Week 9: make money with blog blog start series
This week we now come to my favourite topic Blog start series. :-D
Is about how you can earn money with his blog.
After we optimized the blog the posts improved in recent weeks and the traffic increases, the question now is: “How can I earn my blog”.
This is not a simple question because there are a variety of ways. But there are some things you should watch.
Directly or indirectly
Let me first explain the difference between direct revenue and indirect revenue.
Turns as a banner of advertisers on your own blog and X, this is the amount that is a direct revenue.
Find a company your blog and is an order to you because you consider yourself an expert on the subject, is an indirect use through the blog.
Both revenue would have come not about if there is not your blog.
That is why both are of course interesting and well verdienende blogs are often both.
But for new blogs, direct sources of revenue are easier to implement.
How important is traffic?
Traffic is important. But much depends on the topic of the blog. There are blogs which cover many mainstream topics and have significantly more traffic than my blog.
Nevertheless, they earn less than “independently in the net”. Why?
Many sources of revenue work better for a specific audience. A special affiliate offer a smaller but thematically very well suitable target group makes more sense as a Allerwelts blog.
Therefore, the income are as good in niches.
This means in effect that traffic is already important. However, the quality of the visitors is important. Dear 10,000 visitors of a specific target as 50,000 visitors who come from every possible direction.
The best both are of course. :-)
In a Blogparade, I had taken a variety of Tips for more blog traffic together a while ago.
11 different sources of revenue
Now (not complete) list of direct revenues which are ready for bloggers.
Most of these sources of revenue are possible for very new blogs although we of course also still can earn much with little visitors.
But just in time can much test and learn a lot.
- paid posts
- Sell advertising itself
- Context sensitive advertising
- Link sales
- Affiliate
- Ad networks (advertising places others sell through)
- Sell products
- paid content
- Sponsorship
- Merchandising (Spreadshirt)
- Beg :-)
As Trigami * or Hallimash * provide paid write orders. As a blogger, then write to a particular topic a post and is paid. You get per article depending on the Bloggröße between 10 and 200 euro.
Since paid post are not popular, you should be careful and especially honest it. I oppose a lot offers thematically fit into my blog, or that I do not think serious.
You receive many more info and tips paid entries in my series of articles Tips for more revenue by paid mail.
A more very good source of income for blogs is to sell yourself advertising positions. This defines specific areas in the blog where you want to show banner and then marketed.
Marketing can be done via a “advertise here” page. The potential of this source of income is very large, because it saves an intermediary. Also, you have considerable control over the ads.
However, your own blog must have already a certain range (in relation to the niche) so that you can find affiliate. In my three-part article series “sell advertising to your own blog” all will know to sell yourself advertisement in your blog.
This category include Google AdSense and Contaxe *. Nice at this advertising is the integration is very easy and you can begin almost at the Blogstart.
But is this income clicks and therefore very dependent on traffic. However, the revenue depend heavily topic of your own blog.
You should permanently optimize the view to maximize the revenue from AdSense and Contaxe. To do this I wrote 2 detailed article a while ago:
15 Tips for more Google AdSense clicks and higher click rates and
Double Google AdSense revenue
Sell text links is a very lucrative thing. For small text links you get relatively a lot of money from vendors such as link lift *, Teliad * or Text link ads *.
This work usually but until we got a Google page rank. However, Google is selling links don’t like and punished, and again link seller with PageRank deduction or even a deterioration in the search engine rankings.
It must therefore decide individually whether he wants to run link sales.
Belongs to the high art of money earn affiliate marketing with blogs. In the end it comes affiliate marketing to get that one can sell own readers so much trusted by its readers.
It binds a links to the products to which allow a unique inference upon you. So the store can pay then a Commission you.
Since it would be quite cumbersome when undertaking itself with affiliates in contact there affiliate networks. They offer hundreds partner programs under one roof. This makes it easier for bloggers because they must log on to a network.
The revenue potential of affiliate marketing is very high. However, you must have built first a confidence and gamble it should not away then also this, by one recommends any manure.
Recommended affiliate networks I use are zanox *, affilinet * and AdButler *.
There are also Blogwerbung to an intermediary. Instead of market advertising places is his offer to appropriate directories.
The advantage is that is in such directories more potential advertisers fruitless as your blog.
However, the intermediary will earn even what and so it can take less often. But better than sell even advertising.
For more blogs, there are even providers that promise more income since they work with much larger advertisers. For this you must reach certain limits (e.g. 100,000 PageViews) but then.
AdScale.com is a provider where new blogs can list their item.
It is properly professional when it sold its own products in his blog. This can be as eBooks or your own software.
The revenue potential is of course very high. However, you need also enough quality traffic to get conversions.
An interesting interview to can be found here.
Paid content can be paid eMail courses, Member areas with exclusive content or closed forums.
The potential of such paid content is mixed. If it works, it has great revenue opportunities.
However, requires much traffic and a large trust to move user to pay for content.
Many great blogs make the most money but with such paid content.
Has a very precise topic focus or it is very popular, manage to win often one or more sponsors.
These get then no normal banner exchange but are mentioned and again as a sponsor.
A very nice income which is also not immediately to blog start.
It has a loyal community we could consider to sell merchandise. T-Shirts with “independently in the net” – logo? Oh, I have indeed even a logo!
Whatever. Companies such as Spreadshirt * make it very easy to label products with the own company name/logo one.
However, the community must vote really. Certainly more suited to some a few blogs.
Many bloggers also beg. With that slightly stylischer looks on the Internet. To it are for various WordPress plugins which ask the readers, the blog author a beer or a coffee work (so 1 euro).
Directly possible links for a PayPal payment.
I think but not so appropriate and have therefore refrain.
The links with a * is partner links.
Tips for Julius
How and when you would like to earn money with his blog is of course leave every blogger.
Just blogs that attach much importance to design can often do nothing with Google AdSense. Therefore, Julius sets to DOMAIN.COM AdSense also very careful about what I can understand.
Julius could consider whether he wants to use your own advertising space (e.g., 125 × 125 button), which he then to advertisers rent. You may include them very appealing.
Better affiliate marketing would suitable for Julius but surely. Julius would focus on modern and failed designer products, designer websites in his blog.
Because it makes a partner program to search for already sense, which offers such product.
Also merchandising could at some point for a design blog.
The evaluation of week Julius is again on Friday.
Go to the previous parts of the series:
Week 1: Objectives and basic settings
Week 2: important WordPress plugins
Week 3: get getting back links
Week 4: Getting marketing started
Week 5: Tips for best posts
Week 6: use the social Web
Week 7: Best content for back links
Week 8: Existing websites and blogs use as a springboard