Blog Me Cash

The focus of this blog is ‘Making Money on the Net, Legally’. Recently Satish Talim of BlogMeCash.com spoke to prolific and successful bloggers Amanda Jones of ‘Build A Blog’ and Caroline Middlebrook of ‘Livin’ Online’ and asked them: “Amongst the various legal ways of Making Money Online, which is the one you recommend; use and why?”

Amanda Jones>> I would have to say for me it’s affiliate programs, because it’s the most flexible way. You can pick whatever you like to promote, depending on the commission you would like, the product itself and what you think of it. It’s a versatile way to make money with blogs because you can write reviews or have text links, banners or add it to your newsletter. You are in control of how you promote it and which one you use. I like to promote products or services which I use and know and that will benefit my readers. I also list the ones I use in my resource page. Of course it all depends on whether your readers need the product, you have to pick wisely. It’s also a numbers game so the more targeted traffic you receive the more chance you have of earning money!

Caroline Middlebrook>> I am still very much at the experimental stages of making money online. In a recent post on my blog I examined 10 strategies that have proved to work for many other people and I picked one to start working on myself. I chose bum marketing, also called article marketing. The reason I opted for this method is that it is really just a method of driving traffic and the site you drive it to can be anything which gives you the freedom to experiment with different monetization methods. For my project I am building a small niche website that will initially be monetized with AdSense which I have not used before. Another reason I like the sound of bum marketing is that it is fairly easy to get into if you have some basic writing skills. It’s not for everybody as the bulk of the work involves writing lots and lots of articles related to the site you wish to promote. But if you can do that, hopefully you can drive lots of free traffic from those article directories. I haven’t started submitted the articles yet so I can’t report on the results but I post weekly updates to my blog.

Hopefully in the days to come, more bloggers would join in and express their opinion on issues related to ‘Making Money Online’.