A blog used to be just a simple way to publish content on the web. It is still one of the most important benefits of a blog, but back when blogging began almost nobody realized the real potential of blogs - especially in generating income streams.
Along that line, many programs and services are now available, both for website publishers or specific to bloggers to earn something from their effort. This alone encourages many small to medium size publishers to choose niche blogging as a business of their choice.
While there are several problems as a result of that, that will be the subject for a future article. Instead, today we are going to look what income streams are available to a niche blogger?
1. Revenue sharing advertising program
Here is how it works. It is very simple. You place advertising on your blog pages. Everytime visitors view the page or click through the ads - depends on the format of the program - you share the earning with the advertising network.
Perhaps the most popular program of all is Google AdSense. You only need to place a simple code in your blog, and Google makes their best effort to serve relevant ads for your readers.
2. Affiliate program
Affiliate programs are a great model that have worked since the early days of e-commerce. In a nutshell, the concept is to pay a percentage of the revenue generated from an action, be it a subscription, sale or others.
You place a related product or service on your blog. The merchant will pay you for every action you generate for them. There are
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