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How do you monetize your blog?
Posted by Rohen • 5/01/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Tags: generating online profits
I just wondered how the community here at Blogcatalog uses their blog to make some extra cash. Right now I'm using Adsense and Blogvertise to get some dollars. My blog has been up for about three weeks and so far I've only made 25 Bucks. Anyone wondering what Blogvertise is head on over to my post about it, it's actually pretty great. (vapaeso.blogspot.com/2007/04/blog-as-full-time-job.html)
How do you make your Pesos?
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My AdSense account went ti*s up because of verification problems. Does anyone know any no hassle and easy money making services? Thanks -
Great question Rohen, a lot of people are interested in finding out how to make money blogging. I earn money blogging with Adsense, Helium, Blogverise, Blogitive, PayU2Blog, PayPerPost, and Amazon and Roots Athletic Affiliate programs. So far so good! If you're searching for money making ideas check out Problogger.com, that's where I learned how to monetize my blog in the first place, Problogger is awesome!-
Thanks ChristyZ, that's quite a list. I'll take a look! I tried PayPerPost but I didn't meet those requirements. Blogvertise took me in right away! I just got another task from them, they've been OK so far
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25$ for a new blog is pretty good, especially in the 1st month.. if you continue that way, and publish great content, expect to make more then a grand per month.
I also use Kontera and Chitika eminimalls in addition to what was listed here. -
I am not very experienced with blogging, but I guess I was like so many that thought build it and they will come. It's not so easy getting traffic,but I try. I think I better try harder now. I hope to get lots of great ideas and tips here. Thanks... Jude -
I've had adsense for over a year and have made nothing
I've recently added video clips and added a sponsor link to both my blogs
from a very addictive racing game site
My b-in-law has several sites and makes about $1000 a month
But he targets keywords of the day he posts, I write what I feel like -
Getting traffic would not make you money..Put some efforts on improving content of your blog...more quality content means more reader... -
I use Text Link Ads and some ReviewMe reviews to cover hosting costs.
Apart from that I blog for the love of what I do and to make connections with like-minded people. -
Try Sponsored Reviews and Loudlaunch as well. I'm stuck at home because I'm sick and I've been using a number of programs mentioned in this discussion and believe me- the bills are getting paid. -
Wow this is all great info. Thanks for the support kiltak. I'll take a look at some of the ideas mentioned here. It's great to create sites that make 1000+ per month, but the downside is that it could get boring if it's content you are not interested in writing about. It's great to achieve that nonetheless.
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True.. just to let you know, the success to perform well in adsense is to write content that everyone needs to read about... "How to" content is best.. product reviews (especially hardware) comes second. If you can position yourself well in google for your article, your ads will perform very well.
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BTW anyone here have any succes with using a Lens?
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Great tip. I think that would a great idea for tomorrow's post. Thanks kiltak.
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Adsense and Commission Junction However both are send to charity I blog to keep my mind at a good pace so my dementia do not get worst. -
I tried a few ads, lost interest, few ads are still there, but I am not blogging for money these days, I am just enjoying myself, trying to get good content for visitors. -
ok, I hear all these great things about making money on blogs, and I want to do that too, however, one question comes to mind.....that makes you self employed, so how do you find tax deductions? I guess with your hosting plan and what???
Debbie-
I happen to be in Colombia... So I "think" I get to skimp out on tax deduction because I have no employees nor own anything that would generate me profits within the USA. If anyone knows differently let me know
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Okay here's the problem. I have a niche site -- however my keywords are targeted to my niche and not "high paying" keyword targets. I have plenty of traffic...Do I have to change my blog around to get any response from adsense or comission junction? Can a blogger expert please audit my blog, www.powerpopaholic.blogspot.com (aka take a look and tell me what's wrong here). My adsense total is a lone penny and I've been blogging for over a year now (even though it's only been monetized recently).-
Just a suggestion: Try applying a template that isn't similar to Blogger's defaults. Maybe by changing the CSS around a bit and making it three column, along with the color, as most money making blogs are usually best fitted to use three columns plus it gives off a uniqueness as well. Also, remove the Navbar. A quick google search will provide you with the code you need. And, something that I am also in the process of doing is creating a favicon for my blog, which would be your logo. I checked your blog and you have great writing talent. Let me know how it works out.
