The Journey So Far
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.
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