Sell links and reviews yourself

If you want to cut out the middleman and sell sponsored posts and paid links yourself, without losing a commission to a text link or sponsored post broker, here are a couple of Wordpress plugins that could help you with that.

WPbankroll lets people write posts for your site and submit them at a price you set. That’s right - not only do they pay you for the linkage, but they write the content for you, too. They can also opt for a featured post, which costs more but gains them a link out on your sidebar. The free version of this plugin has all the features - you just have to leave a link to their site on it.

WPTextAds sells text ads directly to people who visit your blog or who find you on del.icio.us, using a special tag designed just for the WPTextAds market place. The free version allows you a certain number of each type of ad; the paid version allows unlimited ads. Really, if this tool is a good fit for you, you should be able to earn enough from the free version to pay for the paid version in time.