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I would suggest that you put some additional ads further down your sidebar. You could put another adsense unit, referral ads, etc. There's lots of content and the sidebar runs out completely before the end of the second article. Use that space.
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Well I use to be a geek until my stroke however notice it is not well define with title tag title> As I can see any title? could be blogger thing?It is in right side.The advertising on my site pay for 2 dedicated servers and rest is charity over 200.00 a month send.
Maybe invest on a host that let you choose what CMS to use many use wordpress mind you it may not be 100% SEO friendly I use Joomla seem to work for me.Hope this help Also tags and meta tag . -
Well my message is what is important to me. I do indeed have ads but I don't even attempt to blend them in, it's very clear they are ads, and thus I haven't really made any money. All money I make will be used though for the cause. -
Thanks alot for the advice! I will visit all your blogs tonight!
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Steve Pavlina has great tips and strategies for monetizing your blog. According to Steve he makes over $1,000 a day from StevePavlina.com
Check out his article:
www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/-
thanks for the info... I love Problogger also... I think Steve is right.. you do have to commit to either monetizing your blog or not. -
6,000 on Alexa, he SHOULD be making that or more.
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Darren Rose is another guy to learn from when it comes to Monetizing your Blog
www.problogger.net/archives/2005/12/06/how-bloggers-make-money-from-blogs/ -
SiteProPlus: That First link is an extremely essential post for anyone that wants to learn the ropes and basics of generating profit, not to mention the guy is pretty Blunt about who can and cannot accomplish it. Cool, thanks.
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You could try entering our Blogging Contest to win $500.
We're trying to do something good for the world through blogging.
siberlee-mernac.blogspot.com/2007/04/written-word-blogging-contest.html -
SiteProPlus: that is a very long article, but very helpful, thanks.
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You guys might also want to browse www.johnchow.com
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The root of all evil (John Chow) will give you all the tips you need in his blog, you can check out some others like www.stephenfung.net, he is a friend of John's as well and does a good job of making money online.
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John Chow is awesome. Some people think he's a sellout but he's totally dedicated to making money... and also provides very useful content. I am starting to see the one who's at the top always take the time to link to other bloggers and give them a shoutout on their blog. Nice to see that.
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You can make money with Squidoo Lens and Swicki Eurekster -
sponsoredreviews.com
blogsvertise.com
blogtoprofit.com
adsense
private ad deals
will soon launch a link directory, and possibly charge for links (really not sure yet)
StevePavlina.com is definitely a "success story", he's averaging something like, what? 40 grand a month from his blog, 700 000 uniques (not sure, i read that somewhere), that's quite something will try to get there too hehe-
That's almost impossible.. I get 150k page views a month total, and even if I'm a 5 number blogger, I'm very VERY far from doing this amount per month.
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I'm Try to monetize my blog with adsense only first. If my blog is get high rank and traffic I will try to monetize my blog with another program like Affiliate program, another pay per click program (chitika, adbrite, etc) or sell something ads like ebay or amazon.
If you're adsense publisher like me, and you want to find the high paying keywords adsense, please visit my blog here:
free-paying-keywords.blogspot.com
you will find many top paying keywords adsense list for any niche for free.
success to you all
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I have a blog focusing on just this topic. Read about it at OnlinePresence.BlogSailor.com/-
Anuj...
How do you monetize your blog using BlogCatalog, JumpZee and MBL
I read the following at Squash.com when talking about MBL: "What I would like to see is tighter integration between blogs, forums, social networks, etc. so that conversation on a topic taking place anywhere can all be bought together no matter what the source of the opinion is.What I would like to see is tighter integration between blogs, forums, social networks, etc. so that conversation on a topic taking place anywhere can all be bought together no matter what the source of the opinion is."
How would a site like BlogCatalog accomplish this amazing vision?
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BC, BumpZee and MBL are tools that help in driving traffic into your site. The traffic on my site jumped significantly since I started using them. I started the blog about 2 months back. For most of the time the Alexa ranking was nothing worth mentioning about. Its been a couple of weeks since I started using a combination of all 3 services. The traffic has surely increased due to them since I see a lot of referrals coming from these 3 sites. The Alexa ranking is about 163,000 right now and rising faster than I expected.
