Let me start off by saying that I am not a mega successful blogger (yet) and I have put about 15 months into blogging so far and have earned around $3500 over the fifteen months blogging, so at my current blogging income I am no where near quitting my day job. That being said that was $3500 extra throughout the past fifteen months that was used to treat the family, pay down debt and have a little spending money from time to time that wasn’t tied up in my monthly budget. Blogging can be a way to make some extra income for the household and you can stretch it quite far.
Blogging requires dedication, patience, passion and creativity and if you enjoy blogging it will show in your articles and you will gradually become successful if you keep at it and learn from your mistakes, but always try new things and be creative as you will find other ways to monetize your blogs that I have not been successful at so far.
Here are the list of companies that I myself earn the most money from online.
SocialSpark is my top earner by far this program works by bringing advertisers and bloggers together. SocialSpark acts like the middleman that brokers the transaction and you can find some very impressive opportunities that pay well over $100 per post if your blog is popular enough. Some opps exceed $1000 per 200 word article, though my blog itself can proudly say it qualified for 2 $250 opps in the past six months. The majority of my opps pay between $20 and $50 dollars, but I also don’t take all the $5 assignments, so I could earn more. At one point I was able to earn over $500 in 30 days from SocialSpark but this depends on how many opps are in the system and how popular your blog is. SocialSpark tracks your blog visits with its unique ITK toolkit which assigns your blog a RealRank, and because your realrank can qualify you for opps, if you have a good RealRank but a low Google PageRank you can still make some good money from SocialSpark. If you do a sponsored post just remember you cannot use any other ads in a sponsored post, this means no AdSense, Kontera or other ad types can exist inside a Sponsored post, but all assignments include NoFollow links which is a plus.
SponsoredTweets is technically not a program where you make money with your blog but instead you earn with your Twitter account. SponsoredTweets is by the same company as IZEA and it brokers advertisers and twitter users to find matches where companies will hire you to promote their products in a “tweet”. If you have a successful twitter account you can make $50 – $100 per month easily, and you make an average of $1 per tweet for every thousand followers you have (This is just an estimate but is a good one). The great thing here is that you can qualify as long as your twitter account is over 4 months old and you have just 200 followers, you can start earning $10 – $20 per month just from having these very easy numbers. I have made about $40 in two months with SponsoredTweets, but I have just under 300 followers, John Chow himself is rumored to make about $200 per tweet from SponsoredTweets.
PayU2Blog is one of the best income earners for most blogs out there in my opinion. This company announced they stopped accepting Blogger (Blogspot) blogs but if you run a self hosted blog this is a site worth trying. You can get some good earnings from sites even with PageRank less than 2. I have earned an average of $60 – $90 per month consistently with this blogging service. The only caveat is you cannot run SocialSpark and PayU2Blog on the same blog, PayU2Blog does not allow any other scripts on their post including the ITK script that IZEA uses to collect page visits. This means PayU2Blog does not allow Kontera or InfoLinks on the same posts as an assignment, you can run other paid blogging companies on the same blog as long as they don’t require any tracking scripts. One other note is all PayU2Blog posts are DoFollow links which can affect your SEO.
PayPerPost is another IZEA service offering that differs from SocialSpark in that you list your blogs without any qualification requirements or tracking tools to install. Anyone can list any blog on PayPerPost and Advertisers will contact you if they are interested in purchasing an AD slot on your blog. Where SocialSpark you have to apply and request opps from advertisers and sometimes miss out by not being the fastest to apply, PayPerPost puts the power in the advertisers to pick and choose which blogs they want to advertise on. You can set your price per word and per link and some bloggers with high PageRank and low Alexa rank can command upwards of $50 per post or higher. My blogs tend to average about $9 – $20 per post on PayPerPost with DragonBlogger.com earning the higher amounts. On some months I have made as much as $50 in one month, but I am very choose on opps, I get invited to no less than $150 per month in opps but I reject most of them. PayPerPost lets you choose whether you want to accept DoFollow or NoFollow links from advertisers.
