If you want to making money from your blog or think that your reader and visitor love your content, you might be want to make a little money by asking for donations to support your blog.
When you write great contents and working hard on it, your reader may want to give you a reward for this. It’s like buy you a cup of coffee for your efforts to create value and give useful information for them. I think this is not bad idea to try. It will be love to be surprised when you turn on your computer and checking your Paypal and saw there are a little penny on your account. Thanks for our readers 
If you interesting to give opportunity to your readers to make a donation to your blog, you can put donation button on your sidebar or your posts.
To make it easier you can use paypal, the most popular and safety payment systems on the world nowadays. Use PayPal is also a universally accepted way to transfer money so your visitors will feel safety to feel happy because it’s easy enough.
PayPal Donations
Collect donations from a button on your website, or even using a link in an email!
PayPal Donations is a low cost way for you to accept credit card and bank account donations. Integrate PayPal Donations with your website in a few easy steps
If you blogging use WordPress self-hosted you can try some plugin to put Paypal donation button or link on sidebar widget or post. Here I make list of WordPress plugins that can make you easier to take a donation from your visitor by asking donation.
Buy Me a Beer
This WordPress plugin allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal. The plugin is widget enabled. The plugin adds a “Buy Me a Beer†button to sidebar and at the bottom of all posts.
When your readers click on that button, they are taken to the secure PayPal page from where they can donate money to you.
Read more info about Buy Me a Beer WordPress plugin
WordPress Paypal Donation Plugin
WordPress Paypal Donation Plugin can be used to receive donation in one click. Donation can be received in multiple currencies. The plugin can be used in the sidebar, posts and pages.
Read more info about WordPress Paypal Donation Plugin
PayPal Donations
Adds a PayPal donation sidebar widget and shortcode to WordPress. The options menu lets you setup you PayPal ID and a few other optional settings. You can choose which donation button you want to use or if you want to use your own button. You can also set an optional default purpose and reference which can be overridden on each inserted instance with the widget and shortcode options. There is also settings for currency, custom payment page style and the return page.
This donation plugin generates valid XHTML code.
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Donate Plus
This plugin will allow you to place the shortcode
[donateplus]on a WordPress page and accept donations. The form includes the option to be recognized on your website after the donation is received. The Recognition wall can be placed on any WordPress page using the shortcode[donorwall]. You can display your running donation total using the shortcode[donatetotal]. The entire plugin is integrated with PayPal IPN so it will receive notification once a donation payment has been processed and put the donor information into your website (if they opted to be displayed). The donor can promote his name and website, along with some comments on the Recognition Wall. This should hopefully encourage donaters who like recognition to be more likely to contribute to you or your cause.Includes Sidebar Widgets and Recurring Donations
Read more info about Donate Plus
WordPress PayPal Donation
Another small and beautiful plugin. It adds a fully customizable PayPal button to the posts. The only thing you have to do is put
[ donate]in your post or in your theme. Via the options panel it is fully customizable.
Read more info about WordPress PayPal Donation
Paypal Donation Shortcode
A very simple plugin that allows you to easily create a link to a Paypal donation page, by using a customizable shortcode.
Read more info about Paypal Donation Shortcode
WP-Donators Plugin
Monetize your blog! A lot of features to monetize your blog! Including: Sponsors Box,Text Link ADs,My Target, etc. Supporting multi-Currency exchange. It’s will support most popular payment interface in future. ParPal Just the first one.
Read more info about WP-Donators Plugin
Thanks to Xevo to mention about trojan issues with this plugin. I am not recommend to use this plugin again. Read more about this issues.
Start makes money from your blog today. Accept donations from your loyal reader. Happy Blogging
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