It’s becoming easier and easier to make money using your blog.

Great bloggers just keep coming up with ways to score a few bucks—or a lot—and it really adds up.

The secret to making money with your blog is that some of the methods will earn you large amounts of money, and some will earn you only pennies at a time, but it all adds up.

Keeping up with all of the strategies gives you an opportunity to add up considerable amounts of dough.

1. Advertising

This is probably the easiest and most common way for bloggers to make money online. Using a program like Google Adsense, relevant ads are placed on your site, and you get paid anywhere from a few cents to a few bucks for every time a visitor clicks through.

2. Affiliate Programs

Joining affiliate programs allows you to promote someone else’s product and then receive a commission when you encourage them to buy. Having a link on your site that a visitor clicks through uses a cookie to track whether they return for a purchase or not.

If so, you just made some cash—some affiliates pay up to 15% commission.

3. Ask for Donations

You’d probably be surprised how much money you can get just by asking for it. Asking for a small donation to keep your very informative site running smoothly will land you a sizable nest egg.

Set it up using PayPal, and watch the voluntary contributions pour in.

4. Sell Something

Actually selling a product or service is an obvious way for you to make money using your blog. Some choose to peddle ebooks, others may sell tshirts or buttons. Still others may market themselves as blog advisors. Whatever you can think of, there’s likely to be a market for it.

5. Hire Yourself Out

If you’re a good writer, and you’re keeping up a decent blog, people will take notice. Chances are you will be asked at some point to contribute to other blogs, either by using your own name or selling your posts ghostwritten.

Writing a blog is a time-consuming process that not everyone is good at. If you’ve got it, flaunt it!

Take a look at Bloggers For Hire if you think you’d like this sort of work.

Non-blogging writing opportunities are just as common, as bloggers have become a much-sought-out bunch of business people in today’s world. Contributing to magazines or newspapers from a blogger’s perspective can be another opportunity.

6. Consulting

Maintaining a successful blog that is making money is a talent.

If you are able to do so, then you are the type of entrepreneur (a leader in your niche) that novices will turn to for advice.

7. Teach Others

Develop an online training or video with some advice or write an ebook with tips and tricks.

Good advice is worth money to a lot of people!