Without knowing your traffic #'s, I can't say for sure but the big networks require a lot of pageviews/month. Among the lower is Tribal Fusion, which requires a

Without knowing your traffic #'s, I can't say for sure but the big networks require a lot of pageviews/month. Among the lower is Tribal Fusion, which requires around 5,000 uniques per day. My blog is just about at this level, except for lower traffic on weekends, so I am considering applying soon. Otherwise you might consider private ad sales (not talking about those shady link exchanges emails everyone gets, those are bad news). Not easy to work with but it's the best bet for a small blog (let's say sub-100,000 uniques/month). There's also great potential to work with affiliate stuff if you find products you can honestly recommend and that your readers would trust your opinion on. I make about 1/3 of my blog income from affiliate stuff. Also make sure to invest in a URL tracker so you can hide affiliate links with yourdomain.com/Your_Slug to increase conversions and also let you find click stats, do A/B tests etc. I use one that is a WordPress plugin, you can find it on my blog in my profile, or feel free to email me. I'm just heading out the door but this is what was on the top of my head. I've tried pretty much everything out there for my blog over the last few years and have now gotten it to be ramen profitable (or in my case, healthier: salad w/ balsamic and chicken profitable)