Are you making enough money from your blog?
Posted in: Money, affiliate marketing, money making ideasThere are 2 motives for someone to engage in blogging.
Make money from the blog.
Interact with the world.
The latter group is considerably very small when comparing with the first. And since you are already here, I believe you belong to the first group.
But the all important question is,
” Are you making enough money from your blog? ”
If you go to forums where most web masters hang around, you will see that many people complain that they are not making anything other than few change from their blogs. But the truth is, most of the Bloggers / web site owners are making a huge amount of money. Only thing is they do not have time to hang around in forums and post their success stories.
So, you must understand that most web entrepreneurs are much richer than the company Directors you see in their fancy uniforms.
If you are not making enough money from your web site, that is not a problem with the system. This system is great. Doors are open to anyone who can see things little bit differently. There has not been a better way in history for average people like you and me to become millionaires or even billionaires.
The problem might lie on the way you have monetize your site. You might be promoting wrong affiliate networks. You might be promoting wrong products. If you think you are not good enough to make at least $500 a month from your blog, take “antharjalaya” as an example.
My blog is only 3 months old.
Alexa rank is only in the 120 k’s.
Google page rank is only 3.
I do not post regularly as I have a busy life with my other sites.
I really do not care whether I make money from this blog at this point.
When comparing with my site, I bet your blog is much much better.
Yet,
in the past 30 days I made exactly $613 from affiliate commissions.
Can you see affiliate ads placed all over my blog? No.
Am I writing posts to promote affiliate products? Only 3 posts out of all posts including this one.
But I must be doing something right to earn this much with a very minimal effort. However I believe I have figured out following things correctly.
I am hooked up with the correct ad networks.
I do promote the correct product.
They are always well paid and pay for leads.
If you like to get things right at your blog, I highly recommend joining Pepperjam affiliate network. They are a network created by bloggers. So they know how to help us bloggers make money more than any other network do. To give you a head start they are giving $10 for you to just join their network. Once you are in, you will be presented with 100’s of great products which you can use to get paid for leads / sales.
For example, just for sending someone to register with alibaba market place you will get paid $3 for the lead. The registration for your readers is Free. But you will be get paid $3 every time someone sign up with alibaba.
And to make things even better, I am giving all of the accepted publishers $5 each. You can use that money to buy advertising from stumble upon and get a small traffic boost to give some more exposure to your ads.
If you have no idea on how to write your sales pitch, take this post as an example. Do not adopt ” in your face” type marketing tactics. Give your readers enough facts before providing them with the link. Just a pretty ad in the side bar will not do the job for you. Accompany it with a nice informative blog post.
And if you do not have first hand experience with the product you are promoting, Do not promote it. It may help you to get few quick cheques. But you will lose your credibility as a blogger.
If you can get these small things corrected, no one in this world can stop you from making money. You are destined to become a winner. That is why you are already doing something out of the ordinary. I bet your family and friends know nothing about making money online. At least you know there is a possibility. Whether you end up becoming a winner or not will depend on your actions.
So what are you waiting for? Start acting like a winner.
Update : 07/12/2009
Unfortunately Pepperjam became a network that I cannot trust anymore. There are some shady practices going on. I no longer promote their products nor promote their affiliate network. Some marketers still making money with them and still getting paid. Please Use them with caution.
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Do not forget to read,
How to cheat your visitors to sell more?
Contact me once you are accepted as a publisher to get your $5 Bonus from me. pepperjam will add your bonus ($10) to your account. Remember, this offer is valid only if you followed my link to become a pepperjam publisher….:-)
Gr8 post buddy.Thx.
this is another great article. I didn’t realize you are page rank 3 this is very good. I’m quite proud to be your blogging buddy and learn so much from your posts. Thanks as always for your share. If you haven’t already subscribe to the feed people so you know of these wonderful posts instantly. :-)
@ peanutbuttertoes,
Thanks for the nice words buddy. I had it since the last Google PR update. Hope it will go to 4 next time as I have built some more back links….:-)
thank you for this wonderful post ..seriously there are very good things that needs to be known from you …very good ian i m gonna join the site …
if u had time make a visit to my blog…..thnx
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I’ve heard of pepperjam, but never gave it a thought. I must confess you did a good job with this post. So, I am hopping there on your back. Afterall, that is what you wanted. I love people who know what they want and ask for it without pretending. Cheers. ;-)
How much is really enough? There are two sides to the equation. First, getting traffic (quality traffic vs. low-quality, target vs. general, etc.). The second is turning your traffic into $. Good article on making those bucks.
Very insightful article. I belong to the second group but still follow strategies for making money with some interest. I like the points you have raised. You make a very convincing case.
As you have pointed out Alexa rank and PR arent the only things out there, what is important is the quality of the traffic you are attracting and how well you are connected to the ad networks.
i like the layout of your blog. Very well done!
No wonder you are raking it in. I will adopt some of your good advice and will try to sign up to Pepperjam too and see what I can do. I just hope they accept my blog.
wow…i also feel like engaging in blogging now, itz a good way of making money …. big amount of money huh……. , your blog can seriously motivate & inspire someone to start blog writing.superb blog!
I will probably be joining pepper jam after i read up on it a bit more, thanks for the invite to that….seems like a good deal so far. Thanks for all the good info. I made a whole .1 penny today using google adwords lol
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Great post, liked the picture of will blog for food, trying to get my own blogs to make me more that the current $200 a month. After reading this will re look my affiliate programs. Thanks!
Wow what a great information Im more consider about google adsense in bolgging and have no Idea about affiliate marketing and i havent enough knowledge about.Howerver you show me great parth.Gerat work, keep it up.
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