Professional Blogging: Make Money Blogging For Others Blogs are hot. They’re a way for businesses of all sizes to get visibility online. However, blogging is out of the range of experience of many companies; this means these companies are looking for people to write a blog.

If you have experience in blogging, you can find a blog job by scanning either the major career Web sites, the new “blog job” sites, or by approaching businesses on your own.

You need to have some experience in blogging - create your own blog to show that you know what blogging entails - and you should also know something of the industry of any company which is hiring a blogger.

Affiliate Blogging: Making Affiliate Sales With Your Blog Thousands of companies offer affiliate programs for their products online. It gets them a staff of sales people, and the affiliates make money.

Creating an affiliate blog is simple. Pick a product which sells well, and create a blog on the product’s theme. It’s not usually advisable to use the name of the product in your blog’s title, even if you can get the company’s written approval. Your blog becomes more valuable the longer it’s online, and in the months and years to come, you may stop promoting a particular product: this would mean that your blog would be useless if it’s too tightly focused on a single product.

So even if you’re promoting a single product, ensure that the name of your blog and the theme is not too tightly tied to a particular company and product.

You need to be aware that if you’re promoting a product which is popular and sells strongly, you’ll need to advertise the blog so that you get enough traffic, and sales.

So there you have it: two ways you can make extra money blogging.