Blogging Buck$

People are making money from blogging. Not me, but others.

The Huffington Post is now the HuffPost and it really changed blogging. Launched in 2005, by Arianna Huffington has turned personal publishing an international "news" platform. Its Monthly income: $18 million, funded mainly through advertising revenue and investment, it was bought by AOL for $315 million in 2011, and today is worth an estimated $1 billion.

Okay, that's a big company, but how about a husband-wife team home finance blog. That is ClubThrifty with a monthly income of $25K.

The Gothamist takes in more than $100K a month as a News York City news and lifestyle blog that has expanded to eight cities across the US, Canada, UK, and China. And like any big blog, it was bought, in this case by news media company DNAinfo.

A pro blogger, Darren Rowse, has done a number of profitable, blogs. Then he did his most successful one by writing about the secrets of how to blog like a pro with ProBlogger. He didn't get bought out (yet) but makes bucks with advertising banners, a jobs page for online writers, and the sale of ebooks.

Here are the ways to make the money.

• Display ads on a web page bring in the bulk of the ad money through networks like Google AdSense and Amazon.
• Private Ads are those bought without a middleman
• Pay-per-click (PPC) is when advertisers pay for the number of times an ad is clicked.
• Sponsored Content is commonly when brands and vendors pay for a post, such as when a bloggers gets paid to “unbox” a new product or review a book.
• Affiliate Marketing uses unique affiliate links that when someone clicks and makes a purchase, the blogger earns money as a referral commission. Want to test it out? Click on my my Amazon link and but something. Anything. Thank you.
• A blogger can make some big bucks with more work by offering Digital Product Sales which is when they sell premium digital content such as courses, ebooks, and tutorials. One reason why digital content is very profitable is that it  requires no storage space or shipping costs.

So, get into blogging and do all the things I'm NOT doing and earn some bucks.