Ways to Improve Your Blog – Making Money
Making money from your blog is always an option that is available to most bloggers. There is a fine line between being over commercialized and trying to make some money. You have to find what works for you while still appealing to your readers.
This is Part 8 in an eight part series from the article 99 Ways to Improve Your Blog from the blog Traffic to Your Blog written by Steinar Arason. Please check out all of the posts in this series: Content, Design & Appearance, Functionality, Marketing, SEO, Networking, Subscribers and Making Money.
Find More Relevant Advertisers
Advertisements will be more effective for the blogger, the readers, and the advertisers if they are highly relevant to the content of the blog. Don’t just throw any advertisement on your blog. Make sure it is useful to readers and the ads will
Use Affiliate Marketing for Appropriate Products
When monetizing your blog, don’t forget affiliate programs. By marketing products and services that are targeted to your audience you can make a nice amount of money. Plus, affiliate programs can help to fill voids when you haven’t sold all of your direct ad spots.
Provide an Advertising Page with Details
If you are selling advertising space, set up a page dedicated to providing information and details to potential advertisers. This will hopefully help to generate interest and it will also reduce the amount of questions you get. Don’t forget to let people know why they should advertise on your blog instead of the millions of other blogs out there.
Offer Premium Content
Some bloggers make money by selling access to premium content. That premium content could be articles, online tools, a member’s only forum, premium blog themes, etc. To make money this way you have to be able to offer something that others will be willing to pay for.
Use an Ad Management System
You can save yourself some time and increase your productivity with an ad server like OpenX or the OIO Publisher plugin for WordPress. These resources will make life easier for you and for your advertisers.
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October 28th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
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October 30th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Hi just thought i would let you know i also had a issue with your blog appearing frozen also. Must be monkeys in the page.
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