Blog Monetization

Good news to those who are looking for other ways to monetize their blogs. PerformancingAds went live last week and you are all invited to become part of their publisher or advertiser. PerformancingAds, an advertising network that ceased operation in 2006 due to a management restructuring, is now back in operation.

PerformancingAds Publisher

In case you’re wondering why you should choose PerformancingAds, here are a couple of reasons:

• We have years of experience buying and selling ads
• Fully-automated, self-serve ad system
• The largest 125×125 ad marketplace on the planet
• Automatically get paid at the end of the same month you earn your money
• Book your own ads… for free
• Built by publishers, for publishers

To be a publisher, you need to have a website. Register an account with PerformancingAds (it’s free) then upload and activate the PerformancingAds Wordpress Plugin. As long as you continue to improve your blog, you should be able to get advertisers for your blog.

PerformancingAds Advertisers

Advertisers should also take advantage of PerformancingAds. Especially that they are offering a $25 off from your order of $100 or more. Here are some good reasons why you should choose to advertise with PerformancingAds:

• We have years of experience buying and selling ads
• Easily buy targeted advertising on influential blogs, with many more coming online every day
• Quickly advertise across entire blog networks, reach your widest audience with one ad buy
• Advertise to your niche audience, effortlessly
• Simple to use with quick results

Like the PerformancingAds Publishers, you need to create an accoung with PerformancingAds (for free) in order to access their market place. Whether you are looking to spend $10 or $10,000 PerformancingAds is a great place to advertise. If you are looking for ad buys over $1,000 per month they offer custom discounted packages. For ad buys over $5,000 they offer a wider range of ad formats including 728 x 90, 300 x 250 and 160 x 600.

PeformancingAds Affiliate Program

Lastly, PerformancingAds is also inviting you to join their Affiliate Program. Your ultimate job is to attract publishers and advertisers to sign up for an account at PerformancingAds. This could be done in a lot of way. But for sure, it’s all about strategy. The more you expose your affiliate link, the higher the income you earn. Here’s how their affiliate program works:

• Earn $10 for each new publisher or advertiser you refer
• Plus, earn 5% recurring revenue on all advertiser ad buys … for life.
• Massive Potential:

Let’s say that you refer 2 new advertisers per month and each spends an average of $250 per month. Within 1 year, you’d be making a cool $300 per month in 100% passive income.

But wait. Let’s say that you referred 5 new advertisers per month. Now you’re talking over $750 per month after 1 year.

What are you waiting for? Go ahead and start Making Money With PerformancingAds or place your Targeted Blog Advertising With PerformancingAds and increase your sales. What do you think?

Thank you for your time. Good luck.

Doing online review is another great way for bloggers to make money from their blog. It has been my major source of revenue over the first 10 months of blogging. But with the hundreds and thousands of review sites that promise to pay you for your reviews, I found out that Sponsored Reviews is so far the most rewarding and the most reliable.

Why SponsoredReviews

1. SponsoredReviews has one of the largest list of advertisers, hence, offering a huge selection of review opportunities. This is good for bloggers because it allows us to choose products to review that are related to our blog topic.
2. SponsoredReviews gives more freedom to their bloggers concerning the reviews they make. Honest and professional reviews are encouraged and constructive criticisms are most welcome. However, outrightly bias, rude and hateful reviews will be declined.
3. SponsoredReviews offers one of the most competitive review rates ranging from $5 to $9,999 or more. Review rates mainly depend on the quality of the blog, the quality of reviews, Technorati ranking, link popularity and Alexa traffic rank.
4. SponsoredReviews only charges a 35% commission from all the reviews made by their bloggers. Other review sites, charge up to 50-60% leaving their bloggers with a meager share of the income.
5. Revenues earned from reviews are automatically credited to your account upon submission of completed reviews.
6. SponsoredReviews pays religiously every after two weeks. All payments are made through Paypal.
7. SponsoredReviews allows their publishers to bid for available opportunities, which improve their chances of accumulating more review offers. Consequently, SponsoredReviews allows their advertisers to reject or approve bids from publishers. Advertisers are also given the option of directly buying reviews from SponsoredReviews’ approved bloggers. Both bloggers and advertisers can place counter-offers.
8. SponsoredReviews lets you earn more money through their profitable affiliate program.

Screenshot of opportunities available at SponsoredReviews

 SponsoredReviews Affiliate Program

Another way to make money from your blog is through joining SponsoredReviews’ Affiliate Program. Their affiliate program is hazzle free and easy to join. I’ve started making money from my referrals (advertisers and bloggers) about two months ago.  So far, I’ve referred 81 bloggers and 28 advertisers and revenue are starting to pour in.

With SponsoredReviews’ Affiliate Program, you can earn up to $175 per advertiser and $90 per blogger referred. It all depends on the money spent and earn by the advertisers and bloggers you referred respectively. Naturally, the higher the money spent and earnd by referred advertisers and bloggers respectively, the higher your commission.

Referral payouts are made once every month and will be added to any payouts for completed reviews. Lately however, I’ve noticed that referral payouts are made separately from completed reviews. All referral payments are done through Paypal.

What are you waiting for? Visit SponsoredReviews now and start making money online.

Google Adsense has recently introduced a more improved version of Adsense For Search. With the improved version of Adsense for search, custom search is now integrated allowing publishers to take advantage of this new feature without having to leave their Adsense account.

Here’s a short video from Google Adsense to introduce you with the new features of Adsense for search.

Here is a summary of the features of Adsense For Search powered by Custom Search Engine.

• Site Search: You’ve worked hard to attract users to your site, so it’s understandable that you’d be concerned about those users leaving through web search. Now you can choose to provide just site search so users can find all the information they’re looking for on your site, and you can host the search results on your own pages so that they can find that information without leaving your site.
• Improved indexing of your pages: We’ve recently improved our indexing technology so that you can provide a more enhanced Site Search experience for your users. AdSense for search will now index even more pages of your site, as long as we’re able to crawl them, so that your users will see more results from your site in your AdSense for search results. Stay tuned for more updates on future crawl and indexing improvements!
• Vertical search: You can also allow your users to search across multiple sites - this could be a network of sites that you own or other related sites that you think your users might find useful. If you write book reviews on your blog, for example, you can use vertical search to specify a list of online bookstores for users to search through. Other examples of vertical searches include computer forums, travel blogs, political sites you endorse, etc.
• Tuning search results and ads with keywords: Search terms can have different meanings in different contexts, so you can now configure your search engine with relevant keywords. Let’s say you manage a site about yoga - you can enter keywords such as ‘yoga,’ ‘exercise,’ and ‘meditation’ so that when a user searches for ‘mat,’ the search results and ads will be more related to yoga mats and less to commercial floor mats. (You can see an example of this in the video below). In experiments, we’ve found that this tuning has led to an increase in earnings for publishers.
• Selecting ad location: Do you want ads to appear at the top and bottom of your search results? Or along the right sidebar as well, just like on Google.com? Now you can make the call on where ads are placed. (Here’s a tip: we’ve found that placing ads at the top and right monetizes the best for publishers.)
• Quick and easy updates: Just as you use our ad management feature to quickly change the settings for your ad and referral units, you’ll be able to do the same for your search engine within your AdSense account. Your settings will be saved in your account, so you won’t need to generate new search code for each change.

What do you think of the changes? Do you think this will help improve monetization of blogs and sites? Share your thoughts through the comment.

Thank you for your time.