Chapter 10. Getting Paid to Blog

The most important element in making your blog profitable is creating interesting content on your web site that someone might want to come and read. Once you’ve got that piece taken care of, you can work on placing ads on your site that your visitors might find useful enough to click, and by doing so, generate income for you.

Because of the connection between Google and Blogger, Blogger has several tools that facilitate placing Google ads on your blog. If those tools aren’t robust enough, you can go directly to the source at Google’s AdSense web site and customize the ads to your liking.

In addition, you can add just about any affiliate program’s ad codes to an HTML/JavaScript gadget on Blogger in order to include ...

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