Make Money From Your Blog - Adsense
The majority of people that own a blog or intend to start one do so to hopefully make some money from writing about a subject they love to talk about or have a lot of knowledge to share.
The most popular method of making money from your blog is to input adsense into the page. When people click on an advert you get the money - this is pretty cool but the issue is, the clicks can be worth such a minimal amount - sometimes only $0.01 - When you consider that most blogs will need on average 50 vistiors per click.
This means you have to get a hell of a lot of visitors to make adsense work for you. Now there are exceptions to this - being that some keywords pay higher than others - generally these keywords are so popular though you will struggle to get your blog anywhere that people would find it to click on the advert in the first place. So you need to find a balance with the competition Vs the potential click value - this is where niche topics come into play.
A good niche is basically an area of knowledge or information that people are interested in but is no over saturated. For example this blog is not in an ideal niche - I write it because I like to andn ot so much for money as the competition for SEO and computers is huge - take a search on Google and you will see how many “make money online” blogs there are or how many SEO and computer blogs there are.
A niche here would be to pick one area that you can talk about and become an expert in your field - for example a niche in SEO might be link building or even anchor text - I doubt these would provide high paying keywords though!
You also have to consider the likelihood of people clicking adverts - if people are coming to look for wordpress themes for example - the chances are they are not looking to purchase anything - so they are unlikely to click an advert if it is selling something - on the other hand if you have a blog about a particular computer reviews then the chances are, if they read you review and see an advert for the said computer - they may click - this second example is more likely to become a more profitable blog.
Adsense can work for some, but in my opinion, for most, you will be lucky to ever make more than $100 per month unless you have several successful sites. Still - some of you may be happy with this kind of cash.
By far, the people who make the most money from their blogs and websites are the affiliate marketers. These are similar to adsense but generally you get paid per purchase. This can lead to a percentage of the sale commission. If you are successful in doing this your monthly income could be $xxxx ’s or more.
I will talk more about my current experiences with affiliate marketing next time but for now you may like to consider Market Leverage - this is a new program with some fantastic commission offers and referral opportunities.
Have you used Market leverage yet? And what has your experineces been do far?
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
I do not believe starting a blog for financial gain alone is a good idea even if you are interested in the subject. This article is very realistic. Unless you are getting a lot of traffic you will not make that much money. If a blogger is blogging simply for the joy of blogging that are much more not to get frustrated and give up.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I still think there’s a gap in many markets for an *honest* review blog. So many reviews you read are just thinly-veiled promotions. It may seem counter-intuitive but I think honest “warts and all” review sites will make more money in the long term, as their readers will trust their recommendations more - so they’ll get higher conversions for the things they genuinely recommend
Just my two cents!
Cheers, Jon
October 19th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
If you are thinking about starting a web site around a niche and wondering if they keywords will pay. Go to adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
It’s a tool for google advertisers and it will give you an idea of the relative value of the clicks.
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October 19th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Sorry to say, i am totally disappointed with google adsense and i am not able to earn from my blog that I expected. But, Many friends of mine are earning quite good from this. Can you give some tips?
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November 2nd, 2008 at 5:00 am
John, your comment is true to some extent, but I believe you can make a blog with an aim to make money from it but at the same time also provide quality content to your visitors.
Great post BTW, as you say, it’s all about finding a profitable niche without too much competition.
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November 23rd, 2008 at 9:46 am
The only way to make money with google adsense, is to get unique visitor everyday. If possible, minimum at 200 unique visitors then we can earn something from adsense.
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 am
To increase traffic and earn money from adsense, there a lot of way to increase traffic, such as from organic traffic. The organic traffic tend to have better conversion compare to other medium. I have try a lot of way to increase traffic such as from video marketing, but the conversion is very poor compare to organic traffic. But one more important is the niche.
December 13th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
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December 19th, 2008 at 4:56 am
thx for this post btw keep posting gud stuff,I like ur blog
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December 27th, 2008 at 12:06 am
I think you’re right, the people making the most money from blogs are really those affiliate marketers. It seams it’s getting harder and harder to make money with adwords.