One of the things that I am clearly doing on my blog, is using a lot of different services so that I can report back how they perform. Obviously, what works for me or does not work for me, might not hold good with others. But, its worth sharing the experience.
You'll see affiliate links, advertisements from AuctionAds, Adbrite, and other similar services on the site right now. All of them are helping me make money. Try using Kontera for in-text advertisements. Its truly awesome and has been a great source of revenue for me.
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whats MBL ?
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espreson. It's MyBlogLog. -
anujseth, you have to note that people look at the 3 months average, as it is more accurate of overall performance. Besides the point, well done for keeping it down!
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Right now, I use Adsense. I'm just enjoying the time posting and reading other blogs. I don't really intend to rely on my blog for income. I just feel that I can't devote too much time on blogging unless there is an interest on what I'm writing. Amazone ads and TextLinkAds are the programs I'd like to try soon.
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i'd say $25 in three weeks is a good start. i've been at it about 6 weeks and haven't even cleared a dollar. Made 57cents on amazon and 36cents on helium. i'd be thrilled with $25!-
Nothing abnormal there. If you're talking about Adsense, the first four weeks got me 89 cents and it stuck that way for another two weeks -- and I was getting okay traffic and the ads were pretty much on target.
Things much better now--I'm getting some clicks every day, though the amount is not as much as I'd have liked it to be ...lol. I guess the idea is to focus only on building keyword-rich content and traffic the first 4-6 months. -
Well to be honest the most money I've made with Blogvertise, Google has only made me 10 bucks. Blogvertise is a lot better and other similar pay per post sites are pretty great.
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Same here for me, I made $2.89 from AdSense in April and a compared to this massive amount of $5.20 from sponsoredreviews.com. Since, this was my first month I am OK with that. I see the traffic going up and subscribers doing the same.
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I'm new in blogging and hadn't monetize my blog.
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Awesome tips! Looking forward to trying Blogsvertise, LoudLaunch, SponsoredReviews and Kontera -
I've made zilch till now. But I've found some amazing info on how to monetise my blotg. i'll try them today -
I'm still new to adsense so I will have experiment with the design aspect. Not happy with the click rate at the moment, but after reading the article from Steve Pavlina I will try to experiment more. -
I can't figure blogvertise out, do I have to do anything to get advertisers to want to use me -
I've been looking at this topic (internally) for days now!
I don't want to use any service that tells me what to blog about, because that ruins the whole fun of blogging and becomes a job. My adsense has netted me maybe almost 2 bills in the 3 years it's been up. Nothing really.
I'm actually doing an experiment on my site where I'm cashing in on old articles I wrote for older blogs I've since closed down and re-posting them on services such as Digital Journal and possibly Hub Pages. I would have used Associate Content, but I'm not American so that rules that out.
As for my actual blog, Blogvertise will undoubtedly make an appearance. Lots of tips here just in this thread. I am so glad I joined BC. The discussions alone are worth it. -
This is a great thread!! I've been reading and checking it out for a bit now. I gave up on Adsense pretty quick. My blog just doesn't get the clicks and neither did any of my websites. My blog is only about a month old and I try to do some affiliate stuff but I write because I love my subject and even tho I want to make money with it I don't want to dilute the subject matter just for the sake of $$. I am going to try to check out a couple of the blog advertisers mentioned here and see how it goes. -
TLA, Adsense, reviewme, must say it takes some time until your blog will become a good money machine... -
Does PayU2Blog work? (www.payu2blog.com/) It doesn't look all that reliable; the layout and everything....-
payu2blog does work and they do pay. I've been with them since Feb and do really well with them each month. They pay twice a month and lately they have been paying early!
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if you see at my blog bunchofplayer.blogspot.com
i got lot of advertise..but i never got any cash from that..
sigh! i' about to quit about this...uhh-
No dude!!! Don't give up. I actually, sad to say, ignored my Blog for like two weeks because of other projects that I've been doing. I almost forgot about my blog, but I went ahead and did something unexpected with it.
