Bloggers share their own experience and ideas. It may work for you or not. It depends. There is no formula that works 100 %
for all. It is the survival of the fittest. You are on a highly competing market. Any solution will take time. So be aware about that and read the rest of the article.
I am also sharing my own experience and ideas. I am not a pro blogger who earn 1000’s of dollars through blogging. I think this article will give you some idea about money blogging.
There are so many factors you have to consider before applying to monetization. First of all build a good traffic through search engines. Note that direct and referral traffic help you to get your blog famous, but you won’t get much money through that traffic. Publish quality contents regularly. Add necessary SEO methods and keyword optimization.
Things you must avoid
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· Violence
· Gambling
· Child abuse
· Adding blog to traffic exchange programs
Things you must include for AdSense
Add a privacy policy according to Google AdSense latest privacy policy requirements.
https://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48182
It should be easily accessible from any page of your blog. It must contain enough information about third party cookies, AdSense DoubleClick dart cookie, web beacons etc. Don’t worry you can instantly generate a good privacy policy from http://www.serprank.com/privacy-policy-generator/
Ensure that your blog have enough text content. If you are using multimedia blogging add good description under images and videos.
If you are from India and China wait for 6 months before applying. (You can apply early if you get quality traffics from search engines).
Monetization programs
AdSense
There are so many monetization programs available. Of these AdSense is the best. So the chance for getting selected by AdSense is very hard. You have to be genuine and hardworking with your contents. They accept your blog only if your blog has enough quality content. But once you selected your entire blogging standard will change because you have to compete. Your blogging quality will increase. So my advice is you must try for AdSense. If they reject your application, make necessary changes according to their advice and apply again. I get selected after applying 4 times. Each time they give different reasons such as quality, incomplete website, not enough content etc. I corrected all these and applied again but they rejected saying that my traffics are direct. For AdSense I need traffic from search engines. I add more articles and get some traffic from Google. I applied again and got selected for AdSense program.
If you are Blogger.com user chances for approval by AdSense is triple compared to other Blogging platforms. I think both are Google’s product. If you apply through blogger.com your AdSense application is reviewed by separate team and they are very kind and helpful than normal AdSense team. I applied through both program. Each time get different answer. The AdSense team give me some regular reason and they just give me some links to read. But when I applied through Blogger they give me a descriptive reason about rejecting my application and give me some advice to improve my blog quality. So if you are Blogger user apply through Blogger only.
Infolinks
Infolinks is context based advertising program and entirely different from AdSense. Infolinks is text based links which doesn’t clutter your blog and show relevant add upon mouse hovering link text. They have some other programs such as related tags, tags cloud, search widget etc. Don’t treat Infolinks as primary revenue program. They are very good people and
The requirements for selection is that much strict compared to AdSense. Your blog will be selected if you have good contents.
BuySellAds
If you are getting more than 50000 visits per month for your blog, BuySellAds is another option to get monetized. It is very different program compared to other programs. BuySellAds is static banner ads and you can select the price of your ad. You can charge a single ad from 10 dollars to 500 dollars or above. But you will get money only if someone buys the ad space. They will take a certain percentage as commission also.
Here is the list of other ad programs.
Ø Adbrite
Ø Blogads
Ø Chitika
Ø Grok ads
Ø Guruji
Ø Indeed
Ø Kontera
Ø Luminate
Chitika
Of these you can consider Chitika which is compatible with AdSense. It is search based ad program which shows relevant ads on your blog when reader comes through any search engines. It works well if you have search quarries from US and Canada. They are adding more countries.
Bidvertiser
Bidvertiser is a good alternative for AdSense. If you have problem with AdSense try Bidvertiser.
Blogsvertiser
Blogsvertiser is a good program to consider. They will easily accept your blog if you have good and fresh contents. In this program you have to write what they give and add the links provided. You can be honest about the content, you can review the content they give, add critiques whatever you find. Be genuine. If reader clicks on the link they will pay. And each article they will pay some money if you have good traffic.
Luminate
If you have a lot of pictures in your blog, especially you are doing photo blogging, fashion blogging Luminate is a good program to earn. It is perfectly work with travel, photography, fashion blog . you can sign up for Luminate and they will give more gadgets and plug ins for your pictures. You can add there plugins on your pictures which ever found by their program. You can add as many blog in the account. But for getting monetized ensure that your blog is 6 month old. If they accept your blog for monetization (most of them will be accepted easily) you can select pop up add for pictures. It is something similar to You Tube ads. And there is another option which is affiliate. You can mark a specific portion of your picture and add products matching that part. (Consider you have a photo of a girl wearing jeans, t-shirt, hat and necklace. You can mark these and add similar products in that portion. If your reader clicks on that portion and buy the product through the link you will get commission.
Please note that any monetization program will work perfectly if you treat them well. Give respect to their terms and conditions and build up good audience. If you are aiming for quick money they won’t work.
Affiliate programs
Affiliates are another way to get some money. In monetization programs you will get paid if user clicks the ads, but in affiliates you will get paid if user clicks the link and buy that product with in certain period. It will be a certain percentage of the product price. If you succeeded to sell something worth 500 dollars, you will get commission at least 40 dollars.
Do a good research before applying to any program.
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