Guide For New Bloggers To Make Money Online

Recently I wrote on how bloggers make money online where I listed out the commonly used ad programs to help bloggers realize that they have to add more revenue sources to make more money online.

But if you are running a new blog, you should not slap your blog with ads from all these ad programs. Before monetizing a new blog, you must first focus on feeding your blog with quality content and on increasing your blog’s traffic.

When your blog reaches around 500 unique traffic per day, you can start monetizing it with either Google AdSense or Chitika eMiniMalls if you have a product related blog.

AdSense

AdSense is a contextual advertising program for which publishers have to add a piece of code to their site that helps Google analyze what your page is about so they can serve ads on that topic. This increases the chance of your visitors clicking the ad which increases the chances that you will earn from them. AdSense is a quick and easy way for bloggers of all sizes to display ads that are relevant to their content.

AdSense also allows you to make money by using Google Search on your site that will display relevant ads when visitors search on your site. AdSense also has a referral program that allows you to make money by recommending various products like Firefox toolbar, AdSense, Adwords, etc.

When a publisher who signed up for Google AdSense through your referral earns $5 within 180 days of sign-up, you will be credited with $5. When that same publisher earns $100 within 180 days of sign-up and is eligible for payout, you will be credited with an additional $250. If, in any 180 day period, you refer 25 publishers who each earn more than $100 and are all eligible for payout, you will be awarded a $2,000 bonus!

I use many revenue sources to make money through my blog, but AdSense is my biggest money maker. I highly recommend AdSense as a way of monetizing a blog, especially for those just starting out.

Text Link Ads

Text Link Ads (TLA) is another ad program commonly used by bloggers to make money through blogs. With the help of Text Link Ads you can sell simple text links on your site. The monthly link price will depend on factors like your Google Pagerank and Alexa rank.

Text Link Ads has an affiliate program that will pay you $25 for any referred visitor that is accepted into their publisher program and installs the advertising script on their site for seven days. If you refer an advertiser who purchases an advertisement, the referral will appear in your affiliate account within 24 hours.

In order to attract advertisers and sell links on your site easily, your blog must have a good Page Rank and Alexa rank.

Vizu

Vizu Answers helps you earn money from your site by placing interactive Polls on desired topics. They pay you based on CPM (Cost per thousand impressions), and you even get to set the minimum CPM rate for each poll you put up on your web site.

Vizu takes half of what you set as the CPM price. Therefore if you set your CPM price as $4, you will get payed $2 for every 1000 impressions. Since Vizu is CPM based, you will earn according to what traffic you have. The more traffic you have the more money you make.