How to make extra Cash Online

Hello Viewers / Readers,

First of all my apologies for not being very much regular these days in posting my articles. I have been caught up in one or other issues these days. I apologize for it.

Also, i have changed the look of my blog. Better than previous i think. I am also working and sorting out my affiliates and will post an article revealing various different affiliates i am affiliated with and generate my income through them. I will also be having a Blog Income meter that will be updated as and when i earn money. I sincerely, hope you all are having great time reading my articles and make money yourself through it.

In the meantime, i am also planning to launch new websites online. I will post the links as and when they are launched.

Business Cards in my view are great promotional tool and helps to legitimize your blog and build your brand. And what i feel from my experience is that there are more chances of you making revenue out of your Blog when it is properly promoted. Recently, One of my friends, pointed me to a deal from VistaPrint. They are offering 250 free full color business cards (you just have to pay shipping). Unfortunately, this service of VistaPrint is available only in USA and UK.

Sadly, I am located in Australia :)

However, its a great opportunity for my friends located in USA and UK to try it. The service allows you to design, proof and order you business cards online. The free cards offer has 42 background designs to choose from. If you don’t like any of them, you have to pay $14.99 to see hundreds more. This is what I came up with using the completely free service.

The VistaPrint offer is great in my view, if you’re looking for some free business cards to promote your blog. If you don’t need business cards, VistaPrint also offers a free rubber stamp, personalized notepad or 100 postcards.

Happy Blogging, Happy Money Making :)

When i started blogging 6-7 months ago, I started of sheer passion for Technology. I was not sure that after 7 months i would reach a stage where i would be earning revenue through it and set up a website of my own - Hitarth Jani Dot Com.

In these 6-7 months duration i have affiliated myself with many affiliations. The tempo of earning revenue through my blog was settled when i first received my Google Adsense income in August - $100.49. Since then i have been blindly reading lots of information available over the net and affiliating myself with the various programs available on the internet.

From this month onwards i have decided to give a short blog income report so that my readers and people all over the world come to know how efficient and easy it is to make money online.

Total Blog Income for December 2007: $110.34

Despite lower traffic due to the holidays, the blog still managed to post its second highest income figure to date. Here’s the breakdown.

• Google Adsense: $109.26 + 1 Referral
  
• Text Link Ads: Just Signed Up
  
• Bidvertiser: $0.33
  
• Auction Ads: Just Signed Up
  
• Agloco: Earned 3.6 Hours towards earning
• Kontera: Just Signed Up
  
• Azoogle Ads: Just Signed Up
• Dollar Pays: $0.75
  
• Grand Total: $110.34

Blog traffic for December was very low due to holidays still i manage to get more than what i got previously in August - 2007. The key to get a good revenue out of your blog is to drive traffic towards your blog/site. Now that 2007 is behind us, I’m really looking forward to see what these blogs of mine can do in 2008. Better put on your seatbelt. It’s going to be a wild ride!

Total Income in 2007: $210.80

• August: $100.46
• December: $110.34
• Total: $210.80
  

At least now i am able to overcome the expenses i incurred in hosting my personal web blog - www.hitarthjani.com. Hope there is much more to offer to the readers in this new year.

Zach Brooks pocketed $1,000 this month blogging about the cheap lunches he discovers around midtown Manhattan ($10 or less, preferably greasy and if he's lucky, served from a truck).

The site, Midtownlunch.com, is just a year and a half old and gets only about 2,000 readers daily, but it's already earning him enough each month for a weekend trip to the Caribbean -- or in his case, more fat-filled culinary escapades in the city.

In the vast and varied world of blogging, Brooks is far from alone.

It's no longer unusual for blogs with just a couple thousand daily readers to earn nearly as many dollars a month. Helping fill the pockets of such bloggers are programmes like Google's AdSense and many others that let individuals -- not just major publications -- tap into the rapidly growing pot of advertising dollars with a click of the mouse.

