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Blogging may be hitting its peak and I’m sure that over the next few years, the number of serious bloggers will see a decline but there will still be new faces adding to this industr. A new trend is emerging, one that I even thought of starting myself a year back – blog networks.

Last week, I came across an ad for paid blogging at Today.com. Basically, you get to set up your own subdomain like ‘blogname[dot]today[dot]com’ and start blogging. You get paid a dollar a post plus $0.002 or something per CPM.

Hokey. Before you jump in head first and get disillusioned if money doesn’t start pouring in as fast as you want, there are the not-so fine print to these things.

First, this is nice for new to blogging, or those who are just experimenting with how to earn from their blogs. From what I read on the FAQ, only the first month’s worth of blog posts is guaranteed a $1 a post payout, and only the first post of the day is paid. Just like in any other blog network, you’re restricted in how you control your blog’s appearance (they actually place adsense on your sidebar!)

Still, that’s $30 at the end of the month to start with with little or no overhead. Afterwhich, you’ll have to make sure you get enough traffic (promote your blog!) and have quality posts (they review posts) to increase your long term payout.

Get paid to BLOG at Today.com.