All right, so at this point, we've gone through and we've built our blog installed that we've purchased
a domain name purchased Hosteen, we've learned how to get articles on there and use WordPress.
We've learned how to optimize our articles.
We have learned how to get our articles out to the public so everybody can see your stuff and you can
start to get some great traffic from your articles.
Now, when you have to kind of evaluate where you want your blog to go, are you happy just having it
be like an online journal where people can read it and participate in it?
Or maybe are you looking to make some money from it?
So a lot of people write blogs kind of with the sole purpose or maybe half the purpose in being to make
money from it.
There's a bunch of different ways that you can do it.
And this is another landscape that's constantly changing.
So some of the things are going to show you here may be relevant.
Now, maybe the companies will change, but at least kind of get some ideas from what I'm going to show
you here and kind of implement it.
See, I was going to work best for you because there's kind of cons and pros, pros and cons to each
of these options here.
I've got to talk through some of those here, but you need to find out what's going to work best for
your blog specifically just because, again, you don't want people coming to your site and having it
look overly advertised or just kind of spam you from just having too many links.
And people really start to kind of downgrade your content thinking that you're writing it just to get
clicks or just to get people to purchase stuff.
People want to feel like they're actually being informed and not just sold to.
So can I take all this stuff with a grain of salt and see what's going to work best for you?
So the first thing I want to show you is adding banner ads to your website.
That's probably one of the oldest forms of advertising for online websites.
And a lot of people use this personally.
I've never found it to be a great source of revenue.
People get what's called Blackner Banner Blindness, where they just can't stop seeing banners after
a while.
They're so used to seeing things rotating and flipping and blinking or just the sidebar area where an
ad usually appears, but they just immediately click off of it or, you know, a pop-up comes off,
they get rid of it or they just don't even look at the sidebar because they know it's where all the
ads are.
Again, people don't really want to be sold to they want to find good content and kind of move on.
But there's something that's relevant to them.
Then they may have more of a chance of clicking on it because it may relate to the story.
So one of the best places to do that is Google ad sense.
Now, if you have a Google account, which you should at this point, because it's important to have
analytics set up in your website and a site map created for your Web site and all those things are going
to want to submit to Google.
So having a Gmail account is going to be how you get into that.
If you have that, I would also apply for an ad sense account.
Now, some people get these right away.
Some people say that your blog has to be up for a certain amount of time or you have to have a certain
amount of content.
Maybe we need a little bit of traffic coming to your website, maybe weeks.
You've got, you know, five or ten posts on your website before you try applying to this.
And these guys can deny you for just random reasons.
They can also be very particular once you have an account set up as far as you know, just all of a
sudden cancelling your account and taking the money that you had in the account, because they think
that maybe people are clicking on your banners maliciously or you're clicking on your banners, all
that stuff, and get your band pretty quick from ad sense.
But on the flip side of it, ad sense is a great source because they look at the contents on your website.
So if you're writing an article about food or cooking or something like that, they're going to serve
relevant banners according to the content that's on your website.
So they can have a cooking website.
They're going to show banners that have information about pots and pans or food or different things
like that that is relevant to that article.
So definitely considered ad sense.
But if you don't want to do ads, if there are a lot of other options out there, these are just a few
of making these change from day to day.
There's always something different going on out there, media.
And that's a good one.
These guys have different types of banners that work may work on your website, maybe be a little bit
better than Google.
But again, this is up to you to kind of take a look and see what you can apply for and what's actually
going to work best on your Web site.
This is a good company here in full links is not a bad one.
I've used this one before, too.
They have different types of banner ads and they have some very common ones, but they also have fake
banner ads that come up on the sidebar of the website or maybe that pop up from underneath.
They have all different kinds and they're always changing their types of banners as well.
Pretty easy to get into.
They make a pretty decent amount of money from when people click on your banners, but that's a good
resource to use revenue hits.
It's another good one.
Different types of banner ads that they have considered.
Taking a look at them now to put a list of all these websites in the account here so you can download
it.
But again, remember that these may change from day to day.
It has been around for a long time.
I'm not a big fan of their banners, but some people swear by them and some people have good success
with them.
Again, just depends on what's going to work best for you adversely on another good company.
Of different types of banners as well.
Take a look at them, click saw dotcom.
Another older advertising company has been out for a while.
They've got all different kinds of solutions.
So definitely take a look at them.
Big advertiser, they're a good one.
Again, can monetize traffic by having all sorts of different types of ads.
You can see they've got pop under ads and domain name redirects and different ways that you can make
money from them.
Last one is in telo links.
Again, just different kinds of banner ads and things that you can add to your website.
So take a look at these guys.
At least start here, but feel free to do a search as well for different types of online advertising
or advertising companies, because everyone may offer something a little bit different, both in the
amount of money that you get every time somebody clicks on one of these banners.
But also there's a different payout rates.
Maybe one will say, hey, as soon as you make 25 bucks, we'll send you a check.
Another one may be a minimum of one hundred dollars, just kind of feel Imola.
Feel free to kind of mix and match some of these different options here and see what works best for
you.