Google AdSense is one of the easiest ways to make money from your blog without doing actual work writing reviews and trying to promote products. You should research what type of ad placement you want to use and leverage either in-post or sidebar advertisements, but depending on your site traffic you could earn big. My site which averages 15,000 visits per month earns about $15 – $20 per month in AdSense, combining all three of my sites I average about $30 per month in AdSense revenue. This is all from doing no work at all just letting the ads list and the earning comes in, I have also seen my earnings steadily increase from a $10 per month average 1 year ago to triple now, so presumably this will keep growing as your site grows.
BlogsVertise used to earn me about $30 per month an average but has tapered to about $9-10 per month. This service will provide you with more opportunities if your blog has a higher PageRank but is still worth listing your blog on as I have gotten as many as four $9 posts in a single month at one time. The posts often involve 3 links on a post and they are all dofollow links unlike SocialSpark.
SponsoredReviews is actually a very good site to earn money as a blogger if your PageRank is very high 4+ you can qualify for some opps as high as $100 per opp. This blog is a PR2 blog and ironically I have placed bids for several opps in the $20 range but have never been accepted, most paid opps I do for SponsoredReviews come from advertisers directly purchasing a review from me and I get paid an average of $20 per post. I get about 1 or 2 per month at most, I am sure I will earn more from SponsoredReviews as my Alexa continues to get better and my PageRank increases.
Sponzai is a unique service from IZEA where advertisers (including other bloggers) purchase a guest post from your blog for a set amount. You have no flexibility other than just posting exactly what the advertiser’s guest post says as you are selling a “post” on your site to the advertiser. The links are all nofollow and there is full disclosure in all sponsored posts. The one thing I have found is that there is a very high number of poor quality blogs in the system due to no blog qualification requirements and IZEA charges a hefty commission fee. As a result you have to set your price pretty low to get advertisers willing to purchase guest posts, you see the most offers if you set your guest post price at $5 or less. Though your Pagerank, Alexa rank and Backlinks are all factored and affect how much you can earn per guest post. I have earned $7.5 in my first month using the service, but I have spent over $100 (free credit from IZEA) testing the service as an Advertiser and it really is a great service with lots of potential.These Services I have tried and will list a little bit of my dealings with them, they are not recommended by me but list them to show you want I have tried:
ReviewMe – My blogs cannot qualify for reviewme for some reason even though I have tens of thousands of visits and a PageRank of 2, this site I hear is best for blogs with a PR4 or better and I know some people swear by the site but I just can’t qualify for some reason.
BlogToProfit – When I first signed up about 10 months ago I had about $40 in two months, then I haven’t seen a single opp in seven months. I think the site is either not working or my blog just no longer gains advertiser interest. I can’t recommend since I haven’t seen any opps in 3/4 of a year.
Smorty – I have never had an opp in my queue and cannot recommend Smorty since I haven’t had a single earning opportunity from them.
Blogger Wave – Another service I signed up for and haven’t seen a single opportunity from them.
LinkFromBlog – Haven’t earned any money or opps from LinkFromBlog, can’t recommend.
LoudLaunch – Another site that has not earned me a dime and I can’t recommend.
PayingPost – This site is yet another example of an online site that you sign up for and don’t earn anything.
BuyBlogReviews – I have never earned an opp and can’t say if the service is any good.
Kontera – Kontera is an In Text Link service where keywords found on your existing blog posts become double underlined (you choose the color of the link) and when a user highlights over they get a popup with information about the product/service tied to the keyword. You get paid per click not per hover but you can earn some money from this CPC program. This service works best for blogs that don’t do sponsored posts as you have to disable the Kontera on any sponsored posts (this is easy to do with the Kontera plug-in which lets you disable for specific posts but I didn’t find the earnings to be worth keeping additional links on my posts). I was only earning an average of $3 per month when Kontera was running on all three of my blogs so I pulled it.
