An Effective Way To Monetize Your Blog
When considering how to monetize your blog, one of the more effective (although sometimes controversial) ways is to get paid to blog. You get to write about things you enjoy and are topical to your audience… and get paid for it.
When researching the market, I found several web sites that have come out over the past few years that help match advertisers with bloggers. I chose to try PayPerPost.com. They have an efficient system that helps you chose the blogging opportunities that make sense for you and makes the process easy. After you find a suitable opportunity, you write the post, add the links to your entry as requested and submit it. It’s all on one page and easy to follow. You’ll notice the image below this post as disclosure that you’re writing a sponsored post, but not all advertisers require it.
Of course, to use the system, you’ll need to have (or start) a blog that has some content (preferably original content) and is getting some traffic. The opportunities available to you will be based on the number of posts you’ve made, your ’score’ at PayPerPost (called a tack rating) your Google PR and Alexa ranking. If you’re just starting out, no worries, there are some opportunities that have minimum requirements.
Many of the blogging courses I’ve reviewed on the market recommend this method. To me it’s seems natural, you write on topics that are of interest to you, let others know about it and get paid to blog!
I’ve also used the advertiser side of the PayPerPost.com system to test getting the buzz out on a blog. It was straightforward and I received exactly what I was looking for, some good posts about the blog using the keyword links I requested. The bloggers that posted were honest, fast and wrote well.
This will be an interesting test. I’ll write more on my experiences and report my results.
How is your experience? Let me know!
