both.
I recommend you use both. However the main thing you need to do is list
building. This is the best long term monetization you can do on your blog.
You already have your opt-in form but you need to make sure your blog drives
attention and readers to it. Like I said earlier, it’s not good enough to just have a
keep updated pitch for your opt-in it needs to be more like:
“Get The Latest Dog Training Updates Direct From Me And If Your One Of The
Next 17 People To Subscribe For Free You’ll Receive The Secrets To Your
Dog’s Behavior Video Totally Free Of Charge.
Just Enter Your First Name And Email Below For More The Download Link”
You really need to make sure you sell your free offer and you can even make a
post or two now and again about your free offer and how they get a secret gift for
joining.
Right, we have the opt-in offer ready and now we need to monetize your blog
with affiliate programs and adsense.
The first thing you need to understand is that affiliate programs have always
100% made me more money than adsense ever has so your affiliate promo’s
need to get priority positions.
Here’s a diagram of a web monetized blog:
You’ll see that the affiliate program gets the top spot with adsense been under
the opt-in offer. You’ll also see how you can use my affiliate program to make
extra cash by using a banner.
I’ll go more info making money from the Blogging to the Bank 2.0 affiliate
program at the end of this ebook. For now I’ll show you how to get those affiliate
banners and adsense on your blog.
So the first thing you need to do is find a good affiliate program that also has
banners ready made for you or if you can use photoshop you can create your
own.
Once you have the banner you need to see if it is hosted already or you need to
host it yourself. This can easily be seen if you check out the affiliate page. If the
image is hosted by them you’ll just be given code to plug in to your blog that
looks like this:
src=http://www.thebestworkathomejobs.com/banners1.jpg width=”468”
height=”60”>
If you don’t get any code like this you’ll have to download the image and then
upload it to your webhost using the yahoo easy upload tool.
Then what you need to do is paste this code or similar into your blog. Here’s how
you do this:
First you need to login to your wp-admin section of your blog and click on
Presentation and then theme editor.
Then down the right hand side of the page you need to select the ‘Main Index
Template’ and the ‘Single Post’ files.
Then just below the first line of code you need to place your banner code which if
you want it centered which I suggest (center code highlighted yellow) will look
like this:
So that’s your affiliate banner in place. Now you need to place some adsense
ads down the left hand side of your blog under the opt-in offer to maximize the
advertising space of your blog.
Firstly, go over and log-in to your adsense account. If you don’t have one just
head over to google and sign up for one.
When creating your ads you need to make them fit in with the look of your blog.
Make the headline in the ads match the color of your blog and then the body
should be black or a color to go with your site. No matter what your blogs colors
the link in the ad should always be blue. I have tested this and the blue link
always out pulls any other color most likely because the blue is the same color as
a hyperlink.
So you need to make a skyscraper style ad and then copy your code.
Like before, open up your blog control panel and select ‘Presentation’ and
‘Theme Editor’.
This time you are looking for the sidebar file. Scroll down to the bottom of the
code and insert your adsense code. You may also want to ad the centered code
like above before and after the adsense code to make your blog look more
attractive.
You may have been told before that you should always have the 3 sections of
adsense on your blog or website but I have found huge differences in growth
results of a blog by not covering your blog in adsense.
I like to stick with just 1 bar of adsense on blogs because it looks much less of a
junk blog and gains more credibility.
