When you are looking for ways to monetize your blog or website, don’t forget one of the golden rules; Don’t have all your eggs in one basket.

What does this mean exactly?  Always find more than just one way to make money online.  If you try to focus on one tactic in the beginning that will be find, but once you got that one way under wraps, go ahead and find another.

Most of the time when you set up a way to make money, there will eventually be a period where you can put it on “cruise control” long enough to learn another way.  If you aren’t sure why you wouldn’t want to keep all your eggs in one basket, do a simple search for way to make money and you will find that almost all bloggers will say the same thing.

Where to Start

Many people will start with Google Adsense or YPN (Yahoo Publishers Network).  That is the easiest thing to implement into blog templates and many templates will come with areas that you can just “plug” the code into.

You can also check out affiliate networks like Neverblueads.com or PepperJamNetwork.com.  Those are two eggs that I have in my basket that are working for me.  I have made over $400 with ONE post through Neverblueads.com and in the meantime have been working on setting up ads with PepperJamNetwork.com.

Now What?

Well, sit back and take in the stats.  You always want to give your ad experiements about one month.  Don’t fold on them so quickly.  My post about CallYourPlay.com is still making me money today and that promotion for Mt. Dew and Madden football is long over.  You just never know what type of situation will make you money, so stick with it at least 30 days.

When to Stop

Never!  Why would you want to stop something that is making you extra money?  If you have a reason, it better be a good one.  If you ever think that you will have to ditch blogging, make sure you get yours appraised and see if you can at least sell the blog at sitepoint.com or even in the forums.digitalpoint.com.

Now, stop reading and go make some money!!

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