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How to monetize a tech blog?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by flakas123, Apr 24, 2011.

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    Hi,
    I have a blog about tech and it gets ~4K UV in a month (and it's growing). I think such traffic is worth a bit more than up to 2$ a day.
    At the moment I'm using adsense ads, placed on the sidebar, in the content and below the content.

    What else could I use to monetize it better?
     
    flakas123, Apr 24, 2011 IP
  2. Laychoo

    Laychoo Guest

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    Find or create complementary products that you can sell on your website, ie pack your site info into an eBook or instructional videos that you can sell and/ or check out clickbank or other affiliate sites.
     
    Laychoo, Apr 25, 2011 IP
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    jhardy2008 Peon

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    Registered with affiliate websites. Place digital products on your website on commission basis.
     
    jhardy2008, Apr 25, 2011 IP
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    aspnaren Greenhorn

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    Yeah there are few other ways of monetizing you tech blogs...You can try pixazza image ads if you have images in your site...Good thing about Pixazza is its also owned by google and they minimum payout is oly $10 so you will get paid every month... surely
     
    aspnaren, Apr 26, 2011 IP
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    famous2313 Member

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    I would get rid of the adsense ads and place them with affiliate products.
    What would you prefer making $1.00 per month or $25.00 per sale.
    Having the adsense ads on your webpage will keep your income low.

    To find good quality products to promote you should check out clickbank,
    paydotcom, commission juction.
     
    famous2313, Apr 26, 2011 IP
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    ehuq Peon

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    Use inline advertising. Infolinks is the best for this.
     
    ehuq, Apr 26, 2011 IP
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    Seqqa Well-Known Member

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    You've got a serious leakage issue if you're only making $2 a day with over 4,000 people coming to your site. Get rid of ScamSense and start channeling traffic through in post affiliate links. That way they can only leave by going through an affiliate link or exiting the page.
     
    Seqqa, Apr 26, 2011 IP
  8. flakas123

    flakas123 Peon

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    Ok, I need to add affiliate to my site. Is there anything good that pays out via paypal? Cheques aren't really convenient to cash out.
    By the way, traffic is steadily rising and now is at 500UV/day and it earns ~2-5 euros a day.

    I just registered to clickbank and paydotcom, but both of them pretty much don't have any to my niche related products to promote.
     
    Last edited: May 10, 2011
    flakas123, May 10, 2011 IP
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    Join pop-un ads network if your visitors are easy-going
     
    vuxuanhung, May 11, 2011 IP
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    w3bmaster Notable Member

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    Besides adsense you should add an affiliate program ... such like Ebay Ads / Amazon ...
     
    w3bmaster, May 11, 2011 IP
  11. flakas123

    flakas123 Peon

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    Thanks for your responses.
    I tried using Amazon affiliate, but they banned me due to copyrighted word in the URL. I haven't tried eBay though, they require company details, which I don't have (could it be I just clicked the wrong buttons?)
     
    flakas123, May 11, 2011 IP
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    take a look at ad-captain DOT com it will be designed to reward sites like yours with plenty of viewers
     
    timmyterror2, May 13, 2011 IP
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    etc Well-Known Member

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    cj.com is way to go. although they don't pay thru paypal, its easier to earn with them
     
    etc, May 13, 2011 IP
  14. flakas123

    flakas123 Peon

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    CJ looks great, they have lots of relevant products, but I am non US resident, and they have a mess with tax forms there. I hesitate to use their services.

    Yesterday I got approved to infolinks. 329 impressions, 26 clicks, 1.83$ in earnings. Clicks and impressions seem right, but earnings seem to be a bit low.
     
    flakas123, May 15, 2011 IP