So you have a blog running successfully and getting decent amount of traffic on it. But the real problem that you are facing is you don’t know how to convert this traffic into business.

Now people have their own favorite money making methods as every monetization scheme will not work for you.

Among lots of monetization methods, there will be very few that will actually work for us. Lots of blogger use Google Adsense as the only monetization method. While others use Affiliate programs and some form of advertising with Google Adsense to multiply their earnings.

In this post, I’m going to discuss broadly top 10 ways you can implement to start making good revenue from your blog:

1. Pay Per Click (PPC) Programs

Easiest and most popular revenue option used by most content rich and blog websites is using pay per click programs where we work as a publisher with advertising networks and get paid some money for each click made on ads placed from that advertising network. Some of popular PPC advertising networks are Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network, Bidvertiser and Adbrite.

2. In-Text link Advertising

This kind of advertising option work best with websites and blogs having few thousand unique visitors per day at least. Two popular networks who deal in in-text advertising are Kontera and Infolinks.

3. Affiliate Networks

If you have a website or blog around a particular niche or product, you can make good amount of money working as an affiliate. You need to find products related to your blog niche in order to start seeing some money into your affiliate account. Some of popular websites that offers affiliate facility are Amazon, Clickbank, CJ and LinkShare. Suppose you have a blog about camera reviews, adding some camera widgets or links with your affiliate id from Amazon can help you make some quick money with little effort. You can expect revenue of 5 to 15 percent from each sale for an Amazon product sold with your affiliate id.

4. Using BuySellAds Network

I came to know of this revenue stream recently and it has been doing wonders for me. BuysellAds is an advertising network for banner and textual link buying and selling. Again you need good amount of targeted traffic on your website or blog to see some banner ads sold in your BuySellAds publisher account. They make payments via Paypal and give you the facility to transfer funds into your Paypal account twice in a month. Advertisespace also works on the same line, so you can try this network as well for selling additional banner ads on your blog.

5. Paid Blogging Networks

Lots of small and even some popular blogs use paid blogging networks to make some instant cash into their Paypal account. Some of paid blogging options one can try are ReviewMe, SponsoredReviews, PayPerPost, BlogsVertise and Smorty. You can expect making from $5 to few hundreds dollar with these networks depending upon your blog popularity, blog network and buyers paying capacity.

6. Create Advertise Here Page

Why not create an Advertise Here page on your blog and show all advertising options there. And don’t forget to show this on prominent position on your blog. The best thing about making money with direct advertisement is that you will be directly dealing with advertisers, can negotiate advertising rates and all of earnings will be going into your pocket which was missed in case you find advertisers for your blog though some network like BuySellAds.

7. Text Link Selling Networks

Through you are taking the risk of receiving some form of penalty from Google if Google gets some clue about your involvement in some form of link buying or selling. But still lots of bloggers are using them and infect are able to make good amount of money through them. That’s why I added this to this list. Some of text link selling networks if you are interested in selling textual links on your blog are TLA, TNX.net, Textlinkbrokers and Linkadage.

8. CPM Networks

CPM refers to cost per miles or average cost per thousand impressions. With CMP networks, we get paid on the basis of impressions and not on the basis of actual clicks which was the case with PPC networks. CPM rates vary from few cents to $5 or even $10 depending upon your blog niche, ad format etc. Some of popular CPM network that one can try are Burst Media, Value Click and Tribal Fusion.

9. Sell Your Own Products And Services

You can think of promoting and even selling your own product if you have any through your blog. And if you are writing about a particular niche, you could start offering your services or consulting about problems related to that niche. Suppose, you are running a blog around internet marketing, you could easily promote your SEO, SEM, SMO, Affiliate marketing services through your blog if you have a popular blog.

10. Write Reviews And Updates About Products And Services

Last but not the least, you could write reviews and share updates about products and services related to your blog niche. And if any of these websites are offering affiliate facility, sign up to their affiliate program and when you write about such products or websites, don’t forget to include your affiliate link in your review.

Are you using any of these monetization methods on your blog or I missed a monetization method that you are running successfully on your blog, please share in the comments section below.

Blog Monetization: 10 Easy But Effective Ways To Monetize Your Blog is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

There are many reasons why selling Advertising Space for Banner Ads is a better alternative to Adsense or any other ad-networks. Here are a few of them:

• You have complete control over who advertises on your site and when.
• You don’t lose a chunk of your profits to commissions. Ad networks charge anywhere from 20-50% for placing ads automatically on your blog page/s.
• You can Sell Ad Space based on time and not rely on clicks or impressions to get paid.
• Since Ad Networks have an oversupply of inventory (Ad Space) to sell, they discount your space to advertisers up to 90% according to the Internet Advertising Bureau. That means less revenue in your pocket.

But there are 5 Crucial Factors which one should keep in mind when making their blogs available for private banner advertising.

