First factor of your blog / website, is content. Kindly note that content of your blog / website is very important. See the Section “ Designing successful blog / website” , where useful tips for making successful blog / website is enlisted. Then start advertising your blog / websites through the internet to get traffic to your blog / website. I have written a separate section of how to bring traffic to your blog / website below. So you have started advertising your blog / website in the internet and now you have sufficient visitors. The next part is making money with blog / website. You can start making money by running advertisements on your blog / website. Companies are ready to advertise about their products on your blog / website and ready to pay for it, provided your blog / website has sufficient visitors. Below are the details of running advertisements on your blog / website.
First you require somebody to host your blog or website on the internet. There are number of companies today hosting your blog / websites for free. You can get an account for free blog, at blogger.com , wordpress.com , typepad.com etc. You can get a free website domain at free-webhosts.com/
The visitor might see that for each link clicked there will be an advertisement running for 10 seconds. The advertisement will be interesting, watch the advertisement for 10 seconds and then the visitor will be directed towards the home page of the company.
A) Running advertisements on your blog / website.
There are number of different types of ADS that can be run on your website which can earn you money. Contextual Ads or Pay per click ads, Affliate marketing, Audio ads etc can be run on your blog / website and are explained in detail below.
1) Contextual advertising. Contextual Advertising also known as pay per click advertising is an easy means of income, if you blog / website is having sufficient traffic. These are short text based links which you can put in your blog / website. Whenever some of the visitors, who are visiting your blog / website, click on these text based links he will be directed towards the advertiser’s website and you will earn some money in the process. Earning potential depends on number of factors. For each click made you will earn between few cents to few dollars. More clicks means more money.In a hurry to earn money don’t click your Ads by yourself or ask your relatives / friends to click the Ads. The contextual advertising company will keep track of it and will at once disable your account.After joining, the company will give you an html code which you can embed in your blog / website and display the ads. If you want to maximize your earnings then you have to maximize the clicks. This can be done by making the pay per click links similar to that of the links in your blog / website. For pay per click links to appear similar to that of your links in your website, change the border color of your contextual ad to appear as that of your blog / website background color and short text based link color as that of your link color in your blog / website. Doing so will make the short text based links appear similar to links in your blog / website and maximize the clicks.
Below is a list of Contextual advertising companies where you can join and put the Ads on your blog / website. Without doubt Google Adsense is a master of pay per click program. Today Google Adsense serves thousands of websites all over the internet. However the conditions for your blog / website getting approved in Google Adsense is very strict. Your Blog / Website must be at least six months old and must have sufficient content.
Yahoo Publisher Network
Kanoodle
Marchex
BidVertiser
Revenue Pilot
ValueClickmedia
Chitika
Quigo
Clicksor
Searchfeed
Adtoll
2) Audio ads : In the case of contextual advertising the visitor has to click the ad for you to make money. However in the case of audio ads no visitor action is required. Simply you have to copy and paste the html code in your blog / website which will be given by the advertising company. Whenever a visitor visits your website he will be hearing an audio Ad and for that you will be paid.
Audiovoiceads
Netaudioads
3) Selling advertisement space to advertisers. You can sell bulk space of your blog / website to your advertisers. You can make a good deal of money if your blog / website has sufficient traffic, and more traffic means you can sell your space to more money. There are number of websites which connect you with the advertisers for selling bulk spaces to them. Here are few important ones.
Teliad
Text-link-ads
Reverselinks
Linkworth
Linkshowoff
4) Pay per post : Pay per post is new concept of advertising. Bloggers are required to write a post about the sponsor’s website in their blog. A minimum of 5$ will be paid for each post. If the traffic to your blog is more, you can charge more. Here is the list of websites where you can find advertisers. Linkworth, pay per post, blogitive, paying post etc.
Payperpost
Contentquake
Payingpost
Blogitive
Creative-weblogging
Linkworth
Blog-republic
Bloggerjobs
Today
Weblogsinc
Socialspark
Parentingsquad
Families
Qj
5) Exit Junction. Whenever a visitor visits your blog / website from a search engine result, he usually clicks the back button to return back to the search engine page. If you become a member of exit junction they will provide you a html code which you can embed in your blog / website. During the returning back of the visitor from your website to search engine result page, Exit Junction will display an ad to the visitor and you will be paid. Visit Exitjunction
