Blog Moneytizing

Making money from blog is the next activity we should consider after our blog have been online and all business related with domain and hosting have been ready.

ProBlogger Darren Rowse discussed in a recent post how he’s making money with his blogging, and more generally, with his websites.

The following is a classification of its main sources of income for one of his personal blogs for the fourth quarter of 2006. Darren also included some information on how to use each of these revenue streams and products that offer better job for him to monetize their blogs and websites:

Chitika: While we do not work on all blogs (for example I do not use here at ProBlogger) and there is a traffic minimum to be accepted by them, Chitika is still my biggest source of revenue. They offer a variety of ad units and revenue flows - the top three for me are eMiniMalls, related product units and Shoplincs. Work will continue on the best sites related to the production. Instead SPS units by the end of posts (which give a good option for people to click when you finish reading and experiment with direct links to products in its shoplinc of product reviews (of products) on their blogs. (...)

AdSense: The most popular form of advertising on blogs is AdSense (according to some studies I've seen) and for me it's a reliable source of income that provides a significant level of income (slightly less than what it pulls in each month Chitika ). While the use referrals and their search product in some of my sites I find it normal that the ad is the best production of income for me - particularly rectangle (250 x 300 pixels), which placed close to content with a mixture of design . (...)

Name: Surname: Perhaps the greatest driving force for me in the past 12 months in terms of my income has come from TLA. Whilst they have a ceiling of what they earn for that site are another good source of income solid for me - especially now that it has added feedvertising (RSS ads), which conducts out any other type of RSS ad that I have tried. I am hearing from many bloggers that TLA is their biggest source of income now. It works best on sites that have been around for a while - do not need big traffic to be accepted - but with some Page Rank and search engine presence helps.

Amazon Associates: The fourth quarter of each year tends to be a good year for me in terms of commissions from Amazon. The last quarter was a moment that people are buying into a state of mind in preparing for Christmas - smart placement (deep linking inside posts) can bring great conversions. The key is to choose products to promote. Read more tips on affiliate programs to the blogs of some other tips on optimizing Amazon.

Private offerings of ads: I do a lot of offers private ad (s something that should focus on, but there are only so many hours in the day), but when they come in that may be important (if you have decent traffic). I have signed only two bids on my blog digital photography with Apple and Adobe for the next couple of months by which a suspect is the next leap forward this quarter.

Various Affiliate Programs: My blogs have a variety of smaller affiliate programs from them. I try to find quality products that deal with topics that I can really recommend - often via comments. Some of the best conversion of the products that I have recommended this last quarter included - Digital Photography Secrets (a camera technique of the series), Pro Photo Secrets (a product of Photoshop) and SEO Book (Aaron's legendary resources).

ProBlogger Job Boards: Not spectacular, but more and more revenue. I see this more as a service to readers that a stream of income at this time - but not pay for itself and put in a few hundred dollars each month.

BlogAds: I do not use much these days but in a little each month. I noticed BlogAds decrease in performance for me all the time happened to the new version. I'm not sure if my problem or hers, but apart from a blog that rarely sees sales these days (source - http://brightlaunch.com)