Top 5 Ways To Monetize Your Blog.

There are various ways to earn money from your blog. Many webmasters start blogging for the sole purpose of making money but majority of them give up because they don't see any practical earnings in the beginning. However, money making from blog takes some time and the results are shown to those who continue even after seeing a little or no income at all in beginning. The real thing is to keep hanging up for some time, may be an year. 
 
Here is a list of 5 different ways of making money to your blog. Choosing the right option for yourself depends upon your niche and the way of your blogging and you should give a research as to which form will earn you more. Or you can try some for days, and find out the best one for yourself. 


1. Pay Per Click. This is the most widely used form of earning. As the name suggest, you get paid when a visitor clicks on the ads shown on your website. This method of earning is beneficial with websites/blogs receiving a lot of traffic, since only a small number of visitors will gonna click on your ads. The CTR (click through rate) is the number of clicks per hundred visitors. A normal optimized for ads website tend to receive about 3-4 % of CTR on an average. So earning from this method really needs a good amount of traffic. 
Some of the most widely used PPC programme are 

     ▌Google AdSense
     ▌Chitika
     ▌Clicksor


2. CPM Advertising. CPM is Cost per Mile. Instead of earning from the clicks you get on the ads, you get paid by the number of times the ads are shown to the visitors. Put it simple, the more pageviews you get, the more you earn, irrespective of any clicks. CPM advertisement is a sure shot mode of earning.

The rates are fixed per 1000 page views. That means if you get 10,000 visitors (page views) and the ad network is paying you a CPM of 1$, then you will make 10$. As you can see, for earning a small amount you need a lot of visitors. CPM advertising is best suitable for blogs with very high traffic. Getting a few hundred visitors will earn you penny for a day. The plus point is that you are sure of those pennies irrespective of clicks. 

There are various CPM advertising networks like

     ▌Casale Media 
     ▌Clicksor
     ▌BurstMedia 
     ▌Tribal Fusion
     ▌Value Click media. 

Some of these have minimum requirements. You can have a look on them by visiting their websites. 


3.  In-Text Ads. In-Texts-ads are contextual advertisements where keywords from your posts are selected and an advertisement is connected to it. The keywords are double underlined or dotted, and when a visitors hovers mouse on those keywords, the advertisement is pop up-ed. Here the payment is usually through cost per mile. The benefit of In-text advertising is that they don't take any space on your blog and normally do not lower your site speed. 

The two most widely used In-Text Ads schemes are

     ▌Infolinks
     ▌Kontera 


4. Affiliate Marketing. With this kind of advertisement, you earn commission from each sale that is done through your referral link. You write reviews about products and when some one buys any product through your referral, they pay you a commission. 

     Lets say a network pays you a commission of 5%. If someone buys a thing with cost price Rs 100,000, you will make Rs 5000. That's a lot of amount to earn from CPC and CPM ads.

Affiliate marketing is favourite among some of the blogger since chances of earning much more is higher. However, setting up a fan base, reviewing products, and compelling people to buy a product is a hectic task. 
Some of the affiliate Marketing networks are 

     ▌ClickBank
     ▌AffiliateWindow
     ▌Commission Junction
     ▌Amazon


5. Selling ads spaces on your blog. Selling ad spaces on your blog to display advertising banners is a good way of monetizing blogs. This is a profitable thing, since all the money comes to you and no middle person/ company takes a part of your income. The interested advertisers contacts you, a deal is done and you are paid for banners you display on your blog. These can be CPC banners or CPM banners depending upon the advertisers choice. 

You can still go to third party for managing of Selling-buying ads so that you don't have to deal with the complexities. However, then the third party will eat up a part of your income. 

The major advantage is that you have the option of deciding the minimum rates for the ads you will show on your blog. 


Do you use any other method to monetize your blog? Feel free to share it to the readers of this blog. Time to make some money. 

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Unmatched Ad Request in Google AdSense.

If you are an AdSense publisher and monitoring your account regularly, you must have noticed "unmatched Ad Request". You can view it under Performance report > Bid type. 

What is Unmatched Ad Request basically? 
When a user visits your site or blog with AdSense Ad units, these Ad units sends a request to AdSense to display a relevant ad to the visitor. If there are no ads returned for this request, it is counted as unmatched Ad request. The ad units are then shown as blank spaces. 


The problem is not that you are getting Unmatched Ad Requests. The real trouble is that some publisher will have more of these requests than others. The chances of earning from these ad requests are NIL since there are no ads served and there is no clicks or impressions pay. 

Reasons for higher unmatched ad requests. 

• Using link units on site. If you are using link units on a blog/site, there will be higher unmatched ad requests. This is due to the fact that a matched ad request for a link unit is counted only if a visitors click on them. Since there are hardly any clicks on link units these days, these all are counted in unmatched ad requests. 

• Poor content. Chances are that your content is not receiving enough bidders due to poor quality contents. No one want to show ads on a web blog with low or bad quality contents. So, may be you are not getting enough ads as per ad requests. Some ad requests don't have ads to display. 

