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You will see just how powerful blogging can be and inspire you to create a blog, if you haven’t already! It is also worth noting that the top blogging network, Weblogs Inc., earn about $30 million a month revenue from 13 million unique visitors.

It’s not just the monthly income that rocks but when you want to sell out you can make a huge amount of money. The Treehugger.tv blog was reportedly sold for $10 million!

There are over a dozen methods these top bloggers are using to monetize their blog, with different techniques for each niche. Some niche’s are easier to promote products to, some have high paying keywords and some are easy to drive millions of visitors easy month. Below is a run down on some of the techniques used.

Advertising Banners

By far the most popular advertising method so far in 2009. A great new service called BuySellAds take care of finding you advertisers and takes care of all the process for a small 25% which is well worth it!

CPM Advertising

This method is really popular for the website’s that receive a huge amount of traffic, advertisers pay you for impressions rather than sales or clicks! Check out Adtegrity for CPM Advertising.

Affiliate Sales

Selling on commission depending on your niche can be a huge earner and is by far my biggest earner. You promote great products and then get great commissions. Affiliate networks include CJ.com and Clickbank.

Pay Per Click

By far the easiest way to earn money from you website is getting paid per click you send to website’s. With programs such as Google Adsense and Netklix it’s so easy to add their code and start earning today.

This information can be fully explored at www.incomediary.com by Michael Dunlop. He put together a list of 30 Blogs That Make A Lot Of Money Online and a section below that (on the same page), with How They Make Money From Blogging

The first steps are always the hardest, and you really are making a wise investment. The biggest mistake most people make is simply not taking any action at all. Sign up for Michael Dunlop’s free course for making your blog profitable.