Make money blogging – Part I

The most common mistake I’ve seen on each and every blog I’ve visited is that they only put Google Adsense ads.

No one doubts the benefits of Google Adsense are quite high. But there’s one snag: Traffic.

In order to succeed with Adsense (and I mean truly succeed), you’ll need to get tons of unique visitors each month.

While this is possible with good promotion and amazing content, it may be very frustrating for some bloggers to see how the Adsense income doesn’t grow up, even when increasing traffic.

Said that, my question is: Why don’t you try new income sources?

There are many ways you can maximize your earnings. Using ad networks, sponsorships, affiliate programs, etc.

I’ll let you know some of the best known income sources, so you can try them out.

But before I start, let me tell you that there are some tricks in order to increase ad revenues from your blog. On future posts, I’ll update and show you some ways to maximize earnings.  Apart from that, profitable niches bring profitable earnings, but that’s something we will study later.

This is the first part of the Maximize your Earnings Series.

Let’s get to the point.

Affiliate Programs

Affiliate programs can basically be summed up as “Sell and get a commission”. The trick here is to sell  [downloadable] products. As affiliate seller, you’ll earn a commission that will depends on what the percentage of the affiliate network is. Some will give you higher percentages, other lowers, but if done well, they’ll boost your blog revenue. I’ve made a crappy step-to-step about how they work.

1-      The product’s author promote his/her product through an Affiliate Network.

2-      The Affiliate Network publishs it, so members can start promoting the product.

3-      Affiliate members start promoting, using websites, blogs, etc.

4-      People buy the product, paying directly to the affiliate member who sold the product.

5-      The member who sold the product gets the percentage, meaning that if the amount received was 100$, and has a 50% comission, he’d keep 50$. The other 50$ would go towards the Aff. Network / Product’s Author.

Affiliate Programs are really a great way to make money online, if not the best. If you’ve some questions about how they work, please feel free to asking via comments / contact.

Advertising the product

Affiliate marketing sounds good, but you will need to advertise your product. This can be made through many ways, but the most commons are using a blog, a website or paid advertise.

• Using a blog or website.

You can advertise your product either inserting some ads on the site, or by making an entire site just for the product, showing what their benefits are and why you MUST buy the product.

It’s all about how you describe the product. You must convince the buyer that this is what he/she actually needs to get the profit.

• Using paid advertising.

Just using ad networks as Google Adwords. Pick out a some good keywords and advertise. This method is similar to the one above. What you will want to do is to make a landing page and redirect the clicks to it. A landing page is a page where you directly advertise the product. Let’s say you have a product that teachs how to make money online. Using Adwords as advertising method, you’ll redirect all the clicks to the page where the product is directly advertised, making a landing page.

Using the paid advertising, we must be sure that we have a good ROI (Return of Investment) in order to make a profitable campaign.

On part 2 I will show you the most famous Affiliate Networks, give details about them and compare them, in order to show you which one is more profitable.

So, are you going to keep stucking to Adsense? Or are you going to maximize sources and revenue?

Thanks for reading.

Tagged as: Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, make money blogging

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