So you have your blog up and running, you have been blogging for a while, and you are beginning to receive some traffic, along with some repeat visitors as well. You are starting to even get some sales on your product, or associate product. Still you might desire to get more juice out of your weblog. Thus the question is, how do you monetize your blog?
There are several ways, and I will touch on them in this article.
-Google AdSense
Signing up as a Google AdSense affiliate is free and extremely easy to do. Once you have a membership you can set-up AdSense blocks on your weblog similar to the sponsor ads you see above, and on the side of search results on Google’s Search Engine. When someone clicks on one of the ad listings on your weblog you will earn a commission.
To set-up the ad block is really easy, you can choose the size, and you can even modify the border color, background color,title, text and link color. You can choose a 120×600 Skyscraper, and then go to appearance, choose widgets, once you are at widgets click on text then place the code in, and then choose the position you want the ad to appear, the ads will appear in just a couple of minutes, in some cases it may take a little longer. The ads that appear will be based on the topic of your post.
You also can place ads in your actual post either above or below your post. You can also choose to place ads in the header or footer area of you weblog.
Please keep in mind, do not click on ads yourself or you risk getting your account suspended.
One thing that you will also have to have, which is a requirement of Google AdSense, is a privacy policy. This is very easy to do just by getting the WordPress plug in Easy Privacy Policy. Once you have Easy Privacy Policy you will need to activate that plug in, then click on setting, then place your blog name where you see @blogname, and then your email address where you see @email in each section, then click update privacy page, and your privacy page will be created.
-CPA Offers
CPA or Cost Per Action is a great way to earn a commission, you can post a banner or banners for offers that are related to your niche, or general type offers on your side bar, header, or footer of your blog, and when someone does the action, which maybe could be filling out a form with their e-mail address, you get paid, it’s that simple.
There are several CPA companies Online, and in most cases after you sign-up there maybe a screening process such as a phone call to see if you qualify to be an associate.
-Amazon affiliate Program
Amazon.com has an affiliate program in which you can earn a commission when someone makes a purchase after clicking on a product link at your blog. There is several methods you can choose from to place products on your weblog, you can choose a product carousel, a banner, or placing a some code in a post at your blog and writing a post about the product.
To become an Amazon associate is simple just do a search on Google for Amazon.com associate program.
Other ways to monetize your blog is to hyper link the keyword phrases with-in your post that will lead back to your product, service, or whatever niche you are promoting. You may be marketing a ClickBank Product and you can create a hyper link back to the sales page for example.
Blogging is great for getting exposure to any niche you are promoting, but you can also bring in some extra cash by monetizing your blog, the possibilities are never-ending.
Happy Blogging