Direct Ad Sales

Usually a blogger uses a service like Text Link Ads to sell links on their blog, but the problem of using these services is that they take a cut. Doing a private link sale can benefit you more as you get to set your own price and nobody takes a cut.

Maki has written a series of articles on developing Direct Ad Sales as an alternative revenue source to make money online. You can find the first article and an introduction to the series here.

Before trying to do a direct ad sale make your your blog has good traffic, Google Page Rank and Alexa Rank.