While pay-per-click scheme seems easier to perform than pay-per-performance, latter has sound reason you may have to consider:that is, amount of commission is much higher than that of former.Most of case joining an affiliate program is free, so no risk and no catch is involved. But certainly you have to put more effort than you do with Google Adsense. You can regard 'more effort' as a cost of 'free' and 'more commission'.

The bottom line is always to consider running Google Adsense on your blog and if you are looking more income, consider joining some affiliate programs and placing affiliate link on your blog. If you want know more about affiliate program (how it works, how to optimize, etc), you may want to pay a visit Affiliate Business Web Site. Though that web site is not aimed to bloggers, you can find lots of information about how to implement affiliate program.

When you choose an affiliate program, most important thing you have to keep in mind is that that affiliate program must be related to your blog topic. For example, when you're talking about "car", an affiliate program about "how to make an e-book" does not make sense and won't generate any click through.

As a final word, it can not be overemphasized importance of your blog content and traffic. Why I suddenly raise these two subject while I'm talking about how to make money blogging? Because...

• it is or must be content that finally lead your readers click links
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• the more traffic, more chance you get clicks.

A note: it lists Yahoo Directory and Open Directory at first two spot but postpone submitting there unless you have more than 20 content pages.

Write a free article and submit it to article directories

This is a powerful tip yet not many blogger are doing. By doing this you'll get quality inbound links and a decent amount of traffic. This tip even make many other sites work for you. The secrete is that you provide useful information with your resource box that promote your blog. You allow other blogger or web master to publish your article on their web sites or blog with condition of placing your resource box at end of your article. Just pick up some of your blog, refurnish it and submit to article directories. You can submit your article at "Ezine Articles", "Article City", "Go Article", "Article Factory", etc.

There you have 4 tips about how to get quality inbound link to your blog and this concludes traffic to blog:how to boost traffic to your blog series.

To sum up,

• find niche keywords that are related to your blog theme and topics
• write a good informative blog using keywords
• mind some search engine optimizations
• and more importantly get quality inbound links

That's it. Happy blogging and wish you all best.