How To Make Your Blog Important For Advertisers

The best way to make you blog interesting for advertisers is to serve a targeted niche, have a large audience and steady growing traffic.

To predict that you have high traffic will not be enough! Every advertiser can check your traffic and your rank through Alexa for free.

Blogs and web site which have traffic of about one hundred visitors daily, rank between 90,000 and 120,000. And every advertiser who is savvy in this area knows this.

To help an advertiser to check your Alexa Rank you can put a free Alexa widget on you blog.

Advertisers will consider an advertisement on your blog when you have a significant number of daily visitors. There for a screenshot of your recent Google Analytics stats could be helpful to get advertisers as well.

Advertisers are looking out for blogs with a good Page Rank (PR). A minimum PR of 1 or better means the blog is important enough and many sites are linking in.
The higher the PR the more sites linking in and the better your chances as a blogger are to get paid advertising on your blog.

You can spread your blog content through Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for free and create your own community to grow your readership.

It is more helpful to produce good and remarkable content for your audience and grow your readership on a steady base.

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Making Money Blogging for Teens

Like many teens out there, I am one of them who (thinks at least that he) needs more money. Everyone wants money for their own reasons (I want to buy a new car) and goes about earning it different ways.

Unfortunately in this day and age, especially with the economy the way that it is, getting a job is extremely difficult. And face it, what teen actually wants to work?? After much research and trials of multiple ways to make money, I found Blogging.

My actual blog http://teencollegeeducation.blogspot.com/ deals with high school life/stress (no not mine personally) and, as the name implies, teen college education. I got a great template somewhere and come up with the articles myself based on experience, news, surveys, and a few other factors.

I have not been working on my blog for too long, but I am already seeing some money coming in from advertising. Some being the key word. Unfortunately, money does not just flood in as some people claim that it does, but you need to work for it.

The great thing about my blog, or any blog in fact, is that you can work on it when you have the time and do other things when you don’t. Blogging is not that time demanding, which is one of the things that makes it a great way for teens to earn a little extra money. Just as an example, I had finals all of this week, so I was not able to post anything on my blog for a while, but when I am on vacation I can post something almost every day.

Another great thing about blogging for teens is that writing an actual article does not take much time. I wrote this article in about an hour, which is simply one hour less that I would have spent on Facebook. A new study just came out a few days ago that said that teens spend more than 7 hours online every single day.

In order to blog, all a teen needs to do is spend one of those hours, at least once a week, writing articles or improving the blog itself.

My posts stay online and receive visitors every day, even when I do not have the time to write new ones.

So how does a teen make money from blogging? – Advertising. I currently have a few PPC (pay per click) ads and one referral ad. PPC, or pay per click ads, basically pay you every time that someone clicks on it. The more people that click on the ad, the more money that you get. It is that simple.

You do not need to sell anything or market anything, just put an advertisement somewhere on your web page where people can see and click it. Referals are a bit more complicated and pay you whenever someone uses your referral link to sign up for something.

I am not too sure yet of how I like referrals, but I will make sure to write about it once I have more experience with it.

Does advertising work for your web page? Well, I have a blog about education, and somehow, Google Adsense gets ads that are relevant to my articles. Some of the ads are repeats, but for the most part they advertise books, classes, or colleges. Adsense really is an amazing thing and can make the ads look like part of your blog.

So if you are a teen, or anyone for that matter who wants to make some extra money, create a blog and put ads on it.

Just write about something that people will like to read and they will come, eventually.

Good Luck!

-Andy

Please check out my blog at http://teencollegeeducation.blogspot.com/. You might get some ideas!

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Monetize your blog

Blogging is one of the favorite hobbies of most bloggers. Some bloggers earn their living through blogging. There are various ways in which one can monetize and earn money from their blog or website.

There are various SEO strategies that are coming up in the Industry which provide huge amount of revenue to pro bloggers. Earning money from blog is very simple if we develop our niche and start writing articles that are human, interesting and informative.

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Blogs are intended for providing information and shared by people all over the world. Readers reach out to the blog for regular updates if they find it interesting and share those websites with their friends.

This is the time in which social communities and social media marketing come into picture. Even though content is the key for bloggers, writing articles according to their niche makes their blogs or website visible in top pages of search engines.

Search engines look for blogs which have high keyword density, good SEO strategies and quality content.

Once you have a Google page rank and good Alexa rank for your blog, you can earn huge amount of money from your website or blog.

There are different ways to earn money from your blog. The heart of earning money for any blogger is by advertising. You can earn money by publishing ads from Google Adsense, bidvertiser, yahoo, adbrite etc. which provide you revenue based upon number of customers who visit your website.

Bloggers can earn money by writing reviews in their blogs. There are different websites which bring advertisers and bloggers together through which bloggers earn money by writing product reviews.

Once you improve your page rank and have good search engine visibility, attracting new customers is very easy. For that bloggers should stick to their niche, get appropriate back links, join social media marketing and update their website consistently.

Bloggers can also earn money through displaying donation badges for their hard work and also by sharing their knowledge and back links with other websites.

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Why Put Advertising On Your Blog?

To make money!

There are thousands bloggers world wide who include ads on their blogs and make money through blog advertising.

Some reasons why you should do this:

The main source of income of a blogger is advertising. If your ads get clicks you will receive money from programs like AdWords etc… If you make several hundred dollars through your blog you can cover your hosting and domain fees and you can help your family budget, depends how much you make!

Blogs of value and quality have massive traffic. If your blog is in a position to get the necessary traffic you can make a living of it. If you establish your blog and yourself as an expert in your targeted niche, you are able to grow to a big money making business. And later hire freelancers or employees to help you get your daily work done!

You possible blogging benefits:

- A reader of your blog is in your area of interest. Therefore, the probability that he is aware that the product or service which is included as an advertisement your blog can be something of value for him, is very high. He is willing to click on the ads and you can make money.

- Blog advertising is one of the best options to address the right and targeted niche; advertisers know this also and look out for blogs willing to write reviews or to take ads on the pages!

- Blog advertising can help a product or service to hit a market in a much shorter time than with traditional media or advertising. Blog Advertising saves time, cash and much effort. Advertising managers know this too.

- Blog Advertising helps to establish authority and to create your product and brand identity.

If you have a blog right now or you want to start blogging, than I can say GO For It! This is a very good decision!

With the growth of social media marketing, demand and the awareness of marketing managers to blogs you have better than only good chances to be successful.

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FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials

Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the FTC Act.

The notice incorporates several changes to the FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, which address endorsements by consumers, experts, organizations, and celebrities, as well as the disclosure of important connections between advertisers and endorsers. The Guides were last updated in 1980.

Under the revised Guides, advertisements that feature a consumer and convey his or her experience with a product or service as typical when that is not the case will be required to clearly disclose the results that consumers can generally expect. In contrast to the 1980 version of the Guides – which allowed advertisers to describe unusual results in a testimonial as long as they included a disclaimer such as “results not typical” – the revised Guides no longer contain this safe harbor. Read the full release here.

Find here the Text of the Revised Endorsement and Testimonial Guides

Read also my previous post: FTC Wants To Fine You $11,000 Per Post

Take a look here also how your disclaimer can look like!

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