how to make money with adsense

Monetize blog might sound like a strange name for a blog post but I’m trying to target that keyword phrase in this post so we’re going to have to make the most of a bad situation. I make no claims to be an expert in the art of making money from a blog but I am learning quite a bit as I go along so if you are a newbie to the world of Internet Marketing we might find something useful that you can apply to your own earn money online ventures.

So if you are looking to monetize blogs what are your options? I’ve only got experience with a couple of methods of making money with blogs so that’s what I’m going to talk about here and to be honest its all you need to get started. The thing is that you can choose to monetize your blog in a huge variety of ways but you’ll figure this stuff out for yourself as you go along and different needs crop up.

Deciding how to make money from your blog with regards to what monetization method to use pails into insignificance when compared to the important stuff such as choosing profitable keywords, search engine optimization through intelligent linkbuilding and ultimately getting the traffic which you can convert into cash. Get these things right then you can start having fun trying to work out which is the most profitable way to generate money.

Right off the bat most people who are trying to make money online from blogs or websites add Adsense to pages and hope that visitors will see something on one of the Adsense ads that catches their eye. If the visitor clicks on an ad Google will ship some money to your account. There are plenty of other similar advertising programs out there, if you are interested enough you can do your own research but Adsense is the daddy and the best place for to start.

Google Adsense has the advantages of being extremely easy to use and can be implemented successfully with a huge number of niches due to the number of advertisers who pay to have their ads displayed in the system.

Negatives of Adsense are that the Ads in some niches will pay you a very little per click so to make a lot of money you’ll have to get many visitors to your pages and get a good click through rate.

Affiliate Programs

Another way to monetize blog is to become an affiliate for one of the vast array of companies with products and services to sell who offer such possibilities. When you are doing affiliate marketing you are basically a partner of the retailer and work to promote their goods and services, you’re rewarded whenever you send a visitor to a site who goes on to make a purchase.

Obviously the affiliate system differs from Adsense due to the fact that your visitor actually has to buy something when they click on to someone else’s site. You get paid less often than with Adsense but have the potential to make more money as affiliate programs pay a percentage of the value of the sale. Work in a niche that concentrates on expensive products or services and you could make a living from a small amount of traffic in comparison to regular advertising programs.

Where To Find An Affiliate Program

Whenever I’m on the lookout for a company to partner up with for a particular niche I’ll simply go to Google and search for “My niche + affiliate” or “A particular product + affiliate” to see what comes up. You’ll usually find something that suits your site that you can push to your visitors. Of course, there is always the opportunity to become an amazon or Ebay affiliate. I’ve had some success with Amazon recently although many people moan about the small percentage you get from sales but for some niches it works well. I haven’t tried Ebay affiliates yet but plan to sign up for an account in the near future and give it a shot. I’ve heard good things about the Ebay Partner Network so I’ll report back when I get some experience.

Clickbank.com is another popular place to find products to sell to the “guests” on your niche blog or website. With high percentage payouts per sale you can make some great money using these products although some of them won’t sell well and many are of dubious quality. Still money is money in the battle to monetize blog.

If you were reading this post hoping to find the definitive guide to how to Make Money Online from blogging with various methods of monetization you may be disappointed I haven’t covered all the possibilities. But the reality is there are more important things you need to do to earn cash online than monetize blogs with the perfect advertising program or affiliate product. Work on the big stuff to get more traffic to your blog then you can worry about searching for the best way to make money from that traffic.

The truth is that this post was a bit of an experiment on my part to try and get a post to rank in the search engine results pages for the term “monetize blog”. I’ve tried to impart a little knowledge for anyone new to earning money online along the way so I hope you have found something useful. And if you found this post by typing the phrase “monetize your blog” or something similar into Google or some other search engine leave a comment and let me know so we can see if the experiment worked.

By the way I have installed the KeywordLuv and Dofollow plugin on this blog so if you leave a contextual comment you’ll get a free “dofollow” link back to your blog to help with your search engine optimization efforts. You can’t say any fairer than that!

