The easiest way you can make money from blogging is by driving traffic to your blog and making money from advertising. Advertising is a great way to create passive income with your blog and you can make substantial earnings from advertising if you have a high amount of traffic and qualify for well-paying advertising networks.
You can join revenue-sharing advertising networks and place ads from those networks on your blog. There are many advertising networks to choose from depending on the amount of traffic your site is getting.
Sign up with Google Adsense or WordAds, Media.net, or other advertisers.
Media.net is an option for new bloggers. They don't require a minimum number of pageviews. It's a good alternative to AdSense. Media.net offers highly relevant ads for your blog and adds value to your reader while you earn revenue. You must receive the majority of your traffic from the US, UK, and Canada and have a reasonable volume of visitors.
With WordAds, you are generally paid per impression (when the ad is seen by a visitor) – not by clicks. That means the more visits you get, and the more each visitor uses your site, the more you’ll earn.
Other great options are Adthrive and Mediavine.
Many bloggers report making good money from Mediavine. To apply with Mediavine, your site must have a minimum of 50,000 sessions a month (per Google Analytics) and be in good standing with Google AdSense. You'll generally get a high RPM. RPM is your revenue per 1,000 sessions or pageviews (depending on which platform you use). Being active on social media can help you get traffic.
Adthrive requires 100,000 monthly pageviews.
More advertising options include:
- VigLink – No minimum pageviews
- Pop Ads -No minimum pageviews
- Ezoic – an average of 10,000 sessions per month.
- Monumetric – https://www.monumetric.com/
Different types of ad networks
There are different types of ad networks serving different types of ads, including CPM Ads (you get paid by impression), CPA Ads (cost per action), CPC Ads (CPC stands for “Cost Per Click” and you get paid when someone clicks on the ad), In-Text Ads and Contextual Ads. Other advertising includes Banner Ads, Pop-Under Ads, Affiliate Networks, and Native Ads.
In-text ads: Infolinks uses in-text ads and is friendly for new bloggers.
CPC ads: CPC stands for “Cost Per Click”. This is one of the most popular methods to make money with a blog. Relevant ads are placed on your blog and you get paid for every click.
CPA ads/CPA Affiliate Networks. CPA stands for “Cost Per Action.” You're getting paid by action. You don't have to make a sale to make money! CPA ads pay you when someone takes a particular action such as providing their email address, and zip code or signing up for a free trial offer. CPA ads can make a great deal of money, but they often expire quickly so you must check them and update them often.
CPM ads. CPM stands for Cost per mile which means cost per thousand. CPM ads are also called CPI (cost per impression).
Here are some tips on getting the best results from advertising:
- Match the look of the ads to the look of your content (color of links, font type, text size, etc) as much as possible. Making your ads look like internal links rather than ads will increase your clickthrough rate and your earnings.
- Insert the ads in your content.
How much you’ll make depends on the advertising network you're using, how much traffic you’re getting, the kind of traffic you’re getting, and the value of the keywords in your niche. Other factors include the ad format, ad placement, ad size, colors, and the number of ads you’re using.
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