•  Blocked list. If you block half of the advertisers, how could you fulfill all the ad requests your blog generates. So be careful about that. 

• Unusual ad size. Square or rectangle and more frequently used ad sizes have more bidders and hence lower unmatched requests. Don't go for any unusual ad sizes. 

Although you know now what may be the reason for unmatched ad requests, you can hardly take any steps to shield yourself. Almost everyone keeps their filter list small. If you are approved by AdSense, there is almost negligible chances of poor quality content. And since Google is the leader in publishing-advertising market, number of bidders in most cases will never run out for an ad space. 

How to utilize unmatched ad requests to your benefits.?
This is where back up ads come into the picture. While creating ad unit, Google asks for back up ads in case there is no ads to display. Link one such another ads from any other publishing network you are using. This is the most you can do with unmatched ad requests. 

At last, you don't need to really worry about unmatched ad requests unless you are earning from AdSense. There is no any such negative aspects of it, and there is hardly anything you can control. You can at most write quality contents to attract maximum bidders, use more obvious ad sizes, keep your filter list small. 

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Tips and tricks for Adsense account approval

Getting Adsense approval is one of the biggest challenge for the bloggers. Adsense has become much more strict these days giving approval to webmasters. However, following some of the basic points could lead to faster Adsense account approval to you. Here are some of the points for quick Adsense Approval. Although you can't really call these points tips and tricks, but they are the normal rules you should adhere to in order to getting a Adsense account. 

• Get a custom domain. Buy a custom domain for your blog. Google has almost stopped considering .blogspot blogs. I am not saying that its impossible with blogspot domain but getting a custom domain will double your chances for approval. A custom domain will cost you not more than 10$ for a year. And domain hosting like Godaddy have discount coupons which ensures domain in as less as 3$. 

• Have some content. Don' apply with little content. Build your site and have some good quality posts. Before applying publish at least 50 articles with about 500 words each. In the beginning, you can post 2-3 articles per day. Do you think Google will show interest in approving a web blog with 10 articles? I don't think so. No one is having interest in showing ads on your website which have no content or very less. 

• Have some visitors. There is no pre-requisite of traffic for applying to Adsense. However, it don't make sense to apply for a blog with low visitors. Even if you get approval you won't be making any such money. Market your blog on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus. You will surely get good amount of traffic. Connect with people of your niche.

• Good website design. Have a good website design. If you are on blogger, go for third party templates. There are hundreds of free and professional looking templates across the internet. Just Google it. As they say, if you can't make good, make it look good. At least. 

• Include about us and privacy policy page: Google has made it mandatory to include privacy policy. Create one yourself and if you don't wanna complications, Google it. There are thousand of websites ready to make a privacy policy for you for free. Including a About us page is better. It should include information regarding you and other authors and the primary aim of the websites. 

There is no fixed rules or tips and tricks defined for Adsense approval. However, following some these points will make your work easy. Good luck. Make some money. 

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Top 5 reasons for Adsense ban

Getting Adsense ban is one of the most frustrating thing for a blogger. Adsense being the toughest in advertising market, ensures that there is no fraud involved anywhere in the whole publisher-advertiser process. However, some of the bloggers try to cheat Adsense by not following some of the program policies leading to the banning of their account. For ensuring that you don't be one of the victim of this ban, here is a 5 prominent reasons for Adsense ban and you should avoid these in all cases. 

• Never click on your own Ads. Do you think you can fool Google with thousands of highly qualified professionals working day and night for stopping frauds? Never try clicking on your own ads. You will lead yourself to ban. Google monitors every click and try not to click on any system on which you have used your Google accounts. Clicking your Ads may lead to permanent ban of your account and you will may be never get your account back. If somehow by mistake you click on your own ads, contact Google as soon as possible mentioning your mistake. 

• Don't encourage anyone to click on your ads. Encouraging someone to click ads on your page is strictly against the terms of services of Adsense. Never go for it. Write good contents, people will get to your blog, and chances are that will get to the ads also, since they are very contextual. You have to market your blog, not the ads on it. Good quality content will drive traffic and more traffic will have more chances of you for earning.  

• Location of ads on your blog. Don't trick Google. Don't make Adsense ads look like a part of content. Maintain adequate space between two ads or between ads and contents. Don't put ads on Login or registration pages or thank you pages. Don't put them near flash contents since its harder to guess which one is ad. Don't put ads in popups or emails. They are not allowed under Google Adsense terms. 

• Don't change the ads. Never try to tamper the Google ads code. Use the code which is generated in your Adsense account. Doing so will lead to chances of your account ban. Google strictly prohibits  alteration of code. Never change of layout, behavior, targeting or delivery of ads. There are a lot of layout ads for you and chances are that you will find any suitable for yourself. 

