How to Make Money with a Niche Blog

1. Commit to writing. Building a successful niche blog that will monetize takes time and patience. You want to take the time to keep your blog updated with at least three to five weekly entries.

2. Pick your niche. Once you have decided that you will commit two to four hours a week to maintain your blog, start brainstorming on a niche. Write down a list of your top five favorite passions. What are you an expert in? What do you enjoy doing? Regardless of what it is, there are ways to monetize on just about any subject.

3. Set up your blog. If you don't already have an established blog, register online for a free blog. Free blog sites include Blogger and WordPress. After you have registered, select your look and feel and personalize your layout. Pick a blog name that pertains to your niche.

4. Start blogging. The meat of your blog is content. You want original and engaging content that will keep people coming back for more. Write entries with pictures. For example, if your niche is gardening, write about a particular plant showing pictures on how you planted it or how you care for it. Start a Top 10 or Top 20 list on tips, ideas and favorites. Keep your readers interested and they will keep coming back, start sharing your link and leading to more visitors to the site.

5. Start monetizing. Once you have built a good, solid blog with great content, you can start monetizing. You don't want to start too early; you want to gain your visitors' trust. If they go to a blog with one or two entries, but tons of advertisements, they won't want to come back. Start monetizing with advertising revenue share; set up a Google AdSense account. Once set up, start implementing ads on your blog. Place them strategically and neatly.

6. Become an affiliate. Register for an account at places like Commission Junction. You can basically apply to be an affiliate for numerous companies using one account to manage them all. Search for advertisers related to your niche and apply to become an affiliate for them. Once you are approved, you will be able to place your affiliate banners on your blog, opting for commissions.

How to Create an Amazon Pro Merchant Account

1. Sign up for an Amazon account. Activate your account with banking and credit card information. Confirm your email address and phone number via their automated system.

2. List your media items. Go through the listing template and fill in the description and condition fields. Choose reasonable prices for the items that correspond to the prices listed by the other sellers.

3. Sell the items, ship them out on time and arrange the deposits into your bank account. Wait until the amount of sales per month, warrant spending the monthly fee for the Pro Merchant account.

4. Sign up for the upgrade. Use the extra privileges to design a storefront for your listings and to write product pages for items not included in the Amazon catalog.

How to Make Money with the Google Affiliate Program

1. Sign up with the Google Affiliate Network. Use the link in the resources section of this article. You'll have to enter basic information about yourself and your website. It may take a day or two to receive your acceptance email.

2. Log into your account. After you've been accepted, you can revisit the Google Affiliate Network site and log in.

3. Search for products or advertisers that fit your niche. For successful affiliate marketing, you need to match the right offer with your audience. For example, if your website is about camping, then you should look for companies that sell camping supplies. You can do this by clicking on either the 'Products' or 'Advertisers' buttons at the top of your screen.

4. Apply to the advertisers that interest you. Click on the small box next to the advertiser names, then click on the 'Apply to selected' button at the top of the screen. Some advertisers will approve you immediately, while others manually approve applicants.

5. Get the advertising code for your website. You can view a list of your approved advertisers under the 'Advertisers' and 'Approved' links. You can click on the 'Actions' button and scroll down to 'Get links.' This shows you the available ads.

6. Place the ad code on your website. If you're using a blog like WordPress, you can usually put it in a text-based widget. If you're using HTML, you'll need to modify the code to properly show the advertisement.

7. Monitor your advertising campaigns. If you aren't having success with a particular ad, swap it out for a different ad from the same company or change companies altogether.

How to Get Free Ads on Your Site

1. Access your Web browser and search for Google Adsense, Chitika or Click Bank.

2. Apply for their free ads to be placed on your website. Depending on the service you choose, you will need to give them your bank account information or your PayPal information.

3. Choose where you wish to have the ads placed on your site and how many ad 'blocks' you wish to have.

4. Agree to the service provider's terms and conditions and complete the registration.

5. Wait for a day or two to confirm that the service provider has your correct account information. The service providers will do this by placing a small amount of money into your bank or PayPal account and having you confirm the amount.

6. Continue to keep your site up and running. The ads are completely independent and require you to do nothing but collect.

How to Earn Money Blogging

1. Sign up for advertising sites like Google AdSense, Chitika or Kontera to add advertising links to your blog. When one of your readers clicks on the link, money is paid into your account. Never click on your own links.

2. Sign up for affiliate marketing websites like Linkshare, ClickBank, Shareasale and Google Affiliate Network. You'll need an established blog with several blog posts to qualify for most affiliate partnerships. Whenever someone clicks an affiliate link on your website and purchases a product from your affiliate partner, you receive a commission.

3. Sell advertising spots on your blog to companies. Once you have incoming traffic and growing popularity, approach companies that fit with your blog topic. Offer advertising space on your website for a specific monthly price. This type of advertising differs from a program like Google AdSense, which only pays when someone clicks. Selling ad revenue guarantees monthly income.

4. Turn your blog into an e-book. Companies such as Amazon, Apple and Smashwords allow authors to self-publish their work on their electronic platforms. Assemble your blog content into an e-book using their formatting guidelines. Advertise your e-book to your blog traffic and on your social media networks to generate sales.

5. Sell your own products on your blog. Technology bloggers may want to sell WordPress templates or their own programming applications. Sell your expertise using a membership site. Fashion bloggers with craft experience can create crafts, jewelry and clothing to sell. Figure out what your skills are and sell them on your website.

How to Get Review Products for Your Blog

1. If you want to obtain products to review, and if you have already crafted some superb content for your blog, the next thing you need to do is make sure people are reading it. Ping search engines, tweet out links to some of your best posts using relative hashtags, comment on other blogs, and promote the great blog you already have put together. Public Relations departments are more likely to respond to a blog with an established readership than to a new blog with an introductory post and a couple of AdSense modules.

2. The second thing you want to do to get products to review for your blog is to establish communication with the type of companies that manufacture products you would like to review. If you are an organic product lover, then find organic company fan pages on facebook and follow their twitter feeds. Casual communication is great for opening doors and for giving you the confidence to pursue step 3.

3. Step 3 is to cold call the companies who create products you would like to review on your blog. Look up their Public Relations contacts online and send an e-mail. If an e-mail address is not available, you can use a 'Contact Us' form to request contact information for a company's PR department specifically.Have a form review product request letter ready that includes the basics of your blog readership numbers, monthly clicks, and comment averages. Present this information along with a tailored pitch related to why you would like the opportunity to review their products. Let the company know the basic types of information you would include in a product review, and let them know the methods of communication you use to promote your blog content.If you are turned down by one company, don't take it too hard. Dust yourself off and contact the next person on your list.

How to Optimize Your Website for Google

1. Design your website in CSS. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, which are written instructions for how the site is presented to your visitors. CSS allows you to update the text and appearance of your entire site with little effort.

2. Keep your site design simple. Do not have music or videos loading when someone visits your home page. Keep your site clean and easy to navigate.

3. Use meta tags. Google mainly uses meta tags, such as your Title, Description and Keywords to correctly index your site and put it in the right category.

4. Avoid using giant files that take forever to load. Optimize your images before uploading them to your website.

5. Check your links often. The Google bots won't know what to do if they find a broken link or can't find their way off of your home page. Their only option is to leave, and you want your entire site indexed, not just your landing page. Use text links and avoid JavaScript when creating your navigation, and provide the search spiders with a Site Map.