In the video below, you will learn the “very first step” in setting up your blog. There are two
ways that you can go about this… Before you choose you want to consider what the purpose of your blog is… Is it going to be a
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Posted in Become A BlogMaster
I came across an ad network that inserts ads inside images in your blog posts. The ad network is called GumGum, which touts itself as the “largest in-image ad-network in the world reaching more than 65 million unique users worldwide.”
GumGum ads show up as an overlay on images in blog posts. According to their FAQ page, GumGum uses a simple one-time, one-line Javascript code install enables their technology to detect images on your website and match relevant ads to them. Ads would only display on images larger than 150 x 150 pixels.
Their advertisers include global, leading brands such as Universal, Sony, Curves and Jack in the Box.
From the way it looks, GumGum is another way to monetize your blog and I don’t find the ads intrusive at all, and because they are relevant to the image, site visitors might even appreciate them. From the sample below, relevant ads show up on a Kelly Clarkson image. (This is a sample taken from the GumGum website)
Revenue and payment
The FAQ page says “you will start earning revenue as soon as ads start displaying. Note however, there will be a short adjustment period while we determine the most relevant and highest-paying ads to display on your website.”
GumGum pays publishers within 30 days of the previous month. All payments are sent through Paypal.
Similar to Adbrite’s BritePic
The first time I saw GumGum, I was reminded of Adbrite’s BritePic technology. The only difference is, BritePic is pay per click and the ads slide out whenever a visitor hovers his mouse over the image. BritePic also allows the site visitor to zoom the image.
Test Driving GumGum
I have registered with GumGum and will test drive their technology and performance on a number of niche sites and will report the results of the first 30 days here.
I am not a GumGum affiliate and I make no claims that this ad network will make money for you. But give it a test drive and post your findings on the comments below.
Posted in Advertising, Monetization
How can I make money from blogging? How many times have you asked this yourself? Once, twice, thrice, or maybe everytime?
How to make money from blogging is one question mostly asked by blog beginners and you will be surprised — even by those who have been blogging for years!
Blogging and making money from blogging are two different things. Blogging is posting and writing without even worrying if the time you spend blogging translates to money; the latter is a deliberate, conscious effort to turn blogging into an income-generating activity.
Making money from blogging is a much abused phrase, and in fact it has become a profitable industry in itself at it has spawned the the birth of so-called probloggers or professional bloggers who are no different from yesterday’s freelance writers. Now there are “blogger jobs”as there are writing jobs.
To make money from blogging is no different from making money from webmastering in the Web 1.0 of yesteryears. Only now with the emergence of one-click publishing tools like Blogger and WordPress, making money on the Internet has never been more easier.
So let’s break down a list of ways to make money from blogging.
1. Promoting your own products. Maybe you have an online store or your company manufactures a certain line of products? Blogging is a way to connect to your market and turn them into loyal, involved readers. Whereas before you have a boring shopping cart, now with a blog, you are showing your human side. Your business website begins to “talk” to your site visitors through the blog.
2. Promoting other people’s products. In the internet marketing world, this is called affiliate marketing. You write reviews or you may even just simply mention a product, with a link to the product page on the seller’s website. Clicks are tracked and successful transactions are credited to you via commissions (Pay Per Action). You may find products to promote on Clickbank, eBay, Amazon, Commission Junction, Linkshare and ShareASale. Of course, you owe it to your blog readers to be honest in your reviews.
3. Pasting advertisements on your blog or the “Passive Method”. This may also fall under promoting other products, but putting ads is a passive method compared to outright promotion. In this method examples of these are advertising networks such as Adsense, Adbrite, Chitika, Shopping Ads and Widget Bucks. You do not necessarily endorse the products shown on the ads as these are served by the advertising network. Youearn when your visitors simply click on the ads (Pay Per Click).
4. Selling advertising space. In this method, you do not depend on any action from your blog visitors. You make money from people who pay for web real estate or space on your blog. In this method, you know how much you will earn on a regular basis. You will sell advertisements only when you get a good amount of traffic and in some cases, a good number of RSS Subscribers; advertisers usually ask for statistics.
5. Offering your writing services to another blog. Do you know that there is an entire industry that revolves around freelance blogging? Yes, you need not have your own blog to make money from blogging. You may “ghost write” or become a regular staff for a blog or blog network who may pay per post or per month. Usually, however, you need to show samples of your blogging wizardry before you land a job. In that case, you may have to start blogging for yourself first.
