I’m not sure if the below facts are true since I have not made much money on any of my websites. Pity me!

For few years, I have been feed with statement like, “Well, today is your lucky day as I will tell you ways to make money by blogging”, from self-claimed professional bloggers. Are they true?

But anyway, they said, “If you want to monetize your blog, and make money…..”

Google AdSense is the most common way to make money on a blog. Once you set up your AdSense info, either banners or text ads, on your blog and your visitors click the ads that they are interested in, you make money.

You can join affiliate programs, either individually or on a network. The easiest way is to join a network, like Commission Junction, and get the links or banners from them. You can then place these affiliate ads in your side bar, in between posts or even woven into posts to make it look more natural.

You can sell individual ads space on your blog by the day, week, and month or even by the year, if you want. The price tag is probably be heavily weighted by your content and your traffic.

Pay-to-Post - A newer concept in blog advertising is the Pay-to-Post idea. This is where a company like PayPerPost.com will bring advertisers and bloggers together. Bloggers will make a post on their blogs and talk about whatever the advertisers wanted them to talk about. If the advertisers are satisfied with the post then they get paid.

Donations - I know you have seen these before on different blogs and websites. A small PayPal button asks you to donate. The thing is these actually work. If your blog gives out great information and you don’t push people to buy stuff, they almost feel obligated to donate to you.

These self-claimed professional bloggers will quickly write their disclaimers, “While these might not be all the ways to make cash from your blog, it is certainly a good start for your blog. If you keep the multiple streams of income principle in mind for your blog, you will do well and make money by blogging”.

Are they true? I don’t know. I need to verify.