HOW TO MONETIZE YOUR BLOG

Monetization of a blog is more than slapping on a couple of Google Ads; you need to know that, that is just the beginning. The job of any intending successful blogger is to find as many ways as possible to generate and earn maximum dollar out of blog while the needs of blog users are not compromise

Note

There will always be some people who will complain of Ads on blog even if it is one. In this case, there is something you must bear in mind, those who complain the more about advertising are people who will never click an Ads or worst some may even use an Ads blocker when you have this type of scenario bother not but hope for the best. Ironically, some may even increase your Ads prospect even at the point where they are trying to avoid your Ads they unconsciously put some dollars to your pocket…….. The most important thing is that, get the idea that work. 

The tipping point…………………….

This indicates moment when the population of your blog visitors begins to decline. How do you know when cross reach the tipping point? The answer is your traffic will tell you. If it start going down, you need to make changes. However, the chances of it going down because too much advertising is quite slim. The fact remain that, when readers complain of Ads in your blog, adjust to the best of their knowledge without compromising your primary needs i.e. despite the pressure or complain never stop to monetize your blog to the fullest

What you need to do ………………….

Understand the key to Ads placement

The key to placing advertising on sites is to use many different advertising sources and to space them out so they are not crowded. It’s possible to place a 10 numbers of Ads on a page and still be user friendly. Then, you can also use many different types of Ads. Although, putting 21 banners on a page might be ridiculous but if you mix it up with banners, text links, buttons, affiliate stuffs etc… you can still maintain appreciable page

Don’t bother with whiners

The majority of your readership won’t care that you have advertising on your blog. So do not pay so much attention to the whiners while they may be vocal, they are impact less!!!!!!!!!!!

CODES YOU CAN USE WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO BLOG ABOUT

Check the comments

Always check your blog comments to identify area of convergence or divergence of opinions which can be use to raise another subject of discuss. You can get many blog story ideas by reading comments in your blog.

Checks out other blogs in your community

I need you to know that, there are about 60+ million blogs out there. I am sure a few of them must have something interesting for you to write about. While you don’t have to check all 60 million blogs, it’s a good idea to check out some of the blogs in myBloglogcommunity or the blogs of your commentators

Note

Most blogs write these types of post up as news or “speed linking” whatever you want to call it, you should try to inject your own views into the topic. In this case, you can come across a good story that deserves its own post instead of being grouped with a speed linking session. Make sure you give your own views on the topic. Just copying and pasting a quote and telling the readers to go and read the full story.

Check your Email

While most readers interact by leaving comments, some will do it with emails. Sometimes, you can come across a question from a reader that deserves answer, instead of replying to the author, you can answer the question in a blog post.

Look in your archives

If your blog has been around for a while and has a reasonable number of good posts, then try to look at your archives to see if more are any posts that you can update into a new post. If you are really lazy you don’t even need to update them, just change the date and bring the post to the FrontPage.

Look at YouTube

When all else fails, go to YouTube (or any other video sharing site) find a funny or thought provoking video and post it. Remember to add your own comments / views to the video

Read Books / listen to Audio Tapes/ Articles related to your Blog niche

Consulting books and articles related to your blog niche is an important way for you to identify issues to write in your blog post. Via reading, you can find great observation, outlines, quotes, questions and answers to meet the needs of your blog visitors. You can also get interesting topics and testimonies you can share with others

Scan the environment

Everyday of our life is full of interesting events/ activities. It means by each day, something old, new or perceive issues surround us as humans. Hence, you can always look around you for interesting events happening related to niche your Blog is covering to share, teach, encourage, motivate and educate others. Therefore, you can always look around to raise question and provide answers that may interest others. With this, you can watch your way to the top!!!!!!!! 

How to Sign Up For Google’s Referral Program

Putting referral ads on your site is very simple. Just click the Referrals link on the AdSense Setup tab and search for an ad by product, keyword or by category. Search by product and you’ll be able to pick exactly the ad you want. Search by keyword and Google will choose the ad for you, giving you what it thinks is the best performing ad to match the keywords you choose. You can enter up to ten keywords.

Search by category and Google will choose the best-performing ads within that category. You’ll also need to select your ad format — the formats available vary from product to product — and create a channel so that you can track the ad’s performance. Finally, place the ad (the category or the keyword) in your “Shopping Cart” and past the code. 

Start the process by deciding where you want the ad to go. It might take a bit of experimentation to find out which really is the best spot on the page — you’ll have learn whether that location will perform better with a referral ad or an AdSense unit — but you’ll have to put it somewhere. 

In general, you’ll probably find that it pays to keep the ad as close to the text as possible but the only way to find out which is actually the best setup for your Web page is to try different combinations and follow the results. If you find that over a week, an AdSense unit earns more income embedded in your text than a referral unit, try using a different referral unit to see if the problem is the product rather than the placement. And if the AdSense unit still performs best, move the referral unit somewhere else.

