There are loads of ways you can make money from your blog. A lot of them you would have heard of before. Using adsense, selling private ads, selling paid reviews, selling text links, selling ebooks. The ways you can make money from your blog are almost unlimited.
I want to show you another way you can make money on your blog. This is a way I have not seen used very much. I have only seen it used a couple of times and I am only just starting to use it on my blog.
You have seen signatures in forum posts and you have seen signatures on ezinearticles but you will rarely see signatures on blog posts. Adding a signature to your blog post can be an effective way to make money. Here are a few ways you can make money by adding a signature to your blog posts
Marketing Affiliate Products
You can do a quick pitch for an affiliate product and provide your affiliate link in your signature. That way when people click on the link and buy something (or complete an offer) you make money. This is one of the easiest ways to make money from a signature
Marketing Your Own Product
If you have created your own products then this can be a great way to market them and get some extra sales. Talk quickly about your product and then add a link to the page people can buy it from.
Building a Newsletter Subscriber List
This method does not make you money immediately but you can use signatures to get people to subscriber to your RSS feed, or even better to get people to subscribe to your newsletter. Once people subscribe to your newsletter you can send them
Now I want to teach you how you can get the best results with your signatures.
Make Your Signature Relevant To The Post
There is no point me advertising weight loss products on a post about how to make money online. You need to make your signature relevant to whatever you are talking about. This way more of your readers will be interested in the product/service you are offering them.
Try To Fulfill The Needs People Reading Your Post Have
It is likely that a lot of people will read your post with a need. They might need to lose some weight, they might need to make some more money, they might need a number of things. What you need to do is tap into their need and offer them the perfect solution. Then they will be thanking you for selling you a product.
Give a Specific Call To Action
It helps if you have a specific call to action in your signature. People don’t just click on links because they are there, but people do what you tell them to do 
. So tell them to go to this site and sign up and some of them will.
Make It Blend In.
Sometimes it pays to make your signature blend it. This is because people are now becoming so used to ads that they are ad blind. They don’t see the ads anymore. My signatures look exactly like the post I am writing and I write a new signature for every post I do, it is relevant and people just continue reading the post all the way down to the signature.
Don’t Try and Trick People
Don’t try and trick people and get them to sign up for a product you know is a piece of crap just so you can make a quick buck. This will just lose you readers and future customers. Instead, only offer top quality products that you know your readers will enjoy and love.
Offer Discounts
People love discounts or bonus offers. Offer them something special and they will just at the chance to save some money. It is not about how much it costs but how much you save.
Ok so now you should be well equipped to start creating signatures for all your blog posts and making some money from that traffic you are getting. Go through your old blog posts and add signatures, it won’t annoy your regulars (because none of them really read your old posts) and it will make you some money from the search engine traffic. This is what I plan to do with my blog.
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January 8th, 2009 at 7:28 am
Hey Ryan,
your last post was very good. I read many other posts too. The popular ones, I enjoyed them greatly.
But I less enjoyed the few new ones except the last one.
But you are back again with a great one
I am always in search of posts like these. Although I know all these ways but we all need some forces that ca make us recall them time to time.
It was an awesome post.
Can you answer my question?
How much do you earn from this blog and how many other ventures do you have?
Regards
Laksh
http://makemoneyonline-withme.blogspot.com/
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January 8th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Good tips, and nice to see “Don’t try and trick people” in that list.
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January 8th, 2009 at 9:14 am
I like this idea, as 99% percent of people coming from search engines are looking for a solution, adding an affiliate link in your signature should get a pretty good click-thru rate. Defiantly going to try it. Thanks.
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January 8th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Establish credibity for a blog , once you establish credibility ..your sales will sky rocket ..if you have a blog visited by bloggers they know all your link are affiliate links, how does a blog make money in such a senario any thoughts Ryan ???
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January 10th, 2009 at 8:40 am
And how will the sales skyrocket then? Making passive income for credibility of a site is feasible but getting ton of sales is not…
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January 8th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Great post. You should always mask your affiliate links. That way they only can guess if your links are affiliates.
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January 8th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
I sell and market affiliate products from my blog as well. A good way to earn income indeed from your blog.
I also advise that affiliates cloak their links when posting on blogs. These precludes affiliate theft and makes you secure that people will sign up under you and you’ll get credit for it.
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January 8th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
very informative post. thanks for the awesome tips. I already use some of those tips
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January 8th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Well, I did think of this but figured CommentLuv pretty much does it.
However, I look forward to whoever has the programming skills to create a plugin that automatically inserts sig’s within comments
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January 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Don’t trick people, it’s a good point. We may can have high traffic, but it’s for a while, after that we will lose them and they never coming back
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January 9th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
I have never heard of adding signatures to blog posts. May be I’ll use this to Make money. Thanks a lot for the post.
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January 9th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Nice idea, its refreshing to read something that hasn’t been preached before.
If you are blogging in a niche (i.e. the posts are fairly closely related), and have one product or resource that your particularly want to bring to your reader’s attention over a number of posts, then presumably the relevance to each individual post is less of an issue ? Or, in your experience, is this technique dramatically more effective when targeted specifically at the subject matter of the post it follows ?
Regards, and thanks for the post.
Hugo
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January 10th, 2009 at 5:13 am
Thanks for the explanation about how signatures can be useful to blog posts and ultimately to monetizing as well.
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January 10th, 2009 at 8:33 am
And a lot more I guess… Most people are tricked that the only way they can make money is through an ad/s either selling directly or running third party ad networks such as Adsense
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January 10th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Great article. I was wondering if you know where I can find an affiliate mentor?
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January 11th, 2009 at 12:01 am
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January 11th, 2009 at 1:56 am
Sounds good if you have already build your subscriber base adequately. Until then looks like I will keep my RSS Feed siggy up.
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January 11th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Sounds like the signature idea has some real potential.
Please keep us posted on how you do with it on your blog.
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January 13th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Tricking people in the long run will burn you and hurt you even more. Definitely try to stay away from this tactic and be 100% truthful to your readers.
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January 13th, 2009 at 10:33 am
A great idea. After all, if you write about an experience involving a particular product that you liked, then it just makes sense to provide a link (affiliate link) to it at the bottom of your post. You’re not duping your readers if you sincerely like the product, and had a good experience with it.
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January 13th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Good post. I think having a signature after a post is really a great idea. Sort of building your content up and ending it with a call to action. Well thought of.
Peter Lee
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January 14th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Cool Ryan, this never really crossed my mind, thanks. It’s always nice when something so simple as a post signature can earn money.
I think I need to take some brain vitamins.
I also have to get over the problem I have with asking people to take action. I am working on that one.
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January 16th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Sure, I’ll follow your tips Once I have a good Blog setup!
hehe!
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January 16th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Thanks for the tips. I really enjoyed and learned a lot from this post
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January 19th, 2009 at 6:25 am
I agree that many ideas are simply brilliant,it is so kind of you to share this useful stuff.
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January 22nd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Great post! I think you covered a lot of ground and I would like to add one point:
If you can ADD VALUE to your readers, the money will follow you and come to you!
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January 28th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
I never thought about adding signatures to blog posts. Ive always seen them on forums and articles. This is a great idea and a good way to make some money. Thanks for sharing it
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February 18th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I don’t really like signatures in comments. They kind of look like spam and may get the comment deleted on some blogs. Also, most blogs don’t use CommentLuv, so you’ll get a nofollow link. I only post links in comments when they point to some additional information. That will certainly drive traffic.
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March 24th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Thanks for taking the time to put up this information, it will be very useful to me and no doubt countless others.
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December 21st, 2009 at 6:02 pm
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