Top Companies I Use To Earn Money Blogging
Let me start off by saying that I am not a mega successful blogger (yet) and I have put about 15 months into blogging so far and have earned around $3500 over the fifteen months blogging, so at my current blogging income I am no where near quitting my day job. That being said that was $3500 extra throughout the past fifteen months that was used to treat the family, pay down debt and have a little spending money from time to time that wasn’t tied up in my monthly budget. Blogging can be a way to make some extra income for the household and you can stretch it quite far.
Blogging requires dedication, patience, passion and creativity and if you enjoy blogging it will show in your articles and you will gradually become successful if you keep at it and learn from your mistakes, but always try new things and be creative as you will find other ways to monetize your blogs that I have not been successful at so far.
Here are the list of companies that I myself earn the most money from online.
SocialSpark is my top earner by far this program works by bringing advertisers and bloggers together. SocialSpark acts like the middleman that brokers the transaction and you can find some very impressive opportunities that pay well over $100 per post if your blog is popular enough. Some opps exceed $1000 per 200 word article, though my blog itself can proudly say it qualified for 2 $250 opps in the past six months. The majority of my opps pay between $20 and $50 dollars, but I also don’t take all the $5 assignments, so I could earn more. At one point I was able to earn over $500 in 30 days from SocialSpark but this depends on how many opps are in the system and how popular your blog is. SocialSpark tracks your blog visits with its unique ITK toolkit which assigns your blog a RealRank, and because your realrank can qualify you for opps, if you have a good RealRank but a low Google PageRank you can still make some good money from SocialSpark. If you do a sponsored post just remember you cannot use any other ads in a sponsored post, this means no AdSense, Kontera or other ad types can exist inside a Sponsored post, but all assignments include NoFollow links which is a plus.
SponsoredTweets is technically not a program where you make money with your blog but instead you earn with your Twitter account. SponsoredTweets is by the same company as IZEA and it brokers advertisers and twitter users to find matches where companies will hire you to promote their products in a “tweet”. If you have a successful twitter account you can make $50 – $100 per month easily, and you make an average of $1 per tweet for every thousand followers you have (This is just an estimate but is a good one). The great thing here is that you can qualify as long as your twitter account is over 4 months old and you have just 200 followers, you can start earning $10 – $20 per month just from having these very easy numbers. I have made about $40 in two months with SponsoredTweets, but I have just under 300 followers, John Chow himself is rumored to make about $200 per tweet from SponsoredTweets.
PayU2Blog is one of the best income earners for most blogs out there in my opinion. This company announced they stopped accepting Blogger (Blogspot) blogs but if you run a self hosted blog this is a site worth trying. You can get some good earnings from sites even with PageRank less than 2. I have earned an average of $60 – $90 per month consistently with this blogging service. The only caveat is you cannot run SocialSpark and PayU2Blog on the same blog, PayU2Blog does not allow any other scripts on their post including the ITK script that IZEA uses to collect page visits. This means PayU2Blog does not allow Kontera or InfoLinks on the same posts as an assignment, you can run other paid blogging companies on the same blog as long as they don’t require any tracking scripts. One other note is all PayU2Blog posts are DoFollow links which can affect your SEO.
PayPerPost is another IZEA service offering that differs from SocialSpark in that you list your blogs without any qualification requirements or tracking tools to install. Anyone can list any blog on PayPerPost and Advertisers will contact you if they are interested in purchasing an AD slot on your blog. Where SocialSpark you have to apply and request opps from advertisers and sometimes miss out by not being the fastest to apply, PayPerPost puts the power in the advertisers to pick and choose which blogs they want to advertise on. You can set your price per word and per link and some bloggers with high PageRank and low Alexa rank can command upwards of $50 per post or higher. My blogs tend to average about $9 – $20 per post on PayPerPost with DragonBlogger.com earning the higher amounts. On some months I have made as much as $50 in one month, but I am very choose on opps, I get invited to no less than $150 per month in opps but I reject most of them. PayPerPost lets you choose whether you want to accept DoFollow or NoFollow links from advertisers.
Google AdSense is one of the easiest ways to make money from your blog without doing actual work writing reviews and trying to promote products. You should research what type of ad placement you want to use and leverage either in-post or sidebar advertisements, but depending on your site traffic you could earn big. My site which averages 15,000 visits per month earns about $15 – $20 per month in AdSense, combining all three of my sites I average about $30 per month in AdSense revenue. This is all from doing no work at all just letting the ads list and the earning comes in, I have also seen my earnings steadily increase from a $10 per month average 1 year ago to triple now, so presumably this will keep growing as your site grows.
BlogsVertise used to earn me about $30 per month an average but has tapered to about $9-10 per month. This service will provide you with more opportunities if your blog has a higher PageRank but is still worth listing your blog on as I have gotten as many as four $9 posts in a single month at one time. The posts often involve 3 links on a post and they are all dofollow links unlike SocialSpark.
SponsoredReviews is actually a very good site to earn money as a blogger if your PageRank is very high 4+ you can qualify for some opps as high as $100 per opp. This blog is a PR2 blog and ironically I have placed bids for several opps in the $20 range but have never been accepted, most paid opps I do for SponsoredReviews come from advertisers directly purchasing a review from me and I get paid an average of $20 per post. I get about 1 or 2 per month at most, I am sure I will earn more from SponsoredReviews as my Alexa continues to get better and my PageRank increases.
