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Like I said in the previous post your blog can make more than comments, it can make money. Sometimes a lot of money. If you don’t believe me, ask Markus Frind, owner of the web site plentyoffish.com a dating web site that has a plenty of fish for who wants to find a date and is making a plenty of money.

Like Mr.Frind other designers, developers and blog owners are making money with their web sites. Take a look on the top 8 google adsense (individual) money makers (excluding major network site):

1: Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com - $300,000 per month
2: Kevin Rose: Digg.com - $250,000 per month
3: Jeremy Schoemaker - $140,000 per month
4: Jason Calacanis: Weblogs, Inc. - $120,000 per month
5: David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard - $100,000 per month
7: Joel Comm - $24,000 per month
8: Shawn Hogan – DigitalPoint.com $10,000 per month

Like them, you can convert your blog into money and with some effort, discipline, time, a good niche and a bit of luck you can join the top 8 list above.

HOW TO CONVERT YOUR BLOG INTO MONEY:

1 - FIND A NICHE

Don’t try to create the new Google or my space and do not try to copy your favourite blog. To start to make money with your website you must have a identity and explore a specific niche. A targeted niche web site can achieve better positions on google and bring more visitors and page views.

2 - UPDATE DAILY

You can have the nicest website in the world, full of technology and with a perfect design but if don’t have this web site updated you will lost a plenty of regular users. Create a new post a day, make your site more interactive and always keep the focus on your niche.

3 - GO 2.0

Today your web site doesn’t need to depend only fo you. With wordpress you can allow other users to post in your website and get revenue from their posts. Remember to select posts specifics for your website’s niche.

4 - CHOOSE THE RIGHT AFFILIATE PROGRAM

Today you can choose from thousands of affiliates programs, however, some of them are not trustful or not pay as much as the big ones. Choose the most popular ones like Overture, Adsense, TextAds, Adbrite and others that have a good reputation.

5 - CHOOSE A GOOD ADS POSITION

You’ll probably loose a lot of money if you hide your ad in the page. Choosing a good position for your ad is not easy. Try to keep at list one ad near to the top and try different positions to see which one can have more clicks. Place your ad generated code in the Web site template to minimize your work.

6 - WORK HARD

A famous quote says that “Money often costs too much.” If you want to convert your site into money you’ll need more than a wordpress and a computer, you have to work hard. Some people left their jobs to try to make money with their web sites and soon after realize that they have to work more and harder than in the previous job to make the same amount of money. If you want to get paid you have to work.

It is not easy to predict how much you will earn from Ads. The only way you can learn about how your site will perform with Ads is through trying it.

Good luck!