I have discussed how powerful an email list is in previous posts. You better start building an email list in the early days of your blogging. Once you build up a good subscriber base to your email list, you can monetize it in similar techniques as your blog. You may advocate products as an affiliate, sell advertising, sell your own products or just use it to foster relations.

So many people ask me whether I really make money with blogging or not. I am telling them that If you already spend a fair amount of time blogging, money comes to you literally as soon as you ask for it. Once you have an established blog with a regular readership, it is easy to make steady income through advertising and affiliate marketing. By hosting sponsored banners or links, you can make money from your hobby almost overnight.

Direct ad sales is one of the most effective ways to monetize a blog. All you need is to post some conversions statistics for potential advertisers. However, there will still be inconsistency in monthly revenues unless your blog is a popular one.

Actually a direct sales program is difficult to manage, because you’ll have to find the potential advertisers, manage payment,and keep track of  statistics. Even though it is difficult, it certainly has some advantages against other make money online methods. Such as:

In Part 5 I would like to talk about Chitika eMiniMalls. If your blog is product-oriented, or if you regularly feature products on your blog, you really need to be using Chitika’s eMiniMalls.

What is eMiniMall?

It consist of a tabbed interface which you does not require any click to activate. Visitors are presented with featured products, reviews, best prices from around the web, and search when mousing over tabs in the ad unit. You are also allowed to customize which tabs are shown.

I have a great news to share with you. My SEO team advised that the next Google PageRank update will be completed before the Christmas day (25th of December) Within the next 2 weeks, your blog will get a new Google PageRank. If you want to get a better PageRank you need to ensure that:

• You don’t have backlinks from linkfarms. Linkfarms are cheap link directories where you get many  hundreds of poor quality links for 50$-100$. Even though you experience a quick increase in traffic, there is a possibility of losing all your search engine traffic due to Google ban.

These days “money from blogging” is one of the most popular search terms on most search engines. A lot of people are suffering from the financial crisis, and looking for alternative ways to make money all around the world. Even though make money blogging seems like a very good opportunity at first sight, not every blogger will succeed in it due to its dependency on building a high-traffic blog.  You need to take full advantage of blog carnivals if you want to have a high-traffic blog.

Benefits of Blog Carnivals

• The easiest way to get links
• You will get high traffic if you join them regularly
• Free marketing for yourself and your blog
• Pick up new subscribers from each round of carnival submissions

How To Join a Blog Carnival

• Sign up Blog Carnival
• Sign in with your email/password
• Select carnivals related to your blog posts, and start submission.

Join blog carnivals regularly, and you will be delighted with the increasing traffic. Do not spam the carnivals that are not directly related to your blog posts. If you want to see the maximum positive impact, help blog carnival owners spread the word about their carnivals.

The financial crisis sweeping the global economy is one of the most serious challenges ever, leading to a sharp slowdown in growth all around the world. Many people will probably lose their jobs due to the crisis especially in the United States. The economists believe that people tend to spend less, and look alternative ways to make money during financial crises.

During the great depression of the 1930′s, blogging was not an alternative way to make money, but today it is. You can make regular income from blogging by 2009 if you take some serious steps from today. There are some blog mentoring programs you should consider joining in order to become a pro-blogger.

Blog Mastermind Program

Yaro Starak’s blog coaching program, Blog Mastermind is a very serious mentoring program you should enroll if you are going to make money by blogging. The program is less than $100 a month to become a member, and you get direct access to your mentor Yaro Starak, plus all kinds of videos, podcasts, e-lessons to make you money online.I graduated from it, so I must admit that Blog Mastermind was a milestone in my pro-blogging career.

Unless you are an Australian you probably don’t know this. The Australian dollar has dropped dramatically, from 95 cents US a few months ago, to about 68 cents US due to financial crisis. Why this matters to you is that Yaro Starak’s blog coaching program, Blog Mastermind, charges admission in Australian dollars until Monday, 13th October. If you act quickly, you will save 30%.

I know it is not so easy to pay $97 a month over 6 months or $497 upfront for Blog Mastermind. Therefore I decided to offer prizes if you join the program through my Blog Mastermind affiliate link: Join Blog Mastermind and Earn Prizes from SearchForBlogging.com

Expert WordPress

WordPress has recently become blogger’s standard. You need to use WordPress perfectly well as a pro-blogger. If you can afford you should also enroll Alex Sysoef’s Expert WordPress program. The good thing about the program is that a custom script does the full blog configuration and customization based on a few answers you provide on web page and you got a clear winner. But you really must see the video that shows you entire process to understand just how simple it is. Watch the video Expert WordPress to see how anyone can create a blog in less than 4 minutes from Start to Publish.

Blogging in Action

Shaun Taylor’s Blogging in Action offer consists of a huge 260-page e-book that is current, accurate, and packed with insight. It’s been updated for WordPress 2.5 and WordPress 2.6. The book also comes with a keyword tools, four companion videos, three bonus administration videos, a 16-volume QuickStart video series, 10 Internet Basics videos, and several bonuses.

Shaun delivered ideas, concepts and strategies at a pace that eventually made my head spin. This is the kind of program you can read over and over again and still pick up more and more jewels of priceless information.