Savvy Online Marketers are using their blogs to penetrate and dominate niches. If you are looking to learn more about making money with your blog, consider starting by reading this article. This is also a great blog (as well) so be sure to check out the other articles on the site.

Here are some other sites:

http://www.problogger.net/
Darren Rowse is a Professional Blog Consultant and offers a good deal of helpful advise on a regular basis.

http://adsonblogs.blogspot.com/
The ads on this blog provides some very good information on making money through blog advertising.

I’ve also discovered a few traffic building exchanges for blogs (I’ll be adding more as I collect them):

http://www.BlogMad.net
Free blog traffic service

For the past few years I’ve noticed Holiday Giveaway Sites are becoming more popular. These sites usually give away a bunch of free reports and software products in exchange for an email address. Most of these products have been available for sometime on the internet — but these sites offer a good opportunity to pick up some nice freebies — I’ll be adding more to the list as I am made aware of them.

http://www.30daysofchristmas.com/
This is one of the newer Holiday Giveaway Sites —There are some nice freebies here.

http://www.hunteridge.com/12days/
Considered the “original” Holiday Giveaway Site. Mark Hendrick’s Site boasts giving away over $11,918.89 in products through last year’s giveaway — check it out!

http://www.117ChristmasGifts.com
Another website with great freebies.

Articles and Press Releases within a specific niche are fantastic for driving qualified traffic to your website. When posting, be sure to post your articles and press releases with active hyperlinks to your site - these will help your ongoing search engine efforts.

Here are some article submission sites to consider for gathering and submitting content:

http://www.webpronews.com/submit.html

http://www.webnewswire.com/submit.html

http://www.webwire.com/ (paid service)

http://www.pressbox.co.uk/

http://www.przoom.com/

http://www.prweb.com/

http://www.prleap.com/

http://www.prfree.com/

http://www.i-newswire.com/submit_free.php

http://www.certificate.net/wwio/

http://www.ezinearticles.com/

http://www.contentdesk.com/

http://www.clickpress.com/releases/index.shtml

http://www.businesstoolchest.com/articles/submit.shtml

http://www.articleblast.com/

http://www.articlealley.com/

http://www.articleshaven.com/

http://www.articlecity.com/

http://www.articlefinders.com/

http://www.articleworld.net/

http://www.articledepot.co.uk/

http://www.ideamarketers.com/

http://www.httparticles.com/

http://www.goarticles.com/

http://www.constant-content.com/

http://www.valuablecontent.com/

http://www.article-content-king.com

http://freezinesite.com/articles.cgi

Here are a collection of free marketing e-newsletters
I would highly recommend for internet marketers:

Site Pro News:
http://www.sitepronews.com/

A very good Newsletter for new SEO developments
and general web marketing news.

Web Pro News:
http://www.webpronews.com/

Another good general resource for SEO news
and related web marketing developments.

Web Marketing Today:
http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt/

Published since November 1995, Web Marketing Today is
the largest circulation Internet marketing e-mail
newsletter in continuous publication.

Marketing Tips Newsletter
http://www.marketingtips.com/newsletters/

A good newsletter for promotional tips and tricks.

Here are some Free SEO forums:

http://searchenginewatch.com/

http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/

I get asked about how/ where to start with pay-per-click campaigns. So here are a few resources to help you:

Visit http://www.payperclickguru.com/ in order to review and compare different pay-per-click search engines. They offer an easy-to-read comparision chart so you can quickly review features of various pay-per-click resources:

http://www.payperclickguru.com/chart.html

This site also is a good place to acquaint yourself with various pay-per-click terminology:

http://www.payperclickguru.com/glossary.html

Once your campaigns start yielding results, be sure to use some comparison websites to find the best pricing for the clicks you are purchasing.

Save this step for AFTER you determine which keywords yield the best traffic.

http://www.compareyourclicks.com/ -
Good website to compare CPC (cost per click)

http://www.payperclickanalyst.com/-
Another good website to compare CPC (cost per click)