Make Money with Your Blog: The Ultimate Resource List
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Are You Ready to Make Money with Your Blog?
I know I am. The last 3 months I have learned an incredible amount, but I still have a ways to go. I am studying the great leaders in the blogging field as measured by their growth and earnings.
I’ve compiled some of the best articles on making money with your blog here so that you will have a handy reference point to come back to to find all of them. You can bookmark this below with the “Share This” link.
The articles are listed according to the different areas of focus. Enjoy! Wishing you much success!
Top Articles on Making Money with Your Blog:
General
- How to Make Money with Your Blog - by Steve Pavlina. A general article on blogging and do you have what it takes to make money with your blog.
- 5263 Words on Starting a Profitable Blog - Extensive article by Courtney Tuttle which outlines step by step how to set up your blog all with the intention of making money from your blog. Excellent must read article for beginners who want to use Wordpress.
- Moving from Blogger to Wordpress - by yours truly. Steve Pavlina, Darren Rowse and other gurus recommend Wordpress. Here’s a guide for switching over from Blogger to Wordpress.
- Beginning Blogger Tip - by John Chow. Some basics on choosing content and community building.
- The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Bloggers - by John Chow, the guru of making money online.
Content is King
- How to Build a High Traffic Web-Site or Blog by Steve Pavlina. Talks mainly about content and how to write your best to increase traffic to your site.
- Copywriting Tips for Online Marketing Success - general website on how to write good content.
- How to Make Money Online Using Niche Content Websites - by Yaro Starak. Extensive how to article.
Increasing Blog Traffic and Subscribers
- Blog Carnival Resource - place to find all manner of blog carnivals
- Driving Traffic with Free Article Services - by John Chow. One powerful way of increasing traffic to your blog.
- 10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog - by Darren Rowse. Excellent resource on this topic. Why do you want more comments? Comments equals community. Community equals more readers. More readers eventually equals more revenue.
- 10 Reasons Readers Don’t Leave Comments - by Liz Strauss. Same topic as above but from a different perspective. You will learn a lot from this and how to avoid this problem.
- Is Article Marketing Worth Your Time? - by Yaro Starak. An extensive article that explains how this young successful blogger delved into this strategy and what his results tell us to do.
Link Building
- 102 Ways to Make Your Site a Back-Link Superstar - by Courtney Tuttle. This list is full of fresh new ideas that are actionable and very useful. Check it out!
- Why That Site with 50 Linkback Beats Your Site with 1000 linkbacks - by Jim Boykin. Why quality links matter.
SEO
- Onsite Search Engine Optimization - by Courtney Tuttle. Concise article with the basics.
- Offiste Optimization - SEO That Works for a Change - by Courtney Tuttle. Extensive article with clear explanations of this subject.
Monetizing Your Blog
- How to Get More Text Link Sales - by John Chow. How to maximize this revenue stream.
- 40 Ways to Make Money on the Internet - by Dumb Little Man. This article contains an extensive list of revenue sources for your blog or website.
- How to Make $100 Per Day - (that’s just her adsense revenue. There’s another $225 per day from other sources too! That’s $118k/year!) by Jane May who has grown a successful blog called Career Ramblings. This article boils down her top secrets.
Measuring Success: How Much Money Do the Blog Guru’s Make?
- Paula’s List of Blogger Salaries…Are You on the List? - by Paula Neal Mooney. A comprehensive listing of the money being made by bloggers who report their income online. Paula took the time to annualize their reportings so they can be compared side by side.
- History of a $100k Site - graphs and descriptions of how this webmaster made it to the $100k mark with his site Coolest Gadgets.
- Make Money on the Internet - April 2007 - by John Chow. A history of his very fast growing blog about making money online including graphs, revenue stats and recommendations.
- How I Make Money Online - Part 4 - by Yaro Starak. Lists all the sources of his $6500 monthly income!
Do you have a world class post about how to make money with your blog or know of someone else’s that you found really useful? If you do, please share it with us below in the comments. When updates of this post are made your article can be included.
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Dee | May 8, 2007 | Reply
That is one good list! I’ll return to read more and I’m defintely linking to you soon in my blog
Paula Neal Mooney | May 8, 2007 | Reply
Thanks for the link love, Agent Sully.
