I've listed below some of the programs that are guaranteed to pay bloggers for posting articles and ads. Please join each program at your own discretion, although personally, I've started to make some money from them already, enough to pay my house rental and utility bills including my internet connection. Please review carefully your blog and see if it has met the minimum requirements for every program you will join.

1. Payperpost

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PayPerPost is one of the best known paying program for bloggers and not to mention, one of the pioneering in the sponsored blogging industry. To join PPP, your blog has to have at least 10 articles posted within the last 30 days prior to your joining in the program. I would suggest that you wait until your blog gets at least Google PR1 to be sure that you get approved and so you may qualify to more blogging opportunities. I'm telling you, being approved and not getting any blogging opportunities is the I guess most frustrating thing for an approved blogger. You can also submit multiple blogs under a single username, because it will allow you to reserve more opportunities.

2.Smorty

The good thing about Smorty is that it only requires you a minimum of 150 words per post and that's actually quite short. You can finish one post in less than 30 mins. Smorty pays $6 per post regardless of the topic but don't worry you don't have to sweat and come up with a very technical sounding article. Just do your usual way of blogging. Another tip for new bloggers, try to read other people's blogs whom you know is already earning some bucks and observe how they composed their articles. 

3.Linkworth

Man this is my favorite so far. It's regularly awarding me with blogging jobs and mind you Linkworth pays BIG! I guess 60% of my total online earning comes from Linkworth (LinkPost). It is also very easy to join Linkworth. My Abstractmind blog was approved the right away, as far as I could recall, it didn't even take more than 24 hours before I was approved. Another thing that I like about this program is their efficiency in reviewing blog post. Usually, they would approve your work the following day after you have posted it.

4. Sponsored Reviews

This is also good program to join. They are quick in paying, usually every two weeks prior to the first of each month. I don't get plenty of blogging jobs here but being a good payer, it made them one of my favorites. They also provide bloggers ample of time to write each article unlike PayPerPost (6 hours) and Smorty (24 hours).

Lead your Readers to your Blog

Assuming that you're done setting up your blog and you already got a few posts on it, then the next thing to do is to start getting a good number of readers for your posts. Now, this is one of the most difficult and often times also the most frustrating step of your being a blogger. But always put it in your head that this it is just normal whenever you find it hard to draw traffic to your blog as all the other bloggers(by this I mean ALL) also go through this stage of blogging.

When you were still creating your blog, you must have identified a certain theme or topic to blog about. From that theme, you can then readily identify your targeted readers. It is very important to concentrate on your targeted readers as it will it easier for you to keep them as your keen readers. Logically speaking, sports blog fanatics would normally read articles about sports and if ever they would very seldom read articles about any other topics. The same goes with cooking enthusiasts, inviting them to read articles about avaition or electronics may not work at all. But if you entice them to read your articles about modern culinary practices, no wonder they would willing visit your blog and if your articles are well written, informative and interesting enough, they would most probably check again your blog for more articles or even invite others to visit your blog.

After identifying your readers, the question now is how do you get them to read your blog? Well, the easiest way you reach them is by posting comments to revelevant forums and blogs. Again it depends on the type of your blog, if your blog is about web designing then visit popular forums and blogs on web designing and there you may post comments with your blog's URL at the bottom. One more tip, I suggest that you visit forum or blog pages with existing Google page ranks as they can help you get Google page rank faster. I will discuss on my next article why having a Google page rank is important for bloggers.