Posts Tagged ‘money’

7 steps to Blog for $$$

 

Hello all;

Hopefully, you are still reading this blog.

One of the reason people blogging is money. Besides of being a fun activities, blogging can always be a money maker for you and me.

But, how ! Everyday, more and more people are talking about make mone blogging.

It is seem to be impossible right?

I love to explain things in analogy. Here the analogy of how you can make money.

Have you been at your kitchen, helping or watching your sister or mom or wife baking a cake?

What the first things are they doing before baking the cake? Prepare the dough right?

It is the same for blogging. If you want to make money with your blog, prepare your blog first. The common mistakes is their blog is not ready to get money in.

Here what I mean with "prepare"

1. make sure you have enough content to attract your readers. It is a shame to avertise an empty blog.

2. Be friendly. In term of loading time. Cut away unnecessary image, change your mp3 bar from play automatically to play manually (it is annoying isn’t it? ).

3. Write your thought, don’t copy and paste. It is not wrong to copy and paste or getting the ideas from others articles, but it has a trick. The trick is, don’t copy blindly. If you copy from a news, make sure you put your thought, your ideas on the news. Make it unique.

4. Consistency . Too many blogger have a lack at this. Don’t be too hurry to earn money. It will come later if you consistently update your blog. Write your blog, modified your blog etc. If you can’t write everyday, write every week. If can’t, write every month.

5. Socialize. Hey, your blog also need friends. Go flirting female blogs. Hang around with male blogs. Don’t bee too dull. Leave comments, write feedback, link back and even tag your blogging friends.

6. No rushing. Don’t put high expectation to earn big money. Instead, target the earning gradually. $1 for first month. $10 for 2nd month etc. The problem when you have high expectation on your blog is, you will be demotivated when your goal not reach.

7. Aim high. it is different with aim high and expect high. Aim high, expect the worse. With this blogging culture, you will be successful in no time.

That’s all what I mean with P.R.E.P.A.R.E.

It is simple isn’t it. Trust me, build your blog, the money will come later.

Till then, chow !

Edited: April 12th, 2009

PPC Advertising Networks

 Google AdSense is the most popular option under this category, but there are also others. Basically you need to sign up with the network and paste some code snippets on your website. The network will then serve contextual ads (either text or images) relevant to your website, and you will earn a certain amount of money for every click.

 

The profitability of PPC advertising depends on the general traffic levels of the website and, most importantly, on the click-through rate (CTR) and cost per click (CPC).

 

The CTR depends on the design of the website. Ads placed above the fold or blended with content, for instance, tend to get higher CTRs.

 

The CPC, on the other hand, depends on the nice of the website. Cancer, real estate and college education are examples of profitable niches (clicks worth a couple of dollars are not rare), while tech-related topics tend to receive a smaller CPC (sometimes as low as a couple of cents per click).

 

The source of the traffic can also affect the overall CTR rate.
Organic traffic (the one that comes from search engines) tends to perform well because these visitors were already looking for something, and they tend to click on ads more often.
Social media traffic, on the other hand, presents terribly low CTRs because these visitors are tech savvy and they just ignore ads.

List of popular CPC advertising networks:

 

·Google Adsense

· Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN)

· BidVertiser

· Chitika

· Clicksor

· Adbrite

Edited: December 29th, 2008