Monetize your Blog!

Recently I was denied acceptance to text-link-ads.com because my blog “does not have strong enough traffic”. I believe they are probably going off of Alexa for this information as I am now getting a strong 100-200 daily unique hit count. I never really liked text-link-ads.com anyways, there site is poorly designed, there tools have been down for a year or more, and there staff is slow and inadequate.

I was not going to put up ads as of yet, I just wanted to play around with there plugins and research it a little. This poor experience with text-link-ads made me decide to showcase different ways of monetizing our blogs. Each day, starting tomorrow, I will showcase a different way of monetizing a blog, explain in details the ad types, and discuss the pro’s and con’s of each. I will also include a sample ad for each within the posts.

And now for some comment bait:

How do you prefer to monetize your site, and why?

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7 Responses to “Monetize your Blog!”

  1. Avatardoug m
    Posted: May 12th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
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    right now i use adroll and adsense. TLA isn’t doing good for me so i’m going to drop it soon and maybe switch over to linkworth.

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  2. Avataradmin
    Posted: May 12th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
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    I love the integration you’ve done with the adsense, looks very natural on the site, including the image ad on the right side! I also love how it happened to have an ad for GeekSquad! haha

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  3. AvatarPaul
    Posted: May 13th, 2008 at 1:09 am
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    Just a hint. It’s THEIR, not THERE.

    Good grammar and spelling are a must for people to trust what you say.

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  4. Avataradmin
    Posted: May 13th, 2008 at 9:32 am
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    Probably true, but I am a Technology geek, not an English nerd. These mistakes will continue to happen for the life of the blog, they might get better over time, but I doubt it.

    I think the best way for people to trust what you say is by building that trust through examples and explanation, not candy coated pretty paragraphs.

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  5. AvatarMichael Aulia
    Posted: May 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am
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    AdSense is the only thing that rocks :D

    Besides, aren’t you going to be penalized by Google by using Text Link ads?

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  6. AvatarMichael Aulia
    Posted: May 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am
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    Forgot one more thing lol.. I’m a tech geek too and English is not my second language, but I usually use MS Word to spell + grammar check my post!

    Hope it helps!

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  7. Avataradmin
    Posted: May 13th, 2008 at 11:28 am
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    I have a feeling I am going to get penalized by a few of them for reviewing all of them here, but it will be a learning experience for all of us!

    I actually do the majority of my posts from Linux, I could use open office to check the spelling and grammar, but I think that part of my personality is bad grammar. >:)

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