Browsing Category: "Blog for money"
Today we give you an idea of how complex it can get when monetizing your blog. Next Monday we will give you answers how to make the best choices to monetize your blog.
Monetizing a blog or website is much more than:
- "throw a few ads on your blog"
- "get more visitors"
- sit by, sip a cigar, drink a cognac
.. and you are making money online…
How to make money with a shop
The above logic applied on a shop would mean:
- buy a few products
- put them in your shop
- get more visitors
… and you are making money in your shop…
When "more visitors" doesn’t make "more money"
Most likely you have been to a train station: in the morning it’s full with people. What are people buying there?
Whatever they can grab in the few minutes their train is not there:
newspaper- coffee
- magazine
- fast food snack
- …
Although there are lots and lots of visitors, nobody puts a shoe shop in a train-station. Why? Because it can nicely take me a few hours before I find the shoes I want…
So having lots of traffic doesn’t automatically mean you have lots of sales and make lots of money.
Know your blog visitors
You can only know your visitors well if you see them face to face in real life as real people.
Second best is getting to know visitors because you manage to keep them commenting on your blog. (DaddyP is a great example for that strategy, the opposite can be said about Galapagos Islands: nobody is commenting there.)
Otherwise you need to use logfiles to see where your online traffic comes from and categorize them as such.
Do they come from:
- search engines
- bookmarks
The first visitors are dropping by for 1 aspect of your blog (which specific aspect can be found in a good logfile or use sitemeter dot com).
Once they found what they want, they will most likely click on something and off they go.
Which visitors make money and which visitors don’t?
Like in the train station, you can sell fast and lightweight products before people step on the train.
So how to monetize your website visitors?
Search engine visitors drop by most likely for the first time. Call them "men shopping for a shirt": they go right to the target, buy and out of the shop they are again!
Same on your blog: soon as they see what they want (or worst case they don’t see it), out they go again. These people are the people that have no clue what are ads and what aren’t on your blog, so their click through rate could be quite high.
Regular visitors or those who bookmarked your site "know your ads by heart". So the only way for ads to be effective with them is to change your ads frequently (every day a new deal…). Change your layout from time to time and again you will see the clickthrough going up if you have mostly regular visitors.
Content is king, visitors are queens
Therefore you now know that content is king is only half of the story…
Conclusion
Today I only wanted to highlight that there is more than just the simple idea: the more visitors I have, the more money I earn.
Also the idea: content is king, optimize your content, optimize your keywords… all fine but: it’s only half of the story.
From next Monday onwards we will reveal some more secrets and strategies in order to monetize "which blog" for "which visitors". Visitors are queens… treat them accordingly and you will get what you want 
All feedback or extra input you add in a comment will be added as well!
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For all of you on the list below who wants to become Blog of the Weekend on my blog, or just love to give and take Linky Love, please join for free in our Toplist directory!
Some of you are already in, so just enjoy this little extra Linky
Love
The list below is painstakingly -yet with lots of love- created by Shinade who reads and approves all the blogs mentioned.
I agree these are good blogs, not only because I am in the list as well but because I do read some of them as well and just would love to be more interactive there, yet like we all , I have to pay some bills at the end of the month, so I do need to spend some of my time doing some blogging for money as well…
If Shinade forgot to mention your great blog, then just add it in a comment and join here!
Here goes:
Carol: My View Of It
My Reviews and Finds
Santa Claus: Santas Community blog
Everyday Should Be Christmas
Jos: NoDirectOn(NotNoDirection)
The Blue Ribbon Bloggers
DaddyPaperSurfer-Old Git
Sugar Queen: SugarQueensDream
The Down Side Of Up (PG)
Mel: Monday Morning Power
Colin (Cotojo): Life
Cotojo:Free PC Security
Marzie: Mariuca Wishing On A Falling Star
Amel: Amels Realm
Gurushabad
My Blog Log: My Blog Log Blog
Zubli Zainordin: My Total Blog
Darlene: Auntie Dar’s Life
Fracas
Olga The Travelling Bra
Speedcat Hollydale
Canadian Curmudgeon: Observations From the back Forty
Poetry By The Redneck Gypsy
Rotus
Clarks Picks
Rybupsp: My Youtube Synopsis
Fum Filed Under Misc.
