For the privilege of people that are new to blogging, let me give a brief explanation before discussing the topic of the day. What is blogging? Blogging is popular on the internet nowadays. It is a fun and inexpensive way to make your voice heard on the Internet. Through blogging you can make your daily thoughts publicly known to a greater audience. This makes the service great for diary keeping and marketing. Blogging is a great way to market products and services, information sharing and updating.

According to blogger website, “A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.

Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules. In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not…”

Now to the topic of the day, there are several ways that a business owner can make money from blogging. The intention of this article is to share with you some ways to earn with your blog. Applying the following tips will see you laughing to the bank everyday. Below are 6 ways that could help you do so:

1. Promote your products and services - You can use your blog to promote your products and services. It does not matter if it is an online or offline product.

2. Earn using Google - You can earn from your blog by inserting Google adsense html code to your blog. It’s a free service from Google, which is the most popular search engine in the world. The program is known as adsense.

3. Affiliate Programs – You can make money from your blog by promoting affiliate program. The affiliate text link or banner can be place on your blog. As an affiliate, you promote online companies product for a commission. There are many companies on the internet that runs affiliate programs. They pay you commission based on the number of products that you sell. The commissions paid differ from product to product and company to company. There are some that pay you commissions between 30 to 70 percent per sale made. Examples of such companies are implix, clickbank, amazon. Otherwise, you may go to Google search engine box to search for a program that you like.

4. Placing of Advertisement on your Blog - You can also sell advert space on your blog by using websites such as BlogAds. This site allows you to register your blog on their databases free and they deduct 20 percent from your earnings.

5. Request for donation - You can request for donation from visitors to your blog. The strategy is to place donation button on your blog. If they are happy with your content, they will not mind to give you their widow’s mite. A donation box can be requested from either paypal or bitpass.

6. Run a Gift Shop - You can also make money from your blog by selling something that serves as a reminder. A company like CafePress can sell for you and press your logo on items such as T-shirts, face cap, umbrella and coffee mugs. You determine the price you want to sell the product; you just pay them the base price of the product.

In conclusion, making money out of a blog is not as hard as you perceive. But like in any other moneymaking business, you must put effort. According to Ayn Rand, "Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

That's true. . .come to think of it, [b]blogging [/b]sounds like bones in my egusi soup (imagine plenty of "biscuit" bones".Make i go check am. . .brb