Not all that long ago it was very easy to make money from your blog if it had decent traffic.

In the stone ages of blogging (circa 2010 and before) all you had to do was place a few contextual ads or banners on your pages and watch the money flow in month after month.

If your blog had a lot of visitors, you could earn a good passive income simply by placing ads on it.

But things are different now. In recent years ads have fallen out of favor with both bloggers and their readers.  [Read more…]