Do you have a blog with good traffic and engagement, and you are wondering how to make money with it?
If your answer is YES, you are at the right place as I am going to share few of the best ways to monetize your blog in order to make money.
Here is the list of 5 ways to monetize your blog:
PPC Advertising:
PPC advertising is the most popular ways of monetizing blogs. You get paid for every click people make on the ads on your blog.However, they keep certain percentage with them as commission. There are many such PPC Advertising platforms available online. Below are few best ones out of them:
Adsense:
This is the best PPC advertising Program and it pays better than others, but at the same time, it’s not easy to get an Adsense account. You need to wait for 5-6 months, have to make your blog better by publishing unique content, and generating traffic to your blog. You must have relevant traffic from search engines to get most out of it.
Media.net:
Media.net is comparatively new but a good PPC ad program. This product is an outcome of Yahoo-Microsoft joint efforts. They had to come together to build an ad program that can be the best alternative to Google’s Adsense. The approval is not that tough like Adsense, and it can be lucrative if you are getting a chunk of traffic.
Infolinks:
Infolinks has grown up well in the recent years. It pays on PPC basis, and it has some different kind of ads like intext, intag, infram etc. which you may not find in Google Adsense. Though, many professional bloggers avoid using it on their blog as they find it distracting. If you ask me, I would suggest using it but make use of customization it offers. The infonlinks ads are highly customizable and you can control the number of intext links on a page as well as which ad units you want to display and which not. Everything is controllable and very flexible.
Chitika:
Most of the Adsense banned sites take their way to search alternatives, and they mostly end up using Chitika. Like Adsense, you just have to get approval with one site and once approved, you may use it on multiple sites of yours.
Clicksor:
It is proved to be very handy when your website has been banned by Adsense. The process of approval is quite quick and many different sizes are available that you can use to create different ad units. It offers a plugin just like Infolinks to easily integrate on your WordPressblog.
Selling Banner ads:
Selling direct banner ads can be very lucrative when you get direct deals from clients. The most prominent areas to offer ad space are header and sidebar.
You should create banners with written text “Advertise here” or “Ad slot Available”, and make them live on your blog. So that when some advertisers visit your blog, they would know that there are spaces available for putting up their Ads. Therefore they may contact you.
Even though, you don’t add such kind of banners, advertisers may contact you but adding them increases the chance to get contacted by potential advertisers.
You may also use Buysellads.com to sell banner ads but they keep 25% of total income. However, if your blog has good number of impressions, you can get hell lot of ad requests through it so you won’t mind them keeping such amount as commission.
Affiliate Marketing:
This is one of the most used monetization ways, professional bloggers use. It’s almost impossible for newbies to make handsome amount of cash through affiliate marketing because it needs to have good knowledge, heavy traffic and compelling content that tempts readers to buy products.
If you are not aware of what it actually is then let me tell you that it’s like selling other’s products and in return you get commissions. Suppose if you are an amazon affiliate, then you need to get product’s affiliate link and promote it. If any sales happen from that particular link, you will get commission.
There are many affiliate programs which you may try out; amazon, flipkart, clickbank etc.
Selling Links:
This is the most lucrative monetization ways among all because links matter a lot to improve search rankings of a website.
In this, you have to link out to the client’s website using anchor text of his choice, and he pays you for that.
It worked great untill 4-5 years ago, but now as Google has become very strict about link selling; opting for this monetization technique can be harmful to your blog. Though it’s risky, many are still minting money out of it by making multiple blogs. They use those blogs just like use & throw. They keep selling links until those blogs get penalized. Once there are penalties, they just scrap those and create new ones.
CPM:
It stands for Cost Per Thousand impressions. That means you get paid for every thousand impressions the ads get on your blog. You need to apply for CPM programs, and once you are approved, you can add ads on the blog.
Most of the good CPM programs approve only those blogs which have heavy traffic on daily basis. It is best suited to high traffic blog only.
Conclusion
Every blogger who works hard to create a blog that solves many people’s problems and generates good number of user views every day, wants to make some money out of his efforts.Above-mentioned blog monetization ways can help you greatly to cash out your efforts.
One thing you must remember that any monetization way you use, you can make money only if you have enough traffic. Without having enough traffic it’s hard to make money, no matter which monetization technique you use.
Over to you
Are you using any of these Ad programs? How is your experience with them. Share your views in comments.
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