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How to Blog all the way to the bank!

There are two ways of making money blogging, one more profitable than the other. These are the two possibilities: you either get paid for allowing other business owners to advertise on your site or you can include the blog in one of the many affiliate programs you’ll promoting. You can use your blog as part of an affiliate program, which involves promoting the products or services of a specific business. You can increase the profitability of the ads on your blog by taking advertising into consideration when you design you site. One thing I notice about some blogs is that the fonts and colors used for the ads should be only slightly different from the rest of the page, without standing out. why? Because the more visible you make them, the more likely it is that they'll annoy the user, and the entire purpose of your blog is to get people to spend QUALITY TIME on the page. See ya’ll next week! Holla

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  • mizzbiz
    mizzbiz Posts: 1,434 Forumite
    One thing to AVOID is pop up ads. I hate them and I lose a lot of respect for sites that se them. People must click on them as they're so common but I never would - it spoils the user experience of the site.
    I'll have some cheese please, bob.
  • AS I was once taught...."form follows function" :D
    :j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:D:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j
    Me and the gang!!!
  • My take on blogging for pocket money is that content is key. If your content is good, your readers will come. If you pick the right advertising vehicle (personally I like Google Adsense), then the contextual adverts will actually be relevant to your post content. A percentage of your visitors will click because they are genuinely interested, another percentage will click as a 'thank you' for the good content.

    Without good content, you've got nothing.
    Starting Debt: ~£20,000 01/01/2009. DFD: 20/11/2009 :j
    Do something amazing. GIVE BLOOD.
  • Hello - I am really interested in knowing more about this. Can anyone give me any more info? Thanks
    QB
  • patman99
    patman99 Posts: 8,532 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Photogenic
    I tried using Today.com, but I can't figure out how to get passed the damned 'buy advertising' bit into the actual blogging part itself.
    Never Knowingly Understood.

    Member #1 of £1,000 challenge - £13.74/ £1000 (that's 1.374%)

    3-6 month EF £0/£3600 (that's 0 days worth)

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