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Contextual Advertisements

The most common way and the easiest way to monetize a blog is to place contextual advertisements on it. Contextual ads are small, usually unobstrusive ads that promote advertisers related to your site's content. This means that if your blog is about sports the ads that appear on your site would be about sports news, sports apparels etc. The best part about these type of ads is that they compliment the content very well and there is no maintenance involved. These ads do not expire and do not need to be changed regularly.

The biggest networks provide these services including Google, Yahoo, MSN etc. Once you sign up to these programs, you are given a small snippet of javascript code that you place on the exact location of the web page where you want the ads to appear. The look of the ads can be totally customised to complement your website.

These type of contextual ads usually pay anywhere between a few cents to a few dollars per click. Depending on the niche of the website, the click through rate as well as the earnings per click will vary. Small and medium sized webmasters have been known to make hundreds of dollars per month using these programs.