I wrote a fully detailed article listing over 20 websites that pay you to blog online and which ones worked best for my and my own blogs.  This article is to help bloggers who are trying to monetize their blogs and be able to make some extra money while doing what they already love to do.

Some of the sites that work best for me include SocialSpark, PayPerPost Version 4, BlogsVertise but I have recently been making almost $50 per month from my twitter account with SponsoredTweets and Ad.Ly both of which pay you to advertise with your twitter profile but you have full control over what you want to promote (no auto DM’s and no spamming).

Google AdSense works best over the Chitika, Kontera and other context links and ad programs on my own blogs.

I can tell you that I have never had any success with Smorty, Blogger Wave, LoudLaunch or LinkFromBlog.

This is a snippet and sample of my full detailed article on the top companies to earn money blogging, if you enjoyed the article come over and read the full article and share any services you may have used that I don’t have listed in my article.

-Dragon Blogger

Reminder:  This is a sponsored guest post.

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My comment email responder isn’t working properly.  It’s probably something minor, but I’m easily frustrated and intimidated when it comes to technical stuff and looking at blog code falls right into that category!

Forgive me if I’m not responding!

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I saw those dreaded words when I logged in to my blog’s dashboard, “a new version of Wordpress is available, please update now”. My stomach was doing the typical flip flops at the thought of having to do anything technical to this or, even worse, my other blog. Every time I’ve ever attempted to do something major like this myself, something has gone dreadfully wrong. So, the last few times that updates were needed, I either chose to ignore the message, or I begged and pleaded several blogging friends to complete the process for me. Thankfully, they obliged.

This time though, I opted to take the plunge. I have the Automatic Update plug in and it walked me through everything! I even understood everything it told me to do, it was in plain English, not Geek speak. It performed a necessary backup of my data, deactivated my plugins, installed the latest version of WP and then, even re-activated my plugins! It all took less than 10 minutes before I received a message saying my blog had been updated. The last thing I had to do was click to re-activate the plugins and I went merrily on my way.

I’m giving myself a big pat on the bag and thanking everyone who ever told me to install that plug in!

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Thankfully, a blogging friend came to my rescue and figured out how to get into my host account and get everything updated. Then, remarkably, the web host unlocked my account and I was back up and running. This to me was a very poor showing of customer service. Please understand, I pay money to my web host, it is not a free account. I think I deserve better treatment.

Since then, I’ve been looking for a new web host and I really sit up and pay attention when I see a site like webhostinggeeks.com that does web hosting reviews. At their site I can compare all the features and prices of a variety of web hosts so I can find the one that will best serve my needs. I can even read actual reviews of the different companies before I sign up with them. This saves me from having to make a long term commitment with a company I know little about. If that weren’t enough reason to check out the webhostinggeeks, their blog is full of beneficial tips on how to choose a web host, free or otherwise, and how to reduce costs. I would definitely utilize their information before committing to a web host!

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Don’t get me wrong, I love Wordpress, it’s user friendly and you don’t have to be a tech geek to write a post or include a link or photo.  But, I do wish the kinks would be worked out BEFORE publishing a new update.  Updating blogs takes time, something I seem to have very little of lately!

Do you use Wordpress?  What version are you currently using?

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Hmmm, let’s talk about this. First of all, I am a paying customer; I am not using a free web host. Secondly, I have absolutely no idea what “pounding the box” means, so how am I supposed to fix the problem? Finally, if my blog is shut down and I’m locked out of my site, how exactly am I expected to get into anything to fix anything even if I knew how and what to fix?

Okay, that’s it for the big web host vent, now I’m shopping for a new web host and website hosting shopping is made much easier by visiting a site like webhostinggeeks.com where they compare and provide independent reviews of all the top web hosting companies. I simply visited Webhosting Geeks, clicked on the Best Blog Hosting link and found plenty of useful information to help me make a decision as to what company I’m going to choose.

If you’re looking for a new company for website hosting, I do recommend visiting Web Hosting Geeks to get you started.

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