Make Money From Your Blog - 7 Most Rewarding Ways
By Sumit Saha
A blog can make a real lot of money for you if you know how to monetize your blog (provided you have a considerable and consistent traffic volume). Here in this article I have discussed some of the most popular and rewarding ways to make money from your blog. Here are the ways:
1.CPC (Cost-Per-Click) - These are by far the most used and most popular affiliate programmes that are used by bloggers to make money. These programmes are simple to use and have the potential to earn a lot of money for the bloggers. The concept is simple - you need to sign up with a CPC network that provides ads to be displayed on your blog and when a visitor visits your site and clicks on one of the ads, you receive a few cents. The ads that are served are mostly contextual that is the ads are related to the content of your blog that is if your blog is on Insurance related content then ads related to insurance will be served on your blog. This makes the ads so much more relevant and they get good clicks thus earning you decent money from your blog. The amount that you get for each click depends on the rates that the advertisers pay to the CPC network - you get a part of the revenue that the CPC network earns. Normally click rates are between 10 cents to 50 cents but can be higher too depending on the niche of your blog. Consistent volume of traffic (better if coming from search engines) and proper CPC ads placement are the two most important factors on which your click-through-rate and thus your earnings will depend. Blogs with good consistent traffic are earning a real bulk of dollars from CPC programmes. In fact there are blogs which has CPC programmes as there only source of revenue. Google's AdSense, Bidvertiser, Adbrite and Yahoo Publisher Network (only USA) are some of the famous CPC networks - Google AdSense is the leader of the pack. These programmes are absolutely free to sign up.
2. CPS (Cost-Per-Sale) - Another type of affiliate programme where you are paid on a per sale basis - that is you will be paid only if a sale is made otherwise not. Also a very popular way of monetizing your blog. This type of pay-per-sale affiliate marketing has made and is still making many millionaires. The concept is simple - you need to sign-up with a Pay-per-sale affiliate network (which is of course free) and then choose some products to promote which are relevant to your blog niche and then generate the affiliate code for those products which is automated and very easy to do. After you have generated the affiliate codes you will have to promote them on your blog. Promotion can be done by making small ads with an attractive title and a small description and then placing them on your blog. You can also promote your affiliate links by writing reviews which on your affiliate products. When a visitor clicks on an affiliate link he reaches the merchant's site and after reading the sales page he may get interested in the product and buy it thus giving you your commission. Commission ranges from 10% to 80%.You can promote both digital and physical products. Clickbank.com, PayDotCom.com, LinkShare.com, CJ.com Click2Sell.com are a few of the get-paid-per-sale affiliate networks.
3. CPA (Cost-Per-Action) - These are also affiliate programmes but you are paid only when a desired activity as per the programme is done. The concept is simple too - that is you sign up with a CPA network or a company providing CPA advertisements and you are given links to promote on your blog, when a visitor reaches the advertiser's site by clicking on one of the affiliate links displayed on your blog he is required to do a activity like a free sign-up, or a free software download, or entering his email address or phone number or just answer a few simple questions etc, your a/c is credited with a few cents or a dollar as soon as the desired activity is completed. Most of the times there is a free gift for the visitor on the advertiser's site for completing the desired activity moreover the visitor is not required to make any payments - these two things provides for high success rates of these programmes. Though the rates are less compared to the Pay-Per-Sale programmes but the high success rate more than compensates it. Advertising.com, Commission junction (CJ.com), ClixGalore.com, AffiliateSeeking.com and AzoogleAds.com are some of the famous CPA networks.
4. Write Reviews - You can join networks that will pay you for writing reviews about a sponsor's website or product or service. This programme is also called get-paid-per-post programme. The money that you can make from these programmes depends upon your traffic volume, Google Page Rank, popularity and subscriber base - higher these are more is the money you can make. Rates start from $5 to -----. Some blogs charge wellover $500 for each sponsored review. ReviewMe.com and PayPerPost.com are the two famous networks that provides bloggers sponsored reviews to write.
5. Sell Advertising Space - You can sell advertising space on your blog in the form of Banners and Text Links. Higher your traffic volume and Page Rank - more you can charge. Text-Link-Ads.com, BuySellAds.com, BlogAds.com, CrispAds.com are two such networks where you can sell your advertising space.
6. Polls - You can put up polls on your blog and make money on per-thousand impression (CPM) basis. So larger your traffic volume the more you can earn from these type of programmes. VizuAnswer.com is one such site that gives you this opportunity.
7. Job Boards - You can put up sponsored Job Boards on your blog which lists jobs which your visitors can apply. You can be paid on the number of jobs filled up through your site or on number of impressions or click basis. The rates and conditions differ from network to network. Indeed.com, Joard.com and Jobamatic.com are such networks which offers you this opportunity to make money from your blogs.
Whatever the programmes or methods you choose for your blog but you can never make money unless you have a consistent number of visitors to your blog. And visitors can come only with proper promotion, optimization for search engines (mainly Google as others will follow) and good/unique content. If you have a large traffic volume then it is easier to monetize your blog and earn money from it. You can really make a considerable amount of money with your blog - in fact some blogs make over Six figure income per month. So get to work - start a blog - Make Money!
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