First, let me preface this discussion by stating that you first need to seriously evaluate whether you want to work to monetize your blog. Because most people who try end up not generating significant revenues.
Secondly, you have to make sure that you want to make money from your blog directly is your goal. So I present to you 10 ways to monetize your blog, let's begin:
Secondly, you have to make sure that you want to make money from your blog directly is your goal. So I present to you 10 ways to monetize your blog, let's begin:
Surprise, surprise ... Contextual advertising is certainly the method / tactic most popular monetization of your blog, mainly due to being the simplest to implement. The Advertising exists in several forms, but the contextual advertising is the most popular thanks to Google Adsense and his great success in blogs and profitable niches.
I assume that everyone reading this article are familiar with Google Adsense because I should mention that many bloggers assume that Adsense is the best solution for your blog. For some blogs and topics, Adsense works very well for others, not so much.
My first advice is to not limit your blog to only one form of advertising (diversify). There are other options contextual advertising like Yahoo Publisher Network, Chitika, Clicksor, AdSonar, and others. It is not easy to test all these advertising options manually to compare in which you are obtaining higher profits, but there are tools that can help you during this process as the RMX Direct.
2. Display Advertising
As mentioned earlier, contextual plublicidades are not always the best solution for your blog. In some cases, do not have enough advertisers in your niche, themes, and in other cases, users simply are not likely to click on ads. In this case, you may want to work with Ad Networks that offer CPM (Cost Per Mille / Cost per thousand impressions). This means you get paid for impressions of ads on your blog, instead of receiving by ad clicks.
As pulic contetual is important to use ads from other ad networks in order to get more variety of ads on your blog, preventing only one Ad Network control your inventory, and also to make sure that is gaining the greatest amount of money as possible with your blog.
3. Targeted Advertising (Target)
The most desirable form of advertising is when other companies want to pay a good price to advertise on their blog directly, whether in the form of text ads or image ads (banners). Many bloggers believe that this is a utopia, but I speak based on my experience, you can make solid income from targeted advertising without insane amount of traffic.
* To have a blog with the main contents of your niche and a design professional
* Create an "Advertise with us" which is basically a page on his blog that explains what you accept "targeted advertising" on his blog, which are ad rates, demographics of its users, their traffic levels, the examples of the types of ads that people can perform, testimonials from other companies that advertise on his blog, and a phone number and addresse-mail that can be used for additional information.
* Course has links - "Advertise on this blog" or "Advertise with us" in key positions in his blog.
* Offer one or two companies free ads or a good discount in order to disclose their service. While other advertisers see their competitors or similar companies advertising on your blog, they will make sure you offer this type of service (targeted advertising) and perhaps buy ads on your blog.
* Be willing to be creative to help advertisers reach their goals, and perhaps even lower the price to reach agreements.
* Provide statistics and results for their advertisers. Use a manager like RMX Direct ad, OpenX, or something similar that has the ability to create reports for advertisers.
After setting your blog properly, contact a few companies in its niche that might want to achieve your traffic. You need not go after the biggest companies, there are many small businesses who are seeking better results from the web, and erhaps not know your blog. You need not be a sales professional, just make a good presentation of your blog and offer reasons why they should advertise with you. Ease the way to work with you, help them to create ads, help them determine what sizes to use, and work with them to ensure they get the results they need. It seems hard work at first, but after getting a solid base of advertisers during the process, this becomes a major source of income from your blog.
4. Text Link Advertising
Another form of advertising is to use discreet services such as Text Link Ads - Text Link Ads and Adbrite to sell text ads directly to companies. This type of advertising requires little effort and often do not occupy much space on a site, so it is easy to implement and test. Note however that this type of advertising requires significant traffic to be a great source of income.
5. Affiliate Program
One of the oldest methods of monetizing the web is still as good today as it ever was before. If you have a blog on a specific area, there is a big chance that exists out there, companies that sell products or services to its users and these products or services are directly linked to their target audience, and with this you can earn commissions with affiliate program.
EBay is probably the most commonly used by bloggers to monetize your blog / website with affiliate programs, but I advise you to find other marketers who can pay more and be more specific to your topic. Examples of other merchants: Clickbank, Amazon, AzoogleAds, Free Market, Submarine, AdultFriendFinder, ...
6. Sell Your Content (eBooks, videos, DVDs)
If you have great content on your website / blog, another option is to package it and sell it:-D. There are many bloggers who have created ebooks and even books based on the content of their blogs and obtained a large income / profit from selling them. You can also expand your arsenal of products with videos, DVDs, audio CDs, and books printed on demand.
This process requires hard work, but the returns can be very rewarding, especially in the long run ;-).
7. Consulting
Depending on your theme and your experience level, you can sell consulting services. If you are a specialist web analytics, you can offer consultancy services for web analytics on your blog by an hourly rate or fixed price. This requires very little setup work, just create a page describing their services, establish a type of contract and payment terms.
8. Donations
It is not as common today as it once was. But you used to be quite common to see bloggers asking for donations through Paypal or any other service. This only works if you have a dedicated server, and a sufficient number of users / contributors that their donations allow them to pay for dedicated hosting. I would not recommend this method if you have a lot of advertising and other methods of monetization on his blog. You may seem too greedy in this case.
In addition to information products, you can sell real products like shirts, stickers, stickers, clothing, or any other type of merchandise that is related to your niche. Companies like Goodstorm, Cafepress, Lulu, and others make this process easier by creating products based on its design and lets you set up a shop. There is no risk to bloggers, which makes it a great opportunity.
Perhaps the most extreme method of monetization / monetization, but it can be profitable! If you're not committed to his blog and is willing to discard it, you can usually find a buyer for it. Your blog must have good content, and have a level of traffic that is worth buying, If your blog has some form of income, this will help a lot in the sale process. Blogs are usually sold by 12 / 24 times the monthly revenue, and there are many places you can sell them like eBay and the Sitepoint Marketplace.
Conclusion
If you want to monetize your entire site / blog, that definitely requires some work and help a good traffic. During construction of your blog, make friends, help others and form a solid base of users. With this, you're on your way to generate extra income through any of the methods described above. Good luck and please please share in the comments, any experience with monetizing blog you've ever spent.
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