Sylvied : La Rochelle
Kevin : Tales Of A Smart up
Fuel My Blog’s Blog
TinyBellows: Aesthetic Emotions and Photography
Doing It The Tiny Bellows Way And Adding A Little Magic
Linky Love
jnbammer: Discovering Dad
Struck In Traffic
Kimchihead: Hardboiled, Kimchi-Stained Verbiage.
Paisley: Why Paisly
The Ink Pot
Jeane Michelle Coupe: Binding Ink
Humanitarian Causes United for Humanity
Ann Clemmons: A Nice Place In The Sun
Robin: The Spirit Knows Best
Kim: Laketrees
Mo: It’s A Blog Eat Blog World
Cowgilrl Betty: Colorado Cowgirl in Upstate New York
Revellian
Jesse The Cat
Pix And Stuff
Lance: Soul Searching
Mauro: 1 Million Love Messages
Sandee: Comedy Plus
Mimi Lenox: Mimi Writes
Dating Profile of The Day
Texas Jam: The All Seeing Eye
Zhoep (SophiaGurl): Life Is Just Around The Corner
70’s Teen: diary of a 70s teen
Paula: six4Paula
Polliwog’s Pond
buckeyecop: The Poly Heights Chronicles
Julies Blog
Rolando: My Hush Space
The NAFASG Team
PurpleFrogCat
JaniceNG: This Is A Miracle
Liquid Illuzion
Kimba: Thoughts From The Lioness
Franscud: Caught In The Stream
Kesa: Little Aussie Cynic
Sue Blimely: Blogging SueBlimely
Colorado Baby: Sharing Gifts
Loz: Sunrays and Saturdays
Midlife-A JourneyHanna: Amori,poesie,arte,chat virtual by Hanna
And a final not from Shinade:
Please believe me I could go on and on but time just doesn’t allow.
I hope you will all enjoy dropping in and visiting all these blogs.
I have tried my very best to offer varied content.
And please no links back or asked for or needed.
I simply wanted to pass along a Link Love
in honor of Blogroll Amnesty Day.
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Linky Love’s never outspoken goal was to beat Mr John Chow in his own bragging game: ranking high in the search engine for the keyword phrase "Make Money Online".
As by today, me and John Chow rank on the same Google page, be it
Linky Love ranks 4 places higher than John Chow
Make Money Online :
Linky Love ranks 4 places higher than John Chow
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It’s earnings that counts
After 9 months of Linky Love, we still don’t rank number 1 for Make Money Online, for the same reason John Chow isn’t ranking number one either: just because Google doesn’t like what we are doing.
Anyway, after 9 months of trying and having been on the first SERP when John Chow was ranking number 1, I quit the game that nobody knew about. If you know Sally Chow, you know that there are much more important things in life than beating people with similar names…
John Chow
Nevertheless I love John Chow (not like his wife loves him of course…) as I equally love the evil John Chow 
.
His blog most likely makes about 100 times more money than mine and his Review Me price is 7.5 times more than mine.
John ChoW Wednesday
Ever wondered why I never gave a name to Wednesday where the rest of the days are covered like so:
Weekly Features:
- Make Money Monday,
- Pets Tuesday,
- ??? Wednesday,
- Gossip Thursday,
- Blog Better SEO Friday and
- Blog of the Weekend.
Because I was waiting to beat John Chow, and take it from there. Yet I hate waiting
So from now on we will make Wednesday a John ChoW Wednesday and summarize a bit what he has been saying about SEO, Internet marketing or Making money online without the miscellaneous ramblings about sweet Sally and the sort…
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