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Recently I wrote on how bloggers make money online where I listed out the commonly used ad programs to help bloggers realize that they have to add more revenue sources to make more money online. But if you are running a new blog, you should not slap your blog with ads from all these ad programs. Before monetizing a new blog, you must first focus on feeding your blog with quality content and on increasing your blog’s traffic. When your blog reaches around 500 unique traffic per day, you can start monetizing it with either Google AdSense or Chitika eMiniMalls if you have a product related blog.
AdSense
AdSense also allows you to make money by using Google Search on your site that will display relevant ads when visitors search on your site. AdSense also has a referral program that allows you to make money by recommending various products like Firefox toolbar, AdSense, Adwords, etc. When a publisher who signed up for Google AdSense through your referral earns $5 within 180 days of sign-up, you will be credited with $5. When that same publisher earns $100 within 180 days of sign-up and is eligible for payout, you will be credited with an additional $250. If, in any 180 day period, you refer 25 publishers who each earn more than $100 and are all eligible for payout, you will be awarded a $2,000 bonus! I use many revenue sources to make money through my blog, but AdSense is my biggest money maker. I highly recommend AdSense as a way of monetizing a blog, especially for those just starting out. Sign up for AdSense. Text Link AdsText Link Ads (TLA) is another ad program commonly used by bloggers to make money through blogs. With the help of Text Link Ads you can sell simple text links on your site. The monthly link price will depend on factors like your Google Pagerank and Alexa rank. Text Link Ads has an affiliate program that will pay you $25 for any referred visitor that is accepted into their publisher program and installs the advertising script on their site for seven days. If you refer an advertiser who purchases an advertisement, the referral will appear in your affiliate account within 24 hours. In order to attract advertisers and sell links on your site easily, your blog must have a good Page Rank and Alexa rank. Signup for Text Link Ads when you have a PR of 5. Check here on how to increase your Alexa Rank. For more info, read my Text Link Ads Review and my post on how to make money online with Text Link Ads. Vizu
Vizu takes half of what you set as the CPM price. Therefore if you set your CPM price as $4, you will get payed $2 for every 1000 impressions. Since Vizu is CPM based, you will earn according to what traffic you have. The more traffic you have the more money you make. Tribal Fusion
It is good to have to have CPM ads on your site as your site visitors don’t have to click them for you to get money, they just have to visit the page with the Tribal Fusion ad. CPM ads can do well on pages where Cost Per Click (CPC) ads don’t do well like on your blog’s homepage. To try out Tribal Fusion, your site must have:
Chitika
ReviewMe
To get good number of review orders from ReviewMe advertisers, your blog needs to have a good rank in Alexa and Technorati and have good number of RSS readers. FeedBurner Ad NetworkYou can monetize your feed with FeedBurner Ad Network (FAN), but you may need around 500 RSS readers to get accepted. In-Text AdvertisingIf your web site delivers more than 500,000 page views of text based content a month, you can signup with Kontera or IntelliTXT to display relevant in-text ads. Kontera seems to accept sites with low traffic, but to earn well with it you will still need high traffic. BlogAds
To do well with BlogAds you need to place BlogAds above the fold and need to have good pageviews. Affiliate programsYou can also make money through Affiliate programs like Linkshare, Clickbank and Commission Junction. Text Link Ads, ReviewMe and Aaron’s SEO book also offer affiliate programs that many bloggers use. There are many more affiliate programs, but you have to choose the ones that match your blog. Check here for tips on how to improve your Affiliate earnings. Direct Ad SalesUsually a blogger uses a service like Text Link Ads to sell links on their blog, but the problem of using these services is that they take a cut. Doing a private link sale can benefit you more as you get to set your own price and nobody takes a cut. Maki has written a series of articles on developing Direct Ad Sales as an alternative revenue source to make money online. You can find the first article and an introduction to the series here. Before trying to do a direct ad sale make sure your blog has good traffic, Google Page Rank and Alexa Rank. |
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AdSense is a contextual advertising program for which publishers have to add a piece of code to their site that helps Google analyze what your page is about so they can serve ads on that topic. This increases the chance of your visitors clicking the ad which increases the chances that you will earn from them. AdSense is a quick and easy way for bloggers of all sizes to display ads that are relevant to their content.
Vizu Answers helps you earn money from your site by placing interactive Polls on desired topics. They pay you based on CPM (Cost per thousand impressions), and you even get to set the minimum CPM rate for each poll you put up on your web site.
Tribal Fusion is another CPM based ad program. To get your site accepted by Tribal Fusion your site will need to have a minimum of 2000 unique visitors per day. The ads they serve can annoy your readers though as they are flashy and sometime with audio too. They even have popup ads. You have the freedom to block the type of ads you dont want displayed on your site. I have blocked ads of type adult, flashy, audio, violence, popups, etc.
Placing ads on your blog is not the only way to earn through blogging, you can even get paid to blog. Services like ReviewMe will pay you to review services and web sites that are of interest to your readers. ReviewMe sets your review price based on your Alexa rank, Technorati Rank and number of RSS readers. You can also set your own review price.
Through BlogAds advertisers can choose to place from simple text ads to flashy ads on your blog and the prices will vary depending upon the ad format. BlogAds allows you to set your own price. You will need an invite to try out BlogAds.