How To Make Money Through Your Blog

To make money through your blog you need to be getting good traffic. 10-20 visitors a day is not going to cut it. You must really be getting at least 100 visitors a day if you want to see a $1 day!

It may not sound hard to get $1 a day but it is. You have to build up traffic while optimizing your ads as much as possible with techniques such as blending the ads in with your content. Also you must consider your placement of ads as all your work is useless if your visitors never even see your ads! Consider putting a square ad at the left of the post at the beginning and a horizontal ad at the bottom of your post. Finally a ad in your sidebar (which hopefully is on the left) and you have got good ad placement therefore you visitors will see your ad.

You cannot choose a low paying keyword as this is kind of obvious. Less price per click=less money for you. Some are things like ‘arcade.’ Arcades don’t pay more than around 2 cents per click so make sure you choose a niche that has high cost per click. You should choose a uncompetitive keyword that gets a lot of searches. This takes time but when you find a niche like that it is easy. You can easily climb to the top of the search engine positions and get loads of traffic for nothing!

Make sure your ads are relevant. Don’t use ad networks that you haven’t heard of as most advertisers have not heard of them either. So you get loads of untargeted ads. And users are not likely to click a link to a poker site on a dog walking site!

Affiliate programs may seem good as you can get up to $100 a sale or sometimes more but selling something is very hard on the internet and as a rough guide 100,000 people = one sale! So your best bet is through adsense ads on your site.

Adsense ads are the best for advertising as they have the biggest advertiser base so there ads are very relevant. I have never seem a adsense ad that has unrelated ads on it! One downside is the high $100 cashout minimum. Also it sends checks so you can’t recive money through paypal. However most ad networks pay via check so this isn’t really too much of a downside.

However adsense are the most active people at shutting accounts down just before the $100 cashout. However this doesn’t happen much to those people that follow the adsense rules. So make sure you read them as you don’t want to lose months or even years of hard earned money for one simple mistake!

Make sure that you do work on driving traffic to your site as you can’t make money with a site that no-body vists regardless of your ad placement!