The most common method that bloggers used to make money online with their blog is by using Google Adsense. However, you must not rely only on one income source for your blog or website. You should add more revenue resources, which I break them into parts, in order to make more money that should be enough to pay your hosting, advertisements, your bills, your personal needs or for whatever purpose you like to achieve.
Contextual Advertising
For Part I, I will talk about making money with your blog through contextual advertising in which Adsense falls into this category. Contextual ads are advertisements dynamically displayed on your websites that are relevant to the contents in which the ads are served. For example, if the user is viewing a site about entertainment, your visitor might see ads for entertainment-related ads, such as Hollywood actors or movie previews and downloads. Almost all contextual advertising companies pays the website owner on a pay-per-click basis while others also offers CPM. Since the ads are more targeted and content-relevant, they are more likely to get clicked by your visitors, thus generating more revenue for you.
Contextual Ad Networks
Listed below contextual ad networks that offers you, bloggers and publishers, a chance to make money by delivering contextual ads to your blogs or websites.
- Google Adsense
- Kontera - Currently this is the only program that I used to monetize this blog.
- Kanoodle BrightAds
- Chitika
- Yahoo! Publisher Network
- Microsoft adCenter Content Ads
- Clicksor
- BidVertiser
- Adbrite
- IntelliTXT
- Amazon Context Links
- ContextWeb
- Adsonar
- Miva MC
- Clickbooth
- Targetpoint
- PremierAD
Ask.com has also called ASL Contextual Advertising but it seems that is not yet open to the general public. You may follow the discussion about this new program at this DigitalPoint Forums thread.
Please keep in mind that is is not possible to display all the ads from the different networks listed above. For example, you cannot served together Adsense and YPN on same page. Although, there are some that can be displayed at once such as Adsense and Chitika. Please read their policies and guidelines carefully or even ask their support representatives to make sure you will conform to thier terms of service. Additionally, please consider also your visitors’ experience with your blog/website - visiting a site with full of advertisements is a total pain in the eyes.
If you have found any other similar programs that are not listed here, please post it in your comments. Part II of monetizing your blog is all about Making Money by Selling Text Links and can be read here.
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9 Responses to “Making Money In Your Blog (Part I): Contextual Advertising”
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1. steve Says:
August 10th, 2007 at 12:08 amnice list….will check some of these out. thanks!
added you to my Tech faves. will you add me to yours?
thanks,
–Steve
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2. Ramil Alcibar Says:
August 10th, 2007 at 12:16 amThanks steve. I have added your blog to my Tech faves also.
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3. Ross Says:
August 10th, 2007 at 12:23 amIl check some of these out later!
Check out my blog - http://www.rosshetherington.com
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4. Kim Says:
August 12th, 2007 at 5:41 amGreat list. I’m going to check them out soon. Have you heard of reverse ads, linksworth and textlink ads?
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5. Ramil Says:
August 12th, 2007 at 2:24 pmKim, that would be on Part 2
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6. Klioreport Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 4:09 amGood List!
I am with MIVA and adbrite and will add Kontera.
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7. Net Hustlin' Says:
August 29th, 2007 at 9:56 amNice list. I will definitely be checking this out
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8. Bill Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 6:08 amVery good article. Contains a few ad providers that I had not run into before. Currently I am using AdSense. Anyone here use other providers, and how did the perform compared to AdSense?
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9. Ramil Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 12:17 pmI have tried Bidvertiser on a non-rich-content site and the earnings per click is higher than on my Adsense. However, my problem is that the ad keeps on repeating, for example, if you have an ad on the header (banner) and on the sidebar(rectangle), they are all the same except that there’s an addition to the rectangle ad of course. Another thing with Bidvertiser is that it doesn’t load sometimes thus my site will not completely load also.
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