If you are looking to monetize your blog, selling direct sponsorships is the best choice. Even though Google AdSense is good at the start, as your site grows, it may not be the best option because Google takes away a major chunk of money as service commissions. If you are selling direct sponsorships, the following marketing tips will be useful for you: * Create an advertise page separately which displays your various site metrics, don’t just put an email contact, most advertisers won’t have the time to email you and wait for a reply. * Show the unique visitors, page views for the current month and last six months. * Displaying the amount of time that the visitor spends on your site will be great, but do that only if the numbers are good. * Display Google page rank widget from PRChecker.info and Alexa traffic rank widget from Alexa. * Advertisers are nowadays looking for more in-depth details such as demographics of your audience. Say for example, 35% females of 40 - 50 age group and 65% Males of the 25 - 60 age group, but do that only if you know your audience well… bluffing may not help you in the long run. * Display the number of RSS feed readers from feedburner widget. Advertisers who have purchased banners or text links will be making payments to you regularly every month. It would be much better for you if you setup a PayPal subscription which automates your monthly charges instead of manually asking the advertisers every month. If you need help in setting up PayPal subscriptions, you can contact me, I am here to help. To your Internet Marketing Success, Deepak
cool tips i hav a blogger blog but left it after it became steady with 100 visitors /day nowadays focusing on building a joke site which is getting visitors hopefully will try this on my joke site
Nice write, I am in the final stages of setting up my blog. Some of these I already knew, so I didn't think of. So thanks.
Until you can get people buying advertising have you tried any of the other ad networks who put ads on your site? I would be interested in hearing from people who have done this, till selling your own ads works. Anyone have any experience doing this. I hear you can do this with Adbrite, they manage the ads for you. Ed