How to Blog for Cash

1. Sign up with a paid blogging site. Some blogging sites pay you to blog. They pay a fixed amount for your first post each day and an additional amount for traffic to your blog. Your payments can go up if you increase the traffic to your blog. To be hired by one of these sites, you will need to submit a writing sample and idea for a blog.
2. Sign up for a Google AdSense account. If you already have an unpaying blog, sign up for a Google AdSense account and add the widget to your blog. You will be paid by Google for the traffic you bring to your page. The longer your traffic stays on your page, the more you will be paid. You earn more if your visitors click on the Google ad links.

3. Sign up for a pay-per-post (PPP) advertising site. PPP sites give you topics to write about and then pay you to write a post on your blog about the specific topic. You will need to have had a blog open for at least 90 days in order to get approved for PPP blogging. Apply to one of the many PPP sites out there, and sign up for their assignments. You may wish to let your readers know that you are doing this, since the subjects you will be writing about may have nothing to do with the subject of your blog. Look into PayPerPost.com and other PPP sites.
4. Sell advertising space on your blog. If you have a popular blog with a high volume of traffic, you may wish to sell or lease advertising space on your blog. You can decide what size the space is (this will depend on the widgets your blog service offers). You can post placeholder widgets on your site letting your visitors know they can rent that space for a certain amount per month.
5. Add an Amazon widget to your blog. If a reader clicks on the Amazon widget on your blog and buys a book or CD from Amazon, you will earn a commission.