Can you put offers on your own blog ? how do bloggers make their $$ ? (8)
Can you put offers on your own blog ? how do bloggers make their $$ ?
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If I had my own blog and it was focused on some specific topic could I then place the offers I have on my own blog ? What is the downside to this ? Is it that usually running your own blog does not get enough traffic to earn decent money ?
How do bloggers get traffic if they aren't buying it through things like POF ? What is the difference between advertising on your own blog compared to doing AM ?
Thanks….I have lots of questions so trying to get my head around how everything works.
Most bloggers get organic traffic (search engines). They don't buy it unless they have a marketing strategy or a big audience already. FB and similar networks help a lot.
How do they monetize? by putting ads like adsense, or simply by promoting things with affiliate links (e.g. clickbank, amazon, etc.).
Originally Posted by urbano
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so yes .. it is possible!
Traffic on my blog is all organic from Google , When i started my blog i never had any intention of monetizing it or anything like that i just wanted to document my affiliate marketing experience . Later i starting getting contacted by different people who owned products related to affiliate marketing , You can make decent amount of money from blogging and it has its own perks and privileges . My aff marketing blog helps me to take care of my bills etc and allows me to invest all my profits i get from affiliate marketing into buying assets and build up more campaigns. Th biggest benefits i got from my blog are contacts i made through blogging in industry and the benefits i get being a blogger . For example now we have started another travel blog project where we visit different places for free where normally people are charged thousands of people and you are given equal status to media persons .. About offers to be honest i wouldn't put all random offers on my blog unless i know that the advertiser and what he is doing is legit. But i believe it depends on for what purpose you are creating blog ?
Thanks for the reply.
How are things like Adsense, click bank etc different to doing AM ? or are they the same thing ? This
Is it better to think of a blog as a place where I write the content, I choose to advertise on it in order to try and monetize it, compared to AM where we are trying to get out ads onto someone else's site with the help of a person who sells traffic to us ?
I'm still not 100% on how they differ and work.
Originally Posted by urbano
content and feed people what thy want .
Originally Posted by urbano
Yes , also it allows you to have more options as well ? for example on CPA Networks you won't find many advertisers related to a niche , or variety of products , however when you are blogging you can even work with well known brands as well ...
We do quite a lot revenue on our blogs.
The strength is you can have highly targetted visitors.
ie: somebody looking for a creditcard, personal loan, a voucher, ..
On our niche sites the eCPM is a whopping 350 euro.
Always sell in context and make sure it doesn't scream "ADVERTISEMENT!!!!". Provide value.
On our the hightraffic blogs, we have more success with Adsense.
Try to place the Adsense-ads as sneaky as possible (close to the navigation, above the call to action,...), but make sure you obey the Adsense rules.
There is a general rule for those who run their own sites, you only sell the traffic to an ad network when it "sucks" 
In other words, you are not able to monetize it directly with affiliate/own offers. Or it is a site that has such a mix of GEOs and interests that its impossible or too complicated to monetize yourself. Or it is a site with hard to monetize traffic which equals to "sucks" in terms of monetization.
Think about a site like 9gag.com - what can you sell those people when its a humor site covering a wide area of interest targeted towards younger demo? Its hard to monetize those people directly so an ad network is a better choice, hence they monetize via adsense. Or take an adult site, like xhamster.com, those people wont buy porn cause its there for free, you can run dating there but there is traffic from all around the world so its easier for them to sell the spots to ad networks and let the army of affiliates do the job so they dont have to hire an inhouse team to do the optimizations. Both of these sites have wide target groups, so they have massive traffic but its hard as fuck to monetize directly. Still, the sheer amount of volume still makes them a ton of money.
Now take some blog about some person who did a major lifestyle change, started to eat healthy, started to work out and lost a ton of weight. He/she documents the transformation, writes articles about daily progress, diet plans or whatever. This blog will only have a couple 100s of visits per day maybe and the owner would be a total idiot for putting some ad networks banners on it. It would bring a few bucks per day maybe. But imagine the potential, he/she can sell the custom workout plan that helped the transformation, nutrition supplements he/she was using, there is a massive potential to build an email list etc etc ... it translates to a much bigger potential than just wasting the ad space with some network banners.
I've been running sites for a living for many years and this is what my experience tells me. Traffic that comes in lower amounts, highly targeted and engaged users is WAY more valuable than traffic on some general for fun site. Its stupid to waste these valuable visitors on ad network banners, you have to monetize it yourself. When the traffic quality shit factor goes up, only then look for ad network monetization
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