One of the best things about TypePad is that it is made for commercial blogging with lots of pre-defined options that are easy to install for you to monetise your blog. 

We’ve compiled a list of 10 of the best ways to monetise your TypePad: 

1. Collect tips with a tip jar (see our lesson on how to set up a TypePad TipJar)

2. Sell your own products through a PayPal Storefront using TypePad’s PayPal Storefront widget (see our lesson on installing widgets).

3. Create your own products through Zazzle.com and then sell them using the Zazzle.com widget.

4. Advertise products you are selling in Ebay through an Ebay widget in your sidbar. 

5. Create an Amazon Wishlist in your Sidebar (see our lesson on how to set up an Amazon Wishlist)

6. Build links to products from Amazon in your Sidebar through TypeList (see our lesson on how to set up a TypeList) using your affiliate account (and how to link your TypeLists to your Amazon Associate details).

7. Install Amazon widgets in your sidebar and/or have Amazon’s aStore widget in your sidebar.

8. Refer others to TypePad with a TypePad affiliate account.

9. Add Six Apart’s Advertising Program to your blog.

10. Add Google Adsense to your blog (once you have an account with Google Adsense, install a Widgetbox Adsense widget using the 120×240 ad format which is a vertical column that should fit your sidebar columns if not experiment with another ad format).

Explore both TypePad’s widgets and widgetbox as there are many more monetising widgets that you can install. 

But before you do install anything, remember your blog’s purpose and what might be approriate for it.

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