Blog Monetization

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Good updated content is necessary to monetize your blog well. Whatever topic you have chosen for your blog, you should be able to give up-to-date information on that topic to your visitors.

If you are not able to produce the content yourself, you need to find other ways of keeping your blog updated on a regular basis.

Read or listen to audio tips for keeping the content on your blog fresh and updated.

The next important thing is to get some traffic to your blog.

1. Bookmark your blog in social bookmarking or networking sites such as

delicious

stumbleupon

digg

Check at the end of the post on this blog. You will see the icons of many social bookmarking sites. You can just click on each one of them, create a free account and bookmark your site.

Do you see this part at the end of the post?

You can just click on each icon. It will take you to those sites. You can create a free account for yourself. When you bookmark your sites remember to bookmark some good sites of others. This will add value to your bookmarks and others visiting the social networking sites will visit your blog.

 2. Go to http://www.feedburner.google.com. Create a free account for yourself and create a feed for your blog. Ny optimizing and publicizing your feed, you can increase the traffic to your site.

3. Submit a site map of your blog to Google. Go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools and submit your blog. Prepare a site map of your blog and submit it. Similarly you can submit to other Search Engines such as Yahoo and MSN.

4. Spread the word around about your blog through online and offline means. Tell as many of your friends, relatives, colleagues, etc. as possible. Add the link of your blog to your email signature. Whether you are chatting with your friends in Orkut or sending a message to your Yahoo group, include your blog link. Go to forums, participate in the discussion and never forget to include your link in your signature. Write an article for a newspaper or magazine and include the url of your blog.

5. Submit your blog to blog directories. You will get traffic from these sites which list all blogs. Getting traffic to your blog is very important for monetization. Learn more about getting traffic to your blog.

How can you monetize your blog?

1. The simplest thing to sign up for Google AdSense and add the code to your site. This is the easiest thing to do because you do not have to select any ads, Google will do it for you. Your blog visitors need not buy anything, all they need to do is to click on an ad for you to get paid. You might earn only 0.10 for an ad or it might be a little more for some of the ads. But as you get more and more traffic, the amount you earn can easily add up to a good amount.

2. You can earn through affiliate programs. For most of the affiliate programs, it is free to sign up. Once you sign up you keep the information about the person's product on your site. And when someone clicks on it and makes a purchase you get paid. The easiest thing to do here is to create a free account with ClickBank. You can get a market place full of products with 50 to 75% commission. Suppose a product sells for $100 you will get $50 and for some products you will get as much as $75.

Click here to sign up for a free ClickBank ID.

You also need to sign up with PayPal to get paid. Now PayPal is integrated with Indian Banks also. So you can directly transfer the money to your bank from PayPal.

Click here to sign up for a free PayPal account.

3. You can earn from $5 to $10 or more for writing reviews. You can write reviews of products, services, sites, etc. And the sites which pay you include

ReviewMe

Blogsvertise

You can sign up with them for free. You need to submit your blog link and then wait for them to send you the assignment. The assignment is usually to write about 200 words or two or three paragraphs about a product, site or service they give you.

There are many other sites that pay you for reviews. You can find them by doing a Google Search for review.