Apr
14
Statistics say that returning visitors rarely click ads, but visitors from search engines love to click them. How can we use this knowledge to our advantage?
Apr
08
If a visitor to your blog doesn’t see something - will they click it? No! If you’re monetising your blog by selling advertising space, make sure the space is visible - it gives value to your visitors, and value to the advertisers bidding for space on your site.
Scared that people won’t click the ads if you put them in a visible spot? Don’t be. Here’s some myths I’d like to dispel:
Mar
12
When I started blogging, I wondered how long it’d be before I was earning billions of dollars. Let me tell you, I’ve still got some way to go.
Since I really started working on monetising the blog, I’ve earned the following:
- $3.74 from infolinks
- $6.47 from Google Adsense contextual ads
- $0.12 from Google Adsense search
That adds up to a whopping $10.33. That means I’ve paid for the domain, but what about everything else? The time I’ve put into this blog is ridiculous, the money I’d be spending on hosting if I wasn’t lucky enough to have a server in the first place would be ridiculous.
Jan
07
Monetising a blog is one of those things that gets you really pumped up, only to leave you watching paint dry. Eye On Silicon has started to earn a small income - enough to pay for its domain registration. Though not much, as I continue to write and optimise the site, the income will surely grow.
So far, Eye On Silicon has returned $1.96 for time invested. That’s not even a minimum wage job! But somehow, earning $1.96 for writing something I’m passionate about provides more satisfaction than any nine-to-five job ever could.
Here’s what I’ve done so far to try and spur on the pennies.