Since I was blogging about how to get backlinks yesterday I was giving some thought last night to the many ways available to us to build up more links to our sites in an easy manner. That got me thinking about blog commenting which is popular amongst a lot of Internet Marketers in places like the Warrior Forum.

Why Use Blog Commenting?

If you visit any blog on the Internet you will see that there is a comment section below the posts where you cam leave your 2 cents. Most bloggers are really trying to build up a community of people who read their blogs and return time and again to read their content. Having a large number of comments after every post is a great way to build this feeling of community but encouraging readers to contribute can be difficult.

To entice visitors to leave comments bloggers use the carrot and stick approach, ie. you make a comment about my post which makes my blog look popular and I’ll give you a link to your website. So when you fill in the comment section there is a place for you to enter your chosen URL which links your name back to your site when its published.

The problem is that the vast majority of blogging platforms now implement a nofollow link on their comments section which means that Google will ignore these links and make your efforts pretty much worthless in terms of increased search engine ranking benefit. Of course, you might get a few visitors who read your comment and click on your name but that is not why bloggers leave a comment. We want to get more quality backlinks that Google takes into consideration to push us further up the search engine rankings.

To get around this many bloggers install wordpress plugins to enable visitors to get the benefits of a dofollow link in exchange for taking part in the community. This can lead to the obvious problem that these blogs become targeted by spammers who are uninterested in the content of the posts but will hunt down “dofollow” blogs just to leave irrelevant comments in the hope of getting a free backlink. This unfortunate side effect can lead many to abandon the “Dofollow” plugins due to the effort it takes to sort the spam from the genuine comments but some feel that the increase in traffic makes it worthwhile.

Is Searching For Dofollow Blogs Worth The Effort?

There’s a little controversy as to whether a comment in a “dofollow” blog is worth the same as a link from a post but my gut feeling is that Google is going to differentiate from real “in content” links and those from commenter’s. Even if it doesn’t or can’t do it at the moment, I feel that its something it will do in the future. Having said that a “dofollow” blog link is still going to be worth infinitely more than a “nofollow” so if you happen to find yourself on a blog that has implemented the plugin then it is worth your time commenting. Just keep in mind that someone at the other end has to moderate your comment so make sure you’re adding value to the discussion in return for your link. Also, it will be a huge help if the site your commenting on is related to yours. Google values links that are in context much more highly than those form sites which are totally unrelated to your.

Adsense: Make Money Online Adds “dofollow” Links

Which brings me nicely to the point of this post, which is the fact that I have decided to stick “dofollow” links in my comments section for this Make money with Adsense. The mind boggles as to why I would actually want to take such a insane measure considering all the spam comments I am about to be bombarded with but I think I might also make a positive impact on the site. If I can get more readers and build a better community then I’m willing to put in more work to the site. With my hopefully herculean results with the 100 posts in 30 days challenge I’m doing this month it would be nice if there were more people around to read all the original content I’m going to be putting up.

In addition I should now be able to get this site listed on a dofollow blog list or two which will give me some extra backlinks to help push me up the rankings.

The Rules For Commenting On This Dofollow Blog

To make things a bit easier on myself I’m going to make up a few rules that have to be followed by people who want to get their free backlinks:

1. All comments have to add something to the content of the post; “nice post”comments are not going to cut it.

2. Comments will have to be at least 35 words long – This might be a bit harsh and I might ignore it once this start going but to begin with it’ll make my job a bit easier. And its shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve if you are actually adding to the discussion.

3. I’ve installed the KeywordLuv plugin as well which allows you to use your keywords as anchor text to your site. The format for putting in your name when making a comment is yourname@yourkeyword. KeywordLuv will do the work and only make your keyword clickable but I want people to leave their name rather than just the keywords.

There you go, easy to follow rules for a free dofollow link, get commenting!