Okay so you’ve done your research, set up your blog and have several related posts – now comes the next step.

Adding income streams.

There’s a whole variety of ways you can monetise your blog(s) and one thing to remember when earning online is the old phrase of don’t put all your eggs in one basket. What that means is don’t rely solely on one source of income. Too many things might go wrong if you only have one source of income – lose that and you lose a lot of hard work.

Having said that though, you don’t want to go overboard on adding income streams to your site – one or two is fine – having too many ads though will most certainly put your reader/potential customer off.

The income sources you use will depend on different things: such as the content of your blog, where and how you plan to promote it and what programs are available to you.

While for me my best money makers are google adsense and one affiliate product (generally a clickbank product) that’s not always the case. This blog for example I have bidvertiser and one other affiliate product as my source of income.

If you’re not sure where to start when it comes to monetising your blog or which program to use – I have a couple of pages listed here under income streams (to the top and left of the page) that offer some different alternatives. You will need to decide for yourself though which is going to work best for you and your chosen topic.

As an example if you blog about dogs you might want to join adsense and add one or two adsense ad blocks to your blog along with signing up with clickbank and finding a dog related affiliate product (dog training etc.) One key thing to remember though is to always read the terms of each program you decide to join. Too many people just sign up for adsense as an example and then wonder why they get banned from the program (only to later discover that they can’t put ads on sites that promote paid to click programs etc – if that’s the topic of your blog perhaps bidvertiser or adbrite etc would be better)

No matter what income stream(s) you chose though, again I urge you to understand the terms and to exercise some patience – you can’t expect to put an income stream on your blog one day and receive payment for it the next – it takes time to build up a good income – but once you have it – it’s a passive income that just continues to grow, often without you even having to do any more to it.