Earn 10 000 Per Year From Your Blog How to Make Money Blogging
Author : Anthony Wayne
You can easily make enough money from your blog to pay for your living expenses while at college. By living expenses, I mean beer and pizza, of course, plus an occasional cheap date with that cute girl you stare at in your economics class.
The easiest way to make money from your blog is to write articles for other sites. Sign up for services like Blogsvertise. Blogsvertise will pay you for writing articles that promote other sites. The fee is usually about $10 per article. If your site has a page rank (page rank is Google’s relative value of a site) of at least 3, you will get more opportunities to write articles for Blogsvertise.
Another way to make money from your site is to sign up to allow for advertising on your site. You don’t have to know any html programming to place advertising on your blog. Simply cut and paste the html provided by the site into your widgets on the blog and you’ll be off and running on making money.
I recommend using sites that will pay you on a CPM basis. CPM means cost per thousand if you have never taken a Latin class. Some of the best places to get CPM advertising is on sites such as AdBrite, Adify, Traffic Marketplace, and Find It Quick. With CPM, you’ll be guaranteed to make money for every thousand visitors to your site so it makes the most sense for a college student in search of his next dozen wings.
Some CPM ads are banners, but there are other advertising opportunities available as well. Other opportunities include pop-up ads, full page ads that cover your site temporarily, and in-text ads that will create links out of your already existing copy. Maybe it’s just me, but I think all of these kind of ads look spammy and are a net negative to your site and repeat visitors.
Other advertising sites fall in the category of affiliate networks, the most popular of which is Commission Junction. Other affiliate networks to consider are Share A Sale, Link Connector, and Primary Ads. With affiliate networks, you will usually get paid on a CPA basis, meaning a cost per acquisition. In this case, you’ll receive a commission when somebody clicks on the advertisement of your site and purchases something from the advertiser. In this equation, the blogger is known as an affiliate and the advertiser is known as a merchant. CPA deals work best when you have a real niche subject and appropriate niche advertiser.
Remember earlier when I said I’d tell you a little trick about getting a discount on your URL purchase and your web hosting? Here it is. Sign up for one of the affiliate networks first and agree to promote GoDaddy and BlueHost, or whomever you decide to use. Then, you will be your own first customer and your own first affiliate network commission.
Still another way to make money is to sell text links. Advertisers love text links within your copy, because it helps their search engine rankings when other sites link to them. Sites like Text Link Ads and Text Link Brokers are easy to use and will sell links on your site for you.
You should also take advantage of pay per click advertising. The most used pay per click advertising opportunities are provided by Google AdSense. With Google AdSense, you promote Google’s paid advertisers on your site. When somebody clicks on those Google links, you get paid. Google is certainly not the only place to obtain these kind of links, but it is the easiest to use and is perfect for beginners just getting started.
Finally, put a page on your blog that is about advertising. Make sure that it is linked to a paypal account so that potential advertisers can pay you directly as some won’t want to even contact you. Keep the cost of your advertising very reasonable, especially in the early days of the blog.
Click Fraud
Why can’t I just click on my own ads and make money?
The answer to this question is that you absolutely can click on your own advertisements. The problem, however, is that its short-term thinking. Advertisers on CPM deals are monitoring your site for its return on investment (ROI) more than anything else. Internet advertising is just like any other advertising that they do. If it doesn’t produce results in terms of e-commerce sales, then it simply isn’t going to last very long. They will pull the ads from your site.
Of course, the more important reason why not to click on your own ads is that it is illegal and frowned upon as a black hat internet technique. Is one click here and there going to kill you? No, but don’t ever click from your own IP address. The internet advertising systems do monitor this and they will take away your account if you click on your own advertisements too often.
Anthony Wayne works in the marketing department of Advanced Telecom Services which provides a do-it-yourself mobile marketing site and also is the leading vendor of 900 numbers in the USA and Canada.
Sell Your Products On MySpace
When most people think of MySpace they believe it is merely a
community for individuals to make friends or reconnect with old
friends but MySpace can offer more to savvy Internet marketers who
know how to network effectively on MySpace. Although MySpace is
intended to be a noncommercial community and commercial websites are
strictly prohibited there are some opportunities to advertise and
stimulate sales through MySpace. This article will discuss the
subject of advertising on MySpace, the terms of service on MySpace
and how MySpace members can avoid being viewed as dreaded spammers by
other members of the community or by MySpace administrators.
Advertising on Your MySpace
According to the MySpace mission statement, the community is meant
to be a noncommercial one. However, this statement refers to the
individuals’ pages created and maintained by members and not the
website as a whole. In fact MySpace is a commercial website with
banner advertisements running on many of the pages and other
advertisements appearing in sidebars and other locations. These
advertising opportunities are open to the public and anyone who is
interested in advertising in these areas is urged to contact MySpace
directly for more information. This type of advertising is worthwhile
for business owners who have products or services which may appeal to
the members of the community.
While advertising on individual websites on MySpace is prohibited by
the terms of service there is sometimes room to market products one
ones website without violating the terms of service. Although many
visitors to MySpace have encountered websites which are blatant
advertisements, this practice is not recommended because, if
discovered by MySpace administrators, it may lead to the individual
being banned from the community. However, consider an example where a
link to an ecommerce website selling sunglasses is placed in answer
to a question of, “What is your favorite type of sunglasses?” The
link certainly provides a relevant answer to the question and does
allow visitors to the website to learn more about the member.
Determining whether or not this is advertising or not is a matter for
MySpace to determine but it is likely they would not consider this
advertising although those who follow the link might end up making a
purchase.
MySpace Terms of Service
The terms of service provided by MySpace were created to offer
members guidelines as to what types of actions are acceptable and
what actions are prohibited. All members should read these terms of
service before joining and should review the information periodically
to ensure it has not changed significantly during the course of the
membership. Members who have questions regarding the terms of service
should contact MySpace directly for more detailed information or an
explanation of the terms.
Avoiding the Spam Pitfalls on MySpace
We have already discussed how although commercial websites are
prohibited on MySpace there are some advertising opportunities which
still exist. MySpace reaches a large audience each day and this large
audience might tempt some to try to advertise to all of these members
and visitors at once. Unfortunately this sometimes can be construed
as spam. Therefore, precautions should be taken to avoid actions
which might be considered spam by other members or the MySpace
administrators.
As an example of the potential for spam consider a MySpace member
who is very excited about the cosmetics line they sell. This member
might really believe in the products and think they are so wonderful
that everyone should learn more about these products. However, if
this user then begins systematically going through MySpace searching
for all users who mention anything even remotely related to cosmetics
and then places a comment on their website directing them to a link
to more information about these cosmetics this would likely be
considered to be spam. The member may think their actions are
harmless but the members who receive these comments and the MySpace
administrators may disagree.
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