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Choosing Affiliate Ads for Your Blog: Part 2

// December 22nd, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Making Money

For those of you who read “Choosing Affiliate Ads for Your Blog” I wrote last week, I have just had another idea so I have created this post as an add on. For those of you who haven’t read it, then read it before you read this one so it all makes sense.

As you may have noticed I have changed a few of my ads around today just to try and generate some more revenue for myself as the previous ads weren’t getting any clicks, let alone making me any money.

As well as the steps I wrote in the earlier post, I also tried something I haven’t done before. It is a bit of an experiment I guess, but I thought it might be worth a shot.

I visited a few other blogs that are similar to this, but are successful. I won’t mention the names of the blogs, but if you know of a similar blog to yours that actually makes money you can do the same thing.

I went to the other blogs just to see what kind of affiliate advertising they have, just so I could get some ideas and try to figure out what I am doing wrong. I decided to click on one of the ads just to see what the landing page was like. I noticed that the advertiser had an affiliate programme so i decided to sign up and show their ads on this blog.

So the end result was that I am advertising exactly the same product as the more successful version of this blog.

I decided to do the same thing with a few other blogs that I know make good revenue each month and again I signed up to the affiliate programmes. I think all in all I signed up to 4 new programmes and now advertising the same products as the “competition”.

It will be interesting to see the results, however there is more to affiliate marketing and advertising then just showing a bunch of ads on the blog – traffic is a major part of it and I don’t think I get the traffic to make enough revenue to live off just yet. At this stage I’ll just be happy to make something!

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First Affiliate Sale!

// July 8th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Project Blogger

After my post yesterday, it really does seem that hard work is paying off! I checked my e-mail this morning and got notification that I have made my first sale from my blog!

I made US$13.50 from one of my affiliate ads over night, and along with Google Adsense being fairly decent this month already, I am up to about $15 this month alone!

I am in the process of looking for some more ads, so the 125 x 125 ad spaces are likely to change over the next few days as I try to generate better performing ads for my audience.

It is true, you really can make money off the internet! I am still in the red, however if this month keeps going the way it is, I actually might start to make a profit soon!

The Journey So Far

// April 4th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Project Blogger

Over the past two days I have continued to research the best way of going about trying to make this blog successful. There are alot of other blogs all over the internet that try to explain the best way of getting hits and making money – and most of them contradict each other.

I guess it depends on your own personal experience that determines whether you make it or don’t.

The past two days I have signed up to the following advertising and affiliate services

  • Entrecard: At Entrecard you create your “business card for the internet”. It uses its own currency so you can “buy” advertising space on other blogs. You earn the currency by “dropping” your card on other blogs that use Entrecard. This is a good way of promoting your blog and earning some currency so you can advertise your blog on other popular blogs. The most popular blogs cost more to advertising on, so you have to “drop” you card at as many blogs as you can to earn enough currency to purchase advertising space.
  • Bidvertiser: Similar to Google Adsense, Bidvertiser is a affiliate program that pays you for every click. The goal is to let advertisers bid on how much they are willing to pay to advertise on your site and you get paid per click on each ad. It is very easy to setup and they pay you via paypal or check with only a minimum of $10 in your account. The downside is that it does look alot like Google and you cannot run both on the same site. Monetize your Website or Blog with BidVertiser
  • DealDotCom: This is a two-tier affiliate program that earns you cash whenever someone clicks on your advert, signs up to DealDotCom and purchases a product. Whenever you refer someone to DealDotCom via your affiliate link, you get paid 35% of DealDotCom’s profit for every item that they buy. If someone you referred to DealDotCom refers someone else, you get paid 15% of DealDotCom’s profit every time they buy something forever.
  • Kontera ContentLink: ContentLink is contextually relevant keyword that is discovered on a web page from within Kontera´s network of publishers, and is automatically turned into a link to the most relevant ad from among Kontera´s advertisers.  With ContentLink publishers generate incremental revenue while advertisers reach their most targeted audience on a Cost-Per-Click basis. It is fairly easy to sign  up and once your site is approved, it takes a few seconds to add the HTML to your page. Once you have the tags, wait 24 hours and you’ll see the link within your own pages.

I have signed up to Google Adsense, but am still waiting for approval. I will post more on Google Adsense when I hear back from them, which is hopefully soon.

The above services are currently installed on my blog. I am yet to see any results, but that is due to the fact I have low hits. Now I have the advertising and affiliates in place, the next step is to try to drive some traffic to the site, but that won’t come until I have some content that is worth reading about. I am relying on people visiting this blog to see how my journey of creating something from nothing is working out.