Website Review - My Reflections
My Reflections is the personal blog of Dan Marius. He posts about the things he does online, which mainly revolve around SEO/Blogging.
Here is a post I found interesting on the blog:
Overall Rating: 7.0/10I didn’t update my blog lately because I was busy getting quality inbound links to my site. And believe me that’s a full time job (beside the fact that I have a real job in the real life) only from Digital Point forums, let alone the other thousand ways.
Now, I’m not going to give my list of 20 or 100 ways of getting one way inbounds links to your site, because I think that 1 (yes, you read that right, ONE) it’s more than enough for most blog starters or small - medium sites. So here I g0:
Ways To Monetize Your Blog - Display Advertising
Display Advertising is different from Contextual Advertising because instead of paying you by CTR, Display Advertising pays you by CPM. CPM means Cost Per Impression.
Every time a reader sees your display ad, you will make a small amount of profit. With CPM ads, you would make more form impressions than if you had contextual ads. CPM ads are good for forums (where you can get thousands of impressions a minute) or pages where you don't want your visitor to leave through a contextual link.
CPM ads are not really recommended for blogs, as most bloggers make more through contextual advertisements.
Google Adsense official page has this to say about CPM ads:
CPM stands for "cost per 1000 impressions." Advertisers running CPM ads set their desired price per 1000 ads served, select the specific sites on which to show their ads, and pay each time their ad appears.
For publishers, this means revenue in your account each time a CPM ad is served to your page. CPM ads compete against pay-per-click (or CPC, cost per click) ads in our ad auction, so only the highest performing ads will be served to your pages. Advertisers will need to bid a higher CPM than the existing CPC ads in order to show.
CPM ads can be either text or image ads, and are always site-targeted. CPM text ads will expand to take up the entire ad unit.
Ways To Monetize Your Blog - Contextual Advertising
1.Contextual Advertising
Contextual advertising are basically advertisements that contain links and descriptions of the sites that those descriptions link to. Contextual advertising has become really popular recently because of the ease of implementation, and it doesn't make your page look spammy.
The ads also have appeal because of the way they look like part of your content. The links the ads point to are relevant to the content that is on the page the advertisements are on. This is great for niche websites, where the content can become really specific.
The leading provider of contextual advertisements is Google Adsense. They make it easy to sign up and get going with the ads on your site. You have to be 18 years old to join, and there is a review process of about one week on the site you are trying to implement ads on (don't worry. As long as the page isn't full of spam and keywords, you'll be fine).
There are also other alternatives to Google Adsense. Other contextual options include the Yahoo Publisher Network, Chitika, Clicksor, and others.
Contextual ads is the way to go if you own a blog or a starting-up website. As your website or blog grows older (and I mean by years), you can slowly move on to other ways of advertising.
Ways To Monetize Your Blog
I'm going to write up a small 10-post series that will discuss different ways of how to monetize your blog. We'll review contextual advertising, text-link advertising, and more. The first post will be about contextual advertising, meaning links with text underneath, a la Google Adsense.
I hope you stick around for the series. Hopefully it will give you a little insight on how to properly monetize your blog and the different ways you can go about doing so.
