We've covered a number of services for helping bloggers make money, today I want to share a website called Link Vehicle. I've been a member for a number of years and they provide a great service to earn cash blogging.

Their two main services include text link publishing and sponsored reviews. I've found sponsored reviews work especially well for advertisers as it brings great exposure to their products or services. Link Vehicle manually check all sites before allowing them into their directory meaning that advertisers only see the best quality sites.

Placing ads for bloggers is simple as their automated system and excellent technical support means that even bloggers with limited technical knowledge can get to grips quickly with their service. You have complete control over which ads are displayed on your site as you have the option to approve each one.

Bloggers get a 50/50 split of any income and payments are made on the 1st of each month via PayPal with a minimun payout of $10. We've never had any payment problems with Link Vehicle, their structure is clear and easy to follow.

Link Vehicle ads don't conflict with those from other publishers so they can provide another potential income stream to help make your blog profitable. On ImAFish we run Link Vehicle ads along side those from a number of other companies to help sustain the site.

Sponsored posts can provide a vital income for bloggers and can add additional value to your blog or website. ImAFish recommends Link Vehicle.

The newly updated Great Britain Deals website has some great offers for Christmas including some amazing Argos Clearance offers.

Best Deals & Winter Sale:

Save 10% on ALL iPods

Save up to Half Price on all these top toy brands: Hot Wheels, Armed Forces, Baby Born, Littlest Pet shop, Leapfrog, Playskool & Crayola

Save up to 1/3 on all cameras

Save up to £100 on large kitchen appliances

Save up to £170 on televisions

Save 20% on dental lines including those already on promotion

Beautiful gift ideas – Save up to ½ price on jewellery, watches and beauty

Price Breakthrough – Save £50 on selected MSI netbooks with 7 hour battery life

Save up to ½ price on all Christmas trees and lights

Buy the Xbox 360 with Kinect for £249.98 and get Kinect sports free

About two months ago I sold my first website on Flippa.com, a site dedicated to buying and selling websites and domains. Launched earlier this year by a team from the internet resources site Sitepoint the marketplace is like Ebay for buying and selling websites.

The site I sold was www.ipodhistory.com, I originally bought the site from the Digital Point Forums about 18months earlier for $180 (£90 at the time), it was my most expensive site I had bought and was a relatively big gamble. Over the following year and a half I invested in search engine optimisation, added new content and grew a community. In this time I tripled the traffic and advertising revenue. 

I listed the site on Flippa and immediately received interest and a number of offers. After around two weeks the site sold for $2000 (£1300). I was paid through PayPal and the transaction went very quickly and smoothly. 

You can list sites on Flippa either with an auction style listing or where people submit private bids for a site. Flippa charge a listing fee with various optional extras (about $28 for my site) plus a final value fee of 5% (with a cap of $498). 

It's sad to see the iPod History site go from my portfolio but I'm more than happy with the return on investment. 

2009 has been a tough year for Bloggers to make money compared to 2008 but there have been opportunities and ad networks have matured to become better accepted by marketers. Gone are the large amounts of money for private ad sales in favor of link exchange agreements and PPC amounts have tumbled.

Here is how some of my sites have fared over the past year for monetization.

Sponsored Reviews

Sponsored reviews have fared well in 2009 with advertisers keen to show their products in a natural way to consumers and search engines. They are often criticized for degrading the quality of a blogs content but I've found a sponsored review mixed in between a number of good quality posts to perform well. Strict new rules for Bloggers in the US may mean some good opportunities for non-US blogs in 2010.

Pay Per Click (PPC)

It's been a rough year for Pay Per Click marketing, the amount made per click in 2009 has plummeted on a number of my sites, hopefully 2010 will see the PPC market performing much better.

Google Adsense - Has been a reliable income throughout the year though relies heavily on people clicking high value ads. Adsense performed well on my iPodHistory site before I sold it however has failed to do well on 12stix or ImAFish.

Clicksor - Has replaced Adsense on a couple of sites where they are not suitable for Adsense or have been banned. The amount per click is fairly poor even compared to Adsense.

Monthly Ads

Monthly ads are where you are paid a set amount per month for an advert though these often base prices on Google Page Rank and Alexa ranking. There are a number of key players:

TNX - Has been a consistent payer throughout the year but relies on paying a small amount for a lot of adverts.

LinkLift - Recently out of beta, LinkLift is one of the newer players but has shown good growth throughout the year.

Linkworth - Advertising revenue has dried up significantly from Linkworth over the past year.

Text-Link-Ads - TLA has paid consistently low amounts all year.

Teliad - Has paid consistently for higher Page Ranked pages.

Private Ad Sales

This time last year there was a lot of money for private ad sales however this has declined significantly. Companies are now turning to link exchange programs rather than paying directly for ads. Even the better paying gambling sites have been cutting back on their advertising budget.

Conclusion

Hopefully we are over the worst in 2009 with the slump in the advertising market. There are plenty of opportunities out there for Blog monetization but Bloggers need to work that extra bit harder to attract the advertisers.

Advertising revenue has been sliding in recent months but has been offset by the weakening dollar. It might be time now to start working on a strategy for increasing advertising through the recession.

There are lots of ways to monetise your website including services such as Google Adsense, Text Link Ads, Linkworth and Pay Per Post. The one I want to look at today is TNX.

The service is simple to install with a small PHP script to embed into your sites template. From there everything is automated. A cost in TNX points is given per page based on page rank but you can still earn from pages without a page rank.

TNX is good for:

• If you have a site with a lot of pages - such as a blog with posts, category pages, monthly archives and pages.
• If you have a site with a good page rank or have page rank on internal pages.
• If you do not want to worry about selling advertising, approving adverts or adding/removing adverts manually from your website.  

Payment can be made at any time to your PayPal account.

Payments for the Christmas period should now have been sent out - how well did you do? I was surprised how easy it was to make money without having to do anything! Did you know if you get your friends to sign up through EI42 and they each get their friends to join and purchase through EI42 you can make over £100/month!

Your store should look just like mine below (but with your username)

http://uk.ei42.com/pwhite/

Now is the perfect time to start recruiting people - then let your friends do all the hard work while you watch their purchases make you cash back!

It's easy to promote your EI42 store:

• Email the address to your friends.
• Add it to your email signature.
• Send it to your friends on Facebook or Myspace.
• Add it as a shared link on social networking sites such as Facebook or del.icio.us
• Add it to your forum signatures.
• Send it to your contacts in Instant Messenger programs such as MSN and AIM.

Good luck and happy earning!

With Christmas coming up now is the perfect time to start pushing your EI42 store. Top retailers such as Amazon, Play.com, HMV, Comet, Dixons, Orange, Toys 'R' Us and Marks and Spencers allow yourself and your friends to earn cashback through EI42.

With the average Cash Back around 5% on a Christmas shop of £1000 you will be saving £50! Now imagine your friends spending that and you earning cash back on their purchases!

If you have signed up already your EI42 shop URL will look like mine below. Now is a perfect time to be emailing it to your friends and family, adding it to social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace, adding it to your email or forum signature and telling people in the pub!

www.ei42.com/pwhite/

Happy Christmas shopping and I hope you earn plenty through yours and your friends cash back!