This document provides tips for monetizing a blog through various methods. It begins with some statistics about blogging income. Next, it discusses building targeted traffic and growing an email list. Various strategies are then outlined for making money, including guest posting on other sites, affiliate marketing, creating membership programs, selling information products, offering services, and obtaining sponsors. Directories for finding sites to guest post on are also provided. The overall document gives an overview of multiple approaches for generating revenue from a blog.

1. Monetizing Your Blog
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2. Overview
1- Some Facts!
2- Be The Brand You Want To Be
3- Arm Yourself

3. - 80% of bloggers make no more than $100
- making money through blogging is not easy
- 11% of bloggers generate fulltime income

6. Targeted Traffic
List Building
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10. Searching for guest bloggers!
Go to Google and search (Replace the word ‘keyword’ with your niche)
keyword “submit a guest post”
keyword “guest post”
keyword “guest post by”
keyword “accepting guest posts”
keyword “guest post guidelines”
Keyword “Write for Us”
Keyword “Guest Blogger Wanted”
Keyword “Blogs the Accepts Guest Posts”
Keyword “Become a Contributor”
Keyword “Become a Guest Writer”
Keyword “Now accepting guest posts”

11. Searching for guest bloggers!
http://www.buzzblogger.com/500-places-to-syndicateyour-content
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/20-essential-blogdirectories-to-submityour-blog-to
http://www.briankeithmay.com/2011/10/16/100-sites-tosubmit-guest-posts
http://myblogguest.com/

12. Advertising

13. Affiliate Marketing

15. Membership Programs
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16. Information Products

17. Offer Services

18. Sponsors