6. Selling your blog. Blogs are properties and if your blog becomes hot property due to a blog post that gets Digged or gets media attention, you may even get offers from companies or people who want to own your blog, and these are usually blog networks. But since a blog is only as good as its blogger, actually selling your blog does not mean giving away the website and leaving with your money. You may be asked to remain as the blogger, but you may either be given a salary for staying there. The concession is, advertising revenue goes to the blog network who bought your blog.
This is not a definitive list of ways to make money from blogging, but BloggingProfits.com believes that this is a good start in your search for money from blogging. You may find other resources on making money from blogging on our Resources Page. Good luck!
We just got an invitation to join MonetizeIt Affiliate Network and went to the registration process. Pending our application approval, we would like to know:
1. How is Monetize It different from Commission Junction, Linkshare, or Clickbank?
2. Does Monetize It have a pay per click program?
3. How many publishers and bloggers are using Monetize It on their websites?
Posted in Affiliate Marketing
Got this from from Google Adwords in my email:
Preferred Cost Bidding is being retired as a bidding option for all AdWords campaigns as of January 26, 2009. This change will take place in two stages:
(1) As of right now, preferred cost bidding still works in existing campaigns where it has already been selected. But it is no longer an available option when advertisers switch bidding types or create a new campaign.
(2) On January 26th, preferred cost bidding will disappear completely. You should switch all your existing preferred cost bidding campaigns to other bidding formats before that date. Continue reading
Posted in Google, Google Adwords, Search Engine Marketing
Got this via email this morning:
On July 31, 2008, we plan to discontinue the Pay Media (Beta) functionality within Brightcove.
The Pay Media functionality allows publishers to rent or sell their content directly to consumers. Since its beta release in January 2007, less than 1% of our customers have tried the feature and an even smaller percentage of our customers use it routinely. Given the minimal adoption of Pay Media and the feedback we have received from the market, we are going to discontinue this beta functionality. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Do you make money from your blogs? Do you make money online? Then this is the time to enjoy your online income by relaxing and spending quality time with your family.
Have you been spending hours and hours on the Internet, building links and always looking at stuff to blog and read what people are blogging about? Then it’s time to release that mouse and get your hands off the keyboard! The holidays provide probloggers out there an excellent opportunity to enjoy the fruits of their hard earned labor and share their time with loved ones.
Stop and think for a while… What’s the good of that Adsense check if you don’t use it to buy SOME TIME off your daily blogging grind? Time is the most precious of all commodities because you can never even buy it after it passes you by.
Take your kids to the park or the mall. Give your wife a good massage like the way you work your fingers on the mouse and keyboard. Visit your mom and dad. Just do things for people you have somehow neglected in the REAL WORLD while you were building virtual relationships online.
Happy Holidays!
Posted in On A Side Note
I just picked up a copy of the 20th Anniversary Issue of Small Business Opportunities magazine at our local Pathmark store, and came across this article by Dan Schawbel (of PersonalBrandingBlog), “Brand Yourself Now! Uncover a new world of business potential with personal branding.”
In the article, Schawbel says “today there is such a high volume of competition, and transactions are created directly between people, where credibility is at stake.”
Schawbel defines Personal Brand as an individual’s “total perceived value”, relative to competitors, as viewed by their target audience.
He enumerates the four steps of personal branding: Continue reading
BloggingProfits.com gets a pagerank of 2 from Google, one and a half months after the blog opened with our first post on September 14, 2007. There are currently 45 posts and 25 comments, contained within 57 categories.
I did not expect BP to have any pagerank at all this early, so I guess this is a good start to post on a regular basis. Due to a fulltime job and a very active family and social life, I find it hard to post regularly so I decided to stick to a "blogging schedule" of Tuesday and Friday.I’m not a problogger and I don’t have plans to be one. I’m happy and contented just keeping some blogs, making posts and earning some money on the side. I see blogging not as an occupation, but as a hobby and a way to conduct some "fun internet experiments."
I’m happy also for Fred Peters whose blog NewestOnTheNet got a pagerank of 4. His blog is also one and a half months old, but he’s very consistent in posting and I guess it paid off. Congratulations to Fred and other new bloggers whose hard work have been rewarded with higher pageranks.
Posted in Bloggers Life