How to Earn Passive Income From a Blog

1. Get great content for your blog. You can write it yourself, get it from article marketing sites, pay for private label rights to posts or hire someone to write it for you. Great content will keep visitors coming to your site.
2. Open accounts with contextual advertising companies such as Adbrite, Google Adsense, Bidvertiser and others.

3. Choose the type of advertisement for your blog. Most advertisers allow a mixture of text and banner ads. Get the appropriate HTML or Javascript code and paste it into a text file.
4. Place advertisements in the appropriate places on your blog's template to begin earning passive residual income. Good locations include under the post title, at the head of the page and near the navigation menu.
5. Find some affiliate products to promote through your blog. These are available through organizations such as Clickbank and Commission Junction. Grab the affiliate code you will need.
6. Write a review of the affiliate products you have chosen, embedding your affiliate link in your blog post. Publicize the review through forum posts and comments on other blogs to bring traffic to your site. The more people that come to your site, the more passive residual income your blog will earn.
7. Repeat these steps often to create a passive income stream for your blog.