1. Searching Advertisers

Are You Confused How are you going to find sponsors/advertisers for your blog? You can either carry out this task yourself or can place your Advertising Space for sale on other websites.

Finding advertisers yourself:

• Probably you will get advertisers whose products, services etc. directly corresponds to your target audience;
• The sites that are advertising with your blog competitors or related blogs are a good start to get advertisers. You can contact sites that are advertising on these sites and ask them if they wish to advertise on your blog.
• You will need to contact each potential advertiser, one by one with a professional looking e-mail asking if they are interested in buying advertising space on your blog. The email must include an attachment or link to a page which includes analysis (statistics), prices, testimonials, a description of your blog etc.
• Personalize the email stating where you found the website and why you believe they would wish to advertise with your blog. You won’t get a favorable response to a a standard and impersonal email.
• Keep a record of who you’ve contacted and their response.
• Remember to follow up on an email and offer some great deals to get noticed.

Advertising Space For Sale:

• Sell Ad Space at an auction website to save yourself from the trouble of searching individual advertisers, one by one;
• Such kind of websites enables you to list your ad-space together with details of your blog and analytics. You can either set a specific buy-out amount or put the Ad Space up for auction.
• Potential buyers are able to contact you directly and can make you offers.
• You can create a page which displays all the Advertising Space your  blog has, standard information about your blog, your acceptance policies and ad specifications in short Terms & Conditions, analytics, testimonials and anything else you desire.

Here, I would like you to read my article Selling Advertising Space On Your Blog = Huge Income in which I reviewed some popular banner auction sites.

2. Positioning, Quality & Quantity

Mostly advertisers look for:

• Ad-Positions above the fold i.e where their Banner Ad will be displayed without viewers needing to scroll down to see it.
• Larger Banners (the bigger, the more you can charge for it).
• Wider Ads like 768×90 px or 468×60 px are more readable and tend to perform better than vertical Banners which take too much space and people need to scroll more for it.
• Not too many competing Advertisements on the same page (large area of space taken up by other advertisers on your blog takes away their quality).
• Your traffic is only one indicator of the value for money when advertising on your blog. Many advertisers looking to reach a specific target audience in their niche would rather advertise on a directly related site than a site with huge traffic but irrelevant to their product which is a kind of obvious thing.

3. Ad Specifications

Before placing the Advertising Space for sale, you should consider the advertisement requirements and creative specifications, including:

• Ad dimensions;
• Maximum file size;
• Preferred/allowed format(like: jpg, png, gif ;
• Animation restrictions (example: loop maximum, maximum animation time,maximum number of frames);
• Flash requirements;
• Appropriateness of content (example: no adult and illegal material).

4. Costing Method

How should you charge? Below are the method of how to charge for Ad Space:

• Pay Per Click (PPC) – the advertiser pays you the agreed amount each time a viewer clicks on their advertisement(popular bloggers like Darren Rowse provides such kind of advertising on his blog);
• Cost Per Time – this is the most favorable method of costing for private Ad sales. Sponsors simply pay to have their ad displayed in your slot for an agreed period of time like for a week or a month period.(I am Using It!)
• Cost Per Thousand Impressions (CPM) – an amount is charged for each thousand times the Ad is to be displayed on your website(Mostly seen on Forums rather on blogs).
• Pay Per Action (PPA) / Cost Per Lead (CPL) – payment is made each time the Advertisement is clicked and the customer undertakes some type of approved action (such as registering, subscribing or making a purchase);

5. Analytics

You should prepare a .pdf or image file of your website analytics. It should consists some important blog statistics, like:

• Daily/Monthly New Visits
• Daily/Monthly Page Views
• Average Time on Site
• 3rd party rankings like Alexa, Compete, Google PageRank
• Countries from where people are visiting in percentage distribution form
• Blog Achievements

Conclusion

There are several aspects to selling advertising space. With many choices, some blog owners just take the easy way and put their space in the hands of an advertising network, where the profits are quite low and sometimes the inventory is sold for scraps because of overabundance in supply. When done effectively, selling Banner Advertising Directly can be very profitable and worthwhile.

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However, only choosing the most popular keywords does not necessarily translate into profit. Selecting more specific keywords or we can say “long tail keywords” will help you get much better profits.

The term ‘long tail’ is used to describe the strategy of targeting less-competitive niche markets rather than the hugely competitive broad keywords. A long tail keyword is something like ‘Home Based Business Strategies‘ while a short wail keyword is something like ‘Home Business‘ or ‘Business‘.

There are many PPC marketing company but the major one is Google Adwords. To compete with Adwords, a New PPC Advertising Company – QueryAds, have come forward which says itself to be unique and draws some lines of differences between Adwords and itself.

