Blog Advertising Tips And Revenue Streams For Blog Owners
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I thought it would be good to share some tips about the program at BlogAds.com. While I do not personally use the BlogAD service myself it is a good program to join for blog owners. Adds content and provides a revenue stream for your blog.
"TIP OF THE WEEK
Here’s a tip that I’m not sure I’ve ever talked about on the blog but one that I’ve had some success with lately. Those of you who use BlogAds.com ads on your blogs will probably notice that the service allows you to offer free ads.
One of the things this enables you to do is to run ads of your own on your own blog.
This might seem a little odd at first, but it has a number of benefits.
Firstly it gives the perception that your blog is in demand for advertisers - this could well entice other advertisers to sign up.
The other benefit is that it gives you an easy way to highlight products that you might want to highlight. Particularly you might like to highlight an affiliate program that has relevance to your blog.
I’ve been doing this a bit lately on one of my blogs with some success. Here’s all you have to do:
- Find an Affiliate product/service that relates to the topic of your blog. You might do this on Amazon, ClickBank, Commission Junction etc.
- Log into your BlogAds account and in your ‘Manage My Adstrips’ menu click on the ‘Boilerplate’ link. This will allow you to put a password in the ‘offer code’ field.
- Go to the Blog you’re running BlogAds on and click the link at the bottom of your ads that takes potential advertisers to the sign up page of your ads.
- Make an ad by filling in the fields. Note that pictures work great - but that in these free ads you need to keep them to a small size. Make sure you include the affiliate link to the product you’re advertising in the URL section and in your Text (using html).
- Add the offer code/password that you selected to the ‘offer code’ field.
- Preview the ad and if it’s right submit it.
- You’ll shortly get an email asking you to approve your own ad (just like you would if a real advertiser submitted an ad). Approve it and you’ll start seeing your own ads on your blog.
Of course you could just make your own ad buttons/banners and run them on your blog - but this is another way of doing it that makes them also highlight your to advertisers the BlogAds.com option.
The other benefit is that you can also track the effectiveness of the ads using the statistics that BlogAds give you. You can always cancel the ad if it’s not working".
Tips provided with compliments from Darren Prowse who earns in excess of six figures from his online blogs.
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