If you have a blog, odds are good you’d like to bring in a few bucks. There are actually several options for doing this, but not all will work well for your blog. Even something as simple as the placement or the selection of ads could make a potentially lucrative ad program bring in nothing but pocket change.
Here are some of the major blog advertising options, and some tips on choosing the right one for you. You will probably want to experiment and may even try some or all before…
There are many page rank checkers online that will also provide you with a “value” or “worth” of your blog, many of which you can show off with a special button directly on your blog. Unfortunately, most of the valuations those websites provide seem overly generous. How then can you calculate the value of your blog if you want to sell it?
The best way to start is by determining the your blog’s value using the five factors listed below. Create a written report that clearly outlines your blog using the…
When you’re flipping through ads in search of someone who will pay you to blog (and believe me, those clients are out there), it’s sometimes tough to tell who is genuinely looking for good bloggers and who’s trying to scam you out of a few free posts. So how can you tell the difference? There are no hard and fast rules, unfortunately. Still, there are a few indicators to tell you whether someone’s on the up-and-up.
Samples
A good ad should ask for published work. They might allow unpublished samples (posts you’ve…
I’m sure most of you are aware of the most popular ways to make money from your blog. Affiliate links and sales of banner and text links make up the majority of ad revenue for blogs however there are other methods which you can use to increase revenue from your blog and the more subscribers your blog gets the more opportunities you have to take advantage of these methods.
I have been thinking of adding paid post options to the advertising page of BloggingTips so I thought I would discuss some…
This article is for the most ambitious bloggers who believe that their posts are worth money. Well, why shouldn’t they be? Your blog is Internet content, and Internet content has a value. How much value you realize from your blog depends on several variables, the most important of which is traffic.
If you’re making 50 cents a month to start, you might be motivated to reach one dollar, and move forward from there. In the effort, you’re likely to make your site look better and explore the marketing tricks that bring…
A QUICK LOOK AT THE FORMATION OF GOOGLE
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, whose mission statement was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, launched Google Inc. on September 7, 1998. It’s safe to say they were successful in doing just that. They have been the search engine market leader over Yahoo! since August 2004 when they raised $1.67 billion in their first initial public offering, which gave Google a net worth of $23 billion.
From the very beginning, Page and Brin wanted to bring to the…
