Below is a best of list for 10 sites that pay you to blog. If blogging is something you do anyway you may as well get paid for it and if you don't blog at all give it a try. If you are looking for other ways of making money online check our hub: 55 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE.
About.com
About.com is a site organized by categories with blogs that are called guides with writers specializing in a specific topic writing for his area of expertise. The key idea in this case is to find something your good at and write about that.
Squidoo
Squidoo founded in 2005 has blogs that are called lenses. They currently have more than 1.5 million lenses. 50% of many recieved from ads goes to their lensemasters. So if you want to be one give it a try.
Helium
Helium is yet another site that pays you for blogging with them based on your traffic. They also offer up topics that they want people to write on and pay on completion of articles for these topics as well.
Linkworth
Linkworth pays 50% on ad revenue generated by traffic to the topics you write. The site boasts millions of topics.
Sponsored Reviews
Sponsored reviews requires bloggers to write reviews on products for their clients and in return you get paid fro those reviews.
Shvoong
Specializes in summaries and reviews depending on bloggers to write for them. They also post assignments if you choose to write they pay depending on traffic as well.
Smorty
Pays you to blog about a number of different types of topics ans for reviewing/offering opinions on products , etc.
Blog Burner
If your already doing your own blog you may as well get paid for it. You can earn some money for moving your blog over to Blog Burner. Another good option.
http://www.blogburner.com/
Wisebread
Wisebread is looking for writers for the following topics: shopping tips, frugal living, financial advice, money making ideas, and grown up know how.