Can you imagine me rolling my eyes as I say this post’s title?

Sure you can.

It sounds funny, I know, since most bloggers only know one way of earning through advertisements: the earnings-per-click model. Back when I was a newbie, I ran through the entire range of programs offering money in exchange for ads displayed on my websites. Unfortunately, each time I checked these programs to see my earnings, I would find a little over two cents at the most.

It got frustrating soon enough, and I just didn’t have the energy to deal with these programs anymore. Slowly, I moved towards other programs such as affiliate marketing and paid blogging and eventually forgot about those pesky ad programs.

Still, I knew deep down that ads were lucrative and less taxing to run. You just put up the ads and that’s that. It was too much work, though, and I gave up.

Around two months ago, however, I discovered a different kind of money for advertisements program. I’m a bit late about this and some of you may have heard of this already, but trust me — it’s worth taking time to try this.

Instead of earning per click, this model pays you a specific sum monthly for putting up ads in your website. There’s no need to worry about the clicks; all you have to do is slap the ads on and you’re set. Of course, this isn’t quite as lucrative for major bloggers, but for us little people it’s practically godsend.

Here are some ad programs you can try:

The Ad Network

- Earn £5 per approved website (three ads per website)

- £10 sign-up bonus

- On-time payments

- You can submit an unlimited number of sites (subject to their approval)

Matched.co.uk

- Earn £5 per ad on your website (maximum of five per website)

- £5 sign-up bonus

- Takes time to get ads matched

There are more, by the way, only a lot of them aren’t accepting any more publishers right now. Of the two, I can vouch readily for The Ad Network as I’ve been paid several times already. As long as you get approved, you’re fine. All you have to do is put up the ads they give and you’re set.

Do check them out and see if you can make a bit more moolah off these programs.