Comments on: Web Site Monetization – A Reality Check

By: David

David — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:51:31 +0000

You hit it right on the button! There is no such thing as easy money on the internet. An online business is no differnet than any other brick and mortar business, if anything it is harder to succeed! Any program that promises instant overnight riches is most likely a SCAM! The only one who makes money is the person selling you false hope.

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:12:20 +0000

You should try pubmarketplace.com. You can put their new graphical ad tag cloud on your site and it reaches a very wide audience, it doesn’t have to be a site that is tailored to a specific audience. It takes text ads to a higher level, animating them and proving to have higher CTRs and conversion rates. In my opinion their technology is way better than Google Adsense.

By: Ted Murphy

Ted Murphy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:53:44 +0000

I tried Adsense on what I thought was a useful financial website, but the payout seemed low.

So, I started a new way for a blogger to make money — direct payment from the audience on a per-minute basis.

Now, I’m advertising this new product using AdWords — and I’m paying an $0.08 CPM. I guess it wasn’t just me not making a lot with AdSense.

Extraordinary blog here, btw, congratulations.

By: MAC

MAC — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:00:58 +0000

Thanks for a great summary.

Personally I use Ads and found its performance varying. From my experience, it takes about 2-5 months to get some decent traffic.

By: Urban

Urban — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:52:58 +0000

Actually no prior monetizing options are good if your website doesn’t have content. Content is the first priority, the other is design and layout. If you have those you will get traffic and if you get traffic you can see a money flow.

By: The Happy Rock

The Happy Rock — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:02:19 +0000

At what point do you think it is worth thinking about monetizing a blog? 100 visitors a day? 500?

Adsense is not good for younger sites, what is the best option?

Thanks for the good information.

By: Robyn McMaster

Robyn McMaster — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:09:52 +0000

Char, thanks a lot for a really great post. I found it by originally clicking on Jonathan Phillips shout to your site. Nice work! I truly did not know there was so much to it.

By: Advice Network

Advice Network — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:00:16 +0000

I have a different take on this subject. I did not set up a blog that I am trying to monetize, I’ve set up a website, and my blog is to draw attention and traffic to my website, which I am trying to monetize.

As they say in India (or they did in the late 80’s when I was there.) “Same Same, but different.”

By: Don@AffiliateWatcher

Don@AffiliateWatcher — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:01:36 +0000

You hit the nail on the head. The reason many so called “guru’s” want to make monetization easy is to sell more ebooks or courses.

As someone who’s started several offline business’s, I’d say starting a successful online business or blog is just as time consuming and takes just as much knowledge and effort.

Thanks for sharing that post!

Don

By: Billy

Billy — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:12:44 +0000

Very concise write up of how new bloggers should approach monetization. It’s a lot harder than what everyone thinks, even when done right.

And blog software like blogspot perpetuate the ideas of easy blogging. Where most users put up one or two entries and call it blog. Which we all know is not even close.