Best way for me to monetize my site?

Hi All,

I currently have adsense setup on my blog, more for some extra earnings as I dont expect this to be the main source of income.

The reason I ask this is ive taken Google up on their "£75 free adwords clicks when you spend £25" offer. I've only set a £1 a day budget for now to see how it goes.

I have done a bit affiliate advertising on one of my posts, but I just wondered whether you think there is something I could be doing better. The blog is new so traffic is on the lower side im sure compared to some of your blogs

I haven't started this blog to earn a living from it, but it would be nice to cover the hosting costs etc.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Create a youtube channel and create relevant content in the form of videos and seo optimized those videos with meta tags and a relevant description with your link on each of those videos, and point those links back to each relevant page on your site. You could also setup a Facebook group or page post helpful info, and don't forget to also post a link back to your site. Lastly track your links and keywords to get a measure of whats working. Its all abou the ROI. But you wont know unless you do and test. Hope this helps.

An IT blog should offer visitors some software and hardware solutions. Avangate, RegNow and OneNetwork should do you well with products, as well as, Amazon for IT hardware and other relevant items. Posting items closely related to the article or vice versa, would be your best strategy.

The best way to monetize your adsense you can create a video channel on YouTube and you can post relevant videos there.. This is also a best way to get it done. I am sure you will get much clicks even money...

ITMDB said:

Hi All,

I currently have adsense setup on my blog, more for some extra earnings as I dont expect this to be the main source of income.

The reason I ask this is ive taken Google up on their "£75 free adwords clicks when you spend £25" offer. I've only set a £1 a day budget for now to see how it goes.

I have done a bit affiliate advertising on one of my posts, but I just wondered whether you think there is something I could be doing better. The blog is new so traffic is on the lower side im sure compared to some of your blogs

I haven't started this blog to earn a living from it, but it would be nice to cover the hosting costs etc.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

(Blog link in sig)

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I checked out your blog.

Based on the topics of what you are publishing about, it looks like you are just running a traditional technology blog where your primary source of traffic is intended to be search engine traffic from Google and the others.

Assuming that is the case, you will probably end up realizing that Adsense is your best monetization method. Your traffic doesn't look like it is going to be targeted well enough for you to use other methods.

When you build a blog like that, one that attracts a handful of readers who are each interested in a different topic, then you don't really have a great opportunity to monetize it with affiliate offers.

Even though your blog says it is the IT Managers Toolbox and says it is a go to resource for IT professionals, it doesn't really look like it is either of those two things to me. I happen to be an IT professional, so maybe I am your target market, maybe not. After looking at your blog I find myself asking why would I or any of my colleagues want to visit your blog? I might go there if I am googling for an answer to one of the topics you talk about and I might land there. That is a great start. But then I am going to look at your other topics and think - "well that really doesn't apply to me". And then I will leave the site probably never to return unless I happen to land on it again while googling something else. (Not saying any of this to be critical. Just telling the honest truth.)

There is nothing wrong with building a site like that. It is better than building a random blog. But it still doesn't offer much opportunity for monetization unless you can really grow your traffic or unless you can get much more precisely targeted traffic. Without those things, you will likely find Adsense is going to be your most profitable monetization method.

Have you ever thought of building a more specific more tightly targeted authority site that tries to solve an important problem for IT people? What I mean is that you would pick one problem that IT professionals face and help them solve that problem by building a blog that offers the solution. I think you should explore building a more targeted "authority site". You are most of the way there anyway.

The go to resource for IT professionals, while catchy, is a very wide area. Try to dial in on a specific niche: one that you can take over and be #1. My recommendation is that you go for a monopoly.

Here is a really cool tool to help with niche, keywords and Google Adwords

PS: Don't let monetization drive your decision making. Allow 'how can I become the most valuable resource to my audience' drive your decisions.

Okay that does make more sense. Just one more question. If I were to pick a topic that can be thoroughly explained in 12 posts, what do I do after those 12 posts?

Are blogs penalised for not being updated?

Do you want to know how little Google cares about fresh up to date content?

Go do a search for best current stock tips.

I just did that. And you know what ranks number one? This article from Marketwatch which was written and published in June 2011. And that is a topic where you would think they would reward fresh content.

Point well made

All I ever read about is how you require fresh new content. So if I start to focus my content on a more specific topic, and market it for that topic.

Thanks very much for your helpful posts.

If you have quality traffic on your site so that no need to monetize your adsense, just you have to understand where to place ads code on your site. I think it's will assist you to make extra cash:

Recently I have had a few people approach me to publish an article on my blog for a payment.

Is this a reasonable way to earn an income from a blog?

Presumably you an charge more for a better ranking website.

Hey there,

So as far as blogs and eCommerce stores go I always found the absolute best way to succeed with them is to have an opening LAUNCH. Where you have people waiting for you to open your blog so they can hop on and check out the post.

Now the question is: How do you do that?

In my experience I always build a squeeze page solely for collecting email addresses and have a lead magnet to entice them to join (usually I throw in a special small offer in my "Thankyou" page so I can make my money back quickly if I'm buying ads)

Then I create a small value based followup series that they receive once they opt-in.

After they finish the automated email series I have them automatically transferred into my weekly newsletter where I give them tips or whatever once or twice a week.

Once I have built this up I create a social media page specifically for them and promote it to them (this turns your list into a community)

Then once both of these platforms are booming and doing very well I go ahead and open the blog or eCommerce store and promote it to them.

Then I do the newsletter two times a week: 1 day is a tip and the other day is an email leading back to your newest blog post.


Hope this was helpful

Adam

Use google adsense and put some affiliate links in your blog.