It’s tough moving an affiliate blog into profitability, you know you have a voice, you write diligently about your niche yet the traffic just doesn’t come. The frustrating part is no matter how hard you work; it can take months to make even that first affiliate sale. Luckily there are a few resources on the web that will actually pay you for what you have now; a content-rich website. Below I’ll describe several popular options so you can start generating that cold hard cash —immediately.

Get Paid for blogging…

This type of service pays you to do what you should already be doing; posting to your blog. It’s pretty straight forward, advertisers order a certain number of posts about their product or website; often they’ll have a specific keyword that they’ll want linkbacks. You (the blogger) choose the ones you want to post about, then simply write the post following the advertisers instructions. Typically you can earn five to ten dollars per post. There are often some restrictions regarding the number of paid posts you can make per day and the ratio of paid posts to actual content posts, but this is a valid way to take advantage of your existing blog. Lastly, while these services are free to join, there is a review process before you can start posting.

I’ve tested several of these system, the two here are the two listed below are the once I recommend:

Blogvertise

Pay Per Post

Get paid for linking…

Most bloggers realize that Linkbacks are valuable to SEO and for old fashioned traffic generation. We participate in link exchange schemes, submit to directories and more. However, there is a market for paid text links —where webmasters pay you for a link to their site. You can either do this yourself, by contacting webmasters individually or you can sign up with a service that will list your site for advertisers to browse. I’ve had good results with Text Link Ads. With this site you sign up (it’s free) and submit your blog(s) for approval. Once approved, your offer goes out to their ad system. Advertisers then browse through the offerings and select the sites they’d like to buy a link from. All transactions are handled through Text Link Ads, they split the fee with you. Each site is allowed to sell a maximum of eight links, link prices are based on the demand within their particular category – it’s possible to earn about $100/month per site with this system. Note, Text Link Ads also offer RSS feed advertising, but I don’t yet have experience with that.

Check out Text link ads here.

Get Paid For Content…

Associated Content is an interesting site. They’ll pay you for articles you’ve written even if they’re already published. AC buys both written and video content. You sign up (it’s free) and submit the article(s) you wish to have them publish. You have to tell them at the outset if the article you’re submitting is exclusive (not published elsewhere) or non-exclusive. They then review your content and if they like it they make you an offer. Typically a non-exclusive article will net you about $4-$5. Exclusive content pays higher.

One important thing to remember about this service, there’s no resource box –it’s not like article syndication where you can get Linkbacks to your site, they buy the article and treat it as their own.

I’ve only used this service for non-exclusive articles (articles I’d already published), I was paid $4 per article, the payment arrives (via PayPal) a few days after the offer is accepted.

Have a look at Associated Content Here!

Well there you have it, three ways you can start earning money from your blog —today, even if your SEO efforts haven’t paid off yet. Give one or more of them a try and let me know how you make out.

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