Many bloggers make a living with their blogs. Making money off ones blog is a great way to bring in extra dollars and to get paid to do what you love. If you are monetizing site please be smart about how your ads display. I worked for a newspaper in their classified advertising department and I understand about advertising being the life blood of many sites. Most blogs need a lot of ads to make money after expenses. Layout of your site and template selection is important. The important question is, what do you do to get all your sponsors on your site?
Some ads are well placed and do not interfere with the content of the site which is why you go to a site in the first place. However some blogs make you wade through a maze of ads to get to the good stuff, don’t do that. User experience is important. Never use a pop-up ad or a banner ad because those are so 2000. Ads that overlay on ones content can be nuisance too. Sidebar ads or perhaps one smallish ad at the top would work best.
Some computers have a hard time with lots of ads especially animated ones and video embedded. There is also connectivity and speed issues too. Users in some areas have a bandwidth cap so keeping that in mind is a best practice.
I don’t know everything about web advertising however I do know about using a site and as a end user its important to get to the content quickly and get on with the other things I need to do. There are some ads that inform me of new things I didn’t know about. Other ads just lead to other sites with more ads and that isn’t fun.
(This post was an exercise for me to write something different. Your feedback is appreciated.)
The Tony Burgess Blog 
Thanks, Tony. Your thoughts on earning money via blogging is very helpful; for a while, I’ve been contemplating about doing so with my blog, but haven’t been fully certain about going for it. Perhaps it’ll happen, perhaps not, but we’ll have to see. Thanks again for your ideas- they got me thinking.
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I could see you doing a travel based blog of where you have been to and any advice as to how to prepare for those travels. Some folks get started and things fizzle out.
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I appreciated this Tony. I must admit sometimes I think about the possibility of making money from my blog, but for the moment I’m doing it for the love of it. Interesting to look into it though, to see if it would be feasible. Thanks for the post.
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I prefer to blog for the love and fun of it. Too many folks try to make it more than it needs to be. The moment your blog becomes money is the moment when you work for it.
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Absolutely. I think I’ll always do mine for love too! I don’t want it to become hard work … that would defeat the purpose of it. Cheers Tony.
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Many times, I don’t even bother to finish reading blogs with pop up ads. I may overlook one pop up, but more than that and I’m gone. I just blog for fun (I enjoy writing-always have).
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Another option to consider for ads is Passion Fruit, you may have heard of it already. The company is based out of Charlotte and the owner is very hands on. There set up is a one time fee and it gives customer an option to run an ad on your blog by clicking on the link. All the money business is handled by them through via your link. They might have afflicted links too. I used them on my fashion blog a couple years ago.
Thanks Tony, nice share.
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I’ve been out of work for a while and could do with a few pennies from blogging but I don’t want my blog to look like a ad sheet so how does one find a balance? 😉
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