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Having thought through whether you should blog for money it is now worth taking a look at some of the different models for doing so. I tend to break the different models that bloggers are using to make money from blogging into two areas – Direct and Indirect methods. I described some direct methods in the previous post. If you have not read that post please first read it then read this post for some other direct mehods to make money. Methods 1 and 2 are listed in the previous post and the other methods are : 3. Affiliate Programs Affiliate programs are where you take a commission for referring a reader who purchases a product or service to a company. Probably the most common of these for bloggers isAmazon which has tens of thousands of products that you can link to (I reviewed it here). Other affiliate programs that represent many different companies and products includeLinkshare, Commission Junction and Clickbank. Affiliate programs take some work if you want to get the most out of th...

Having thought through whether you should blog for money it is now worth taking a look at some of the different models for doing so. I tend to break the different models that bloggers are using to make money from blogging into two areas – Direct and Indirect methods. Direct Income Earning Methods - these methods are where a blogger earns an income directly FROM their blog. Indirect Income Earning Methods – these methods are where a blogger earns an income BECAUSE of their blog. Most blogs tend to fall into one or the other of these methods – although there is nothing to stop bloggers experimenting with elements of both ( I’ve seen a few bloggers get into trouble with this (example: Scenario 1 in the previous post). In this post I’ll look at 8 direct income earning methods and in the next post of this series I’ll explore indirect methods. Please note that on occasion in the following post there will be few affiliate links to services that I use and have had some success with. These wi...