Entries Tagged ‘blog monetization’

I had reviewed PerformancingAds blog advertising solution a couple of months ago. At that time this blog ad network was just getting established and as a fresh subscriber I was not having much success with it. Right now, however, things seem to be a little better and they have sent across my first month’s earnings via PayPal yesterday. (Click here for the payment proof)

Though I am happy that my experiment with this network was not a total disaster, things would have been much better had the Performancing team put a lot more organized effort into this project. I recently stopped running their ads to do yet another experiment with another network (Project Wonderful). However, I have the following findings on PerformancingAds after my 1.5 months long stint with them.
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I have been reading a couple of posts on other blogs that raised questions whether the bloggers should now start charging their readers for contents that they deliver! As a blogger, the idea came as a shock to me as my concept of blogging in the direction of penalizing the readers, though I still monetize this blog.

Blogging is all about ‘freedom‘ - both for the authors and their readers. This powerful but simple means of publishing content gave unmatched opportunities for millions of people around the world to voice their opinions. The readers on the other hand were able to pick and read whatever they want to at their own convenience. And now the greed seems to be taking priority over moral values as everybody seems to be after money, no matter how it comes! Click Here to Continue Reading

Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips recently wrote a very good article titled When Should I Put Advertising on My Blog? at ProBlogger. Basically it was more of a survey post where he wanted to get readers’ opinion on when to monetize a blog.

In this post, I would like to touch upon the monetization possibilities at various stages of your blog’s life. Here, we are talking about money making options other than advertising as well.

When to start monetizing?

When I started this blog I actually had some ads in the form of CPM banners, content links as well as Pay-Per-click advertisements. However, the income generated was not up to my expectations - some of them not even crossing a dollar mark. Click Here to Continue Reading