In this chapter, I talked a lot about Google Adsense since it is a good way to make money using a blog. However, another way to make money is to sell ads directly from your blog. You can sell text links or banners. One of the most popular ad format in blogging is probably the 125*125 px ad, which are usually displayed in most blogs.
Selling ads directly from your blog isn't always easy because you have to find advertisers yourself. There are networks that sell ads, but they'll take up a lot of your profits so it isn't really the best idea.
In order to attract advertisers on your blog, a good idea is to publish your blogs stats; RSS readers, Pagerank, Number of comments, and so on.
In this recipe, you'll learn how to create a stunning "Advertise" page to proudly display your blog stats by using the "Automatic Blog Stats" plugin to attract new advertisers.
Get the Automatic Blog Stats plugin at the http://www.improvingtheweb...