Make Money from Your Blog

Do you have a blog? Did you know you can actually make money from your blog? If you’ve resisted trying to make money because you don’t want to plaster ads all over your site, there are alternatives. One such option is to use a service like Smorty.com that allows websites and businesses to advertise on blogs. Basically, they are a service that connects advertisers with bloggers without using things like contextual ads or ugly banners.

Instead, with Smorty, advertisers will pay a blog owner to write a post with their opinion and a link back to the advertiser’s site. You can blog for money, getting paid to do what you love, and you keep you site free from the clutter and distraction of flashing ads. You are never forced to write about something if you choose not to, and you free to present the material in a very natural way.

Conversely, if you are a business looking to get some coverage on a blog you like, you can use Smorty’s services to advertise on blogs and get links and traffic back to your business. Studies are starting to show that users are becoming much more immune to traditional ads and oftentimes do not even see them. By paying bloggers to write about your site, you help get your product or website seen right within the content of the blog. You can also boost your search engine rankings by generating incoming links from relevant sites.