About Query Ads

QueryAds is a new and unique PPC network that monetizes real time search engine query traffic for advertisers on which they can bid. The search queries come from quality publishers sites which they manually approve and then stored in a detailed list providing traffic history reports.

QueryAds For Advertisers

QueryAds provides a new way to advertise on keywords. QueryAds provides live Real-Time Keyword Traffic list on which advertisers can easily bid. With their Unique Click Fraud detection, you are assured to get quality traffic only.

According to QueryAds:

QueryAds stores huge selections of live searched keywords. Advertisers can bid on keywords that are listed by traffic, and they don’t have to use other keyword suggestions tools that don’t have proven keyword data.

Why It Can Compete with Adwords?

According to me, one major reason which have come into my mind that tells why it can compete with Adwords…

Irrelevant Ads – Many times, it has happened that when I am reading any making money online related article then I am shown ads related to Matrimonial or Loan-Insurance. I am sure that it would have happened with you also sometime. This causes advertiser to loose lot of money because ads are shown on irrelevant pages which few people usually clicks on these ads but they found nothing useful.

It happens because Adwords traces only the keyword “money” and then goes on showing ads from the advertisers whose keyword list consisted “money” word somewhere. But this doesn’t happens in case of QueryAds as it targets properly on long tail keywords which gives better targeted traffic looking for same thing.

QueryAds For Publishers

If you have any website/blog and you want to seriously monetize then QueryAds can help you in this. With their Unique system, the ads will be only related to your topic and not something out of it and it means you will be making more money with it. QueryAds can be one of your adsense alternative.

The reason which QueryAds gives about Why you should Join it:

We offer our advertisers long tail keywords that will insure the visitors of your site are looking for exactly what is being offered. Unlike Google, which displays ads for simple keywords such as cars, our software looks for long tail keywords like “2010 Ford Minivan”. This will ensure that someone looking for a minivan isn’t presented with an ad for a Big four wheel drive truck.

Also, QueryAds only provide higher Click Rates to the publisher and if you are tired of getting paid 1-5 cents per click, QueryAds is the place for you. QueryAds guarantees a minimum payout of 10 cents for every click you receive.

A Great Offer If You Act Now!

As a promotional offer, you can start using QueryAds with Free $10 Credited to your account without any need of Credit Card for Identification or something else. You can use the coupon code: QRY09JLA, while registering for an advertising account to get $10 credited in your account.

So hurry Up! as this Coupon Code will last for only few days and do let me know your opinion on it. Come on guys Go to QueryAds Now.

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But users using blogger.com as a publishing medium for their blog don’t have any such type of facilities.Some of them sell ad space via long processes like first e-mail them,then they will ask for your banner and image,then the payment methods..it generally ends in 6-7 replies.But there are some sites available now for blogger.com users which provides facilities of selling ad space in automated way.

Here are some sites which provides an automated way for bloggers to sell ads without any hassle:

1.Project Wonderful
It uses an auction style model to sell ads on your site which means there is no need to set a fix price for the space. Advertisers bids a price they want to pay and whoever pays the most gets their ad displayed.You can set days from a calender for which your ad should be displayed on.You can even set a Cap over the expense over a particular ad. They support various ad sizes and you chose what you want to display. They even have options where you can display multiple ads within the same ad unit. Earnings are paid out via PayPal once you have earned $10.

I will rate it 4/5

2.Performancing Ads
Performancing Ads is a new ad network that sets itself apart from all of the others in a lazy yet brilliant way: it exclusively focuses on the sales of 125×125 ad boxes on blogs.The launch was very good enough to attract users.Another cool perk for publishers is that you earn credits whenever your ad slots are booked. These credits can then be used to advertise your own site on other blogs in the network.The Pricing of your ad space is not set very properly enough. But Performancing Ads has a ton of potential specializing as an ad network for the 125×125 banner ad format used everywhere in the blogosphere.

I will rate it 3/5

3.ViralBlogAds
It is similar to Performancing Ads which focuses on 125×125 ad boxes.It’s a PPC advertising service so you need to get lots of clicks to earn some decent money.The registration is simple n Fast.Even the interface is easy to use.They have an exchange ads programme so if you haven’t got a PPC click ad for your ad spot they will show a exchange add and vice versa. Clicks are not the only way for you to earn money , they have a referral program that pays 15% earning commissions of your affiliates for life. And since its in the launching stage they are having a pre launch contest where you can win some exiting prizes.But I don’t think many people have joined it because I m the 332th member of this network.

I will rate it 2.5/5

There are many more sites like BuySellAds , OIO Publishers etc. which can be used for selling ad space on your blog.Hopefully, by using these sites you will start selling advertising on your blog or web site to earn good money.But do remember people will only think of buying ad space on your blog if have good pagerank,readers/pageview,ranking on different sites,backlinks and other major deciding factors.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me.

Selling Advertising Space On Your Blog = Huge Income is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips