You already have Adsense units on both your blogs, in the same places. I'd suggest placing a link unit somewhere near the top of the blog. Both these blogs are new so it may take lots of time, work, and promotion to get a reasonable amount of traffic to monetize the ads.
CPA, Affiliate, Sel Link, Adsense or PPC other ... so why you confuse? The problem is how many people knows your media. It's mean your blog. Thanks!
Check out this Thread: Want to make money with your blog http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1572803 It should have your answers in the article you are looking for, it isn't hard to make money blogging. Start with google adsense then move onto trying affiliate marketing
Focus on the traffic, getting good/quality traffic it doesn't matter what methods you guys are using as long as you can drive good/quality traffic into your site/blog, google adsense is the easiest way