By making money on a blog their are numerous ways you can do it with out making the site look cheap, some of the best ways to do that are by having affiliate links to products on the blog as you can filter them in with the content. Many people will decide to fill a site with Adsense above the fold to bring in some money, sure I was one of those people in the past who did this as well but it can really make the site look cheap.

The best advice for people looking to make money online from a blog is to make a blog about something you love, I see many people making blogs about things they do not like and the blog just dies off.

I have built probably 100+ blogs over the years on mainly things I like and have an interest in and they do well, some examples of me making money and the styles used from a blog can be seen here.

Further to this if you still want to make money from Adsense on your blog just make sure you mix up the ad units and make them fit the structure of the site.

I also depends if you are building a niche site I would go with Affiliates, if you are building a traffic monster I would go with CPM and Affiliate.

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