Google AdSense

Earn money from relevant ads on your website

Google AdSense matches ads to your site's content and audience, and depending on the type of ad, you can earn money from clicks or impressions. AdSense for content automatically crawls the content of your pages and delivers text and image ads that are relevant to your audience and your site content.

Here is what Google has to say:

"Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money. Because the ads are related to what your visitors are looking for on your site — or matched to the characteristics and interests of the visitors your content attracts — you'll finally have a way to both monetize and enhance your content pages."

It's also a way for website publishers to provide Google web and site search to their visitors, and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages.

Google Adsense is incredibly easy to use:

1) Have a website or blog with a substantial amount of content.

2) Visit the Google Adsense website to sign up for an account. If you don't have a Gmail address, you'll need to create one before creating your Adsense account.

3) Copy the html code generated by Google into your blog or website.

4) Sign into the Google Adsense website to check your balance. You get paid for the number of times visitors to your blog site click on the ads placed there.

5) Collect your payment via check, direct deposit, or other options.

Pay Per Post

"So you want to get paid to blog. You've been writing about Web sites, products, services and companies you love for years and you have yet to benefit from all the sales and traffic you have helped generate. That's about to change. With PayPerPost, advertisers are willing to pay you for your opinion on various topics. Search through a list of Opportunities, make a blog posting, get your content approved, and get paid." That's the story at PayPerPost.com, where bloggers sign up and get paid to create sponsored content for advertisers. The site describes itself as a "New self-service marketplace that allows you to get paid to blog about the products, services and websites you love." PayPerPost.com claims that bloggers "can easily earn $500 per month or more."
(If you want my two cents on the matter, I don't do Pay Per Post. I have never heard of it actually paying as much as the proponents claim and clogs up the Internet with posts that are obviously nothing more than advertisement copy. Adsense is a much less intrusive means of monetizing your blog while still writing about what you want...not what advertisers want you to write.)