Preparing Your Blog to Make Money Online

5 June, 2010 - 07:00 AM - 14 Comments

Lauren Axelrod a blogger who runs a successful Archaeology Site called Ancient Digger had written an article on Factoidz about preparing your blog to make money online. This was a well written article that included some high level overview and basics, but where Lauren really provided me value was when she started commenting to my comments.

Lauren achieved a PageRank 6 for her Archaelogy blog mostly through backlinks and is very choosy about advertisers and sponsored payment programs, though she has used all the ones we commonly know of at some point in the past. Her success has allowed her to reach over $1,100 per month in blogging without selling any affiliate products, eBooks and all of this revenue is strictly advertisement related.

I myself have been hoping to reach the 1k mark from advertising alone, so imagine my surprise when she mentioned reaching those marks with a blog that averages around the same number of pageviews yet has a PageRank 4 higher than mine which is stuck at a PR2.

In addition to sharing how she managed to gain backlinks and some of where her advertising revenue comes from, Lauren also mentioned 3 social sites she submits her blogs to that I had never even heard of before including: Dump Trumpet, Solinkable and 2leep. She also mentioned using Blog Engage which I am avid fan of.

So head on over to read Lauren Axelrod’s article on preparing your blog and make sure to read the comments where you will find just as much value if not more than the post itself.

-Justin Germino

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Lauren

I was checking my webmaster Justin and the link you have to my site is wrong. There's an apostrophe in the url which doesn't belong. Please check it if you can. Thanks

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Justin Germino

Fixed, thanks for telling me and I apologize about the typo.

Appreciate it. With the recent change in Google's rankings, I want to make sure pages are working and such.

Aury (Thunderdrake)

I just stumbled on over and skimmed through the article. I've yet to meet some of the criteria!

my blog is still a bit on the fresh side (just a month old) and a lack of article numbers on my blog. I suppose that stems from all that aforementioned verbosity I enjoy getting into all this time.

Seems I got a ways to go though... :P

cat@Nas ethernet external hard drive

Thanks for the review and great info on the article. I will for sure go read her article after i finish posting here. I've got lots of blogs up and only one making any money, and only one has any page ranking so far (and thats not the one making the money). So i'm all about learning as much as I can about backlinks right now.

Murlu

Thanks for sharing this, I didn't know about these sites either. Going to check out the post now :)

Craig Cook

Good post as usual! I am with Kim, marketing my blog is probably the area I want to focus on most. I have really found that having a solid plan is critical to achieving the goals I have put on myself as a blogger. Niche - Layout - Content - Marketing - Monetize ... Look about right?

Kim

You know, this post really broadens my horizon about marketing my blog, i mean, i really never thought about offering advertisement in my blog, what i focus on now, is getting quality blog and then advertise, good post as always dude :D

dragonblogger

Thank you, having advertisers who want to pay for banner ads on your site is nearly every bloggers dream because you are being paid just to host an ad, no extra work required.

Mike

Justin, thanks you for sharing your knowledge with us, being new to blogging I'm trying to educate myself on so many areas right now. Great site!

Thanks do much for the article Justin, I really appreciate the exposure. Blogging is more than just an addiction for me, it's really a way for me to give back. In my spare time, wait I have none-lol, I try to help give my friends blogs facelifts via templates and such. It makes me feel good when their blogs start doing well because of the advice I've given them.
.-= Lauren´s last blog ..Travel To The Underground City of Derinkuyu =-.

You definitely have inspired me further with your own success and creativity in your own blogs.

Eric@flv converter

Ancient Digger is great blog. Very informative. Some facts about artefacts I found there are really unique. Especially this one "Noah's Ark Has Been Found".

Asad @ Blogger

I am also a fan of Blog Engage.It is a good place where bloggers can submit their articles and get good exposure.I haven't heard of other three.I am looking to try them as well.
.-= Asad @ Blogger´s last blog ..Add Popular Posts Widget to Blogger =-.