Ever started a blog, written a few dozen entries on a topic you care about, seen the comments trickle in, and then gotten bored and quit? The 3 encouraging comments that seemed wonderful when you started the blog don’t seem quite so wonderful now that you’ve been consistently blogging for a year with not much result. Has all that precious time been wasted?

Not if you can find gold nuggets in your archives. Whether you’re a blogger who has quit or a blogger who continues (even begrudgingly), your blog archives can be a very good source of material for both active and passive income that can build over time.

Here are 7 clever ways for digging revenue-generating material out of your blog archives.