[This is the second article in the guest blogging experiment at this blog. If you are interested in contributing as a guest blogger feel free to contact me]
So you’ve heard that you can make money blogging.
How real is that potential to generate extra monthly cash without leaving the comforts of your home? And how much money can you really make? If you have done your research, you will find out that there is a lot of “white noise” out there. How do you filter the information available on what works and what doesn’t? It is every beginner blogger’s dream to take that first step to financial freedom.
Why don’t we get started then? Let us set a target of $600.00 a month from your blog starting January 2007. Isn’t that just a nice new year’s resolution? What can you do with all that money…. Good heavens!
Let’s make this a reality in three steps!
Step 1 - Payperpost.com
Average monthly revenue towards the goal - $480.00
Daily time spent - 20 minutes / 2 posts at approximately $8.00 each
Payperpost connects Bloggers with Advertisers. Once you register, you can check daily on available opportunities that you can blog about. Each opportunity will pay you between $5 - $20 approximately. You can take two opportunities maximum a day, just make sure they are not one after another. There has to be at least a post in between them. Each sponsored blog post must remain on your blog for 30 days. In your account section of Payperpost it counts down how many days before payday. And it’s really cool seeing all those “You’ve Got Cash” emails from Paypal!
Step 2 - Google Adsense
Average monthly revenue towards the goal - $75.00 / $2.50 a day
Google Adsense is a very good source of revenue. However, there are a couple of factors that you need to pay attention to, in order to make money. Targeting $2.50 a day doesn’t really seem much, but you need to understand how you can make that money in less clicks - 3 clicks vs. 10 clicks.
Diva tips in optimizing your blog:
- Generate an overall theme for your blog and stick to it. The more theme oriented your blog is, the better success it will have - wedding, relationships, cars, dogs…. etc.
- Blend the color of your Google Ads to your blog. In other words, the Google ad background and border must be the same color as the spot where you are placing it on your blog. Use the same text color for Ad text, post title color for Ad Title and Ad Url.
- Each post title must be clear and straight to the point. Notice I didnt make the post title of this post as WANT TO MAKE MONEY ON THE INTERNET? Do you know how many posts out there with that title?
- Strategize your post - how much revenue can you expect per clicks if you talk about the weather (advertiser’s maximum bid $.50), visa (advertiser’s maximum bid $2.00), lexus (advertiser’s maximum bid $1.15), crystal cruise (advertiser’s maximum bid $3.00), or find love (advertiser’s maximum bid $0.62). How do I know this? This is based on overture’s listing. Why don’t you try it next time you make a post?
- Last but not the least, don’t be shy in posting your adsense. Google allows you three widgets. Make it work….
Step 3 - Tumri Cornerstore
Average monthly revenue towards the goal - $45.00 / $1.50 per day
Never heard of Tumri? Well, you have now. I wish I can say that they are the best kept hidden secret on the net, but they are not. They are a new company and only few blogs are carrying their cornerstore ads.
What makes them special? Tumri takes the Amazon concept a step or two forward. They have nice and exciting flash widgets that display 4 - 5 products at the same time! It draws products from Amazon, Overture, Ebay, and your favourite store! When you are targeting impulse buyers on your site, you need to have a look-at-me-i’m-special presentation that just shouts BUY ME! And that is what Tumri brings to your blog.
Tumri is not like Amazon that you will have to wait until someone buys your product before you generate income. Tumri will pay you for clickthroughs! Here is an excerpt from my email interview with Jason Ng at Tumri :
- We do not violate the Google Adsense terms as we are not ‘contextual’; we do not scan the content of the page. We have behavioral based targeting where we optimize revenue based on user behavior and publishers will be able to completely control what is displayed within the widget.
- The commission that we will payout to you will be based on a combination of click based revenue offers and order based revenue offers. Click based or CPC (cost per click) commission occurs when a valid click is made on any CPC based product offer. Order based commission or CPO (cost per order) occurs when a lead/click is generated from your site to one of our merchant partners and an order is made. You will receive a percentage of that total order amount. After you have selected the product categories that you want to display in the widget, we will optimize the CPC and CPO product offers based on the user behavior so as to maximize your commission.
