After seeing many other blogs post their monthly blog income stats, I’ve decided to do this too on this home business blog for 2 reasons. Firstly if you want to make money blogging, you really need a way to keep track of how your blog is performing in terms of income generation. Only then can you focus on specific areas that need more attention and changes so that you ultimately achieve consistent blog income growth.

Secondly, it goes well with this blog‘s mission which is sharing with others whatever changes, tweaks I have done or will do to increase my blog income. It may help some people in some small ways and fashion in their blog monetization efforts. It’s also giving this blog a more focused direction as it is growing steadily in terms of traffic and income.

Blog Statistics:

• 167 RSS Readers
• 3188 Visits
• 6,945 Pageviews
• Technorati Rank: 37,135
• Technorati Auth: 118
• Alexa: 80763
• Inbound links: 13,071

Traffic from search engines amounts to 43% while referring sites and blogs contributed 34% and 23% come from direct traffic. I guess I’m quite pleased with the search engine traffic and it shows that my seo work on this blog is starting to take effect. I haven’t done any study to determine what is a good ratio among these 3 components of statistics. But I did check up one reputable blog of Caroline-Middlebrook just for comparison and she had hers as 45:29:26 for Feb month. So I guess I’m not too bad for now.

Blog Income:

• Private Advertising: $12
• Affiliate Marketing: $30
• Text Link Ads: $16.72
• Backlinks Ads: $12.00
• Squidoo: $1.02
• Links Transaction: $90.00
• eBooks: $47.00

Total Revenue: $208.74

Private Advertising and text link ads continue to generate my blog income and I hope it continues. I’d like to thank everyone who may have purchased advertising or contributed to my blog income one way or another.

My immediate focus is to increase my affiliate commission and I found an alternative to Google Adsense for this blog towards the end of February. It looks like a very good affiliate program to increase my blog income with.

How much money did you make off your blog in February?

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If you have yet to use Google Adsense on your blog or website, but interested to do so now, you may find what I’m going to share with you quite useful and definitely worth considering. Indeed I’ve found an alternative to using Google Adsense – Clickbank CBproAds on my home business blog.

Why This Blog Has No Adsense?

Well this home business blog did have Adsense once when it first started but its existence came to a full stop just 2 months later. Yeah the big G put an end to it for reasons I have yet to comprehend. It advised me in an email then that my account proved a risk to others. These words sounded real strange to me and that it didn’t offer to explain more or advise what steps I should take to eradicate this ‘risk to others’ was a real disappointment. That was more than a year ago. Well this blog now has Adsense, an alternative to Google Adsense that is. Update: This blog now has Google Adsense. Yippee!

Can Google Adsense Make Money

I believe so judging from some bloggers who revealed their monthly income breakdown but on the same breath there seems to be many others who have yet to earn much on Adsense. I’m not an expert on Google Adsense and I’m clueless as to what helps one succeed in it. Perhaps it needs a lot of traffic since I figured it needs about 330 clicks just to give you about $10 Adsense revenue on an average. But then what do I know since I don’t even have Adsense on my blog. Anyone who’s made money on Adsense want to give some good advice, go ahead to post your comment. But for now Clickbank PRO Ads seems a good alternative for me.

What is Clickbank CBproAds

It’s a great tool for Clickbank affiliates to make money online with Clickbank using simple yet powerful ads. There are a total of 7 different types of ads you can generate within a minute each, 4 of them are shown below to give you an idea.

Free or Paid Account. Which is Better?

Well in terms of earning probability, paid account(PRO) offers you much more. If you do decide to use it’s free account, only 50% of the product ads you show on your blog will link to your Clickbank ID. For example if you show a banner with 2 products, one product will show yours and the other showing someone’s Clickbank ID. If it’s a 3 product ad, it’s 1 out of 3 linking to your Clickbank ID. One of the main reasons I didn’t opt for a free account is that you don’t get any affiliate commission either from fresh signups or when they upgrade from free to PRO accounts. But however as a free member you are still eligible to earn sales commission.

How Much Commission in Dollars Can You Earn

On the other hand the PRO account integrates all your ads using your Clickbank ID and everyone who joins you or upgrades later from a free account earns you 50% commission. Clickbank allows paid accounts for different time periods of 3, 6, 12 months or life membership and the service charges to join range from $19 to $99. So I guess you can do the math as to how much money you can make as 50% commission of these amounts whenever someone joins using your affiliate link. It can be pretty attractive. How To Get Started 1. You first need to be an affiliate of Clickbank. If you’re not an affiliate yet, click on this link to open your free Clickbank account. 2. When you have your Clickbank ID, you can then join ClickBank Pro and start to make money online. Free Review: For those who join Clickbank CBproADs using my affiliate link within this week, I’ll write a short review of your blog or site. It’s my way of saying thanks for your support.

