This is the Step 6 of Beginner Blogging guide. You may skip and move on to other steps by following this link here
I don’t think I have to keep repeating some paragraph to remind you that this is one part of my Beginner Blogging Guide. So if you missed something from my previous steps, you can always get back to it from the link above.
So, when your blog is actually filled up with quality contents, it’ll eventually reach your audience. Your audiences can be either from referral traffic(links), direct traffic(loyal readers) or organic traffics(search engine).
The moment your blog start generating traffics from these sources, it is obvious that your visitors are interested in certain contents you’ve written. They’re probably looking for something from your site. Thus it tells you that, it is time for you to promote some related products or info to them. And this is where the advertisement comes in.
There are many different types of advertisements you can place on your site. Each and every companies has their very own policies to protect their advertisers. I wouldn’t recommend stuffing too many advertisement into your contents. By doing so, you might often annoy your readers and at the same time violate the advertisement policies that you might not be aware of.
Here’s a little breakdown for a few ways to monetize your contents.
- Placing 3rd Party Advertisements(content based) – Serving advertisements of products or information related to your contents. Recommended: Google Adsense, Chitika.
- Placing 3rd Party Advertisements(non-content based) – Serving advertisements for ongoing events or promotions. Recommended: Nuffnang(only for Asian countries)
- Selling Adspace – Serving advertisements that your interested visitors bought from you. You can either sell it on your own(ie: setup an “Advertise here” page) or through BuySellAds site, Project Wonderful.
- Affiliate Programs – Earn commissions from related products that might interest your readers into buying them. Recommended: Amazon.
- Writing Paid Post – Writing products and services reviews for advertisers. Recommended: Sponsoredreviews, PayPerPost. WARNING: Writing Paid Post will get your site penalized by Google.
- Selling Text Links – Selling links for some keywords in your contents that might be valuable. Recommended: TextLinkAds. WARNING: Selling links will also get your site penalized by Google.
Of course there are many other ways to monetize your blog. You’ll find more opportunities to monetize your contents as your blog is growing bigger.
I shall end this post here while preparing more to discuss on Optimizing your Google Ads for contents on the next post. For those who are using WordPress and Google Adsense, you might want to take your time playing around with your WordPress themes and Google Adsense account before we proceed to a much deeper understanding on Google Adsense in the next post.
