Before we can learn how to monetize our own blogs it’s important that we know what monetizing a blog consists of. People seem to have a misunderstanding over what monetizing a blog actually is.
The idea behind monetizing a blog is the process in which we customize the blog with ads to make money with our blog. If you’re not attempting to make money with your blog then you’re not monetizing it.
From my point of view every website you own should be monetized to make money, otherwise it is pointless to have and it simply takes up time that you cannot afford.
If this is your case then the below article is for you, but if you just like having some fun sites but your main goal is not to turn a profit from them then just skip this post and go directly to our SEO Tools section where you can learn how to do SEO to your site or blog and gain readers / traffic and stuff like that.
Basic Monetizing Principles
If your just starting to monetize your blog for some income then here are a few ways you can do that and get your feet wet.
Adsense
Adsense has long been used as a form of advertisements for monetizing blogs. However adsense only works really well if you receive lots of traffic to your blog already. To find out more about Google Adsense check out our Google Adsense section.
Banners
Banners are your key to monetizing success, banners are what people will pay for our regular basis. Most banners run at a monthly fee meaning you get a recurring income every month. This is a great way to monetize your blog because the banners you place are going to be relative to your blog and you get to pick and choose what sites you want and don’t want on yours.
In Text
In-Text advertising is a new form of advertising which allows you more control over monetizing your blog. Basically the way it works is through programs like kontera which solely provide in-text advertising. In-text advertising is basically text links that have no-follow on them and when you hover on them as a visitor the site appears in a pop-up flash bar. It shows a screenshot of their website and if a visitor clicks on that flash ad you will get a percentage of each click! Anywhere from $.10 to several dollars per click, as you can see this is a great way to monetize your blog as its not in-your-face advertising as most visitors detest.
Text Links
Text links are the old way of monetizing a blog, people would sell text links for page rank, traffic and various other reasons. However now that the Google link penalty is in-place text links are of the past and not worth selling on a website. Instead replace that links section with banners and you’ll have much more success plus a better monthly income.
Reviews
Reviews are a great way to monetize your blog, you can charge any amount per review as long as your blog gets decent traffic and has a decent readership following. I have seen people charge anywhere from $10-$500 per review! Just be sure when doing reviews that you include a few negative ones as well, the reason I suggest this is because people love to jump on the negative bandwagon and there is no better way then with a negative review!
Summing it up
So the main point behind monetizing your blog is to make money, luckily for you we have tons of articles throughout the whole blog which explain various ways to monetize your blog and in turn earn money for those techniques you’re implementing.
One thing to keep in mind is that there is no one way to do it, feel free to experiment with different click and product affiliates, just because it doesn’t work for one person doesn’t mean it won’t work for another.
What about you? What ways do you monetize your blog? Do you make much money from monetizing your blogs? Tell us below!