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Q: What are your sources of income from your blogs?

I’m not going to lie to you. I blog to make money. I’m sure all of you out there have the same intent as me. The question is, how can you make money with your blog? What are the options?

I run 8 different blogs which I would say are all pretty successful. Each blog uses a different combination of income sources. Overall, Google Adsense has been the largest source of income. Here is my list of the best money maker programs that I use. Just keep in mind that each blog different. This is not by any means a definitive list, it’s simply an average of what I’ve seen with my blogs.

1. Google Adsense - The largest money maker I’ve used. What I’ve found is that the type of traffic you generate makes a huge difference in CTR. Organic traffic is golden.

2. Chitika - A real up and comer in terms of money making ability for me. I’ve only used it for 6 months, but at this rate, it has a chance to challenge Adsense for the top honors. It has a nice ability to target ads manually so that you know exactly which ad will appear.

3. Amazon Affiliate - The name alone sells itself. Most people are familiar with the site and feel safe purchasing from them. The Amazon affiliate program doesn’t generate a consistent amount of money, but income spikes can be very substantial.

4. Shopzilla - Very similar to Chitika. Ads can be targeted down to a specific product. Very blog friendly.

5. Private advertisers - Not much made off private advertisers but there was enough to make it worth mentioning.

Hope this list helps anyone out there interested in making some money with their blogs.

What are your sources of revenue? Our readers (myself included) would be interested to know!