LinkWorth – LinkWorth is identical in functionality to Kontera and provides in post link advertising based on keyword matches, I have found that both of these services caused negative feedback from users who see too many links in posts and the earnings for my blogs were trivial (under $5 per month). AdSense worked far better for me as a CPC, though some people have claimed to earn high dollar amounts from LinkWorth or Kontera they just didn’t work very well for me and are best suited for blogs that have massive amounts of visitor traffic.
Chitika – Chitika is another CPC program like AdSense but differs in that it you can select only to display ads to users who arrived at your site from a seach engine query. This means you are displaying relevant ads to people who arrived at your site via a specific keyword search and have better targeted advertising for your audience, it also means you won’t display any Chitika ads to your visitors from twitter, facebook or people who are regular readers and hit your blog directly without seeing any ads. I think Chitika has tons of potential because it allows you to put ads up on your site that won’t bother your regular visitors. At this time though Chitika only displays ads and earns you revenue from US and Canada arrivals on your site so it isn’t a good choice for international bloggers.
Ad.Ly – Ad.Ly is another program to earn money from your twitter accounts where an advertiser purchases a “weeks worth” of advertising gaining 1 tweet per day from your account. You set weekly prices and John Chow stated on his blog that he makes more from Ad.Ly than SponsoredTweets. I have just signed up for the service and am testing it out, my estimated price was $30 per week for advertising on my twitter profile and I have less than 3000 followers. Nothing will tweet without your consent you get to hand select each advertiser you wish to promote or reject.
MagPie – MagPie is a twitter program where you can make money from tweeting ads on Twitter, but unlike SponsoredTweets or Ad.Ly you don’t get to choose individual ads you merely are matched to advertisers who fit your categories and tweets are sent out automatically from your twitter account. You earn a small portion from each ad that goes out from your account. This program earned me pennies per day when I tried it earlier this year and I wound up not liking it so much that I removed myself from the service. Some people claim it makes money for them, but I just don’t like the automate tweet ad without me approving the advertisements or sponsors.
Summary:
This is a comprehensive list of all online earning programs I have tried that relate to blogging or twitter and though this list doesn’t mention every program out there these are some of the biggest ones that I know of. These services involve you promoting an advertisers product with either a blog or your twitter account, this won’t include any affiliate sales like CJ.com, Neverblue, Amazon Affiliate…etc which is a different realm than advertiser/sponsor bog earnings.
I will update this post as I try new sites and re-arrange as I find which sites start to work better than other sites.
-Dragon Blogger
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November 25th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Very useful post Justin! I will tweet this out.
I think a lot of newbie bloggers and twitters would find this very useful as well. Thank you for sharing.
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November 25th, 2009 at 7:47 am
Justin, you’ve outdone yourself! Thanks for helping the blogging world with your experience! Paying it forward if you will.
I’ve tried a few of those companies, but not all. It helps a ton just to know which ones not to waste time with. I tried to sign up for SocialSpark and Sponzai, but their system can’t “find” my blog. I submitted a help ticket last week, but so far no response.
Thank you for the information on PayPerPost! I was always confused about that. I thought PayPerPost BECAME Social Spark. Not so, it seems. And I tried Smorty way back in the day when I first started blogging. When I submitted a post for review they seemed to be unable to recognize it during the 24 hour period allotted, so I ended up writing a few posts that I did not get paid for until I finally dropped them.
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November 25th, 2009 at 7:53 am
This is certainly a list which all new and frequent bloggers should read, I use quite a few of these services myself, I love SocialSpark and PPP V4 is so much better that the previous incarnation..
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November 25th, 2009 at 7:53 am
Very useful background info on money making opps for bloggers. I’m interested in Ad.ly – like that I get to choose what type of ad to promote. Well done, Justin!
