My Favored Affiliate Platform: PayDotCom

I expect that you will be wanting to make cash from your blog - why not convert your readers into customers for what is really a few minutes work and little effort?

Promote products that are relevant to your niche, and you could see the money rolling in.

Heck, I hate hype (with a passion), so I say this with genuine belief that you can use your blog to promote the products of vendors as an affiliate.

This is why I choose PayDotCom   as my affiliate platform of choice. There is an extensive marketplace of products you can choose from to promote, and it won’t cost you a penny to join, nor do you have to jump through hoops in applying to join!

In November 2008, I made over $4,000 in a single month!

Why I like PayDotCom more than the other platforms is that vendors often add promotion tools to pick up and begin using yourself - e.g. email copy, banners, ad content, etc. It makes PayDotCom stand out above the rest.

Register today on PayDotCom   and begin promoting products to your niche by clicking here  .

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Blogging for Profit Begins With a Long Term Plan

So you want to blog for profit?

You won’t be the only person dreaming of blogging for profit, and this goal is not far beyond the reach of someone with average intelligence, a willingness to work hard, and a basic grasp of blogging technology. However, very few people manage to reap the profits they want from their blog. Most people who try to make money with their blogs do not succeed for two reasons. Often, bloggers have unrealistic expectations of how fast their readership will grow and how much money they will make, and when these expectations are not met the disappointment can crush the desire to continue blogging. The other trap that most bloggers fall into has to do with lack of planning. If you really want to turn a profit as a blogger, the key to success is to make a realistic plan and stick to it.

To succeed at blogging for profit, the key thing that you will need is a large readership. The higher your traffic, the more advertisers will agree to pay you. However, cultivating the regular visitors that you will need in order to make a profit isn’t easy. As more and more blogs appear each day, having a great idea or a wonderful writing style is no longer enough to get attention. You need to be able to market your blog effectively!

Too many bloggers spend most of their time writing posts and almost no time marketing their project. To be certain, updating as often as you can is a great way to keep your blog high on blogrolls and high in blog search engines like technorati, and once your readers know that you update frequently they will return to your site on a regular basis. However, it does not matter how often you update if nobody is reading your page, so dont skimp on the time that you spend drawing visitors to your site. To make your dreams of blogging for profit a reality, try decreasing your number of posts and using some of that time to draw new visitors by setting up link exchanges with other bloggers, making contacts in the blog community, and following other established modes of winning traffic.

Of course, even if you are a marketing genius or have a really great idea for a blog, success is not going to happen overnight! Building the kind of readership that blogging for profit requires takes time, and in all likelihood it will be at least several months or even years before you are able to turn much of a profit. Try to stay committed to your blogging project during this initial rough period. To stay motivated, set goals for how often you will update and how many readers you want to attract, and then reward yourself for sticking with your plan.

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Are You a Startup Blogger? Then Forget Google Adsense!

I am a big, big fan of Google Adsense. It is the most convenient way of serving a variety of contextual ads (i.e. ads about products that are in the subject area of your content) on the market and has millions of advertisers wanting you to show their ads. So why forget it?

The simple truth is that the cash you will raise as a Startup Blogger will be so small, it won’t be worth you giving up the estate on your page, particularly above the fold.

Adsense is about large numbers

If you want to make serious cash from Adsense, then you need to drive serious traffic to your blog. It’s about numbers.

Say, for every 1,000 page impressions, you get one click. That’s what’s called a Click-Through Ratio (CTR) of 0.01%, which is about average depending on your niche. Oh and lets say you get $0.50 per click, to be generous. So this means to earn $100.00, you need to drive 200,000 page impressions on your site. As a Startup Blogger, this is a dream. Just a dream. And what will 100 bucks buy you nowadays?

Adsense if for serious players who see page impressions in the MILLIONS per day. And heck it can be very profitable. Sure, smaller traffic volumes can still turn a buck or two but the point is, is it worth it? I think you should forget Adsense and consider using that space for something else.

What other purpose can that adspace be put to?

You could:

• Sell it direct or to a sponsor
• Place an affiliate product link/ad there
• Add a form so that readers can subscribe to your RSS Feed or Email List
• Leave it free for a less cluttered page

Still not convinced?

Good for you. Hang in there and try Adsense out and see how it works for you. I’m sure that this will be a big challenge for you, but you might be able to make it easier for yourself by trying these things:

1. Improve your CTR by focusing on your niche and solving problems for readers by writing great content that is relevant. Make each page impressions be from someone who is right in the center of your target market.
2. Drive more traffic to your blog by optimizing you blog for search engines.
3. You could try the king of all Adsense gurus - Joel Comm - who wrote ‘Adsense Secrets 4‘. He can tell you exactly how to optimize your blogging for Adsense. I joined this list to receive his report and my Adsense revenues more than quadrupled within 2 months.

Forget Adsense…

Until you have at least 2,000 daily unique visitors. I think the adspace can be put to better use until then!

If you’re sure I am wrong about that, then squeeze every penny out of Adsense by joining Adsense Secrets 4 - Recurring Top 1% Commissions  .

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