Maximize Your Advertising Revenue With Your Blog

Who ever said that one domain can't offer you Multiple Income Streams? You will be amazed at how many Income Streams you can have with one blog once you build up the traffic to it. While I was trying to escape my computer room, I couldn't help but start to think about how many different income streams I could develop from my blog. A majority of these income streams have to do with advertising, but I also thought of other ways to monetize my blog, so I wanted to include these in this article in hopes that I can open your mind and give you some great money making ideas.

First of all we wanted to let you know that we're using Carl Ocab's Ultimate Blogging Theme which allows you to slice up your blog to get the most advertising revenue streams with your blog.

Blog Monetization Tip #1 - Offer a 468x60 Regulation Banner on the top right of your blog.

This is considered prime Real Estate and you should charge more for this than for any other space on your website. I would charge a grip for this space and would highly recommend offering this space on an exclusive basis verses offering a rotation option.

Blog Monetization Tip #2 - Offer a 125x125 Banner on the right side navigation of your blog.

If you get more than 100 visitors per day you can offer up to 10 of these ad positions and collect a monthly fee from each advertiser. I would recommend charging about $10.00 per month for every 100 unique visitors per day your website receives.

Blog Monetization Tip #3 - Offer text links on the right side navigation of your blog.

We currently allow our clients 25 characters and 4 words of anchor text. For those not in the know these are links that website visitors click on when they are surfing the web.

Blog Monetization Tip #4 - Offer text links in the footer of your blog.

If you offer these text links at a low price you should get advertisers excited about these ads. I would offer these for about 30 - 50 percent of what you charge for your right nav text links.

Offer Solo Ads on your blog. Instead of charging advertisers a one time fee to blast out a one time email for them, why not offer them the benefit of a life-time post with full SEO benefits for a one time fee? What we do is allow them to put their hyperlink in the body and at the bottom of their posts. We ask them that the post be unique content and they have to write it themselves, or we will for $25.00 if they're too busy or don't know how.

In addition to a Solo Ad on our blog, we also offer a featured post. We'll leave their post in our featured section for 7 days. All the same rules and benefits apply to the Blog Solo Ads above but we'll charge them more. After 7 days their post remains for life but it's just not featured at the very top anymore.

Another thing you can do to monetize your blog is by doing reviews of affiliate programs and linking to them. There are no shortage of companies who will pay you for direct sales and even recurring sales. One of our websites for instance is totally focused around selling high ticket products and recurring income products from Clickbank. Between Clickbank and Commission Junction you will find thousands of product to choose from.

Depending on what niche you are in you are probably more of an expert in that niche than you think you are. This means you can charge for consulting services by the hour. Even if you charge just $100 per hour twice a week that's $800 per month just for this. We do a 1hr phone consult and give them 3 emails after this to answer any questions not covered by phone.

Don't take it for granted everyone knows what you know or that others do just because there might be some free information on the net covering the subject. Many people are brand new just logging onto the internet a week ago and your advice could save them thousands of dollars or more.

Learn more about MLM Advertising from Brian Garvin and Jeff West.