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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