Monetizing a blog: What are the best ways?

First of all this post was inspired by a post from another blog. The blog had listed the top ways of monetizing a blog.

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 Monetizing a blog What are the best ways

 

My top monetizing methods for this blog are as follows,

 

1. Paid post 

This blog fetch me more money through paid post than anything else. I use different advertising networks (ex: payperpost, blogsvertise, etc) to get my paid posts. Also, I use different webmaster forums to get advertisers to my blog. In this way, I am able to fetch around $75 per month. This can be increased by increasing the page rank of the blog and traffic to the blog.

 

Previously I used to do sponsored posts for off topics as well. But now I have confined myself to the topic of this blog.

 

2. Contextual advertising 

Contextual advertising is second-best in fetching money for this blog. This can be increased by increasing the traffic to the blog and also the CTR. Some of my other blogs have a very high CTR than this. But the low CTR could be because I get more webmasters as visitors to this blog.

 

3. Selling links 

Selling text links another successful way of making money through content related websites. Currently, I make less than $15 a month through this method. By having a page rank of 5, one can fetch at least $100/month by placing 10 text links.

 

4. Affiliate programs 

If one promotes a successful product which is related to your blog content, one can really make a good amount of money. But I haven't really made a considerable amount of money through this. But some of my other blogs perform relatively well in affiliate programs.