More than five years ago, blogging is known to be just a form of an online diary. Remember Doogie Howser, M.D.? Back in the 80′s it’s a TV series about a kid genius who became a doctor at the very young age of 14, each episode ends with the teenage doctor documenting his thoughts in his DOS based computer. That’s the earliest concept of blogging I have.

Over the years, blogging became another advertising platform which is a not only good for the advertising companies but for the bloggers as well! The advertisers benefit from the significantly lower costs and high visibility (they normally invest in blogs with high traffic), where as the bloggers of course, gets monetary rewards for these ads. Just in case, you just recently started a blog, you would be pleased to know that there are actually ways for you to earn big bucks from having a blog. How? There’s a lot of ways, but for now let’s talk about 2 ways to do that.

1.) Ads – There are a lot of companies who uses blogs as a means to advertise. Some of the popular ones are Adsense by Google and Nuffnang ads. After signing up, you will be asked to copy an HTML code that you will have to paste somewhere in your blogs CSS codes. Yeah I don’t have it yet, since I’m still trying to figure out how to place it in my blogs home page. If you don’t have sufficient know-how in programming, like me, you will find it much easier when you have a blog with free blogging services like Blogger or WordPress.

2.) Blog reviews – They say that word of mouth is the most powerful tool for advertising. True indeed! How many stores have we decided to boycott and restaurants or food chains we’ve long avoided because of a really bad experience our friends or relatives had on the said place? A lot I guess. When we know the people who told us about a certain experience they had with an establishment or a service company whether good or bad, we remember it real well. As such, advertisers decided to tap on bloggers for product reviews. When asked to do so, these of course are sponsored posts. Linkfromblog is actually one company who specializes in these kind of ads.

Hopefully, that was a little helpful for those of you who are thinking of earning while blogging.