Money with a blog? Then act like a marketer!

You think of selling ad space on your blog or using adsense? You have a blog but you don't earn money?

Then you should change your strategy of monetization. It's only good money if you have really, really good traffic.

To make money with your blog you need quality content that helps people. You should solve problems or make some problems even easier to solve. You should build relationships with your readers and always remind that you're not writing for search eninges, but more for your loyal readers.

And now you should swap your strategy of monetization. Nobody likes adsense when he reads an article.

To make real good money yo should sell your own product in your niche. This could be everything. a service or a book, a software or whatever. Ok, most of you don't have your own product and the most won't create one. Then you have the opportunity to sell as an affiliate. I can recommend Clickbank- you can choose from thousands of products and then you can review them on your blog and sell them with a commision up to 75%!

This means: If you have for example 300 unique visitors a day, you can make 1-3 sales (higher rates are hard to reach in the beginning). Wow, if you sell a product for $40 and you earn 70%, this would mean $28 up to $84 a day! In one month this could be $840 up to $2520. Not bad for the beginning, mhh?

This was only examplary to show you the potential. With relationships to your readers you can make even more. A blog is such a powerful tool to generate an income.

If you want to start out with this plan, please read "how to create a high profitable blog"

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I hope it helped you and you learned something. If this strategy worked for you it would be nice to hear some comments (of course after a few weeks or months).

Greets,
wpprofi

 

Good one,.lets see if it works.

 

You're spot on, but I don't think people like hearing that because it's a bit like hard work.

 

300 UV and up to 3 clicks? 1% CTR? Dude, that's what I get from Adsense. To get that good sale CTR you will need very targeted traffic, and those are hard to reach. So you kinda made it look a lot easier than it really is.
Affiliate is not new either.

Some sites simply just will do better using Adsense, depending on the traffic. If the visitor is coming there to read about something for free, the chances that he will buy a product is VERY VERY low. So you will more or less have to reach a good rank on "buying x product", and that is generally one of a damn hard competition game.... simply because people are paying fortunes to SEO experts to make them rank high for that keyword.

If you get your traffic elsewhere, well, maybe you can get some good money out of it, but it won't be automatic. You will have to work a lot everyday on social marketing to keep that amount of UV. Facebook (for example) is a nice place to get people but then again we need targeted people and how would you determine who are looking for your product there? Of course you can get traffic elsewhere but my point is, getting targeted visitors is way harder.

I checked your blog, it you have organized the nice, but when people are buying stuff, mostly they are doing researches for the same type of products. They want as cheap and as good as possible, so the chances they will come back to your site after the research is pretty low. But then again, it's a higher payout.

Adsense is more simple. People want free stuff, which makes the margins a lot bigger. You buy a nice domain, including the keyword, you set up a blog with some SEO plugins, you write 60 unique and useful posts and have one published each day (IMPORTANT!). Add Adsense, do some link building for a relatively high paying and popular, but not too competitive keyword and you're done. Hard to say what that will give in revenue, but if you know what you are doing and have done it right many times before, getting $3 daily from that blog is not hard at all.
It sounds easy I know, and it is, really, the problem is just having the discipline to do this over and over again plus keeping things updated, for me at least.


Just my thoughts.

 

If think that Adsense and Clickbank are two different things. Maybe you haven't made good experiences with Affiliate marketing and you can't build a good keyword targeted site- that's no reason.
I know how to build WordPress sites with good SEO. You only choose one or two products with low competition and you use Google Keywords to set up your site. Choose keywords with 3000 searches per month, and then you can rank at the very first line! All traffic from this keyword phrase comes into your site and you can make good money!

 

the big issue I see is people don't have the patience: they don't see instant traffic from their blog-posts and then go "mhmm, how about then I use adsense to at least make some money".

And there's nothing worse/offputting than adsense on a page where the focus is supposed to be great content.

so: decide up-front, is it going to be an adsense site or is it your money-site where you make money by building a great relationship with your audience and then solving their problems for them (and getting paid fairly in return).

Veit

 

Its funny to me because most just expect to put up a website become insta-mega internet bazilionare. This is why so many people quit failing to see the long term results.

I was guilty of this at one point. I wrote 20 articles on a niche, sent them to the sales page via a re-direct and expected the money to start rolling in. Two weeks later I quit. A couple months after that I checked my clickbank account to assure my self that internet marketing was a scam and found out I had $237 dollars in sales. I was sure kicking myself for not keeping the article writing up. That was a year ago hee hee since then its been full speed ahead.

Its hard to stay motivated but what helps me is to realize by making even a dollar online you are ahead of 90 percent of people in internet marketing because most do not make a dime.

 

Thanks cybella28, I totally agree! But everyone has to pay their fees at the beginning. And if they keep up their work for a longer term, you can see the results and get motivated to do more and more.

 

very good advice. I know that many bloggers are moving away from Adsense as their blogs mature.

 

It's all about traffic first. You can throw up as many AdSense blocks and affiliate links as you want, but the only determining factor about if you're making money with those things is how much traffic you're getting.