How to make Money with blogs
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How to make money with blogs is one of the most frequently asked questions of bloggers on the Net. I know how to do it with niche blogs on various topics, but I will admit in the make money niche I’m pretty much a failure. I just recently started really working on this blog to earn a few dollars and to tell the truth I don’t have this niche figured out at all. If you look around the net you will find most people do not. I could always bombard you with Affiliate links to the latest eBook guaranteed to earn you millions over night, but I’ve got this little inhibitor called ethics which won’t allow me to pitch book after book when I know for most people the tips included do not work.
I posted yesterday that I had joined Project Wonderful and I really think it has some potential. Within an hour after creating my adbox and posting it I had 34 bids on the spot. Of course a lot of those where ad for sites I could not approve. If I wanted to link to sites that where borderline porn then I would do so from some other sites and not this one. so I decided to go ahead and cancel all the initial ads and recreate the spot with a 50 cent bid. This should be well within most people’s budget and at the same time keep out these types of ads or at least only get the ones that want to pay a little for their traffic. Bids are not coming in like they where, in fact I’ve only had one since I changed the price and that one ran out of money. I think I’ll leave it that way for a few days and see what happens even if that means the ad spots stay blank.
I also decided to give Scratchback a try and see which of these work out the best. I left the tips amount at the minimum which is a buck and I removed the paypal donation from this site. I’ve always gotten a few tips through the paypal donation, but nothing to be impressed with. The scratchback widget really does the same thing, but it also allows the tipper to get a little something back in terms of a link. Seems a little better to me. I’m starting to see a lot more of these on the web so a lot of bloggers are giving this a go. If you are using either of these I would be interested in hearing about whether you think they are worth the realestate or not.
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I just launched a new web site and my task isto figure out where and how to advertise. I can tell you that it is all very confusing to me. Unless I am going to spend hours upon hours, I feel I will not know the difeerence between a waste of money and a fair deal. I guess I will use the try & see what happens approach.
I have just joined Project Wondeful. I set my starting bid at 0 cents just to get some ads in place.
I don’t think I’ll be making a lot of money through Project Wonderful, but at least I get something.
My blog is still relatively small and new, so I don’t yet get a lot of traffic. I like the fact that Project Wonderful does include some traffic stats so you can examine a site’s traffic before deciding on bidding for an ad on that site.
I have signed up with ScratchBack as well, but have yet to use their TopSpots widget. I’m not sure where to place it within my blog yet, but maybe in the future I will include it.
Yup I just put up Project Wonderful today, Guess I’ll be writing a post about it too. The page stats look like each ad gets 1 hit so if there are 6 ads, then you get 6 views I think. I’ll have to check closely on the ads stats.
Anyways I set my minimum bid to 0 so I’ll be ‘heartbroken too’ if you don’t advertise on my blog too =)
I didn’t know about project wonderful until I read your post about it. I am going to check it out some more now, and just wanted to say thanks for the info!
I tried the Project Wonderful code on my blog, but it doesn’t seem to want to “fit” within the sidebar where the 125×125 ads are now. As for the TopSpots widget, it took some tinkering with prices before I started receiving any “tips.” It is a “nofollow” link- not required by me, but by ScratchBack who owns it. I’ve made a little over $50 in about 2 months. I’ve made more by creating my own 125×125 ad section. People need to start looking at those of us who have higher traffic blogs, with a lot of good content, (no matter the niche), and reader interaction. These are the blogs who will bring you a better ROI in the long run. I’ve seen people paying $25+ for the 125×125 ad spots on blogs who weren’t even ranked with Alexa- what’s the point?