• Contents restriction to the ads. Never put ads on those sites which have contents that are not allowed under Google Adsense policies like adult/mature contents, pages that promote gambling, or are violent and hateful. Don't put ads on porn sites and on pages whose contents are copied from copyrighted material of someone else. No advertiser would want to display their ads on porn sites or a site selling drugs. 

Keeping all these points in mind while working with Adsense will ensure your smooth relation with Google. If you think you can fool someone like Google by fooling them or by violating their terms of services then you may be a fool. Go, try it and get banned. For sure.!! 

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Why blogger is better than wordpress

For a new blogger, its really a confusing part to choose the best platform for themselves. There are a lot of platforms available for blogging as I have written in the article First step towards blogging. I personally started with both the WordPress and Blogger and then concluded that Blogger is better than WordPress  In this post I am gonna talk to you why Blogger is better than WordPress for a beginner.

• The most important of using Blogger over WordPress is that some bloggers don't want to spend their time understanding complexities of the platforms and the way it works. Since Blogger is much easier and everything with a click support, they have much time for utilization in creating quality contents rather than other factors. 

• Ease of use. For a beginner Blogger is better. Its easy to set up and use. Making posts is as easy as using MS word. Dashboard is clean and simple. Adding pre-existing tools and widgets are easier. 

• More Secure. Blogger is a Google's part. They are much more secure than WordPress and the chances of being hacked in WordPress is zero. 

• Hosting on blogger is free. That means you just have to pay for a domain, redirect it to your .blogspot blog and enjoy. No need to worry about host settings, paying for hosting and always monitoring traffic to your blog. WordPress is a self hosted site, that means you will have to buy host space in order to have a custom website. 

• Adsense Integration. Getting Adsense approval for blogger is easier than WordPress (although no one confirms it). Blogger provides an inbuilt integration for Adsense in their dashboard and you don't need to install plug-ins to show Adsense ads. 

• Analytic. Blogger support Google Analytic with the same account. No need to have multiple accounts for webmaster, analytic, Adsense, blog account. All with one user id and password. 

• Faster Indexing. Blogger posts are indexed much faster as compared to Wordpress. The posts are indexed within hours of publish and thus are available for search engine resulting in traffic to your blogs. 

However, Blogger has some disadvantage of fewer templates, and less customization features. But, with all these plus points, A beginner can surely opt for Blogger. With no need of understanding complexities, they can concentrate on creating a good post. That's why Blogger is better than WordPress. 

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How to get Google Adsense approval

Basically, there is no pre-defined ways of getting Google Adsense approval. And with Google being so strict in its policies and number of bloggers increasing exponentially, it has become a hell difficult task to get  Google Adsense approval. But then, there are some common mistakes which results in denial from Google Adsense program. Lets discuss how to get Adsense approval. 

• Genuine and updated contents. Don't copy paste contents from anywhere. Google will know about it. Trust me. And don't try even to copy a paragraph from one website and another paragraph from some other website. Its still copy-paste. Write yourself. Your spelling mistakes won't create much problem. Update your blog frequently. Its better to post a topic daily. You may post 2-3 topics per day in beginning. Depends on you. 
• Original Content. 
• Updated Frequently.
• Read how to select best topic for your blog.

• How old should be your blog. Well, Google says it should be 6 months if you are from India, Pakistan, or neighboring countries. That's simply because there are hundreds of thousands of blogs set up daily from these region and even a lot of spamming. However, if your blog has really great contents, apply after a couple of months. 6 months old website or blog is a necessary condition, not a compulsory condition. People may find this line wrong. But I myself got registered on 52nd day of setting of my blog. 

• How much content. Its better to have at least 50 posts before applying. But as I said earlier, its not compulsory. I got my Adsense account with 14 posts. However more contents means more chances of getting approval. It will simply say Google that your blog is worth showing Ads and you going to get good traffic. 

• About us, and Privacy Policy page. Get a about us page mentioning the objective of your blog. The reason why your blog is up. A page where a common user will get to know a brief idea of what your website is for. Creating privacy policy is as easy. Just Google search. You will find a lot of websites creating Privacy Policy for you for free if you don't wanna use your brain. 

• Get a custom domain. Getting approval for .blogspot.com domain is possible but with .com domain, its a lot easier. You can buy a custom domain in as less as 10$ from blogger dashboard only. Or with godaddy you can get it in even less with discount coupons. Get it. There is nothing in spending Rs 500 for your blog. 

• Traffic. There is no distinct number of visitors you should get for applying. However, try getting atleast a 100 visitors per day before applying. Try getting organic traffic i.e. from Google searches. Getting good amount of visitors from Google Search Engine will increase your chances a lot for getting approved by Adsense.

• Don't give up. Google Adsense rejected your application? No problem. Show Google you worth it. Write some better quality posts. Show them you deserve it and it was their mistake not to accept you. You attitude matters the most. Your application will surely be rejected a couple of times (unless its really awesome). Don't loose hope. Try again with improvements and they will accept you for sure. 

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