Monetize Your Blog, A Crucial Lesson For Blogging Beginners

The concept of blogging for profits has become rather popular in the last few years. As a result of the AdSense program, affiliate marketing opening up, the ease of creating blogs and the potential to make an extra quid, a rash of blogs are launched everyday on the internet. And a large proportion of these blogs are for the sole purpose of generating an income online.

But very few of the new breed of bloggers actually make a significant income from their brand new blogs.

As a newbie to blogging for profits, there are a few crucial things you must pay attention to so as to improve your chances of success with your blog.

In this article we will talk about monetization of your blog.

How do you make money from a blog? In today's internet world, there are several options open to the blogger looking for methods of making money from their online diary. The more popular methods are

AdSense Blocks: There just is no overstating it. The Google AdSense program is a great and simple way to make money from your blog. Be it a blogger or wordpress or typepad blog, AdSense works!

Of course where you put the AdSense blocks on your blog and the format you use will greatly influence how much income you get from your AdSense campaign.

Affiliate Links: Promoting other peoples' products for a commission. An increasingly popular method of generating an income from blogs, affiliate marketing is an expanding business that has caught the imagination of many.

As a blogger, you can identify a product in your niche i.e the topic you are blogging about. To find products in any niche that has an affiliate program is easy. Just perform a search engine query.

Once you have identified the product you wish to promote, you can apply to the products affiliate program to become a promoter. If you are accepted, you will be given a unique affiliate link which you can place on your blog.

Some affiliate programs are really good and will give you codes for banners and graphics with your affiliate link already incorporated.

If a visitor to your blog buys the product via your affiliate link you get a commission

Selling Banner Space: If you have a high traffic blog, you may opt to sell advertising space to merchants for a fixed monthly fee. The fee is often fixed and does not vary with ad performance.

You will need to have a high traffic blog to be able to command reasonable fees for advertising space

Sell You Own product: The most profitable way to monetize your blog is to develop your own product and promote it on your blog. In this case you get a hundred percent of the revenue generated rather than a commission if you were promoting an affiliate product.

Of course not everyone will have their own product developed and you may not want to go down that route. There is still the possibility of affiliate marketing, as described above, which if done correctly, can deliver a decent amount of revenue to you.

No matter what method of monetization you choose to use on your blog, you will only make money if you have a significant amount of traffic i.e human visitors, coming to your site.

In the next article, we will discuss methods of driving traffic to your blog.

Webmaster Affiliate Marketing Tips and How To Create A blog. Affiliate marketing. a route to achieving financial independence. Don't knock it!

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