Getting into the business of blogging.

[mandy]

Here’s what a number of successful bloggers with successful nonblogging careers say are the ways to think about getting into the business of blogging.

Don’t expect to get rich. You can easily place automatically served ad banners from Google or AdBrite onto your blog. It is as simple as signing up with an ad service and placing a snippet of HTML code into your blog. Many of the ads will be specific to the topic of your posts and the service will credit your account whenever a reader clicks on one of the ads. You get a check only if the account builds to a set amount, $100 in the case of Google.

But Philip Kaplan, president for products at AdBrite, cautions that only one in six blogs draws even 500 page views a day. At that pace, you would make at most $45 a month, even if the site were decked out with full-page ads. Mr. Kaplan estimates only 3 percent of active sites make more than $1,000 a month from advertising...

full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/techno....html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=eta1&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1213640039-Ex95gb2f18ouDcpc6ix1SQ&oref=slogin

[bryanfuller]

There are many other ways to monitize your blog, you can even place amazon ads when someone will click and buy goods you will get commission.

[Meribah]

Thanks I've been getting a lots of ideas from you