Blog for money?

Should you blog for money?Yes of course as it makes it more interesting.But when you write contents it should not be with the aim of making money.Money will follow rich contents. The most common form of earning money online is no doubt,by way of contextual advertising - programs like AdSense and YPN. Contextually relevant ads refers to that adserving basis where you contents are scanned by these programs and relevant ads are served to your blog.They may be text or images or a mixture of both.Income is based on a portion accruing to the adservers on the basis of cost per click.Higher the cpc of an ad higher is the portion given to the blogger on whose blog that ad is displayed.There are a number of other ad programs paying the bloggers on a per click basis,but adsense tos prohibits the running of contextual ads on the same page view as them unless they are clearly distinguishable.Then there are ads based on impressions which pay a small amount for every person who views the ad.To earn from impression based ads your blog should have a high traffic.Otherwise the amount earned from such ads is negligible.Do you want to set your own rates for ads that appear on your site?Consider---Blog Ads -Here bloggers set their own rates and can accept or reject advertisers who apply to them to be featured on their blogs.However if u become too greedy and charge a high rate you will not get any ads to show. OTHERS__ Adlandpro, Text LinkAds, Bidvertiser. Ads thru RSS -More and more people are reading blogs thru RSS. AdSense offers RSS ads to those publishers who have certain number of impressions. Monetise thru feedeedburner-Publishers can feed their Amazon affiliate program id if they have one.If you have over 500 subscribers they have an Ad Network of which you can benefit. Pheedos is another way to make money from Your RSS Traffic . Other ads from where u may earn money are---AVN,Adknowledge, YesAdvertising, RevenuePilot,TextAds, SearchFeed, Target Point, OneMonkey, and TextAdsAdGenta, CrispAds, Clicksor, Intelli Txt, Peak Click, Double Click, Industry Brains,AdHearUs, Kanoodle.