Make Money Blogging - Step 6 - Blog Advertising

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You should have constructed a really good blog by now, but you won't make a penny from it because it's lacking one thing: ADS!

Putting ads on your blog is the key to making money from your blogs.

But you can't just slap any old ad on your blog and expect to make money.

It might seem odd to you that you can actually make money from blogging, but you can and you should Sign Up to HubPages so that you can follow this 9 step process and start making money online with me!

Content Targeted Ads

You can place text and banner ads on your blogs that are targeted to the content you wrote about. There are many different companies out there that will let you put ads from their network on your site.

Google Adsense is one of the biggest content-based advertising networks out there.

Here's how it works...

• You put the code for their ads on your blog.
• The code searches for keywords and keyword phrases in your blog and then displays relevant ads based on those keywords.
• If a reader comes to your blog and then checks out one of the ads, you get paid!

This is a very simple way to make money because you'll get paid just by someone taking the simple action of viewing an ad.Some keywords will pay A LOT more than others so keep that in mind during your keyword research.

This method of advertising is often used because it takes a lot of the work out of it for you. You don't have to keep updating your ads; the network will do that for you automatically.

One of the biggest reasons why I blog with HubPages, is that they put the content targeted ads on my blogs for me...That takes A LOT of the work out of my hands!

The other type of ads that you can include on your blogs are affiliate ads.

Being an affiliate just means that you sell someone else's product for them in exchange for a commission.

There are A LOT of different affiliate networks and programs out there (some with really high commissions) but I want to go over two programs I use with almost all of my blogs.

The two programs I'm talking about are the eBay Partner Network and the Amazon.com Associates program.

These both take just a tiny bit more work to include them on your blog than the content targeted ads but you are in complete control of what ads show up on your blog.

With both of these programs, you can choose the types of products you want advertised on your blog because YOU input the keywords that will be used to display the ads.

• You type in keywords and phrases you want the ad network to search on either eBay or Amazon.com and it will display products based on what you entered.
• If you don't like some of the products that show up then you can enter "negative keywords". Like if a CD is in one of the ads and you don't want to show CDs, then you'd enter a negative keyword like this "-cd" and then it shouldn't display CDs anymore.
• If your reader views the product being advertised on your blog and then buys it, you get paid!

This type of advertising can be VERY profitable if you're talking about a specific product or product type in your blog. If you give a product praise all through your blog, then there's a big chance that a lot of your readers will want to purchase that product. So why not have them purchase it through you?

Both of these advertising networks update your product ads automatically based on the keywords you chose. So that means your ads will always be up to date!

With Amazon's ads you can actually pick specific products you want to display ads for, which works best when you do a product review or mention a specific product.

Another reason why I blog with HubPages is that it's simple to use eBay and Amazon ads; I don't have to do any coding at all! All you have to do is input keywords.

eBay and Amazon ads are already a little more appealing because they show the product images, prices and descriptive text but you can take it a step further.

• Change the background color of your ads.On HubPages, if you dock your ads to the right, you can choose from a white, grey or blue background and I almost always opt for blue! Why? Because it stands out from the grey sidebar all the way to the right and it is a visually appealing color.
• Put a title over your ads. If you're advertising some books from Amazon then put "Recommended Reading" over the ad or if you're advertising products from eBay put something like "Get These Deals While You Can!" over the ads. Draw your readers' attention to them so that they realize that they should be looking at them.
• Place product ads right next to the text where you're talking about them. If you're talking about a new cell phone then put an ad for that specific cell phone right beside the text where you're talking about it. Once your reader learns about the cell phone they may start thinking about buying it and if your ad is right in front of their eyes then there's a bigger chance that they'll follow through with the purchase.

If you follow these guidelines when including ads on your blogs then I'm sure that you will start to see how profitable blogging for money really can be! You can use the three networks I talked about or search for your own, but just be sure to advertise within the guidelines of the network that you're going to use.

So go ahead and get started.

Start putting relevant ads on your blogs.

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