A couple of days ago, I decided to get back on track, so I placed it on paid hosting and am now using wordpress. It's so much fun with wordpress, I have much more control of my Blog now. I will probably post once every 2-3 days. And eventhough that's not what most pro bloggers are doing, I can come up with much better and longer articles for everyone to read. From now on I'm just going to create great content. If I make money with it... great. If not, well then that's ok because my Blog has another use that I won't say here, WUAHAHAHA!
Anyways, some advice: re-arrange a bit. See what works and what doesn't. And of course, create great content. By the look of your blog, you have people commenting! Something that I haven't seen in a while. Oh well, back to the ol' drawing board as they say. ;P
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I use Adsense as well. You might consider Adbrite... Currently though I use Direct Media Exchange. It's a service that manages your ad networks, it also has a few new networks you may not be aware of. Simply, they make the networks bid for your impressions so that you get the highest paying click through. -
Call me old fashioned, but I am not "monitizing" my blogs. Can't bring myself to do it. I don't like to stay on sites with too many ads either. But, what can you expect from someone who doesn't read his junk snail mail and who prefers PBS on TV to anything else, precisely because of the lack of "buy me" noise. Okay, I could see maybe offering specific books I like, but I can't do that either, because it would not be cool to make money off my own students, no matter how much I need it. Maybe someday something will occur to me that I am comfortable with, but I'm not trying very hard to make that day happen. -
Must be patient to earn money..and must attract many visitor to come to your blog.I still learning also..same case with you..Don't give up -
duh, you guys are great and have more focus on the other side of extra buck blogging.
fantastic thread we all got here. funny, i did almost daily blogging and earned around $10 in 3 weeks, not bad I guess compared to $25 a month? But $1,000 a month, that's really great! -
I use Smorty and sponsoredreviews.com.. I've made $20 till now.. just started a month ago.. Wish me luck people and visit my blog at www.sriraminhell.blogspot.com -
I've read a couple of treads over at Yaro Stark's Blog, an article about how he made 5000 and something odd dollars on March, I believe, and when it all comes down to it, it's all about what works best for your particular blog. I think, that an awesome replacement for Adsense (for those that think it looks "ugly") is Text Link Ads.
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My company is looking to sponor ads on blogs. If you have 5k or more traffic a month email me at
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I'm pretty convinced you can't make the 'big money' on just having a blog with some adsense ads. I've made a big $22 in 6 months with my blog, but made over $5000 this month alone doing PPC and affiliate marketing. -
Hi,
badmOOn is right. To earn a significant amount of money through Adsense you'll need massive niche sites or blogs out in the market. I highly recommend rebranded PLR products, affiliate marketing and adsystems related to it. I'm pretty sure everyone will find products 100% related to their blogs. I'm testing a new system and it's working well in the marketplace right now ... go to my blog and check it out - You'll see it right away ;-)
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badm00n: 5000 Dollars is pretty good. I'm guessing you're using regular landing pages for your affiliate links? Or are these affiliate blogs your using?
BTW for everyone that's been using the top link to go to my Blog that has changed.
New Blog is www.vapaeso.info -
The focus really needs to be first on getting your traffic up. Once you got your traffic up, then figure out where ads belong on your site, properly, and how ads function in relation to your blogs.
If you have a lot of traffic, you feel cheated dealing with affiliates that get thousands of impressions from you for free literally and just pay out if someone buys something.
Focus on what the Cost Bid is of your advertiser and dont bother with someone who comes in bidding too low. -
I just posted a FREE special report by an extremely successful blogger on how he monitizes his site using his proven and tested strategies. He made over $10,000 last month by only 'working'(blogging) about 2 hours a day.
He shares his strategies and blueprint in his special report. You can get it for FREE here:>> www.santqiu.com
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PayPerPost brought in $2,500 last month for me. -
smorty, PPP and review me.. I've made $70 in a couple of months so far.
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This is the same idea as adsense, except the widget has ads rotate in it, if you sign up they will give you $25 instantly so thats double your money in about 3 minutes. just click the widget to check it out, if you want to see what the widget looks like I just added to my blog, nomilktoast.blogspot.com -
im currently doing adsense
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