It's easier than you might think to make money online by simply having a blog. People often wonder, "How does that even work? It's just a blog." Well, it's very simple: advertising.

In its simplest sense, you just put ads on your blog, and you're paid in one of three ways from that:

1.) You're paid per impression (When a user sees the ad)

2.) You're paid per click (When a user clicks the ad)
3.) You're paid per referral (When a user clicks the ad and signs up for the product)

How this work is based on the advertiser.

So how do you get these ads? There are several web sites that will give you the code to put user's ads on your web site. Arguably the most popular on the internet would be Google's Adsense ads.

https://google.com/adsense

Google gives you the ads, you put them on your blog, Google makes money from ad-clicks (from advertisers), and Google gives you a share of the money. It's very straight-forward and easy to use.

There are also many other ad program options, like Bidversiter to name one out of many.

http://www.bidvertiser.com/

To get more traffic to your blogs (and more possibilities for ad clicks), use social bookmarking sites like Stumble Upon, Delicious, and Digg. These will definitely help to boost traffic to your blog and make you more money.

http://del.icio.us
http://www.digg.com
http://www.stumbleupon.com/

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