How to monetize a blog? Undoubtedly the trickiest question any internet marketer can give solution. Difficulty of the question is not related to the complexity of monetizing a blog, but to the difficulty of creating and retaining it, which usually takes intense work and precious time – maybe 8-10 hours of work in the beginning. Also it is far from the traditional paid tools. Patience stands here at the first place… Before monetizing a blog, be sure you have finished pre-blogging process-establishing a blog, getting traffic and keeping up with SEO. In the previous articles I have discussed several topics about blog optimization. So in case you grabbed my tips and suggestions, maybe you might be willing to monetize a blog…
1. Become an advertiser
Sell the advertising space and gain commissions. Find adsense and position several ads on your blog. I don’t guarantee you to earn tons of money, but if your blog has already established good capital from popularity and reputation and gets organic traffic, you will definitely earn good monthly income. Niche blogs feel vary familiar with adsense services, as it display ads relevant to your market. But make sure to brand your adsense banners – Diversify colors and match them to your vision statement, target the most popular sections and always have a shot at experiments.
2. Become an entrepreneur
Create your own product (books, softwares) .As I stated blog pushes your experience, as you can not fully automate it. So utilize your reputation and experience and wrap-up some internet books of your niche. If you know your niche and publish personal content, it would be easy as hell. Don’t neglect small sales promotions. Maybe it is possible to insert your first product in the giveaways or make some contests. Using first material as marketing material with valuable proposition will generate basement for the next product, which will sell higher.
3. Become a reseller
Affiliate platforms like clickbank, amazon, chikita, adbrite arises here. In fact the highest proportion of bloggers generate income from affiliate advertising networks. It is the least difficult model and pays you a % of sale for referring. Presumably it is the most convenient way of monetizing a blog, because requires less your personal skills. Many of this affiliate products already maintained high value and can sell themselves. But it seems like so – sales persuasion or reviews should make visitors click. I advise you to be customer oriented and keep the balance-be honest not only to advertising platforms but to your visitors. Marketing has never been built on lies, but on trust.
4. Become a service marketer
Blog is really best platform for online service marketing. It is the place where people share opinions, suggest ideas and get in interaction with each other. If you perform services, than it is exactly for you. Create own voice and selling message, put them in your article, which will feature motives, opinions and target to your blog audience. In the simplest way offer them something when blogging and communicating. You will generate new customers and retain existing ones.
You can get millions of answers to the question – How to monetize a blog, Because demand on such questions never decrease. Many bloggers try time consuming methods, such as writing guest posts, blog carnivals etc.Think from the long – term approach and make your blog real business tool. You need to get experience-to learn what is good for you and what is not.
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Excellent post. I have considered being either an advertiser or entrepreneur. It would be awesome – although I know it’ll be hard work – to sell my own product towards others. But first, like you said, I need to oomph up my reputation. Thanks for sharing your perspective!
Like you said in the post “I don’t guarantee you to earn tons of money”. That’s a true statement depending on the amount of traffic you receive. If you are getting 250k views a day with an average CTR of 2.3% and average CPC of $.25 you could be make $1500 a day!
This is a great, alternative way to think about monetizing a blog; I like they way you split it into entrepreneur, reseller, advertiser and marketer, I haven’t seen that approach before. I’ve written an article that discusses some of the ‘How To’s’ of blog monetization; you can find it here: http://paulmaplesden.hubpages.com/hub/A-Simple-Guide-to-Monetizing-Your-Blog-Monetization-Channels
These are helpful points that help me think ahead. Also, thanks for stopping by my blog.
Great post.
But I am wondering about one thing. What exactly does “organic traffic” mean? I have seen this phrase before.
Good points D
I like Adsense, along with cash gifting. I tap into both channels by creating targeted content daily. The more value you add to your blog the more clickable your ads become.
The value really is in the content. Once you help people with their problems by posting frequently, and you target your content with the proper keywords you will be able to monetize your blog and cash in more easily.
Thanks for sharing!
Ryan
Here’s the challenging thing though, and your article doesn’t speak to this, but then again, I’m sure books have been written on this topic and you have a finite amount of space up here… I understand Adsense and all that, but as a blogger who loves blogging FIRST, but wants to make money as well, what I don’t want is a junky looking site with lots of links that are of products I wouldn’t necessarily support.
People come to my blog to read my work. They may or may not click on any ads on the sides or links in the materials, but I’ve also (as a reader) been driven away from blogs because they just end up being a bunch of marketing crap everywhere, and it looks cumbersome and messy. So, I guess my question is: how do you find the advertisers you want, and how do you know when you have enough links (as opposed to too much!)?
And maybe you’ve already written up on this, and I’m just late the game. Which is possible… because I just found you. YAY GOOGLE!
Thanks for the sharing of information. It is useful information for me as a new blogger.