You have been working hard to produce good-quality, original content on your blog and you have attracted a decent amount of traffic by doing so. However, money is not going to appear out of thin air just because you have traffic. You have to turn your traffic into money. There are several ways to generate profits from the visitors of your blog, and Google’s Adsense programme allows you to do so with ultimate ease. First, visit their website at Google Adsense. You’ll find out more about their advertising programme there, but here are some extra bits I’d like to tell you.
First, Google’s Adsense programme is a really useful way to monetize your blog because when users finish reading your newest post, chances are they want to leave your blog because they have nothing else to do on your blog. If your Adsense advertisement block is visible on your blog, they might see advertisements relevant to them and click on them to exit your blog. Ka-ching! You’ve just cashed in on your first virtual cents!
But yes, your profits will only be cents if you don’t “do it right”. This involves placing our Google ads in the right places and ensuring they blend in to your site so that they appear more like links rather than advertisements to your visitors. Consult the page Google Adsense Help Center to see the “heat map” of your blog. The “hotter” a certain area, the greater the chances of someone ooking at your blog.
Once you get a Google Adsense account, you can change the colour of your advertisement text and links. You will want them to match the colours on your blog. Ifyour blog’s text is black and the links are red, do the same for the ad blocks too! It’s that simple.
Another way to earn profits from your blog is to recommend products to your readers. When your visitors buy from the merchants you recommend, you get to keep a little commission too. This is known as affiliate marketing and it is very easy to start because you don’t have to create your own products or services.
Anyway, let’s refer back to our bali travel guide blog example. Let’s say you discover this Bali Travel Guide on a merchant’s website, and they offer an affilliate programme.
What you would do is to create a post in your blog and do a mini-review on bali, including best accomodation. Rip it apart and point out its benefits and bad points, if any, and include a link (which is given by the merchant) for the visitor to visit Bali.
If your visitor clicks and wanto to visit bali, the merchant will track from the link that the purchase is referred by you, so they will send you your share of the profits. Imagine if 1 out of every 100 visitors you get purchases this product, and you earn $27.00 commission from each purchase! If you get 10,000 visitors in a month that would be a $2,700.00 paycheque for you just for writing about ONE product.
Now, affiliate programmes are very nice ways to generate profit, but how do you find affiliate programmes that are related to your blog’s theme? Easy, just go to Google and search for +”affiliate programmes”. Another slightly better way is to go to affiliate program directory to look for affiliate programmes in your niche.
The two ways mentioned above are basic ways to generate profits from your blog. We’ll be discussing other great, profitable ways, so keep your eyes peeled!
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I am a "professional" blogger from Indonesia, I'm trying to reach a target of earning a consistent $100 a day using Blogger. I will document my progress as well trying to pass on anything useful I find, bear in mind I am not a technical person and English is not my first language.
you make a great point. Improving the design and usability of your comments section isn't just about making your site prettier.
It's also an important part of increasing the level of discussion on your site - something which is perhaps the hardest aspect of blogging to be successful in.