Guide To Making Money Online With Blogging

Everton | Apr 01, 2007 | Comments


I’ve been blogging for just over two years, but I’ve only been trying to make money online with blogging for the last 6 months since I lost my day job.

I’ve been very pleased with the results and in 12 months I’ve managed to increase my income from $573 in October 2006 to $15,179 in October 2007 - that’s a 2549% increase in 12 months and an annual salary of over $180,000!

Obviously writing good posts and writing frequently are important, but so is ensuring that when the traffic arrives you are ready to take advantage. I’ve tried to condense into one post all the advertising schemes, site modifications and SEO tweaks I’ve made on my blogging journey that have allowed me to generate a $180K annual salary in just twelve months.

Affiliate Schemes

  • TNX: A new network that is taking the blogging world by storm. Not only does it offer an amazing way for publishers to sell contextual links on their site, it also has one of the best referral schemes available
  • CashCrate: Amazing scheme that allows you to make money directly by completing offers, but also through a brilliant referral scheme – you even get paid for the referrals that your referrals signup. Payout per offer ranges between $1-35 per offer and you get 75% for offers you complete directly, and up to 30% of your referrals earnings.

Advertising Networks

  • Google Adsense: The most popular scheme for bloggers to generate money from their site. The scheme works by serving contextual advertising so a high click-through rate (CTR) is acheivable thanks to ads being served that are relevant to your content. A very generous revenue share of approximately 60-80% is also given
  • Text Link AdsText Link Ads: Another popular scheme with bloggers and for many bloggers it is their biggest earner. Adding your site to Text Link Ads is easy and depending on your Page Rank and traffic up to $300 per month can be earned. One of the advantages of the scheme is that most advertisers automatically renew their campaigns each month
  • Review Me: ReviewMe’s marketplace of advertisers is growing each month who want to pay web authors will review your product or service on their Web site. Payments vary between $50-500 per review, and some bloggers regularly write a couple of reviews each month
  • Get Chitika eMiniMallsChitika: If you have a product related blog then adding Chitika eMiniMalls to your site could prove a better move than adding Adsense units. eMiniMalls show product offers from Chitika’s product partners, and remember that Adsense now allow you to contextualise these links
  • Vizu Answers: Vizu Answers is an innovative, reader-friendly way to monetize your Web site traffic through the addition of Polls. The polls can be formatted to match your own content and all traffic stays within your site. Typical CPMs are $1.50-3.50
  • Intellitxt: Only sites with over 200k page impressions a month can join the Intellitxt network that adds in-line adverts to your site. If you can get accepted then these links can be quite lucrative. The Intellitxt team are quite slow with processing applications, but being referred can speed up this process. If you want to be referred please email admin@connectedinternet.co.uk
  • Tribal Fusion: Again a minimum traffic level of 200K page impressions is required, but if you can hit this level of traffic Tribal Fusion is a good scheme to join as payments are CPM not CPC, with rates of up to $5 achievable depending on where adverts are placed

Optimising Income & Traffic

Here is a selection of posts I have written over the last 2 years that will help you increase your traffic and advertising income. More posts can be found in the Blogging Tips, Making Money Online and Problogging categories.

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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • Hey Everton,

    Wow, congrats on the amazing growth in revenue - very, very cool.

    Thanks for the breakdown - I'm a little underwhelmed with the Tribal Fusion max theoretical number of $5 CPM... i I bet a well performing affiliate ad could really beat that on a regular basis.

    I was under the impression that you did have a job as well so I was about to email you a suggestion to QUIT and spend all your "work" time blogging. Way more fun and lots less tyrannical. :-)

    Have an awesome day!
    Dan
  • I do have a day job at the moment, but not a permanent one so I've been working on growing the blog income just in case I don't find something permanent.

    I guess it's a race between finding a permanent role and growing my blog income!
  • Nice post. Very informative.
  • There's a new alternative coming to Google AdSense that you may like. ContextWeb is releasing a new exchange for publishers.. you can sign up for the beta via our April Fools day 'spoof':

    http://www.slooflirpacenter.com
  • wow. thats a lot. im earning a little but i hope ill earn as much as you do too.. soon :D
  • Great Guide. I wrote a similar post on Making Money With Your Blog. In March, My eCPM was around $25, although I have yet to capitalize on affiliate earnings. These are a gold mine in my honest opinion. So I tried to redesign my sidebar to put greater emphasis on the affiliate links.

    I also placed them underneath an image to naturally draw the eye. Thanks for the awesome guide; we are all learning so much every day!

    What's your goal for April?
  • What’s your goal for April?


    Not saying in case I do another competition!
  • There’s a new alternative coming to Google AdSense that you may like. ContextWeb is releasing a new exchange for publishers..


    I wouldn't really call it an alternative to adsense when the min page impressions are 10m. Whatever people may say about the scheme, adsense is the bloggers best friend
  • I’m a little underwhelmed with the Tribal Fusion max theoretical number of $5 CPM

    True and so should Adsense. But you can run the schemes at the same time so it's an incremental $5CPM which I think is good
  • Hey thats a quite comprehensive post! The whole blog put together in one single post! I am bookmarking for my future reference. Thanks!
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