I’ve been blogging since January 2009. Blogging is my creative outlet to take my personal journals online to share with family and friends especially my thoughts as a new mom. My son, Hyzyd, was just 2 months at that time. I love to journal his every week milestones. Then I came to know lots of mommy bloggers online who shared that not only their blogs became outlets of information but they also use it for money-making opportunities!

I started small. After 6 months of blogging, I registered my blog to several paid blogging that accept blogs and then pay me for the blog posts I put up. I started with $1.50 for 150-200 words post. Nowadays, I started receiving $40 from generous advertisers for 200-words article! Others just ask me to place a link in any post of my choice and most of them pay regularly. To date (after two years of blogging) I was able to put up 7 blogs that make money (not that much compared to other bloggers but it’s enough to support my hobby and other stuff) and I have 3 others which are still on infancy stage.

Blogs are excellent tools to earn some extra money without having to invest start-up cash. They’re loved by the search engines because blogs are usually updated frequently, unlike websites that are updated less often.

Millions of people visit blogs every day for information or entertainment purposes. A lot of the blog visitors are ones that come back to check in on the latest entries into a blogger’s world.

Another way I make money from my blogs is by using advertisement space. Advertisers offered me $120/year to place one of their text links or banner on my popular blogs- those with high page ranks. There are advertisers that are willing to pay you based on the traffic numbers you generate and the prime space available within your blog.

There are many ways you can monetize ad space. You might charge a flat fee, take a commission based on the number of click-through, or make a deal where you get a percentage of the sale of a product, much like an affiliate marketer does.

If your blog is extremely popular, then there’s more of a chance that advertiser’s will compete to have their banners placed in your space. Blogs are a good way to earn some money by sharing your thoughts, feeling and even your daily tasks.

Can you really make money blogging? Yes, you can. I sure did! As a proof here’s my latest buy out from my blogging money: 

Choose a topic that has a high number of searches, launch a free blog at Blogger.com or WordPress.com, and strategically implement your ads and offers to start seeing a steady income build over time.