There are three components: content, traffic, and monetization. Unless you have great content, there is no reason for people to come to your blog. You can have great content, but unless you get your word out there, you are not going to get traffic. You can have top notch content, and thousands of visitors per day, but unless you actively take steps to monetize, you are not going to make any money
from your blog.There are five layers to monetization.
- Google AdSense. This will make you little to no money starting out.
- Blog post ads. Text link ads. Try Sponsored Reviews, Blogsvertise, LinkWorth, and InfoLinks.
- Affiliate Marketing. Try Amazon Affiliate.
- Using Aweber
software to collect emails to sell eBooks and online courses to.
- Corporate
blog. Say if your blog is an instrument that helps you raise money for your tech startup.
will still be there. I guess Amazon
will be there 10 years from now. And they sell millions of items. I might try out other affiliate programs later on, but Amazon liked a good one to start with. And so I was thinking I was going to start embedding links to Amazon
products in my blog posts. That kind of embedding is the best way to do affiliate marketing in the first place. That was the impression I had from reading around the blogs of the pros. And then Sunday afternoon I discover after logging into the Amazon website that Amazon had integrated with Blogger and now embedding links to Amazon products in your blog posts was almost as easy as using Zemanta to jazz up your posts. Perfect timing. Just when I was waking up to affiliate marketing for my blog, Amazon and Google gang up to do this for me. This makes life so much easier for me going into 2010. Thank you Amazon. Thank you Blogger.
December 16, 2009: Amazon Associates And Google Blogger Now Integrated
Bloggers highlight the relevant text and the AmazonWell, I have had the Amazon
search box at my blog for months now. You could do that long before this integration happened.How have you been monetizing your blog? Please share in the comments section below.
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