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One of the things that I’ve adjusted to with web writing is that income from blogging and article writing often comes from ad revenue or affiliate sales. I don’t like to come across as too spammy with ads or to push products or services on other people. It’s just not my style. But I do use ads to generate income as a web writer.

I try to limit the number of ad and affiliate programs that I’m involved with. These are the ones that I use and like so far:

• Adsense. I remoed Adsense ads from most of my personal sites and blogs because I could just never quite figure out how to make them work for me. However, I do have these ads on some of the specific sites that I’m a writer for and they do well for me in terms of generating a decent chunk of passive income every month. So the verdict is that I like Adsense when someone else is figuring out the ad style and placement for my posts.
• Amazon Affiliates. This is my favorite way to promote product and get revenue. That’s because I actually like everything I promote through this site and I think Amazon is a good place to buy stuff from. I use this on multiple sites through both sidebar ads and text links.
• Kontera. I started using Kontera text links on a few of my sites. I like it so far. It brings in some extra income and isn’t overwhelming to look at on the sites.
• Magpie. I’ve just started trying out the option of doing ads on Twitter using Magpie. So far I like it. You can change the settings so that you don’t post ads too often and you can control which ads go live on your account. That said, I haven’t seen any earnings through it as of yet.
• Clickbank. I’ve also just started using this one since everyone tells me it’s the one to use. No opinion on it yet.

What ad programs and affiliate programs do you use and like?