.