If you want to make money blogging then you already know that more then 70% of your revenue is from private ads, sponsored reviews and links and doing this manually can be a chore! The oiopublisher system makes money blogging so much easier with their state of the art blog ad system that takes control of all the sales on your blog(s).I’ve been using OIO since day1, It’s been really easy to sell and manage ads and the owner over at the main site offers 24/7 support and constant updates, I’ve had a few things added myself such as the ad server add on, this lets you show the ads anywhere on the web! and with the built in tracker system this plugin is my main way to sell ads and make money through all of my blogs, one system is controlling 4-5 blogs at the moment without any flaws :D.
The ad slot system is really flexible it allows you to make zones with different sizes and number of ads in rows/columns to be displayed on the blog, if there are no ads there then it shows an advertise here link like you can see on the left on this blog. Every zone has its own code by which it can be displayed, you can place these codes in your template in order to display them.Every ad is given its own payment per a specified time of days and after it they expire automatically! Thanks to a new feature added to the new version, now you can style your ads, different paddings and much more options.
Want ads within your post? The OIO plugin allows automatic inclusion in every post and allows you to control how many posts per page should have the ad! You can choose either to have ads on your post in the blog or maybe add ads to your rss feed!
You can easily sell reviews on your blog by giving your customers a form in which they specify what they want, if they want it written by you or themselves, if they choose themself then it provides them with the space in which they can paste the html code or just use the editor to type something up. They can also choose different authors on your blog to write the review as well.
This is the thing that i asked them to add to the, it allows you to use the ads from zones that you choose from your blog on other sites and yes the tracker works fine on it as well!
As a webmaster you would definitely need reports on your ads, the in built tracker helps you track every single ad on your blog with a weekly clicks and impressions report, a screenshot of the report is below.
Wanna sell a product? Well now its easier, this is an online form that allows you to sell downloadable goods, the customer pays you and gets an instant download, kinda like ejunkie but no middlemen
The plugin right now costs under $20 since its new, grab it before they raise the price. Buy oio here.
Envy Blogging is the term i use to define when a blogger creates content similar to an already established and popular blog online in hopes of attaining the same traffic over a short period of time. At first it’s pretty harmless and well intentioned, like giving out their own opinion on the matter and leaving trackbacks to get the traffic to come towards them, as soon as that starts working for them, it gets hard trying to keep up with the ferquence of the content coming their way, the work tht they have to put into content now is much harder and before they know it they are copying quotes and important paragraphs from those blogs onto their own and making it their own content and at some point even this becomes harder, letting your content creating abilities fade away is the worst thing a blogger can ever hope for, the moment you actually don’t have anything to say or don’t have the will to write more is when a blogger becomes a spammer, this is where harmless opinions turn into spam, yep, this is how spam blogs are created. The ones that use your feed to copy your own content leaving the original blog a trackback.
Alot of bloggers can find spam links in their wp dashboard everyday that come from blogs that have copied their content without any permission.
Although i think blog envy can make really good bloggers over time if they keep at it and try to develop their own skills more but the most conversions that I have seen are for the worst.
Coming up with new ideas to blog is always hard, I know what I am talking about when i say writer’s block is the worst thing that can happen to a blogger. I came up with this idea when i had nothing else to blog about and nothing I did to remove the blog was working, when you have nothing to blog about its better to focus on monetization of the blog, If you are already with an Affiliate network, then you should browse their inventory to find something relevant to your blog’s niche, look through the site, then write a review about it on your blog filled with your affiliate links!
This way not only will you get more:
Serps
Content
Indexed Pages
Traffic
Money
Readers
…but you’ll also get another income stream from your blog, having affiliate ads are okay but reviewing a product often if not always makes a sale. I know that I’ve bought 80% of the things I read about in my feed reader. Its about the trust and authority that you have established with your readers that will get you tons of conversions through affiliates.
There are many ways that you can make money online by using your website or blog. There are ways that aren’t commonly used and then there are ways that are commonly used. We’re going to go over some of the ways that are commonly used and have been proven to be effective for others who have used these options.
Affiliate Marketing
There are many bloggers and webmasters that have turned themselves into affiliate marketers. Why is that? Well, it seems that money speaks many languages and when someone finds a good way of earning money, they seem to want to use it more than what really doesn’t make them much money at all. Affiliate marketing can be a profitable venture for you. Do your research so that you know without a doubt you have what it takes to become a great player in the area of affiliate marketing.
Google AdSense AdSense has been known to have a very successful outcome for those that have monetized their website or blog with it. You are paid for each qualified click that you receive from the advertisements that are being shown on your website or blog. There is always an effective way to implement this as well as an ineffective way to implement this. Make sure that you know the effective way and put it to work for you.
Put your skills to work for you.
You can provide additional services on your website or blog to help you make money online. These services can be anything that your visitors might be looking for. This could include writing, web design, etc. The possibilities are endless. If you do something directly related to your niche, why not offer others the ability to have you get it done for them as well? You will both benefit from this, just think about what you can offer and give it a try.
So far the topics that I have covered on the make money blogging area are advertising and selling your own products in a very simple and old fashion way, so now it’s time to explore other possibilities to make money blogging.
WP Auctions is a great free plugin that helps you put up auctions on your wordpress installation and allows you to have bids on the blog as they come, the bids and auctions are entered in your own database and you control every little detail on the auction. There are no 3rd parties involved here, that’s the most appealing part of this plugin to me at least.
Its a great way to auction of sites or domains or whatever you have that needs to be rid off in the most fluid way available today, auctions!
The part that I’d like to emphasize here is auctioning off domains and websites for the people who flip sites and domain as a profession while running a make money online blog, this is a perfect opportunity for you to engage your readers to be a part of your projects. Let’s say one of your readers buys one of your sites through the auction, then he’s mentioned in the next income report. This way he gets free publicity and is happy with what he/she bought from you.
Although WP Auctions is a free plugin, they do have to make money somehow so they offer some great styles for this plugin.
WordPress plug-ins have become an essential for professional bloggers. The benefits that come with many WordPress plug-ins has made it easier for bloggers to improve their blogs as well as save time with administration work. Here’s a look at some of the best WordPress plug-ins that are available.
AdRotator
This WordPress plug-in will allow you to rotate your ads on your blog rather easily. This is great if you have multiple ads for a certain location on your blog(s) and you want to rotate them.
Akismet
Everyone hates SPAM, why let it happen on your blog with comment spam? Akismet is one the most used WordPress SPAM prevention tools. This WordPress plug-in will help prevent trackback and comment SPAM.
Comment Relish
This is an excellent WordPress plug-in that will allow you to send a thank you e-mail to commentators that haven’t ever posted a comment before.
EasyTube
EasyTube is a WordPress plug-in that makes it easier for you to add YouTube videos in your blog posts. You won’t have to mess around with the HTML code in order to add a video when you utilize this handy Wordpress plug-in.
This post was due a few days ago but i wanted to get my facts straight so i took my sweet time, Mubin had an interesting title of a post that was “Blogging can kill you“ which was based on this article on the ny times’ website, So it made me want to take a closer look at my schedule and figure out if i’m on a good health plan while making the most money i can, as it says in the article at ny.times, if you induce yourself into blogging completely, it can cause alot of damage to your health, such as laziness, obesity and alot of movement related issues. Mostly on the hands part (because of the typing).
So my schedule pretty much revolved around when i had something really solid and important to blog about here, this doesn’t include dev time i spent on my other sites. Apparently everyday i had at least one new thing to talk about blogging here. The more passionate i am about blogging the more readers i have the more my current readers are happy and the more better my blog builds up.