Sponzai is a unique service from IZEA where advertisers (including other bloggers) purchase a guest post from your blog for a set amount. You have no flexibility other than just posting exactly what the advertiser’s guest post says as you are selling a “post” on your site to the advertiser. The links are all nofollow and there is full disclosure in all sponsored posts. The one thing I have found is that there is a very high number of poor quality blogs in the system due to no blog qualification requirements and IZEA charges a hefty commission fee. As a result you have to set your price pretty low to get advertisers willing to purchase guest posts, you see the most offers if you set your guest post price at $5 or less. Though your Pagerank, Alexa rank and Backlinks are all factored and affect how much you can earn per guest post. I have earned $7.5 in my first month using the service, but I have spent over $100 (free credit from IZEA) testing the service as an Advertiser and it really is a great service with lots of potential.These Services I have tried and will list a little bit of my dealings with them, they are not recommended by me but list them to show you want I have tried:
ReviewMe – My blogs cannot qualify for reviewme for some reason even though I have tens of thousands of visits and a PageRank of 2, this site I hear is best for blogs with a PR4 or better and I know some people swear by the site but I just can’t qualify for some reason.
BlogToProfit – When I first signed up about 10 months ago I had about $40 in two months, then I haven’t seen a single opp in seven months. I think the site is either not working or my blog just no longer gains advertiser interest. I can’t recommend since I haven’t seen any opps in 3/4 of a year.
Smorty – I have never had an opp in my queue and cannot recommend Smorty since I haven’t had a single earning opportunity from them.
Blogger Wave – Another service I signed up for and haven’t seen a single opportunity from them.
LinkFromBlog – Haven’t earned any money or opps from LinkFromBlog, can’t recommend.
LoudLaunch – Another site that has not earned me a dime and I can’t recommend.
PayingPost – This site is yet another example of an online site that you sign up for and don’t earn anything.
BuyBlogReviews – I have never earned an opp and can’t say if the service is any good.
Kontera – Kontera is an In Text Link service where keywords found on your existing blog posts become double underlined (you choose the color of the link) and when a user highlights over they get a popup with information about the product/service tied to the keyword. You get paid per click not per hover but you can earn some money from this CPC program. This service works best for blogs that don’t do sponsored posts as you have to disable the Kontera on any sponsored posts (this is easy to do with the Kontera plug-in which lets you disable for specific posts but I didn’t find the earnings to be worth keeping additional links on my posts). I was only earning an average of $3 per month when Kontera was running on all three of my blogs so I pulled it.
LinkWorth – LinkWorth is identical in functionality to Kontera and provides in post link advertising based on keyword matches, I have found that both of these services caused negative feedback from users who see too many links in posts and the earnings for my blogs were trivial (under $5 per month). AdSense worked far better for me as a CPC, though some people have claimed to earn high dollar amounts from LinkWorth or Kontera they just didn’t work very well for me and are best suited for blogs that have massive amounts of visitor traffic.
Chitika – Chitika is another CPC program like AdSense but differs in that it you can select only to display ads to users who arrived at your site from a seach engine query. This means you are displaying relevant ads to people who arrived at your site via a specific keyword search and have better targeted advertising for your audience, it also means you won’t display any Chitika ads to your visitors from twitter, facebook or people who are regular readers and hit your blog directly without seeing any ads. I think Chitika has tons of potential because it allows you to put ads up on your site that won’t bother your regular visitors. At this time though Chitika only displays ads and earns you revenue from US and Canada arrivals on your site so it isn’t a good choice for international bloggers.
Ad.Ly – Ad.Ly is another program to earn money from your twitter accounts where an advertiser purchases a “weeks worth” of advertising gaining 1 tweet per day from your account. You set weekly prices and John Chow stated on his blog that he makes more from Ad.Ly than SponsoredTweets. I have just signed up for the service and am testing it out, my estimated price was $30 per week for advertising on my twitter profile and I have less than 3000 followers. Nothing will tweet without your consent you get to hand select each advertiser you wish to promote or reject.
MagPie – MagPie is a twitter program where you can make money from tweeting ads on Twitter, but unlike SponsoredTweets or Ad.Ly you don’t get to choose individual ads you merely are matched to advertisers who fit your categories and tweets are sent out automatically from your twitter account. You earn a small portion from each ad that goes out from your account. This program earned me pennies per day when I tried it earlier this year and I wound up not liking it so much that I removed myself from the service. Some people claim it makes money for them, but I just don’t like the automate tweet ad without me approving the advertisements or sponsors.
Summary:
This is a comprehensive list of all online earning programs I have tried that relate to blogging or twitter and though this list doesn’t mention every program out there these are some of the biggest ones that I know of. These services involve you promoting an advertisers product with either a blog or your twitter account, this won’t include any affiliate sales like CJ.com, Neverblue, Amazon Affiliate…etc which is a different realm than advertiser/sponsor bog earnings.
I will update this post as I try new sites and re-arrange as I find which sites start to work better than other sites.
-Dragon Blogger
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