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In order to earn the maximum amount of money possible with your new video blog you must do everything you can to market your video blog.  The popularity of video blogging and search engine friendliness of blogging will give your vlog a running start but it is important that you spend some time on your own increasing your audience.  Remember, the more traffic you bring in the more money you will earn each and every day.

Take the time to create video comments in response to other video blogs.  This is a great way to get attention and traffic on website such as YouTube.  A video response will often get much more attention than a text comment. You can also create video comments in response to other vlog sites and simply post links to you response in your comment on their site.  This will also help you get attention and traffic.

Social bookmarking is a wonderful way to drive traffic to your websites and make the search engines take notice.  Social bookmarks have become extremely popular with blog owners, video blog owners, and traditional website owners.  Some social bookmarking sites to use are BookmarkSync, Del.icio.us, Connotea, Digg, Diigo, Furl, GiveALink.org, Linkwad, My Web, Mister Wong, Mixx, Newsvine, Reddit, Simpy, SiteBar, and StumbleUpon.

Even though many website and video blog owners have come to understand the importance of social bookmarking they are unaware of the many sites that have sprung up to work hand in hand with social bookmarking sites.  Stumbleexchange.com is one of these sites that is extremely useful.

The website allows users to sign up and they stumble each others listed sites.  This helps stumbleupon.com users by providing them with more traffic since the site sends the more popular websites the most traffic.  Using this service will provide you with 200 to 300 unique users each day months after you stop using it.

Use RSS feed management services to help subscribers keep track of your latest video entries.  Signing up for a good feed management service will help you keep track of the number of subscribers your video blog has and will help them keep track of your posts.  Your users will also be able to share your feed with others.

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There are many ways to make money by posting videos to your blog and honestly the only limit is your imagination.  The following are popular, tried and true methods that can turn your video blog into a profit making machine.

Create Membership Areas
If you have created a video blog covering a specific niche then you can profit by creating a members only area.  This can be especially useful to those who are making instructional videos are videos that are designed for a certain niche audience.  Reserve some especially informative video posts for your member areas.

Also advertise additional bonuses to those who become paying members to your video blog.  Offer small gifts, free downloads, any bonus that would appeal to your visitors that would not cost you much money if anything.  Charge a monthly or yearly membership fee that would provide additional money to your video blog.  Some video blog owners charge as much as $70.00 per yearly sign up.

Sell Video Ad Space
Think of how much money the average company spends to create and air commercials.  Most small companies cannot manage that especially small, Internet based, companies.  Offer to create video testimonial/commercials promoting certain products or services.  There are many businesses that would benefit from this and you can get cash and free products by doing this!  Advertise your services on sites like:

Sitepoint.com
Craigslist.org
Ebay.com

When advertising your services come up with pricing guidelines and place ads offering your services in the small business sections or advertisement space for sale.  Let them know that you will be creating a customized video that they will be able to use on their own site.  This offer alone will get the attention of many business owners who are promoting new products are creating new advertisement campaigns.

When it comes to using these profit generating methods do not limit yourself to just one.  It is entirely possible to take advantage of all of the previously mentioned guaranteed money making methods to increase the revenue of your new video blog.  In addition to the methods outlined there are other things that you can do to generate income using your blog.  You can create video testimonials for companies that will pay for the promotion or even sell your own products on sites like Ebay.com or Etsy.com creating videos of yourself using or even making the products you intend to sell.

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