There are many ways to make money blogging. Here are some of the ways to make money with advertising on your blog.
Pay per click advertising
Sell your own advertising on your blog
Sell text links on your blog
CPM ad networks
Pop-ups
Paid reviews
1. 6 ways to make money with
advertising from Blog
2. There are many ways to make money blogging. Here are some of the ways
to make money with advertising on your blog.
• Pay per click advertising
• Sell your own advertising on your blog
• Sell text links on your blog
• CPM ad networks
• Pop-ups
• Paid reviews
Some facts on blogs that make money
3. Blogging has moved from the tech geeks domain to “new media”. It is
now cool and can be very lucrative. Before we dive in here are some
interesting facts about some blogs that make serious money.
4. 1. Pay per click advertising
Pay-Per-Click ads, also known as Cost Per Click or CPC, is one of the
most common models of internet advertising. It simply means an
advertiser will pay you once someone clicks on their ad. Infolinks
Infolinks is one of the best ways to implement in-text advertising on
your blog. It offers publishers a 70% revenue share and follows a PPC
(pay-per-click) model. In-text ads are double-underlined words on a
page that show us ads when clicked.
5. Pay per click advertising
Media.net is another big alternative to Adsense and is powered by the
Yahoo Bing Network. The ads featured are contextual focusing on
relevant keywords and that takes some time before they are optimized
for your site. As you keep using this network, soon the algorithm will
determine the best keywords for your audience based on the clicks. As
opposed to Adsense, Media.net assigns a dedicated Account rep who
can also suggest you ways to making more revenues from your ads.
The money transfer options are wire transfer or Paypal. Minimum
threshold for payouts is $100.
6. Pay per click advertising
is another alternative that only serves contextual ads and offers a CPC
program. You can customize your ads and use them along with, if not
instead of, Google Adsense with no problems. The best thing? They
have a small minimum threshold of $10 if getting paid via Paypal.
If you’re opting to get paid via check, the threshold is $50.
7. 2. Sell ads on your blog
If you’re already getting a decent traffic, you may want to take things
in your control and sell direct ads on your website. All you need is an
“Advertise with us” page on your blog listing out the different formats
of ads available and how much it costs per month. Make sure to
mention your Alexa rank, Google PageRank, and other traffic stats for
buyers to know.
But if you want to save yourself the hassle of selling, you can use
the following third-party alternatives to sell ads on your blog:
Buy Sell Ads is an online ad-marketplace where you can list your ads
for others to buy. They don’t accept low traffic blogs so if you’re just
starting out, you may want to wait for at least a few months
before you start generating good traffic. BuySellAds gives 75% of the
total earnings to its publishers, which is pretty decent. There is no
minimum threshold for payouts and you can remove money two
times every month to your Paypal.
8. Blog Ads works in a similar manner as BuySellAds. They keep 30% of
all ad sales as their commission. If you refer new users, you can earn
a cool 15% of the earnings also.
If you’re receiving money via Paypal, you need to have minimum
funds of $75 and for Check or Wire Transfer, it’s $750.
Sell ads on your blog
9. 3. Sell text links on your blog
If you get good organic traffic on your blog, you can try text-link ads
where you link a piece of text on your site to another page on a
different site. Before you try these, make sure you use the No follow
tag to combat any possible Google penalty.
Link Worth is a popular text-link network where you’ll also find options
to use rotating text ads, paid reviews etc. Minimum threshold for
payouts is $25 if you’re using Paypal, and $100 for Check, Wire
Transfer and EFT.
10. 4. “Cost per Click”ad networks
So far we’ve been looking at mostly CPC (Cost Per Click) model for
ads. CPC means the advertiser pays you when someone clicks through
their ads. An alternative to this is CPM (Cost per Thousand) where
you are paid for every 1,000 ad impressions served. With CPC, your
income can vary hugely but that isn’t the case with CPM. If your CPM
network sets your CPM at, let’s say, $5 per 100,000 impressions then
you will make $500 in total when that number is reached.
Pulsepoint is a popular CPM network where
you can set your own CPM prices. In order
to be accepted in their network your site
needs to have good amount of original
content. They mostly sell to a US-based
traffic. When setting the price, set a higher
price than you make on your backup
(example Adsense). If they can’t beat that
price, your backup is displayed. You receive
your earnings every 45 days via EFT,
Paypal or check.
11. 5. Pop-ups
Granted, many advertisers and bloggers dislike popup ads but it’s still
an option. You can display these ads as pop-ups or pop-unders
PopAds offers pop-under ads and works quite well with an English-
speaking traffic. You set your own price and the pop under
frequency for each visitor. You can get paid via AlertPay, Paypal,
and Wire Transfer, and you can withdraw payments any time. They
also run a referral program at 10% of the earnings.
12. 6. Paid Reviews
You can make some good money by publishing reviews on various
products and services that you trust. The best thing about this
arrangement isyou command a price per review. I’ve seen websites
asking anywhere from $150 to $500 for reviews. Of course it depends
on your rank and incoming traffic as well as your niche.
Sponsored Reviews allows advertisers to build backlinks and bloggers to
make money. It connects bloggers with Search Engine Optimizers,
Marketers and Advertisers who want to build traffic. You can offer
writing paid posts on your blog to their network of hundreds of
advertisers. Set your own price per piece. And you’re not expected to
write positive reviews only – honest and in-depth posts are welcome.
Payments are made bi-weekly via Paypal.
13. Paid Reviews
PayU2 Blog is another alternative for getting paid to write blog posts
on your site. Not all blogs are taken in, so you may want to sign up
and wait before you know. PayU2Blog works a little differently in that
they assign you a blog post topic in areas such as real estate, health,
retail, etc. You don’t have to write glorious reviews or endorse
anything if you don’t believe in a product or service. Personal
experience, honest opinions are encouraged. You get paid via Paypal
every two weeks.
14. There you go. Some of these are ad networks while others are
sponsored posts and reviews that don’t use ads at all. There are still
other ways to make money, such as using affiliate networks such as
Amazon Associates, so your options are wide open.
The secret is to continuously “diversify” your income streams. And the
best part? Most of these options can still be used along with Google
Adsense. Which ones are your favorites?