There are many things to consider in monetizing your blog but you can start early even with a modest readership. You will learn a lot about how it all works and what works best for your blog, your readers will get used to seeing advertising and sponsored content on your blog and you may slowly begin to earn some income. It certainly takes time to build a community and a readership that will engage with you and your blog content, so don’t expect to be making the big bucks overnight. “While there are many amazing stories of bloggers who earn great incomes from their blogs, they are the minority. The journey has often been on that has taken years, such as the bloggers who share their blogging income reports.”
If you think that going down the monetizing path is for you, there are many amazing services available to help you manage your own advertisers on your blog or companies that offer affiliate provide the tools that bloggers need to form sustainable sponsor relationships, build community around a blog, and spend more time creating, all while making some money in the process.
Passionfruit
Passionfruit is another amazing service that allows bloggers to manage blog ads, posts, mentions, services and sponsorships all in one spot. This service takes out the tedious email chain with advertisers and lets your advertisers buy directly from your site and create their ad by themselves. Passionfruit deals with all the invoicing and allows you to accept all major credit cards and PayPal payments securely right from your site. They will also send those somewhat awkward reminders to your sponsors to thank and politely ask them to renew their sponsorships.
Google Adsense
Google AdSense provides a free, flexible way to earn money from your blog, website, mobile site, and site search results with relevant and engaging ads. The system works by displaying ads on your website that are suited to your audience’s interests, and you earn from valid clicks or impressions that your audience makes on these ads.
You are also able to connect your mobile users with the right ad at the right time as they seek information on the go, add a custom search engine to your site, and earn from ads on the search results pages.
Amazon Affiliate Program
The Amazon Associates affiliate program works by allowing you to choose from over a million products to advertise to your customers and you collect a percentage fee should your visitors buy a product you have advertised, or in fact, any product from Amazon.
This program is suitable for large networks, websites or blogs and offers simple linking tools to help you monetize your online space through advertisements relevant to your niche market. You can earn advertising fees from Qualifying Purchases, not just the products you have advertised. There is also no third-party advertiser approvals needed which is the case with some affiliate programs.
Clickbank
ClickBank is an affiliate service that uses an innovative online platform that gives you the tools, training and access to a global network of over 100,000 affiliate marketers so that you can profitably market unique and useful information products to your niche audience all around the world.
The key focus of Clickbank is on monetizing information—one that enables repeat sales over time, across the broadest range of content delivery options and form-factors available today. From documents and audio files to videos and membership sites, the ways in which a blogger can capture, sell, and deliver information and make money from blogging are continually expanding.
Commission Factory
Commission Factory is an Australian affiliate program that is superbly designed and offers an ever-growing range of merchants with a large focus on quality and the ability to convert. They offer creative ways that you can use the affiliate merchants, such as display advertising, data feeds, dynamic tools, video content and high converting coupon codes.
The portfolio of affiliates is continually increasing in large, trusted brands that have a consumer following and a history of good customer service and performance, thus offering advertisements that will be more appealing to your blog and website readers.
Chitika
Chitika is online advertising network that works in a similar way to Google Adsense and is known as one of the more popular alternatives. The system works by displaying ads on your website that are suited to your audience’s interests, and you earn from valid clicks or impressions that your audience makes on these ads.
Chitika ads don’t appear directly on your website until you go to your website through a search engine. When a person has searched on Google for example and then comes to your website, ads will appear on your website based on what this visitor has recently searched for.
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