Are you sure you want to become the next Ad Whore Idol? An advice for all new bloggers who intends to monetize their blog would be not to turn into an ad whore blog. What i mean by being an ad whore blog, it's like how you take a piece of bread and spread it with peanut butter, jam and natella which might disgust your customers at your cafe with the taste of it. Creating a blog with too much ads cluttered is not going to earn you much especially if your blog is a relatively new one, you might even be in the banned list of blogs by others.
Experiment your Money Making Programs
When it comes to ads placement, there is a lot to learn from positioning them at the right place, blending them and also the right amount of ads to be shown on your blog which results in how your readers view your blog. There are many monetizing programs like Google Adsense, Auction Ads and WidgetBucks which could help make money from your blog.
It's true that every monetizing program should be experimented to discover the best and most effective way to make money your contents displayed on your blog plays a big part in which type of money making program should be used. Saying all these, you got to remember not to clutter your blog with too many programs, it's always wise to experiment them with a schedule list using excel to track your own results and after experimenting all 3 programs chose the one that will effectively make money and use it.
The Wise Way
Monitoring your results and how you can effectively exploit the program on your blog is the right way to go about to make more money online. Making sure the program works for you is vital because if 1 program can make as much money as having all 3, then why load another 2 more programs that are not making you so much and lose your readers as a result of being stamped as a Ad whore blog?
The not so Wise Way
Throw in as many programs as i can to fully utilizing every single white space i can find on my blog and not giving up any opportunities that i can find, making sure everyone knows i have ads and this is the best way to make more money, because with more programs i can make more with more things for my readers to notice. How true can this be?
Which is important? Making Money or Driving Traffic
This question have always caused confusion, but if your main priority is to learn how to drive traffic to your blog then congratulations to you because it is true that as a blogger, your most dreadful nightmare would be you not able to attract your audiences to your blog and all your efforts seems to have gone to waste.
Would that mean i am not able to make money?
Many call it marketing Skills while i call it common sense, because in order to monetize through such Programs which uses PPC or PPI methods would only mean with more traffic coming to your blog, your chances of making a dollar would be higher than no traffic.
Learn from other blogs on how to monetize your blog
Monetizing your blog is an art which you got to learn and in order not to becoming the next ad whore idol, you can learn from the list of experienced bloggers who do have multiple ads around the blog, analyze where they actually place them which could give you good tips on how you can start your next new blog with a very clean front page look yet with a small ads presence which still looks pleasing in the eyes of your readers.
Were you once also a Ad Whore Blogger, what are the changes you have made to turn the tables around, i would like to hear your stories, do you have something to share about your experiences?
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9 Responses to "Are You The Next Ad Whore Blogger Idol?"
October 7, 2007 8:55 PM
thanks for the tips..great post..
good tip!
October 10, 2007 11:58 AM
i guess cutting down on your front page with no ads is a smart choice!
I was brought upon this post by stumbling, it was good information, thanks!
April 2, 2009 8:51 PM
Great tips, thanks.
May 31, 2009 7:39 PM
Thanks man, you are rocks!
August 2, 2009 2:49 AM
Agree.Putting too much ads will only cause problem for the users.You will not get any returning visitors.
August 11, 2009 3:39 AM
thanks etienneteo
August 11, 2009 3:41 AM
yeah! awesome!.. thanks..
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