This is a guest blog by Matthew Berman of Internet Business Daily.
When I first started my blog about 2 years ago, the only way I knew how to make money from it was Google Adsense. Quickly after that I realized there are a handful of other methods that not only made more money than Adsense, but I could use them in addition to Adsense. In this article I will outline a few other ways to make money with your blog, whether you get a million pageviews per month or a thousand.
In-Text Advertising
In-Text advertising is one of my favorite ways to monetize my blog. The simple reason for this is I do not have to substitute this for anything else. This is incremental income at its best. In-text adverising are the ads you see that usually contain double underlines highlighting a word. When a user hovers over a highlighted word, a small ad pops up. You can specify how many links are in each article, or on each page. You have full control over how the ads act on your site. The two leading in-text advertising companies are Kontera (which I currently use) and Vibrant Media. They are pretty similar, so test out each to see which one works best on your site.
Affiliate Advertising
Affiliate advertising is very popular amoung bloggers who blog about blogging (confusing sentence?). They realize that readers of their site are looking for blogging tips, so they refer them to tools, ad networks, and affiliate programs for bloggers and receive a commission. This not only works for blogging blogs, but it can work for any blog. There are a ton of affiliate networks out there to promote, so no matter what your blog is about, you should be trying different affiliate programs. For example, if you have a blog about cats, you should search for an affiliate program that has a cat food deal, or cat nip offer. These are just examples. Two popular affiliate networks are NeverBlueAds and AmpedMedia.
Reviews
Reviewing other blogs or products is another great way to monetize your blog. Reach out to companies in your niche and explain to them that you have readers who would find value in a review of their product. They will most likely pay you, but at the very least give you something for free. Also, reviewing other blogs in your niche is a great way to meet new webmasters, and provide valuable links to each other.
These are just some of the ways to squeeze some extra cash out of your blog. Whether your blog is your full time job, or just a hobby, it is nice to have some extra cash in your pocket at the end of the month.
Matthew Berman is an Internet Entrepreneur and the owner of Internet Business Daily. Please make sure you check out my blog and subscribe to it if you wish to learn more about making money.
thanks for sharing those!
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Hello,
My name is Vered and I’m from Kontera.
Thanks for a great post and for pointing out one of the main advantages of Kontera’s in-text advertising :-).
I also wanted to let you know that we’ve recently released great new quick implementation plugins and widgets for Blogger.com, WordPress, Joomla and Drupal users. To read more about Kontera’s new publisher tools please visit http://www.kontera.com/ads-for-site/publisher-tools/.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any Kontera related question or comment.
Kind Regards,
Vered
Publisher Services Manager
Kontera.com
Vered,
It’s great to see a member of the Kontera team stop by to leave a comment
I’m actually deciding right now whether or not I should use Kontera again. The odds are very high though, but after I clean up the blog a bit.
-Mike
Wow!.
That’s great..but Mike,give it another thought(to implement Kontera)!!.
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Thanks for the tip on reviewing products and blogs. I have recently found a group of product reviewers and am about to do further research on the how to’s.
How would / why would a company choose one reviewer over another? Blog traffic?
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Selling private ads is also another way.
I was also like you…thought of Adsense and nothing else
Infact,it was only the presence of Adsense that pulled me into blogging!.
The inline ads are very disgusting for me..and I think most people have the same feeling.You are writing for your readers…take a reader poll and then continue to add those inline ads.
Every thing else is fine.Thanks for the post,Matthew Berman !!.
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Thanks for sharing your experiences with these money streams.
As far as affiliate marketing goes, I’d like to add that I’ve just started using <a href=htttp://www.marketleverage.com/”Market Leverage and I’m extremely satisfied so far. To be honost with you I’ve used other agencies and this is the first one I’ve generated a sale with.
As far as adsense goes, I’ve been running my blog for 3 months or so now and have made a whopping $1.51 so my conversion is not very good with it yet.
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makes sense, but seems too simple.
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hey jorge, too simple like too easy to make money? or too simple like simple techniques? if its the second option, you can ping me through my blog and i will show you more advanced techniques to monetize your site.
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for me the kontera pop ups drive me insane, they interfere with my reading experience… just my 2 cents worth.;
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I do agree, but it seems to be an easy way to make money extra money. I don’t suggest new bloggers to use it though because it usually fails.
-Mike
And for with bloggers with some name and fame,the inline ads that pop-up would certainly be disturbing and may turn-off readers!.
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what usually fails?
If you are going back to kontera, you can sign up through my link if you want;)
Internetbusinessdaily.net/kontera.php
Thanks!
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Thanks
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