You’ve been Dugg!
agentsully | May 8, 2007 | Reply
Dee- Thanks! Glad to have you here at Life Learning Today! I’m over at your blog now. Looks interesting. Can’t wait to explore more!
Paula,
Anytime! I’m a PNM fan! Thanks for the digg!
Court | May 9, 2007 | Reply
Thanks so much for the multiple mentions, I just hope that I can help people in some way! I dugg the article a while back, I think we need to start a Digg club.
Psychic advice | May 9, 2007 | Reply
Hello, of course I came to visit your site and thanks for letting me know about it. I jsut read this post and wanted to say it is full of number one resources. Some I am familiar with. For those who don’t know these other sites they are in for a treat as there is a lot to learn there.
TerryG
agentsully | May 9, 2007 | Reply
Thanks Terry! I’m still reading through all the info contained in these links!
agentsully | May 9, 2007 | Reply
Court - yeah a Digg Club - you can actually sort of make one by making “friends” within the digg community. I’ve started to do that. I’m just waiting for all my friends to “make friends” with me back. I think I “friended” you there. You can check.
Paula Neal Mooney | May 9, 2007 | Reply
Hey, I think a Digg club is a great idea. Now I need to go on Digg and make sure that all you guys are listed as my friends…
hem acharya | May 12, 2007 | Reply
the first major thing must be driving the traffic .. then we can think about money making…
andy | Jun 6, 2007 | Reply
arg.. more studying materials.. Thanks!
Maria | Jun 25, 2007 | Reply
Agentsully!
You really have done a very good job by providing all the informable good articles onto your blog! great
agentsully | Jun 26, 2007 | Reply
Hi Maria! Thank you!!
BlueSKyBrothers.com | Oct 31, 2007 | Reply
This is a great list. My readers would find value here. Check out for a trackback because I’m going to reference you and this post in my next post. BTW I just dugg ya!
m07 | Dec 12, 2007 | Reply
good one.useful things some of them
Eric | Feb 4, 2008 | Reply
Great list with lots of tips we can all use.
I’ll let you know if it helped me
Blogs Make Money | Feb 4, 2008 | Reply
Yep, blogs really make money. I have read your article and a couple of those you listed and I am pretty much sure that if you follow them right, you will quickly become more popular in the blogosphere.
Cheers!
Aurelius Tjin | Feb 12, 2008 | Reply
Great post! Thanks for sharing all these insights, tips and resources. I will surely take note of all of these. I have in fact bookmarked your site. Thanks!
Sybian Portal | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
Ever since I was introduced to internet marketing I cant believe how these gurus want to make it sound so easy.
Although I’m making money, I’m no where near relaxing on the beach with my laptop for half an hour while my bank account gets
filled with money.No shortcuts at all, just work like any other business.
Radder | Mar 5, 2008 | Reply
That is one good list! I’ll return to read more later. Thank you
Lonnie | Mar 16, 2008 | Reply
Thank you for sharing you have such great insight
Ebay Guy | Mar 16, 2008 | Reply
Wow, thanks for this concise list, this will surely help my business.
Matt Keegan | Mar 25, 2008 | Reply
Wow, thank for such a rich list! I’m bookmarking this page for later reference, but I’ll be checking some of the sources immediately. Thank you for sharing.
Matthew | Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
Wow!! Great list! Thanks for the moey making info
Blog For Money | Apr 17, 2008 | Reply
This is a great resource for all the different ways to make money. I’m adding this to my Delicious for later! Thanks!
Millionaire Mindset | Apr 21, 2008 | Reply
Thank you for posting this up. This is really a great collection of all things you need to make money with your blog!
xStatic | Apr 21, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for this! Will be very useful =D
MozillaFirefox | May 8, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for motivating me to Blog, but one thing, I would like to know on how you can earn so easy? is that a natural talent of being an entrepreneur or someting like that?
ernest | Jun 1, 2008 | Reply
Hello, thank you very much for your posting. Very usefull and help me to making money online
Paul | Jun 11, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the links. I will be visiting them.