Only for Bloggers | monetize your blog #2

In my last post of monetizing series I have emphasized the most efficient tips on how to monetize your blog here on: Tweaking the affiliate ads- in the sidebar, Make Money Online with PPC 125-125 Ads, and monetizing with Monthly Advertisers. This Post will describe more on managing and monetizing your content itself.

Once again bloggers are asking me: where does this monetization end? How to create an ideally monetized blog? And my answer always stays very simple: It never ends due to fast developing market and on-growing technical solutions. Today you can monetize almost everything: A Photo, a Video, Rss Feed, Text, e-mail, any informational structured content. So where does the monetization start in blogging?

Well everyone has his own style, but for me the best and most effective advertising starts inside the content. Why? Because content ads are lighter and usually relevant to the content itself:

How to monetize your blog – 3 basic techniques

1. Affiliate links inside the content- This is what I call the goldmine, this is where your content gets most relevant to your affiliate links. For those who are still beginners: affiliate link is a link which will bring your visitor to another site where you might get paid if he performs and action (Subscribe to the newsletter, buy something, or sign-up for the service whether it is free or not). Use not more than 5 affiliate links in your post or with a nofollow attribute.

2. Text-Link-Ads – well contextual ads can simply build buzz if you have some good amount of traffic. It is one of the most beneficial monetizing methods, because you get paid each time somebody clicks the link.

3. Banner ads inside your content. Now banner ads can bring even more than contextual ads if used perfectly. One of the best options is to put 300×250 or 250×250 sized ads on the right corner of your content. But the down flow is also quite high; some people get annoyed with such type of ads. If you don’t care about some annoyed visitors use animated banner- this brings up the chances that your visitors will click your ads. To be honest I don’t really like this method, even though I do use it sometimes .

4. Sponsored links- if you have sponsors you can offer them to place their link after or in the beginning of each post. “Personally I stay away from sponsored links due to Google limitations on this option – Google does really penalize for sponsored links.

5. Monetize your Photos and Videos – If you run a site (blog) with a photo or video content, AdBrite offers a wonderful service of monetizing them.

6. This is a Guest Tip by Celeb (market secret blogging): A simple question to ask yourself when thinking on how to monetize is, “What would you logically click on?” and just insert your advert there (whatever form it may be in, though text ads work really great!)

The Next series of “ only for bloggers | monetize your blog #3? will analyze the existing Rss and e-mail monetization methods.