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Jan
2008
Posted by Bill as Advertising Income, Monetization
Making money online with your blog is the goal of tens of thousands if not millions of bloggers around the world. I have read statistics that 2 new blogs are started every minute of the day, every day of the year.
Sadly most of these will fail. The blog owner will grow weary of blogging, they are chasing the lure of easy money and they think blogging is easy. If you take your blogging seriously then you already know that it isn’t easy at all. I would suspect that for every 2 blogs that start every minute of the day, two more quit at the same time.
This article series is going to discuss the many ways to make money online with your blog in each article. We will discuss different tactics or methods of generating revenue. In all cases you will need a basic understanding of blogs and technology in general but otherwise the articles will be written with the “noobs” in mind.
I will share which programs I use and what my success or failure has been when applicable.
Advertising
The first method we will discuss to make money with your blog is simply advertising. If your blog generates even a reasonable amount of daily traffic then you can effectively monetize it by selling adspace. You only have to search around a few blogs to find that most blogs are attempting to take advantage of this revenue generating feature.
The trick to advertising effectively is to experiment. Try different campaigns, positioning, banner colors, banner creatives etc and measure you results. Some types of ads will produce better than others and this is critical to find what works best with the theme of your blog.
In future articles we can discuss ad placement strategy but if you take ONE thing from this article, take this….no matter what you read, there is no substitute for experimentation. All sites are different, readers are different, ads are different. Test which works best for you.
If you are interested I have included some of the more popular ad companies out there in the blogosphere. There are hundreds of them but these are some of my favorites. Check these out and find out what works for you.
Monetize your Website or Blog with BidVertiser
AdToll: Sell Ads On Your Site And Make Money
Make Money with Chitika Mini Malls
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January 14th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
1[...] 11) I will paying close attention to this series from theblogentrepreneur ” Of Ways to Make Money Online With Your Blog” [...]
Mike Huang
January 14th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
2Great Post! Keep up the great work. I’ll definitely come to this blog again
-Mike
adrienne
January 14th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
3Thanks for giving me the fav. Great blog! And thanks for the tips I plan to try out some of your suggestions.
adrienne
plan to subscribe also to your blog.
Tristan @ XscriptsX.com
January 14th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
4Great Work! Definately coming back!
Offgrid
January 15th, 2008 at 12:35 am
5Good Post - I’ll bookmark your blog and learn….
Bill
January 15th, 2008 at 5:18 am
6@adrienne…thanks…all of these articles are going to be short and to the point and are meant only to explore the various means to make money. I will tailor the articles to what the readers want via the comments section.
Also be sure to check out my contest thread….you can win a nice premium theme package as well as 100 dollars cash for subscribing.
RAhul
January 19th, 2008 at 12:34 am
7Good works……….
Croyus
January 19th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
8Very useful, thanks for the info.
Online Business
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:00 am
9Blogging has recently become a real popular medium online for people just talking and sharing information and also to earn revenues on blogs. Add new content daily and also use it to get back links to your web sites. This way we can earn maximum on our blogs.
Online Business
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:07 am
10Thanks for the information. It is a valuable treasure to the business novices and the bloggers. Your article has a quite a lot of information.
Home Based Business Opportunity Honcho
January 25th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
11What’s your blog’s biggest money maker?
Bill
January 26th, 2008 at 12:12 am
12HBBOH….so far for me the best money makers have been Hosting affiliate sales and phpbay and BANS commissions. So I guess the answer is Affiliate Marketing.
I have not started trying to promote private ad sales as I am still building my traffic and my brand. Once I have the right level of traffic then I expect that private ad sales will be the most dependable source of income.
I’ve only been writing on this blog for less than 2 months so I have spent my time more on getting my theme right and trying to get some strong pillar content for the site…not to mention simply learning to blog. This is hardly my first online site but it is my first blog.
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January 31st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
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February 6th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
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