Here’s a list of other methods you can consider applying to your blog to make money. Remember this is about testing what works and combining the highest yielding monetization methods for maximum profit (or a profit level you are content with). Also look for low-maintenance monetization methods so you don’t have to work hard to make the money.

Text-Link-Ads.com:

Text-Link-Ads is a link brokering service that finds sponsors who pay to place text links on your blog. They have a very simple system that is automatic once you set it up and the income can be fantastic if your blog is popular. The only downside – they take a big cut of your revenue in return for providing the service. A similar service is provided by TextLinkBrokers.com and LinkWorth.com.

Paid Reviews:

ReviewMe.com and PayPerPost.com are services that act as brokers between you and sponsors who pay for you to write a review of their website, product and service on your blog. The income from these sites can be quite reliable and significant.

Contextual Ads/Text Ad Brokers

Along with Google AdSense, Yahoo also has a publisher’s network program you can use to place context-relevant ads on your site. Bidvertiser has a similar program, but ads are not contextual to your content, instead you can pick and choose what advertisers sponsor your blog.

Blog Specific Advertising Brokers

There is an abundant source of ad brokering services that offer to monetize your blog readership for you in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Here’s a short list of some of the most well known. AdBrite, AdVolcano, BlogAds, BlogKits, Chitika, Federated Media

General Advertising Brokers

These companies operate similarly to the above brokers, but they are not blog specific and have very large networks of advertisers that pay out in a variety of ways (pay per lead, per action, per click, per impression or per sale). These are also good websites to look into if you want to find an affiliate product/service to recommend to your readers. Commission Junction, AzoogleAds, Linkshare

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate products and services you can sell from your blog are everywhere. Most programs are free to join and provide tools like links or banners you can add to your blog to make promoting the program very easy.

You can find affiliate programs by looking at the products or services sold online that your readers would buy. Go shopping online as if you were your reader and look for links that say “affiliate” or “earn money” on the product or sales pages, then sign up and start promoting.

There are sites that specialize in affiliate marketing that offer a marketplace of products and services you can sell as an affiliate. Clickbank.com is the largest and another good option is PayDotCom.com or of course, the good old Amazon.com affiliate program.

In-Text Advertising

These services make certain keywords in the text of your articles into link advertisements. If a reader clicks the link you make money. The most popular providers of this service are IntelliTXT and Kontera. Personally I draw the line at this method of blog monetization because I find it too intrusive to the flow of reading, but if it doesn’t bother you and makes you money, then it’s yet another way to monetize your content.

RSS Advertising

If you build up a good RSS readership, you can monetize this aspect of your blog using services like Feedburner.com. Once you get above 500 daily RSS readers, Feedburner acts like a brokering service selling advertising on your feed in exchange for a cut of the revenues. They also provide this service for content on your site if you want to use them as a general ad broker. If you want to monetize your feed without sharing the revenue, Text-Link-Ads.com has a function where you can place text links into your RSS feed articles called feedvertising.