The hardest thing a blogger experiences in his early blogging journey is bringing in traffic to the blog. But now it has even hard for bloggers to monetize the traffic that their blog brings in. If you have thousands of visitors and you don’t find an effective program to monetize those visitors, then all your traffic goes waste. Maybe you might provide valuable content to your blog, but at the end of the day it is the revenue that counts in. As for me revenue is the only reason I started blogging, and I am honest to tell the truth. There are bloggers who keep saying that blogging is their passion and they don’t care about the revenue. I’m not going to change the topic of monetizing networks for blogging to “why people start blogging”, but definitely that topic is coming shortly.
This article is to help newbies and I have listed only the basic advertising networks that every blogger must be aware of and those of which all of us use when we first start blogging.
Google AdSense
As of now, there is no alternative choice for bloggers regarding content based advertising network. AdSense is the highest paying advertising network and it is the only network that is used by each and every blogger. You can find AdSense ads in almost every blog you visit( even this blog has it). But now getting into AdSense is the toughest part for newbies. But don’t worry, keep adding quality content and once the traffic increases submit your AdSense application and most probably you’ll be approved. There are other advertising networks such as Adbrite,Chitika,Infolinks,Kontera which can be used along with adsense.
So all the above networks pay you on a pay per click basis. from my experience I have got $0.01 to $12 per click from AdSense and it is a really good network when you start .
Amazon Affiliates
Amazon is the world’s largest online shopping provider. They provide affiliate commissions for almost all the products in their network. You have to sign up for the amazon associates program to start promoting amazon products. Whenever a visitor clicks on your affiliate link or banner provided by amazon associates network and then purchases any product you Will earn a commission. It ranges from 1% to 8.5%. Just search for relevant products based on your post/blog niche and promote them through your blog.
Click bank
Clickbank is the biggest affiliate network with thousands of digital products. The best aspect of clickbank is that it provides upto 75% commission when a person buys through your affiliate link. There is no sick approval process and you can just sign up to take part in the programme. They do have wide range of products in most of the niche.
Other affiliate programs
For each and every products that you buy online, there must be an affiliate program in the backend. If you buy a domain, it has an affiliate program that provides $1.50-$3 per domain. If you refer a friend to a web hosting program you receive $20-$100 in commission. So whenever a product fits into your blog category or topic, just check out if it has an affiliate program and promote those products along with useful content explaining why the product is useful for your visitor. CJ.com,Shareasale.com are two other major affiliate networks.
Hope this article might be useful for all those budding bloggers around here. For those experienced, I have added nothing new, but I will be happy if you can add your suggestions through comments so that I shall update the post with those useful tips.
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