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November 25th, 2009 at 8:17 am
This was a very good list of companies that you can make money from. I have used bunch also and some of them I haven’t received any opportunities from also. All we have to do is come up with different streams of income online, and we just need to try new programs. Greg Ellison
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November 25th, 2009 at 8:27 am
i used to earn a lot from smorty, PPP and blogsvertise. now, i stopped accepting paid posts and earning only from adsense, nuffnang and chitika. no payout yet for the latter two. some of my new sites may accept sponsored posts in the future.
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November 25th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Wow Justin. You really took the time to make this comprehensive list which I believe is very useful to all bloggers who wishes to monetize their websites or blog. I personally use all of them and will only differ from performance as what works for me not necessarily will work for you and vice-versa. Good job. BTW, I’ll go slightly further with Smorty saying that it is a total waste of time..
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November 25th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Thanks for all the positive feedback, I was trying to make a one stop visit for anyone looking to know who tried what and such. As you mentioned DiTesco some of the services work better for others these are just my opinions on all of the ones I tried. I haven’t actually tried NuffNang does anybody else use it and recommend it?
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November 25th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
These are useful pointers for those who want to earn online. I was wondering about that too, with bloggerwave and payingpost. But they have our info though, perhaps those are sources of my spam emails.
Thanks for sharing.
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November 25th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
What I really like about your post is that you listed the websites you didn’t have luck with them or those ones you didn’t earn from them, great post!
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November 25th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Right, they may work for some people, I just want to show everyone exactly what I have tried. Too many people have said “Have you tried this?” to me about different companies, so if you find one that I haven’t listed, let me know and I will look into it.
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November 25th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Excellent post, very comprehensive and the graphics really make it a top notch reference. Way to go. I want to try sponsored tweets but I have under 1000 followers. I wonder if it would work for me? Don’t you have like 3000?
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November 26th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Should be fine, you only need minimum of 100 followers to qualify for sponsoredtweets and start accepting offers. Use my banner link to sign up
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November 26th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Great post and very honest.
Social Spark is my favourite from the bunch!
Regards,
Karl
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November 26th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Thank you, glad to hear SocialSpark is your fav as well.
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November 26th, 2009 at 7:43 am
I’m still groping my way into earning from my blog. I’m glad you have shared your experience here.
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November 26th, 2009 at 10:45 am
I have been blogging for 15 months and I learn as I go. I am always trying new things and will update this post if I find other methods that work better.
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November 28th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Thanks for the great post. I am using some of these as well and have a nice amount of success with SS CPC and a few of their sponsored post. I am fairly new but have earned a few hundred dollars in just a little over a month. It is as much in trial and error with me right now as anything. Mainly I love to blog and am beginning to find my niche with it. I am hopeful to get away from blogspot soon. If you have any suggestions in domain sites I might want to check out please email me or do another similar post for us.. I have had a successful relationship with blogvertise. As for CJ I use it but not much success due to the volume of traffic I have. I am considering doing away with them so as to free up some of my time I seem to be wasting there. Anyway great post. Thank you for the specifics. I don’t feel like I am wasting my time so much after reading your post.
Much success
Lee
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November 28th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Thanks, I visited your blog and saw you had a couple of SocialSpark opps on there, nice articles too about blogging. I recommend HostMonster as a hosting provider, Dreamhost which still hosts 3 of my 9 blogs just has too many outages to recommend at this time.
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November 29th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Great post.
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January 7th, 2010 at 11:58 am
Thank you so much for this list, it is something that for me has been hard to find on other blogs. A great post and I really appreciate it!
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January 7th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
No problem, I will add to it as I find and work with more companies. There aren’t very many, but more crop up occasionally.
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January 17th, 2010 at 7:41 am
Great information bro, I want 2010 is my making money year. Thanks for the list, I already join some of them. Some of them really new to me, thank for sharing
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January 17th, 2010 at 10:25 am
No problem, just remember you can’t use PayU2Blog on the same blog as Sponzai, SocialSpark, PayPerPost or InPostLinks.
