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5 Best Ways To Make Money Blogging with Low Traffic
There are tens of ways to make money blogging or monetize a blog. However most of them rely on high traffic to be profitable.
In this article I discuss how best to monetize your blog and earn money blogging when your traffic is still low.
Ways to Make Money Blogging
Add Pay Per Click Ads within your content
Just as the name reads, per pay click ads are ads displayed alongside your content. And when visitors click on them whether or not they buy from the merchant when they visit the site, you make some money.
The amount you make usually ranges from few cents to a dollar or even more, depending on the Cost Per Click advertisers paid for such ads.
Popular PPC networks are:
Yahoo! Publisher Network
BidvertiserTo make a decent income from PPC ads with low traffic, select and write content on high cost per click keywords. So that few clicks quickly adds up a decent income for you.
I discussed how to find high paying Cost Per Click keywords in the article effective keyword research part 2
Create premium Content
Premium content are exclusive content you charge readers a certain fee to access and read.
Usually the fee is not too high that it will scare visitors away, say between 9 and 15 dollars and it is sometimes set up to be a continuous monthly subscription, just like a membership site.
People will have to register and regularly keep up with their subscription in other to access the content.
For this to work, you must have provided really good free content that visitors would expect that the premium content would be worth it. And of course you shouldn't disappoint them.
Become Affiliate to Blog Content Related Products
There are many merchants looking for affiliates to promote their products for a share of profit or commission.
Affiliate marketing can be very easy and rewarding as long as you only recommend good products to your readers, especially the ones that you have personally used and find to be effective.
As you research and write content for your blog, you'll find products related to your niche that you can recommend to your readers.
You sign up for free as affiliate and refer readers to the merchant sites by including links to the merchant sites within articles that relates to each product.
A good strategy to use to draw readers attention to such products is to create a resource page for your blog.
With affiliate marketing, just 5 sales a month can pay some bills for you.
When to Find Good Products:
Welcome Donations
It is very reasonable to welcome donations from readers if your content are really good.
Depending on your niche, with a few traffic you can make a few hundred every month.
Sell Services
What do people need help with in your niche? Find a way to help people with specific services and charge a fee.
Take the example of ninja blog setup , whose services is to set up professionally looking blogs for people.
You can offer any services and people will pay you for it as long as it will offer value to them.
Tips on Monetizing your Blog
Always look for the most profitable ways to monetize your blog and implement just them.
Traffic is a big factor as to whether or not you make money from your blog, and how much you make. So let your traffic level be a big determining factor on the monetization models you implement.
If you have low traffic don't your waste time and crowd your site with blog monetization options that will not make you a dime.
Planning and testing is the best ways to know what the right monetization plans for your blog are.
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