Payperpost - $480 + Google Adsense $75 + Tumri Cornerstore $45.00 = equals $600! That’s $7200 in your pocket in a year. Can you make more? Of course. Please make me green with envy….
So, who’s game to join The Tao 600 challenge starting January 2007? What an awesome way to start the New Year, don’t you think?
About the author: Imaginary Diva has been a regular reader at Money, Matter, and More Musings for a long long time. Click here to visit her blog. That’s just one of her blogs..she writes on more than half a dozen others.
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Beginning bloggers should worry about one thing and one thing only: unique content. Show me a beginning blog interested in maximizing income right off the bat and I’ll show you a blog I’ll have no interest in reading.
Blogging is not a get rich quick scheme. Most blogs out there are simply crap. Money, Matter and More Musings is a great example of a blog that came on the scene and is succeeding in a short period of time… for writing great content. Not maximizing income.
Many people — looking outside of the personal finance blogging world, which is an insular exception — find PayPerPost (or similar programs) disgusting. Whose opinion do you trust when everyone’s getting paid to write about certain products and build “buzz?” Advertising is one thing… “advertorials” are best left for the desperate.
I have to agree with personal finance blogger. I’m going to chug away making enough for a month pizza or two. After about 1-2 years when I’m comfortable with my writing and enough content, I’m going to look into optimizing a bit.
If I put in 3 Adsense, a Tumri, and my content was 40% Pay Per Post, I wouldn’t come to my own site.
That is true most good blogs have no or very little ads on them. But if design the blog right I ams sure that all adsense, tumri and pay per post will work well.
While I agree with personal finance blogger and lazy man and money above, I have to say that this information must be handy for bloggers with a different mindset. There are some people who blog for blogging and some others who blog for money. For people who blog for money..this is valuable. Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with either ideologies.
There is no question about the fact that content is the king…and all traffic changes will be the result of your content. But, it helps to know about what options you have to generate revenue through your traffic. Whether and how you choose to implement those options is a matter of individual discretion.
I should not have generalized that all beginner bloggers are looking to monetize their blogs. I have to agree, it is not for everyone.
Bloggers that are interested in making money will really find this useful and it gives you a guideline in what ways real money can be made through blogs.
I myself maintain 5 blogs that incorporate bits and pieces of the revenue model. The revenue stream is very good and hopefully will have room for more improvement in the future. I do, however, am adding more member features on my sites this upcoming new year.
I think good information was provided by the imaginary diva to those who are interested in the money aspect of blogging. As a fairly new blogger, I admit I am cruious about it as well. It is a mater of choice by the individual.
I think the purpose of the article was to show new bloggers the possibilities that are out there for new bloggers as far as revenue generation. I personally agree that content is king and unique content is the key.
I find this new money making blog boom quite funny. Half the people do not actually know what they are talking about.
I understand what everyone is saying about not going balls out with advertising right off the bat. On the other hand, as I am just starting out, I do want to have some ads, but not overwhelm the reader. One of the things that I am focused on is getting readers more than getting ‘customers’. I have a personal blog and read many blogs daily, so I know about blogging in general, now I am working on niche writing and marketing.
Thanks for this post.
i havent heard of Tumri not until now. i think i should give it a quick look.
How do you set up your blog when most of your hits are mobile users? When should you change the title of your blog? Thanks, Jason
Very good and helpful articles for the newcomers. Sometimes we get carried away trying to put more ads and maximising income. Unique Content- that’s the keyword in this industry and I hope I stick to it!
Thank you and keep up the good work!
Hey, Ive been using Adsense for about a year now and have to say Im stoked with the results. I always aim for $3/website/day and generally achieve that. WEbsites can be built quickly and before long you have a money making machine!
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