Entries from August 2007 ↓

Affiliate update

Been a while since my last post so I will do a quick review of the progress we are making or lack of.

Its near the end of the month now and it seems we are not going to meet the milestone target. Its a shame but not much to worry about as the first milestone was not important. This month was really about getting things set-up and learning.

On the learning front, I think we have made great progress and I can now mingle with the best of them without being called a newb too often. On the set-up front, things are also good as we have set up the Article Dashboard script and have stuff in the works.

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How to make money with your blog

This post is dedicated to the guys and girls at BlogCatalog - which is nice change as they seem to be bloggers with good blogs making bad money, rather than bloggers with bad blogs making good money.

Do you want to make money from your blog?

Well most bloggers wouldn’t mind but what you need to be careful about is how and when you start. I would suggest that new bloggers or new blogs refrain from any monetizing for at least 2 months of solid posting.

The traffic that your new blog gets in those months doesn’t make it worthwhile and more importantly you want your visitors to stay and read your posts rather than send them away or cause distraction to your blog’s mission.

Once you have traffic and subscribers to your blog, you need to consider how you will make money from it. Every method to monetize from your blog has its advantages and disadvantages so I’ll try to cover some of the most common ones in this post.

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Low CTR and affiliate ads placement

Are you getting low Click Through Rates (CTR) on your affiliate banners?

Well ArticleGOLD is and I suspect that its due to the ad placement. At the moment you can see from the below screenshot that the banners are located at the far right column.

affiliate ad placement

Over the last day and a half and over 10,000 impressions we have less than 10 clicks. I admit it may not be all ad placement as we should consider the following:

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Blog Directory Submissions

Today, I have been a good internet marketer and took some time to submit this blog to blog directories. Below I will list the directories that I have submitted to.

Best of the Web - Paid USD39.95

2RSS.com :: RSS directory
Directory of Internet Blogs
Blogarama - The Blog Directory
FindingBlog - Blog Directory
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