So You Have Website Traffic But No Income? What’s up With That?

If you have seen my other articles, then you already know how through providing great content and using basic SEO techniques, you can drive large amounts of traffic to your blog. At the end of the day, however, what’s the use of getting traffic if it’s not generating cash for you? OK, some people blog for fun (I don’t know them personally), but for more and more people, it is looked at as a source of income. Therefore, we are always looking for ways to wring out money from our blogs.

Before addressing that, I feel that it is important to say that I see nothing ethically or morally wrong with making money from blogs. For some reason it rubs people the wrong way – they feel that the blogosphere is a pristine place that should be uncluttered by the billboards of commerce. But I look at it this way: The products I offer on my blogs are targeted to the interests of the readers. Therefore, the readers are not being bombarded with ads for products in which they have no interest, but items I think will compliment their interests.

So now let's look some of the ways you can extract money from your blog:

1. Google Adsense

This is the tried and true classic way to earn a little money that still works for many bloggers. Because Adsense is so easy to deploy on your site and because the general quality and relevance of the ads is high, there is a lot of earning potential. It is extremely unlikely; however, this Adsense income will allow you to quit your day job.

2. Affiliate Program Commissions

Generating affiliate income from your blog can be a great idea. (For those of you who are new, you can earn commissions by putting a link from your blog to a product and if a visitor clicks on the link and buys the product, you get a commission; sometimes a significant commission.)

The number of products that you can promote as an affiliate is HUGE. And in some cases the commissions amount to a significant share of the revenue, sometimes up to 100%. Because there are so many possible products that you can promote, be sure to pick individual products to promote based on individual posts. The more highly targets your products are to your blog content, the higher your revenue will be. And here’s a tip: Don't just throw one product in the sidebar of your blog. It’s better t  to talk about the product (or the product category) in your blog so that your readers get some valuable information along with the opportunity to purchase the product.

3. Sell Advertising Space

Just as you can make money from Adsense on your blog, you can directly sell advertising space on your blog. Of course, there needs to be substantial, targeted traffic to your blog in order for you to attract media buyers. In addition, advertisers will want to know exact demographics of your average blog readers, such as their age, location and reading habits how long they stay on your site and what they respond to in terms of your content and other ads. (Makes Adsense seem pretty easy.)

You can get demographic information by going to Quantcast (www.quantcast.com) and using their scripts to extract all of this data from your blog, which you can then show to interested buyers of ad space on your blog.

These are just three of the ways that you can extract cash from your site. Each of these methods will require more training in order for you to reach your maximum profit potential; however, they are a great start. And the more you look into the possibilities, the more you will learn about the possibilities.

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