Earn money Blogging
Do you want to create money blogging? If you do – you’re not by yourself. More and more bloggers find that blogging is a lucrative medium. Whether it be to earn several extra dollars a week in order to feed their coffee habit, or making enough money to stop them having to obtain a part time job to cope with college, or whether they’ve got this to a point where they could make a full time living using their blogging – there are hundreds and hundreds of bloggers who make money running a blog..
Their survey bloggers about the methods that they use to earn money from their
blogs Google’s AdSense is always the number one resolution. It is a quick and
easy way for bloggers of their sizes to display ads that are relevant to their
articles and other content.
AdSense is a ‘contextual’ advertising program where publishers simply add a
joint of code to their blogs that helps Google analyze what your page is about
to allow them to serve ads on that topic. This increases the chances on your
readers clicking the ad which increases the chances that you’ll earn something
their particular.
Secret ad sales directly to advertisers have fallen for me in the last year (they previously ranked #3 on this list). This is partly as a result of change in my own focus but also partly due into the economy as it is. I should note that this area does vary a little from month to month depending upon the campaigns we’re asked to run – we’ve had a couple of months where it actually ranked #2 in the last year.
This includes ad sales of the 125 x 125 ads here at ProBlogger as well as a campaign or two atDigital Photography School.
Amazon Associates
Amazon’s affiliate program has been one of my big movers within the last 12
months. I used to make a few odd dollars from it – however lately it has become
a significant earner for me (in fact it’s now earned me around $100, 000 since I
started using it). Christmas time (and the lead up to it) is often a
particularly good time for Amazon – last December it would have ranked #2 on
this specific lis.
10 Tips for Using Affiliate Programs on your Blog
We’ve now looked at several popular affiliate programs for bloggers and today
I’d like in order to complete off this series by giving a few tips that should
help bloggers have the best results out of any affiliate program that they elect
to run with.
1. Consider your Audience
The software almost goes without saying – but it’s worth putting yourself in your readers shoes and consider what they may be looking for as they surf by your blog. Are they shopping for specific products? Might they be seeking out related products or accessories? What would trigger them to purchase? Start with your reader in mind as opposed to the product. If you take this approach you could end up doing your reader a favor combined with making a few dollars on the side.
2. Genuine Recommendations and personal endorsements always work best
There are literally tons of products and services for you to choose from to
recommend to your blog’s readers but being profitable from them is not as simple
as randomly adding links to them from your blog site. Your blog’s readers come
back to your blog day after day because something about you resonates with him
or her – they have at least some level of trust and respect for you and maybe
the quickest way to destroy this is to recommend that they buy something that
you don’t thoroughly believe will benefit them.
The best results I’ve had from affiliate programs are where I give an open and honest appraisal on the product – including both it’s strengths and weaknesses. The most successful affiliate program I’m linked to here at ProBlogger is Joel Comm’s e-book which I reviewed here. If you read the review you’ll see that I not only tell readers who I believe the book is for but I also mention those it's not necessarily for. In a sense I critique it. On a surface level one might think that it wasn’t a wise move and that I should have given a glowing review – however sales that I’ve had through the program have proven otherwise. People want to know what there're buying first and even if they know a product has limitations they will buy it if it meets their nee.
The best results I’ve had from affiliate programs are where I give an open and honest appraisal on the product – including both it’s strengths and weaknesses. The most successful affiliate program I’m linked to here at ProBlogger is Joel Comm’s e-book which I reviewed here. If you read the review you’ll see that I not only tell readers who I believe the book is for but I also mention those it's not necessarily for. In a sense I critique it. On a surface level one might think that it wasn’t a wise move and that I should have given a glowing review – however sales that I’ve had through the program have proven otherwise. People want to know what there're buying first and even if they know a product has limitations they will buy it if it meets their nee.
3. Link to Quality Products
We all like to make certain we’re buying the best products money can buy – your
readers are no different to this and are more inclined to make a purchase if
you’ve found them the best product for them. Choose products along with
companies with good reputations and quality sales pages. There is nothing worse
than giving a glowing writeup on a product only to send your reader to a page
that looks cheap and horrible.
4. Contextual Deep Links work Best
Once i started using the Amazon Associate Program I naively thought that all I
had to do was put an Amazon banner ad (that linked to Amazon’s front page) near
the top of my blog. I thought that my readers would see it and surf over to
Amazon and buy up big – thereby making me a rich man. Nothing could have been
further coming from reality – I was deluding myself.
I always says to bloggers that I’m consulting with that they should learn something from contextual advertising in terms of affiliate programs. The secret of contextual ads like Adsense is that a reader is reading a post over a particular topic on your blog and when they see an advertisement for that same product they will probably click it than if they saw an ad for something else. The same is correct for affiliate programs. A banner to a general page on every page on your site won’t be anywhere near as effective as multiple links throughout your blog that advertiser products that are relevant for readers reading particular parts of your blog.
So if you’re writing a blog about MP3 players and have a review for a particular product – the most effectively affiliate program that one could link to from within the content of that page would be one that links on to a page selling that specific model of MP3 player. This is how I use the particular Amazon program today. It is more work than contextual advertising because you’re not just putting one item of code into a template but rather need to place individual links on many pages – but I realize that it’s been worth the effort.
I always says to bloggers that I’m consulting with that they should learn something from contextual advertising in terms of affiliate programs. The secret of contextual ads like Adsense is that a reader is reading a post over a particular topic on your blog and when they see an advertisement for that same product they will probably click it than if they saw an ad for something else. The same is correct for affiliate programs. A banner to a general page on every page on your site won’t be anywhere near as effective as multiple links throughout your blog that advertiser products that are relevant for readers reading particular parts of your blog.
So if you’re writing a blog about MP3 players and have a review for a particular product – the most effectively affiliate program that one could link to from within the content of that page would be one that links on to a page selling that specific model of MP3 player. This is how I use the particular Amazon program today. It is more work than contextual advertising because you’re not just putting one item of code into a template but rather need to place individual links on many pages – but I realize that it’s been worth the effort.
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