There are hundreds of articles entitled "Ways to make money with your blog". I know, I know. But if I decided to write about this topic of how to monetize blog is because I never finished finding one that I found concise enough and at the same time practical.
I do not intend to give you a definitive list, but simply to put on the table the most traditional methods to sell on the internet. On the Internet, things tend to change very fast, so there may be other ways to generate income. The ones you will find below are validated and proven methods.
I have decided to separate the list between direct and indirect sales. Without more, shooting 5 cures of vitamins for your blog.
- Pay Per Click ad networks (PPC)
Google AdSense is the most common option to monetize blog, but that should not lead you to think that there are no others. In principle, you only have to register on one of these networks and then paste some codes on your website. Through this, the system will publish contextual notices (texts or images) that are of importance within your site, and you will earn a small amount of money for each click that message gets.
Key parameters that impact your income:
Niche
Traffic Volume
% Organic traffic, since search engines bring people who were looking for something in particular, and usually have better conversion factors since those visitors are explicitly looking for something, which is likely to click more frequently on your ads.
% CTR Rate on page click
CPC or Cost Per Click
I give you the main PPC advertising networks:
Google AdSense
Web Impressions
Yahoo
- CPM Ad Networks (Cost Per Thousand Impressions)
CPM ads, although similar to PPC, have another modality. While they are contextual like the others, in this case they pay for the number of impressions of those ads on your website. Let's say you'll add an impression every time that screen opens and a certain banner appears on your site. Example: a blog that monthly generates 100,000 page views showing a certain banner, if it has a CPM of one euro, it will earn 100 euros at the end of the month {= (100,000 / 1000) * 1}. It is another common option to monetize blog.
Key parameters that impact your income:
Niche
Traffic Volume
Capacity of segmentation of the public of the socio-demographic blog + interests)
Banner size
Banner position
Banner format (static or animated, jpg / gif or flash)
The following are the most known CPM ad networks:
Google AdSense
Double Click
Web Impressions
- Direct advertising with banners
If you want to multiply your Adsense income by a factor of 3 or 4, start here. It seems obvious, but if you take the trouble to sell the ad spaces for yourself, it can be a very lucrative way.
First of all, because you save the whole issue of intermediaries. And second, because you can set the rates yourself. The standardized formats are the heads of 728 × 90 pixels, the side panels of 120 × 600, the rectangles of 300 × 250, and the buttons of 125 × 125.
It will work better if you already have an important audience and very segmented, if you want to get known advertisers, and you should also lose part of your time in the process of selling and collecting spaces.
- Sponsored links
If you do not forget to put the rel = "nofollow" tag on these links, you should not have problems with Google. The advantage of this method is that it is not invasive at all. One can sell the links directly from your blog, or use specialized networks. An easy and fast way to monetize blog.
Important parameters:
Position on the Link page
Reprocyclicity of the link
If the link is present on all the pages or only in one.
If this single page is your cover or a standard article.
These are the main networks of sponsored links:
Text Link Ads
Linkicity
Linklift
- Sale by affiliation
It is a very common practice on the Internet. Under the affiliate sale system, you will turn your site into a showcase to allow other companies (affiliates) to sell directly or indirectly their products or services, in exchange for a commission.
Some call this modality with the acronym CPA, which means "cost per action", or CPL, "cost per recommendation" (cost per lead). Affiliated vendors can refer potential customers to the sales site, through different channels such as banners, sponsored links in a recommendation on the product.
To find good affiliate programs, you should contact directly with large companies and / or blogs, or join affiliate sales networks. For me, it is the most effective model to monetize blog.
Some of the most recognized are:
Commission Junction
ClickBank
e-junkie
For 100% Spanish networks:
Tradedoubler
Zanox
Never play with your reputation:
Promote only products that you know, and that seem good and useful to your audience
Applies the rule of 9 for 1: 9 items of value for 1 promotion
If you think it's important, you can be even more transparent and tell your readers that it's an affiliation link, before they even click.
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