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As I am building my list of How To Make Money Online, let me start off on the simplest way to do it for bloggers: hosting ads. This method simply requires that you put an HTML code somewhere in your blog, which would allow ad hosting sites like those above to show ads of advertisers that they have a partnership with. With the availability of widget programs, placing the code is simply as copying the code, pasting it in the widget, and placing it where you want in your blog. At least that's the way it is with Blogger.

A few characteristics of this method includes:

1. Earning is primarily determined by the size of the traffic of your site or blog. Basically there are two ways to earn: impressions and clicks. Impressions is accomplished by simply showing the ads in your blog, sort of a billboard on a highway or an ad on a newspaper. Clicks is when a person who sees the ad actually gets interested enough to follow where the link goes. Obviously you earn more with clicks on individual basis, simply because not everybody who sees the ad will actually click it.

2. The ads presented are usually those that relate to the topics you discuss in your blog. This makes it more likely for viewers to be interested in the ads.

3. You usually do not have control over what ads gets presented, aside from the general guidelines of keeping it family-oriented and similar criteria.

So far, I have yet to receive hard cash from this method. This is because the ad hosts usually have a minimum payout amount, usually at around $50. And it usually takes a considerable number of impressions and clicks, usually in the thousands, before you can even get to a dollar. But since they do not require any maintenance on my part, it doesn't hurt placing them in my blog at the onset. Who knows, I may just hit the big time and I would really appreciate the extra income.