Yesterday Amy Derby gave us a peek into how she earns $1,000 a month on a blog receiving very little traffic. I sometimes earn that much on a blog receiving fairly decent traffic, but I don't earn that much every month and I'm sure I can earn more. Still, for a writing blog it's pretty good. You see, writing blogs are difficult to monetize.

Here's how I do it:

Adsense – Adsense is still my biggest money maker. Though I'm still playing around with other forms of income, I have success with this and I'm not parting with it any time soon. For the end of October and beginning of November, my Adsense revenue is way down however, so I need to keep finding methods to monetize my biggest money-making blog.

Amazon – I have some luck selling books using Amazon but the bulk of my earnings with this affiliate is through the search box during the holidays. While I do earn a little using this throughout the year, during the holidays I can count on it for a few hundred bucks from people looking to do holiday shopping from home.

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