In 2006, advertisers spent $16.9 billion online, up steadily each year from $6 billion in 2002, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau. In the first half of 2007, online advertising reached nearly $10 billion, a nearly 27 per cent increase over the first half of 2006.

“Little technical skill is needed to publish a well-read blog, meaning just about anyone with something worthwhile to say can find an audience”, said Kim Malone Scott, director of online sales and operations for Google's AdSense. “That's attracted greater readership and advertising dollars”, she added.

According to 2006 survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 39 per cent of Internet users, or about 57 million American adults, said they read blogs, up from 27 per cent in 2004 or 32 million.

That doesn't mean bloggers are suddenly flush with money. For every blogger earning a decent side income like Brooks, countless others will never earn a cent.

But with the right mix of compelling content and exposure, a blog can draw a dedicated following, making advertising a low-hanging fruit.

“This is really a continuation of how the Web in general has enabled smaller businesses and individuals to compete if not at a level playing field, at least a more equitable level,” said David Hallerman, a senior analyst with the research group eMarketer.

Google's AdSense is an automated programme that places targeted advertising on sites big and small. Other programmes such as PayPerPost are just as user friendly; bloggers sign up and advertisers cherry pick where they want to place ads based on categories and the number of impressions a site captures.

Getting paid might even help validate what may otherwise seem like a silly or obscure obsession.

For Samuel Chi, BCSGuru.com started as a way to demystify the convoluted universe of college football rankings for fellow fans.

Chi, a former sports journalist with training in statistics, posts his calculations every Saturday night during the season before official results are released on Sunday. Between Saturday night and Monday, about 4,000 sports fans log on daily to check out the “guru's” forecast.

This season, Chi made about $8,000 total from the blog; ticket brokers contacted him directly after word about his site got out. Google's AdSense brought in another couple hundred dollars for Chi, the owner of a bed-and-breakfast in Amelia Island, Fla.

Neither Chi nor Brooks had to do much to gain a loyal readership; when it comes to such rarefied interests, word about a good site can spread rapidly in online communities.

“All it takes is a couple of mentions (on other sites) and hundreds of people can be directed to your site,” Chi said.

BlogAds, which helps advertisers target relevant blogs for a commission, prices ads by the week, with sites tiered by the amount of traffic they get.

When the company started in 2002, founder Henry Copeland said it was mainly small advertisers selling T-shirts or promoting bands. Now he said “there's no big brand that doesn't advertise on everyday blogs.”

About a third of BlogAds' 1,500 sites earn between $200 and $2,000 a month, Copeland said. These sites get anywhere from 3,000 to 50,000 daily impressions.

Google's Malone Scott said access to advertising online is more democratic, since an ad click from a tiny site is just as valuable as a click from a site with a million readers.

Some advertisers have even found better response from smaller sites with more passionate, engaged audiences.

For ticket broker RazorGator, advertising on blogs like BCSGuru.com means reaching a very specific audience.

“We have found that more and more sports fans are turning to blogs and smaller fan sites to get their information so as an advertiser it makes sense to follow your audience,” spokeswoman Toni Lamb wrote in an email.

The broker has advertised on smaller blogs like Chi's for the past two years; Lamb would not specify how many blogs it currently advertises on.

Despite rapidly rising advertising dollars online, blogs usually don't start out as a way to make money -- they're more a means of speaking to an audience of like-minded individuals. MidtownLunch.com started as a way for Brooks to indulge his food obsession, but he soon realised his quest struck a note with a legion of office workers.

Taking that extra step to get advertising was a no-brainer. Companies like Random House's Broadway Books have posted ads for food books on the site, along with the makers of independent films seeking a New York City audience.

Brooks only spends two hours at most each day on MidtownLunch.com. But the blog affects his life in other ways.

Like Chi, he met close friends through his site. He has also scored freelance writing assignments, and, above all, the site has given his endless fascination with greasy foods a sense of validation.