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February 16th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Chitika is an excellent addition to AdSense. If you haven’t looked at it more closely, you probably should. I’m not trying to sell you on anything here, just that I feel people are leaving money on the table by not taking advantage of their search traffic.
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February 16th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
I had Chitika installed on my blogs for about 2 months, it earned me about 10% of what AdSense earned, but I found there was a bug in firefox where the Chitika box would always show open and show a search for an item even though no search was performed. Like iPOD would be stuck in the “searched for” section even though I made no Google search. Clearing cache never resolved the issue.
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February 19th, 2010 at 10:41 am
It’s amazing that you posted all these ways that you make money with your blog. You would usualy never find people giving away their income sources like this.
It’s amazing the amount of money you mentioned that Jon Chow is making with SponsoredTweets.
I have read many things about them, but have yet to join, but after reading this I think I might as well give them a try.
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February 25th, 2010 at 7:44 am
Thanks for this post! Great list to ponder upon for the up and coming bloggers out there.
I have a dilemma though. I am using payu2blog and recently activated my infolinks acount. now i am thinking on how would i go about it – with Infolinks active and still doing ops in payu2blog.
Before, while I had kontera active, wp dashboard got this option to turn-on/off the script but not with infolinks.
i would appreciate any suggestions. regards!
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February 25th, 2010 at 8:43 am
You will get banned from PayU2Blog if you have infolinks active on posts that are paid. Kontera was better because you can disable on the specific posts, I don’t know how to do that with infolinks.
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February 25th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Thanks for the list.I have tried some companies on your list and it pays well. Would like to add blog4reviews.com They also pay on time, could be an alternative
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February 26th, 2010 at 7:29 am
I will try them, what are the average opp payments? How good are your earnings from blog4reviews.com?
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March 18th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
This is an excellent guide.
I didn’t know there were so many opportunities to do sponsored writing.
I’ve freelance written a few times before for a measly $2 an article. These put it to shame.
Thanks!
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March 31st, 2010 at 3:31 am
I’ve been surfing the net checking for possible opportunities to earn more from blogging. I’m currently with IZEA’s SocialSpark, PayPerPost and InPostLinks. I can’t brag on the number of posts I’ve done since there are only a few.
Thanks for sharing these sites!
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April 9th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
This is an excellent guide.
I didn’t know there were so many opportunities to do sponsored writing.
I’ve freelance written a few times before for a measly $2 an article. These put it to shame.
Another test since my comments are getting blocked and I don’t know why.
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April 10th, 2010 at 6:39 am
Phil, I have my blog setup that 1st time commenters need to be manually approved. You are now approved so future comments from same email and URL should go through without approval required.
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April 9th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
ok, it’s not my website link. I guess I am typing too much into the comment box. I just don’t get it.
This is a good post and sorry about all the postings, but it was bothering me that my comments kept getting caught.
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April 10th, 2010 at 6:40 am
If you run a blog that gets at least 50-100 visits per day then you could earn some decent side money. I used to write articles for AssociatedContent and Helium and you can easily make 5-10x as much from writing paid articles for your blog.
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June 20th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Thanks for the list Justin. I had to sort things out with my online earnings. I’ve been lazy lately.
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August 25th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
I have a question about SocialSpark. I’d love to use this to make money from my blog but as I don’t have many visits, what number of visits do you think would be a idea to use SocialSpark?
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August 25th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Excellent Question, I was making about $50-75 per month with SocialSpark if you have 50-100 visits per day. If you have less than this, but you have a PageRank of 3 or higher, then you can make more with PayPerPost which seems to give offers and opps to blogs with higher PageRank. If you have no pagerank and still low visits, then I recommend starting off with PayU2Blog, and with a PR0 blog with less than 30 visits per day I was able to still make about $50 per month from them.
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