Comments on: 3 Good Ways To Increase Your Blog Revenue

By: Shane in Wyo

Shane in Wyo — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:54:49 +0000

Great video Jack!

Thanks for sharing these tidbits with us. My question is, how effective can a blog be without hosting and would you say it is necessary in order for the blog to make money?

For me, hosting and using a ftp client have been the most confusing part of this learning process. Can you or have you already shed some light on this?

Thanks Again Jack,
Shane in Wyo

By: 3 Good Ways To Increase Your Blog Revenue : My Netrepreneur

3 Good Ways To Increase Your Blog Revenue : My Netrepreneur — Sun, 20 May 2007 17:59:39 +0000

[...] 3 Good Ways To Increase Your Blog Revenue Here is my take on 3 different blog monetization methods I have played with in the last year. [...]

By: Franck Silvestre

Franck Silvestre — Mon, 14 May 2007 00:45:04 +0000

Amazing, your article is explaining the exact strategy I am following today.

I am an affiliate promoting stuff (including ASC), however, I just start with my own product.

I need to integrate it in my blog (picture…).

It’s much profitable since I will use leverage: Getting hundreds of affiliates promoting for me, like I am doing. Pretty exciting.

By: Matt Ellsworth

Matt Ellsworth — Sat, 12 May 2007 14:58:45 +0000

good tips – the create your own product thing is definitely the best bet – by far. Right now we do 2 out of the 3 methods and have new products in the works.

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Anonymous — Sat, 12 May 2007 13:27:46 +0000

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By: Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:28:55 +0000

Dave,

I agree you have to watch “promotion aggression” which is a slippery slope with your own products, or promoting anything really.

The other part of being a respected expert with a blog is you have to go more passive with all kinds of promotion.

The ads are acceptable these days (sidebars, casual links in content) but dedicated a huge percentage of your posts to pushing your product is a no no in the blog world for sure.

Seth Godin talks about his reluctance to push his stuff in his blog (can’t find that post – it’s pretty old) so everyone is pretty sensitive to the subject if they are real bloggers.

I try not to cross that barrier with readers but sometimes you get mighty proud and want to talk about what you’re doing.

I think they can sense that you are being careful and respect that, but that’s your core readers with a sense of history.

Yeah – on the text links I didn’t even use the whole phrase “text link a*s” because I don’t want that keyword phrase in my blog!

Your “hmmm” is duly noted and reciprocated on that one.

We live in a weird world.

By: DaveTaylor

DaveTaylor — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:16:03 +0000

Interesting perspective, Jack. The thing is, for most people the problem with creating a product to sell is that, well, they have to come up with a product. Then you’re ceaselessly promoting the product and just as a general comment about bloggers and blog readers, they generally are turned off by aggressive promotion, so you not only have a product, but you can’t push it too hard.

I’ll tell you that my experience monetizing my blog is a bit different and my ad networks pay very well for me, esp. both Google AdSense and Kontera’s contextual ad links. Text-Link-Ads do well too, but that’s just “filling empty space” and I am sure that — as others have suggested in the SEO community — having TLA ads hurts PageRank. So that’s a vicious cycle because you get paid based on your PR, but having the ads lowers your PR. Hmmm.