Monetizing Your Blog Without Annoying Your Readers
TheSpotter on July 6th, 2007 ![[Post to Twitter]](http://www.howtospoter.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/tweet-this-small.png)
Tweet ThisIf you are planning to earn from your bloggin venture (and I’m, as I believe that no effort should be wasted) you will find that it can be very hard to strike a nice balance between what brings you some cash and editorial content.
AdSense is one of the perhaps most overused sources of revenue and way too often I find sites that decide to plug in everything allowed by TOS onto their pages and as result we get legitimate blog looking like splog (SPAM blog created for AdSense revenue only). I have discovered a couple things that allow a reasonable balance and want to share at least one of them that has earned me $234.67 over the period of approximately 10 days and WITHOUT any effort on my part after placing the ad AND without annoying my readers. See the picture:
And read more of the story if this interests you …
Now, let me answer possible accusation in “photoshoped image” – It Is PhotoShop edited screenshot! I have removed all my earnings from other publishers and left only ONE that is directly related to this article, as it is not meant to be a flaunting of my earning but a proof of THIS specific method.
If you have visited my blog starting from June 20 you perhaps have noticed a blinking peeling top right corner with “Special Offer”. It is small, doesn’t interfere with content and since that date it has been used to only advertise a product that creates this effect – Peel Ads and earnings from which displayed on the image. And this effect has proven to be irresistible to at least 10 people who not only clicked it but also purchased it. And notice another important detail – 0% refunds!
Does it make you wonder why? Answer is rather simple – this new ad system that is easy to install has proven to be a great way to monetize you blog. Obviously the more traffic you have – more chances you have to earn.
Another great option I have already tested but not implemented yet – is rotation of ads using this script. With few configuration changes you can rotate multitude of ads and earn from each and everyone of them and get the full commission cut – if using ClickBank products you can expect anywhere between 50-75% commissions. Since this particular ad worked this well for me I decided to let it run a bit longer but I hope you can see the opportunities.
How hard it is to install? I would say easy to intermediate. It comes with a guide that walks you through entire process and configuration is as simple as placing appropriate graphics, specifying target URL (affiliate link) and placing it on your server. It does require a basic knowledge of using FTP and walks you through setting appropriate permissions on files and folders. But here is a great part – adding the actual ad to the site is done by simply placing javascript code into the footer.php of your blog theme and once you have it running – you can put this code on any site you have, which doesn’t even have to be on same domain! So one installation can rotate ads on multiple sites or blogs.
Everything will be done on autopilot and without your visitors leaving in disgust due to too many ads on your site! Got to have it and the Peel Ads ad no longer available on my blog (replaced)? Use this link, as I wholeheartedly recommend it and begin to [tag-tec]monetize your blog[/tag-tec]:
http://www.free-secrets.org/recommends/PeelAds
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Rob (2 comments.) (Who Am I?)
1 year ago
WOW! Just found your site. I love it. I am looking through your book and there are alot of nice ideas.
I noticed that when going to your page I get an excerpt of your post with a ‘Read More’ Link. How did you make that work? What plugin is it?
TheSpot-er (971 comments.) (Who Am I?)
1 year ago
Thanks Rob!
Just doing my part. On your question:
I use plugin called “What Would Seth Godin Do” and link is provided on my WordPress Web 2.0 Guide Page as well as my report. An awesome feature of this plugin is that it uses cookies for tracking and you can configure to show this message to only a new visitor and only during first 1, 2, 3, 5 … etc visits. Obviously you wil have to play with it to get your number right.
Enjoy,
Alex
Rob (2 comments.) (Who Am I?)
1 year ago
Actually, I was looking for what makes this happen:
http://blog.gaelicmysts.com/wp.....enshot.png
TheSpot-er (971 comments.) (Who Am I?)
1 year ago
<p>Rob,</p>
<p>K, sorry I misunderstood you. I use “more” tag to break all my posts so that only part of the article displayed on index page. Then I have used for this specific section this code (works in WP):</p>
< ?php the_content('Continue reading "< ?php the_title(); ?>" »’); ?>Jim (Who Am I?)
1 year ago
Very interesting article. I would like to recommend to your readership DealDotCom.com which has a really (REALLY) tasty affiliate program.
Its a great place on the web to find all the Internet Marketing products you really want for rock bottom prices. Anything and everything related to building an online business, increasing traffic, monetizing your websites, blogging, web design.. They’ve spent the last 4 months stalking big-name (and not-so-big-name) Internet Marketers who sell high-quality products, and convincing them to let us sell their stuff at huge discounts.
When you refer others to DealDotCom and they get their free account, they are marked in their system as having been referred by you. Anything that they ever buy from them nets you a 35% commission FOREVER. What’s more, anyone that they refer to DealDotCom goes on your second tier. Anything people on your second tier buy nets you a 15% commission FOREVER.
TheSpot-er (971 comments.) (Who Am I?)
1 year ago
Thanks for heads-up Jim
Rhys (10 comments.) (Who Am I?)
5 months ago
Good one Alex!
Have just set this up on my number one blog, to see how it goes.
Should be good for quite a few clicks until the novelty wears off.
It took a bit of thinking to realize that I could just enroll in the affiliate program and not have to spend actual cash to try it out.
Thanks for the heads up on this one - Rhys
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Blog for Beginners (10 comments.) (Who Am I?)
5 months ago
I really like the peel effect and you are right, it’s not going to be much of distraction to the readers.
My question is unless you join any of the affiliate programs and plug the code, it’s not going to be much of a use, is it not?
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TheSpot-er (971 comments.) (Who Am I?)
5 months ago
Yes, you will ne to advertise something for this to be effective
I prefer the original script since it works like a charm for me …
andy@toner cartridges (3 comments.) (Who Am I?)
2 months ago
Definitely looks like a better alternative to annoying pop ups and pop whatevers. So I guess it’ll just take a leap of faith to go from a guaranteed few dollars income (from adsense clicks) to affiliate sales of an actual products huh?