One good option is to use a square or rectangular AdSense unit at the start of an article and place a smaller referral unit lower down as though it were illustrating the text. You can put up to three referral units on a single page but if your page isn’t very long, you might be better off sticking with one unit and optimizing it properly (I’ll explain how to do that later). You want your referral ads to be closely tied to your content and you don’t want them to compete with each other

QuickStart AdSense: A Step-By-Step Guide

You can be up and running with AdSense in just minutes. Sure, you’ll need a bit more time if you want to use all of the advanced strategies and techniques I discuss in the rest of this book, but you don’t have to wait until you’ve figured everything out before you can start earning with AdSense. Remember, every minute that your site isn’t showing online or isn’t showing ads, you’re tossing money down the drain. If you don’t have a site yet, or if you’re not showing ads on your site, before you move on to the rest of this book, follow one of these guides. You’ll be amazed at how easy it is to start making money with ads! 

AdSense Quick Start Guide: Building a Blog

Blogging is probably the easiest way to get online with AdSense fast. The sites are already online, you don’t have to worry about graphics and the domains are all set up. All you have to do is sign up, write and earn!

Step 1: Surf to www.blogger.com: Complete the registration page, choose a name for your blog and pick a template.

 Step 2: Apply For AdSense through Blogger: Another form, another five minutes. It will take a day or two before your application is approved. In the meantime, you can play with Blogger’s AdSense preview tool, and..

Step 3: Write Your First Blog Entry Not sure what to write? Start with your family, spout off about a story in the news, put up pictures for your friends to see... it doesn’t matter. Everyone has something that occupies their mind, that interests them or that they’re good at. Put up anything. You can change it later but for now just get in the habit of writing to the Web. Once you’ve done it once you’ll see how easy it can be — and how addictive. 

Step 4: Play With Your Ads: Once AdSense has approved your application; you’ll be able to start playing with your ads. You can change the colors, fix the font size, remove the border and move them into the sidebar if you wish. You can get everything geared up and ready to... 

Step 5: Bring In the Traffic: It’s taken you minutes to get your site set up. Now you have to let people know you’re online. I will inform you later on how to bring in the traffic but for now you can start by telling your friends, swapping links with your favorite sites and submitting your site to the search engines. Hold off on the paid advertising though until you’ve got enough content to make it worthwhile. You’re rolling

ESSENTIAL THINGS YOU SHOULD ALREADY BE DOING TO PROMOTE YOUR WEB SITE

                     

                

Publish an E-Mail Newsletter

But why distribute an e-mailed publication instead of (or alongside) putting up a website? Think about your own web surfing habits. Do you visit new sites everyday? Do you visit sites frequently?

Which sites do you frequent most often? Which sites are most interesting to you? What do those sites provide to you that is of value? These are the things to keep in mind when you go to design your own page, and/or your own e-mail publication.

When individuals visit any given web page, they might stay there for 10-20 seconds before their attention span fades away. Their attention is drawn to something else, they click on another link which leads them away from your site, or they simply get bored. So, your first (main) page needs to have enough information to entice that user. Unless you have something worth returning for, they’re probably never going to return. Sure, they might bookmark it, they may even put a link to your site on their own web page, but the chances are slim that they’re going to keep coming back to you regularly.

However, if you can show visitors what you have to offer up front and get them to subscribe to your e-mailed publication, then you’re going to have them as captive audience members until they decide to unsubscribe. You don’t have to count on them to revisit your website at all; they’re going to receive your e-zine whether or not they’re online when it arrives in their e-mailbox. Get them to join, and then send them on their merry way.

Offer Free E-Mail Courses

Once you write and set up an email course, it becomes an incredibly easy and effective way to promote your site and your products. An e-mail course is a short series of lessons delivered, of course, by e-mail. Interested students sign up by sending an e-mail to an autoresponder address of your choice. To set one up, you’ll need to use an autoresponder service that has follow-up message capabilities. Many autoresponders that come with basic Web-hosting packages are often of the oneshot variety. That means the autoresponder will send only one return message and that’s it. You can either ask your Web host if it offers a multiple-message option, or you can use a free online autoresponder service, such as

GetResponse.com, http://www.getresponse.com/

SendFree, http://www.sendfree.com/

FastFacts.net, http://www.fastfacts.net/

What type of material should you offer in an e-mail course? The best source of ideas is the list of articles you have written or are thinking about writing on your area of expertise. Let’s say you’re a wedding planner and you just wrote an excellent article called Five Steps to Planning a Memorable Wedding Reception. Each step consists of at least three or four paragraphs. Instead of offering this wonderful advice as another free article, split the steps into five lessons to be delivered via an e-mail course.

To go the e-mail course route, simply insert the wedding reception planning steps into your autoresponder files and instruct the system how to deliver them. Lesson one will always be delivered instantly whenever someone sends an e-mail to ReceptionPlans@autoresponder.com (or whatever your autoresponder e-mail address is). You determine when follow-up lessons are sent. You could send one lesson every day for five days or send them every other day to spread the course out over 10 days.

