How to earn money with a blog?
How to earn money with a blog?
How to earn money with a blog?
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The general concept for nearly all blogs is to earn money via advertisements. Several bloggers use advertisement partner networks or embed affiliate links to their sites.
Unfortunately many bloggers make the experience that they often only earn a few cents per every 1000 ad impressions.
What are they doing wrong?
From my point of view the tragedy is that some referral hunters publish gloomy reports of how much money they earn and bloggers believe it and sign up as their referrals in advertisement and affiliate networks.
Indeed the referral hunter can make some money by that. Just imagine a person receives 10 % revenue of every referral. With some hundred referrals this could be quite a lot of money.
But the blogger who joined such networks is not necessary also earning much just by showing some ads.
If you want to earn money with advertisements it is always required to do the math.
You can always use your own click rates to calculate how many clicks will be generated by your visitors. Check this table to see how the click rates affect the total number of clicks.
The number of clicks has huge impact on your potential earnings. Many ad networks offer payment per click. If your site only receives 100 clicks per month and you only earn 10 cents per click, you would only earn $ 10. Not a good deal.
Well and in affiliate networks you usually only receive money for every valid lead or sale.
So if the average conversion rate for a campaign is 1500 clicks and the cancellation rate is 80%, it would require an average of 7500 clicks to receive one valid commission.
With 100 clicks per month it would last years to get only one commission and compared to the effective CPM the revenue would be pretty low.
Simple math can be used to calculate and to compare different campaigns, often affiliate marketing is pretty cheap for the advertisers, but is pretty bad for webmasters and bloggers.
Instead of being paid only per click or only for successful lead and sales, it is much better to join networks that pay per ad impression.
Doing it this way would make it possible to receive higher effective CPMs.
How to earn more money with a blog?
Certainly it will depend on the topic, the domain name, the target audience and the number of visitors how much you can earn with a blog, but there are a few simply ways how to increase the income.
Probably the easiest way to improve the output of a blog is the installation of banner and ad rotation, especially if your blog does not have yet hundred thousands of visitors every month.
Just think to use 2 banner positions and 3 text link ad positions. You could offer for each position e.g. 12 rotation places. Doing it this way you could offer 60 rotation places to companies on a monthly basis.
Even if you have to dump them in online auctions at a starting bid of 1 $ per month, then you could make a revenue of $ 60 per month.
Well and if you can sell each for only 5 $ per month your revenue already would be $ 300.
The better your blog is, the more likely potential companies will to pay more for each advertisement space.
During my university classes I have learned that there are about 200 million SMEs around the world, more than 20 million SMEs only in the US.
Should not be a problem then to find only 60 to advertise in your blog, right?
Another pretty easy way to earn money is with a link directory. You could simply use a plug-in for your blog script and add a link directory.
To earn money with it you could offer on an annual basis to list other websites in your directory and sell it online auctions, or promote it is business networks to find suitable companies as customers.
Depending on the topics of your blog there are probably plenty companies doing business in this field. If you e.g. can get $ 9.95 per link and year and can win several hundred companies as clients, you could earn every year a few thousand Dollars extra.
Earn with special ads in your blog
Beside the standard ad positions, you also can make use of special ad forms. There are a few networks that offer this opportunity and pay per every 1000 impressions.
Or you simply install a free or commercial ad management software to sell these ad forms on your own.
Special ad forms:
Pop up/down
Layer
Page Peel
Interstitials
Ad pixel, words
You can for instance install at you start page pop ups, layers, page peels or interstitials. From my experience they are paid pretty well, should not be a big deal to receive 1-5 $ per 1000 valid ad impressions.
If your blog receives more than 100000 visits per month you could earn with this more than $ 100 extra.
Well and if your blog site does not have huge visitor numbers yet, you also could install rotation and try to sell each position in an online auction, e.g. 10 rotation positions, each for 4,95 $ per month.
Another old, but still good way of earning some extra money with your blog is to create a subdomain or a special sponsor page to offer special ad forms like a pixel system or to sell word links.
Probably you cannot receive 1 $ per pixel, but if you e.g. offer 1 million pixels, how much could you earn if you would sell 10x10 for 1 $?
Checklist
Earning with a blog is possible at every stage of blog. Although the visitor numbers have huge impact on the revenue that can be made with a blog, it often depends also for the concept that you choose to earn money.
The following checklist shall help you to investigate your current earnings and to optimize your income.
Measure the number of clicks and ad impressions in your blog
Calculate the effective CPM of you current ad/affiliate partners
Compare the CPM with alternative ad networks
If applicable, install an ad management software and offer rotation
If suitable, install a link directory and offer to index links for a small fee
If possible, join a special ad form network or install an own ad management software to offer special ad forms
Use online auctions and b2b platforms to find potential customers as clients
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