The 20th

By the end of this month, I shall have been blogging for 6 months and add to that, this would be my 20th post. That is actually still so short by blogging standards. I have started out with Wordpress at saity.worpress.com for 4 months and 2 months now on blogspot. Even with just only a few months of blogging experience yet, I have learned quite a lot on this endeavor. I have gained blogging friends, some are long time friends of mine who also ventured into the exciting world of blogging while some I've gained through the course of this journey.

One very interesting thing I've learned about blogging was that it is not only an avenue for self expression but also a revenue stream for quite a lot of people. I have learned that there are a number of ways in making money through blogging. First, is the very simple way of placing google's adsense on your blogs. Publishers or bloggers earns money through the advertisements placed by google in areas designated by the blogger where google could post its ads. By adsense, there are a number of ways in placing ads in a blog and this may be on a per clicked ad made by visitors, among others. Closely related to adsense is the affiliate program. In this, the blog owner could refer advertisers to post sponsors and in the process, earns commission if the advertiser does decide to sign-up with the post sponsor. Talking about sponsored posts, it is also another way of making money through blogs. Blog authors are given task to do a write-up mostly about a website and its products. Blog author is paid after such task is done. Payments made may vary, which I think is dependent on the traffic one has on his blogsite.

These are just some of the ways of earning some extra bucks through blogging and I bet there will be more ways to come. For most bloggers, financially it may be not that much but no one's complaining by the looks of it. Who would ever complain doing something one loves to do and earn some bucks on the way, right?

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