Making Money Online through Blogging

If you have been always treating blogging as just an online version of your diary, but you’ve also been looking for ways to earn money online, you might want to look at blogging in a different light - blogging as a money making tool.

Internet marketing folks have just recently realized that blogging is no longer just looking for an online nook wherein you can express your daily ramblings. It can also be financially rewarding in many ways.

Here are the various ways that a blog can make your earn money.

If you don’t know what professional blogging is, it’s simply getting paid to blog. And there are still yet a number of ways that this can be done:

Individual Professional Blogging

This is when you create your own blog using blogging platforms such as Blogger, Movable Type, TypePad and Wordpress and update it as regularly as you can. The secret is to blog about one theme that some group of people would be very interested on. Look for a niche.

If you are blogging as an independent blogger, you have to invest and shell out some cash for your blog’s hosting, domain name registration, and the blog design or layout if you want a design that’s completely your own. You also have to promote the blog all by yourself to increase your blog’s traffic.

Problogging for a Blog Network

If you don’t want or don’t have the skills to put up your own blog and you’d rather make someone do that job, you can still get paid to blog - through blog networks. Blog networks are businesses that hire individuals to maintain blogs. The secret is to have genuine passion (most preferably you have experienced it) for the blog theme or topic you are applying for.  Here is a list of blog networks that are currently looking for bloggers:

• Creative-Weblogging
• Weblogs, Inc.
• Know More Media
• 451Press
• b5Media

Corporate Blogging or Business Blogging

Corporate blogging is when someone is hired to blog for the products or services of a company. One of the most notable corporate bloggers is Robert Scoble of Microsoft.

Where does the blogging income come from?

For individual bloggers, putting ads on your blog such as AdSense, YPN, Chitika, eBay, Amazon, Text-Link-Ads and Adbrite is one way to earn from this form of problogging. Other methods are occasionally posting paid reviews or paid posts such as that from Pay-Per-Post, Blogsvertise and ReviewMe. And after being able to make your blog get a good flow of traffic everyday, you can get into affiliate marketing. Sign up with various affiliate programs that offer products or services that your target traffic can benefit from.

Blog networks pay either a flat rate or through revenue sharing or a combination of both from the money coming from the ads displayed on your blog.

Corporate bloggers are usually paid like employees.

So, which get-paid-to-blog job do you fancy?