If your course requires recipients to do a week of activities between lessons, you’d have the

Autoresponder send out messages seven days apart. The beauty of autoresponder e-mail courses is that, once they’re set up, all these messages are sent to interested people without any effort on your part.

Submit Articles to other E-Mail Newsletters and Sites

It should be easy for you to position yourself as an expert that other Webmasters and e-zine editors will want to expose to their audiences. You should already be creating content for your own site and newsletter. While you may decide to make select portions of your content exclusively available through your own vehicles, most of your content should be freely shared with the world. I’m not talking about material you write that’s sold in books and other formats; material from those projects should be reserved for paying customers. What we’re addressing now are the many articles, columns, and tips you publish with the sole intent of spreading them far and wide.

Why will Webmasters and e-zine editors are interested in the free content you have to offer? Here are some of the reasons:

·  E-zines need quality content that inspires subscribers to open their e-mail and read it.

·  Web sites need useful content to draw first-time visitors.

·  Webmasters need to update their sites constantly to get return visitors.

·  Good content is hard to find.

·  Experts on specialized topics are even harder to find.

· Most marketers offering free content are turned down because they fill their articles with self-serving hype. Starting today, begin viewing your written expertise as a valuable, in-demand commodity you can use to help others while meeting your own needs. In return for the use of your material, Webmasters and e-zine editors give you access to their audiences—the type of exposure that plants mental seeds that will soon sprout into full-blown recognition of you and your brand identity. When your articles, columns, and tips carry the right type of author attribution, this exposure will also motivate thousands of people to subscribe to your e-zine and visit your Web site.

Here are a few places to announce that you have free articles available:

Ezine Articles, http://www.ezinearticles.com/

FreeSticky.com, http://www.freesticky.com/

Idea Marketers, http://www.ideamarketers.com/

Set up an Affiliate Program

There are two sides to the affiliate game. Most people are playing the game by signing up with affiliate programs, then linking from their Web sites to the site running the affiliate program ... hoping to make money in the form of commissions. It’s very easy to get started, and hundreds of thousands of people have already done so. Amazon.com claims to have 400,000 affiliates (or “associates,” as they call them), for instance.

Of course there’s another way to play the affiliate game ... you can set up an affiliate program yourself, linked to a shopping-cart system, then recruit other Web sites to send business to you.

One of the largest directories of affiliate programs on the Web, Associate Programs.com lists just 2694 different programs. Of the millions of businesses operating on the Internet, just a few thousand have managed to not only set up a shopping-cart system of some kind, but to also integrate an affiliate program into it.

Why? Because it’s difficult to do so. There are a number of programs available to help you do it (a few are listed in the Links page mentioned above), but in general they are either expensive, or complicated to install ... or both. Some e-commerce systems have very crude affiliate systems, systems that require, for instance, that you add each affiliate by hand. You really need a system by which affiliates can sign up for themselves—everything should be automated.

If you’re looking for a good affiliate program, you might check out AffiliateTracking.net,

http://affiliatetracking.net/. It’s a great little program, with features such as these:

· Automatic affiliate signup and assignment of affiliate links

· Affiliate statistics page, so affiliates can see the number of click throughs, sales, and commissions

· The ability to pay commissions based on click throughs, sales, or “sub affiliates” (when an affiliate signs up another affiliate)

· A series of reports and tools to help you track who you owe and how much you owe

· You can specify how many days an affiliate “owns” a visitor that the affiliate site has directed to your site (if the visitor buys from you after the expiration period, you don’t owe the affiliate a commission)

· Each time an affiliate order is logged the system can, if you wish, send a notification to the affiliate and to you

· A payment tracking module, to help you pay the correct commissions

· A mail system for sending an e-mail to all the affiliates at once (great for announcing special promotions!)

Giveaway E-Books

Free e-books are growing in popularity on the Internet for good reason. Here are just a few things you can do with a free e-book:

· Give it away from your site.

· Convince other Web sites and e-zines to give it away.

· Offer it as a freebie for new e-zine subscribers.

· Give it away to your current subscribers as a token of your appreciation.

Give your e-book an attention-getting title and fill it with lively information that focuses on your specialized area. By encouraging your fans to share your free e-book with others, your brand identity may spread faster than a chain latter. The following sites are e-book directories, e-book search engines, or sites that in some way compile lists of available free e-books. Visit them and get your title listed.

Bizinfocenter.com, http://www.bizinfocenter.com/free-ebook-directory/

EBook Directory, http://www.ebookdirectory.com/

Ebook Giveaways, http://www.ebookgiveaways.com/

EBooks Portal, http://ebooks.searchking.com/

Ebook Shop, http://ebookshop.bizland.com/

Free-eBooks.net, http://www.free-ebooks.net/

cheers,

Sly Media