Once you start making some money online you realize your real potential to make money online which then influences you to raise your daily target and explore more monetization methods. If you feel happy with the current money you are making then you are probably losing a lot of opportunities and maybe you wont ever realize the full potential of your blog as money maker.

My latest experiment on making money online was with AdBrite an advertising marketplace that offers you different type of advertisement, CPC (Cost Per Click) or CPM (Cost Per Thousand Impressions). With AdBrite you can chose 3 different methods to monetize your site

• Place banner advertisements on your site
• Place textual links on your site
• Place In-Content Ads

Here at another night shift you will notice I am using only in-content ads as I want to check out how much I can actually monetize my content. The in-content ads are those double lined dark green keywords you will notice, that when you hover the mouse a an ad window will display.

So far I have tested AdBrite on another not so competitive niche and I have to admit that the PayPerClick is way much better then with Kontera, hence I am giving them a try even here on this blog to see how much it can really pull.

You can expect the results at the end of this month. You can subscribe to my RSS feed if you want to find out how well AdBrite performs in this site.

Amazon Associates came out with Carousel Widget just few days ago. This widget is built in flash and is interactive, you can list at least 6 eBook or any other type of products that can be found on amazon within the widget, users can then rotate the books and click the one for which they show most interest. Currently I have listed 6 very interesting and useful books for those that want to learn more about blogging, seo and making money online, the listed book as

• How to Do Everything With Your Web 2.0 Blog
• ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way To a Six-Figures Income
• Building Findable Websites: Web Standards SEO and Beyond
• How to Make Money With Your Blog
• SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible
• Blogging For Dummies
• Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP

Their new ads are simply lovely, clean and fast to load. It doesn’t slow down the loading time of your site/blog and yet they are attractive. I have not used Amazon affiliate program to make money online, but these attractive ads definitively intrigued me to get started with Amazon Associates and give it a try.

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The reason for acquiring this site was mainly its small but useful for me at the moment daily earnings the site was pulling from Google AdSense. The second reason was the traffic the site has from different resources, including search engine traffic.

Acquiring a website with decent traffic is good for several reasons 1). you don’t have to build that traffic, its time saving 2). gives you the flexibility to test/try different monetization methods.

After the acquisition of the site and replacing of the Google AdSense code the earnings were $0 and $0 and $0 for a week or so even tho there were several clicks on the ads but for some reason for Google AdSense those clicks were counted as invalid and were not paying the publisher (me). My first thought after a week was to sell the site away and get rid of it.

Did I sold the site? Nope and the reasons are several, even tho I acquired the site because of the adsense earnings the traffic was big enough and the quality of the traffic was good, it has 99% of UK traffic. What I did was trying another way to make money out of that site so I tried couple affiliate networks that were related to rave music, dj equipment and similar stuff, but they were all just paying low commissions and I had to subscribe to different programs which was not in my intentions.

Again the thought of selling this site crossed my mind, but once again an alternative halted me from doing this. I knew I have been subscribed with a affiliate type of program which pays on commissions and on pay per click but I had never gave it a try really, because I was lazy. I decided this was the perfect timing to give a try to ShoppingAds.

After placing the ShoppingAds the idea of selling the site vanished out of my mind and the site is now pulling a decent revenue. If you want to know more about ShoppingAds subscribe to my RSS feed to read the following post on ShoppingAds on more details.

Passive Online Income

As passive income we can categorize websites that are being set with a landing page from where we do sell products, for example Make Money Online eBook or any other type of product that does not involve us actively in setting up, shipping the product or even configuring something. It does not even include services we provide as that actually does require that we are active since we need to work in order to provide services. As passive online income alternative rather than selling products can be considered making money through affiliates, where you create a landing page, setup a PPC advertising campaign with Google AdWords or any other PPC campaign and get the traffic that is being sent to your PPC advertising campaign convert through your affiliate link and make money, easy enough (kinda).

Active Online Income

Active online income is same as having a daily job and you are being active in your work, apart that you have the commodity to stay home and make money from home rather than working for another person. As active online income I would call blogging, where you have to actually post daily, gather readership, be creative to sell through affiliate links and constantly work to improve your blogs traffic (organic or via referrals). Another online active income I would consider web design and web development, where you actually have to work and provide your clients with web design services.

Do you prefer active or passive online income?

Before you get even the chance to answer (like you do have the guts to comment) let me tell you what do I prefer. Active online income, and the reasons are simple. To achieve active online income you actually have to work, to do something, to read, to learn to test, optimize and get known with other folks. All this gives you that regular rhythem of living that you are most likely missing while sitting in front of the computer, but in a certain way you re compensate that time by learning something and actually doing something rather than just sitting and being annoyed.

To achieve your goal and actually make money from blogging you need to learn many techniques, as optimization of your site to bring maximum revenue, you need to also learn seo and drive organic targeted traffic to your website, you also need to learn some internet marketing strategies to promote your blog as well as to promote the advertisers or affiliates.

So what do you prefer, passive over active online income or vice versa?