This article is part 9 in series of how to set up a blog series. In part 1 of the series,we learned how to set up a blog,in part 2 of the series,we looked at how to write to attract readers,in part 3 of the series,we looked at where and how to get ideas for what to write on your blog,part 4 of the series we looked at how to optimize on page SEO to attract traffic to your blog. In Part 5 of the series, we looked at how to optimized off page (outside your blog SEO for increasing traffic to your blog). In part 6 of the series, we looked at how to set up an off page SEO and Google Page rank. In part 7 of the series, we saw on how to get more traffic to your blog website. In part 8 of the series, we looked at two popular ways to monetize your blog. In part 9, we will look at more ways to monetize your website, blog and make money from it.
See previous post on how to set up blog series: How to Set Up Blog:Part 8- How To Monetize Your Blog
Part 9 – More Monetizing Options
We’ve discussed about using Google Adsense program and other merchants’ affiliate programs to generate profits from your blog. However, we have a lot of other options of monetize your blog, so we’re going to look into that today. Here are a few more ways to monetize your blog and make money from home.
Chitika Program
The first option we’ll be looking at is Chitika (www.chitika.com). Chitika is a very innovative contextual advertising program because it can serve very detailed advertisements. For example, on your technological gadget blog, Chitika will show advertisements for tech gadgets such as iPods. The way they show it is in different tabs: one for “Best deals”, another for “details”, another for “reviews” and so on. This way, it is more of an informational section for your visitor rather than an advertisement, and naturally the click-through will be higher. You can apply here: https://chitika.com/application.php?type=mm
Amazon Affiliate Program:
You can also be an affiliate for Amazon.com. Amazon offers a wide range of products but its predominant domain is in books. Whatever your niche is about, you can probably find a book about it on Amazon.com. Join their Associate programme here: https://associates.amazon.com/gp/flex/associates/apply-login.html/
Once you join them, you can refer visitors to them and earn up to 8% commission. It’s not a lot but if you can manage to refer big volumes of visitors, Amazon is for you. This program really shines when it comes to the ways you can refer visitors: you can use their predefined templates to pull up recent items that match a certain criteria you set, you can target your ad to show a specific item on sale or you can just simply weave your referral links into your blog posts.
Sell Ad Space on Your Blog:
Last but definitely not least, you can sell advertising space on your blog if your blog is truly popular. Just take a look at any popular blog with high page rank and traffic.Any blog that receives over 10,000 page views every day and naturally merchants will want to strike a deal with the blog’s owner to post their advertisements there. If you manage to pull in huge amounts of traffic like that blog, you can definitely get people to buy ad space on your blog for prices from $150/month upwards, depending on your blog popularity.
How to Know Your Pageviews and Visitors:
One way to know your page view and daily traffic is through free tool, called Google Analytic at http://www.google.com/analytics/. Sign up with your Google account and add your site to it. Another way to gauge how much pageviews and visitors you get everyday, just use the free tool available at www.statcounter.com. They have a very detailed setup guide there so I won’t go into it.
If your blog has not acquired large amount of visitors yet, you can still sell ad space on your blog on a per click or per impression basis. Just visit sites like www.adbrite.com. For a complete list of these sites, visit http://performancing.com/node/60.
Hopefully, that will help you maximize earnings and profits from your blog! Keep working and with time, your blog will be making money in every day consistently.
Stay tuned for next and last in How to set up a blog series: How to Set Up Blog:Part 10:Build Relationship for Success
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