I hadn’t made any money and then the second year, I started to dabble with some Google AdSense ads on my blog, some Amazon affiliate income. A spike in traffic from Google for me pays off really well when it comes to Google AdSense earnings. One of the first times I learnt this was when I had been playing around with AdSense for a while. I think I was probably earning $30 or $40 a day from AdSense which I was pretty happy with. I could get better at doing AdSense. MORE

You would make a lot more money if 10,000 people landed on your site looking for a gadget to purchase – which you sold – rather than 50,000 untargeted visitors where your only hope is for them to click on an Adsense ad. Adsense, CPM ads, affiliate links. MORE

Are you an AdSense publisher? It’s been possible to link Analytics and AdSense for a while now, but I come across plenty of publishers who are either yet to do so or who are not actually doing anything with this information. Once they’re linked up, over time as the data begins to collate, you’ll have at your fingertips some interesting information that will hopefully enable you to increase your AdSense earnings further. Do you use Google Analytics? MORE

This is particularly relevant if you monetize your blog using an ad network like Adsense. It’s a CPM advertising where you get paid every time someone views the ad. The Pros and Cons of Long Posts. Today, we have a question from Emma Cameron. . “Hi Hi Darren, I love your podcast! MORE

When I was running Google AdSense ads, allowing Google to place ads for related products on my home page, sidebar and in banners below blog posts, I was making a whopping $50 a month. Therefore, sites that implement AdSense ads too soon may actually harm their own SEO. MORE

What I’ve found is that when an advertiser buys multiple points of presence on a blog, rather than just a CPM banner ad, they’re much more likely to get conversions, and renew as an ongoing advertiser. Whether you’re using an ad network like AdSense, or you directly sell ads or sponsorships, do you focus upon it? Earlier in the week I observed a conversation between two Internet marketing bloggers on Twitter which grabbed my attention. The topic of conversation? MORE

The most popular, and realistically, most simple way for you to start monetizing your Blog is to utilize Google AdSense. AdSense is a very quick and simple way to get started making money from your blog. MORE

These are services like AdSense and Chitika but also smaller or more local ones like NuffNang (which operates out of Australia and Asia). This is what AdSense used to be: every time someone clicked your ad, you’d get a certain amount. Now AdSense do a combination of CPC and CPM ads—they mix them in. Some ad networks (like AdSense) have ways of doing this but you can also sell sponsorships in your RSS feed directly. MORE

My first major website made money through contextual advertising (Google Adsense) and selling ads on a CPM (cost per 1,000 impressions) basis. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!" MORE

When bloggers think about monetising their content, most will turn to Google AdSense for advertising revenue, and some may think about releasing an ebook or enrolling in an affiliate program. . CPM: Cost per thousand impressions served. MORE

Ads (CPM) = page views. If your ads are sold by CPM, then you’ve got it easy—you have the data already. If you’re using AdSense, you’re fine—that’s already integrated with Analytics. This guest post is by the Web Marketing Ninja. Earlier today, Greg explored the question of pricing products that you’re creating for sale on your blog. MORE

You can do this through banner advertising, CPM advertising, or even pay per click ads via Google AdSense. Following last week’s post on treating your blog like a business , this guest post from Anna Johansson provides some practical ways you can start turning your blog into a business. In many cases, blogging starts out as a hobby or creative outlet for someone looking to have a little fun writing about a topic that interests them. MORE

This is particularly relevant if you monetize your blog using an ad network like Adsense. It’s a CPM advertising where you get paid every time someone views the ad. The Pros and Cons of Long Posts. Today, we have a question from Emma Cameron. . “Hi Hi Darren, I love your podcast! MORE

Advertisers looks at many metrics when considering advertising on a blog — page views, daily visitors, average time on site, CPM, among others. Adsense and Amazon Affiliates are among the leaders but research to find a good fit for your blog. MORE

It has been around three years since I owned a website where the main income source was Google Adsense, but I recently picked up a great site which was pulling in a respectable $50 per day from the service. In image or flash ads it probably does, but that’s not the case with Adsense. MORE

Google can’t easily tell the difference a legitimate blog from a made for Adsense spam site. CPM rates keep falling and will keep falling so long as ad inventory grows faster than online advertising budgets. This guest post is by Gary Arndt of Everything-Everywhere.com. As a blogger, you probably do not have the luxury of having a staff of people to work for you. As such, your time is very valuable and you need to spend it where it will do the most good. MORE

Google Adsense. I’d always been against adding Google Adsense to my webpages for fear of it taking away from the user experience. This achieves a number of goals: It gives them another opportunity to click on one of your Adsense ads. It increases your number of pageviews, which increases your revenue from CPM banner advertising. This guest post is by James Penn of AcceleratedNicheProfits.com. MORE