Part 9 – More Monetizing Options
We’ve discussed about using Google Adsense programme and other
merchants’ affiliate programmes to generate profits from your blog. However, we
have a lot of other options ot monetize your blog, so we’re going to look into
that today.
The first option we’ll be looking at is Chitika (www.chitika.com). Chitika is a very innovative
contextual advertising programme because it can serve very detailed
advertisements. For example, on your technological gadget blog, Chitika will show
advertisements for tech gadgets such as iPods. The way they show it is in
different tabs: one for “Best deals”, another for “details”, another for
“reviews” and so on. This way, it is more of an informational section for your
visitor rather than an advertisement, and naturally the click-through will be
higher. You can apply here: https://chitika.com/application.php?type=mm
You can also be an affiliate for Amazon.com. Amazon offers a wide range
of products but its predominant domain is in books. Whatever your niche is
about, you can probably find a book about it on Amazon.com. Join their
Associate programme here: https://associates.amazon.com/gp/flex/associates/apply-login.html/
Once you join them, you can refer visitors to them and earn up to 10% commission.
It’s not a lot but if you can manage to refer big volumes of visitors, Amazon
is for you. This programme really shines when it comes to the ways you can
refer visitors: you can use their predefined templates to pull up recent items
that match a certain criteria you set, you can target your ad to show a
specific item on sale or you can just simply weave your referral links into
your blog posts.
Last but definitely not least, you can sell advertising space on your
blog if your blog is truly popular. Just take a look at blogs like http://xiaxue.blogspot.com. That blog
receives over 10,000 pageviews every day and naturally merchants will want to
strike a deal with the blog’s owner to post their advertisements there. If you
manage to pull in huge amounts of traffic like that blog, you can definitely
get people to buy ad space on your blog for prices from $150/month upwards,
depending on your blog popularity.
To gauge how much pageviews and visitors you get everyday, just use the
free tool available at www.statcounter.com.
They have a very detailed setup guide there so I won’t go into it.
If your blog has not acquired large amount of visitors yet, you can
still sell ad space on your blog on a per click or per impression basis. Just
visit sites like www.adbrite.com. For a
complete list of these sites, visit http://performancing.com/node/60.
Hopefully, that will help you maximize earnings and profits from your
blog!