Final Thoughts

Personally how Clickbank CBproAd won me over was because of how easy and flexible using this tool brings to me. With over 6000 Clickbank products available, 120 categories and 7 different ad generation types available this alternative to Google Adsense clearly offers a good solution to people who want to make affiliate commission with minimal work.

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This is my Link Love-Links Round Up No.21 and this week I decided to look at how blog advertising can help online business opportunities in the aspect of blog monetization, organic search engine ranking. These 5 posts focus on pay per click advertising, ad banners, text link ads, things which every blogger who is into making money blogging will be learning about at some point in time.

• DailyBlogTips tells us How To Find Advertisers For Your Website and shares with us the pros and cons of selling your own advertisements.
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• Find out how many of Problogger’s 10 Ways To Make Your Blog More Attractive To Advertisers have you been practicing on your blog monetizing efforts.

If you’re looking around to find out how to make money blogging, I hope you’ve found some good ideas in these posts. But remember nothing happens overnight. It may take you some time to see the money, but if you don’t start your work now, nothing happens. So start to make money on your blog TODAY!

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Firstly you really have to evaluate carefully if it’s your intention to monetize your blog. Depending on why you set up your blog, making money on your blog may not necessarily be your main objective. You could well have used your blog as a tool or conduit for link building or niche building purposes.

Secondly if your blog is indeed for monetization, there is also an appropriate time to do so, not jump at it and expecting to start generating significant income. You may be sadly disappointed.

Well with the preface out of the way, and if make money on your blog is one of your intentions let’s get started with how to Make Money With OIO Publisher On Your Blog:

OIO Publisher – The Features

• What is OIOpublisher? OIO Publisher is an ad manager, written in php, that lets you control the ad space on your business blog or website. It also offers a marketplace to help you get more advertisers.
• OIO Publisher lets you integrate with as many websites as you wish, as this software is a multi-site license. However your sites must be using PHP.
• OIO Publisher can be used as a WordPress plugin or as a standalone platform.
• It manages all your text ads, banner ads, in-content ads and paid reviews almost on auto-pilot.
• Provides click and impression tracking; weekly ad reports emailed to advertisers
• Easily use your admin area to: approve / reject / expire / renew / validate ads
• Integrated marketplace with 16 categories to help advertise your ads
• OIO Publisher does not take any cut to your sales. Yes you get back 100% of whatever ad price you set for your own ads.
• Text links are now controlled via zones (like banner ads)
• Works with PayPal and PayPal Subscription
• Full javascript ad display support
• Entrecard Payment option integrated

OIO Publisher – Affiliate Program

• You can become an OIO Publisher affiliate by signing up and receive 50% of any sales of OIO Publisher that you drive through your affiliate links or banners.
• Payments are made out once a week
• It allows you to setup your own affiliate program and reward people for selling your ads

Why Did I Buy OIO Publisher

That was at the time when I had my old blog theme. I have to admit tinkering with codes on blog themes is not something I enjoy and I struggled with it then just getting some banner ads to appear on it. Most of the time, I messed it up and brought along a host of newer problems like slowing down my blog loading time. So when I found OIO Publisher, naturally it appealed to me and I have to say at the reasonable price of $47, it’s one of the best money I’ve spent.

Advertising on your blog – the best money making method

Top Money Maker
When you think of making money blogging or blog monetizing the very first thing that comes to your mind is blog advertising. Well that’s because it’s the easiest and most prominent as you can display your ads anywhere on your blog that you so wished. If you’ve read many blog posts sharing their monthly incomes, you’d know that private ads usually feature top in their lists.

Ad Management
Understandably if your blog is new, you may think it’s not the right time to purchase it as you could well manage your own ads or banner ad purchases from your customers. Your first thought is to think about it when that time comes. Well that is one thought but it belongs to the one in a millionth bloggers who think this way. The more successful blogger thinks differently and always plans ahead. After all he knows increasing blog traffic is a prerequisite to his blog success. Also it’s more effective to promote as an affiliate in OIO Publisher if you used it – and yes we can tell if an affiliate is using it.

My Final Conclusion

If like me, you’re looking to work things a little smarter or simply relieve some tedious task in ad placement work on your blog, you really ought to consider purchasing OIO Publisher today. Your time could be better used to promote your business or other make money blogging ventures.

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This article is written by James King, a professional multimedia designer who runs atmmultimedia.com. He specializes in the field of website promotion, marketing, SEO, and helps website owners and bloggers maxmise their online presence on the Internet.

The Internet is a wonderful resource, where a world of opportunity is available. If you are willing enough and determined potentially you could create a new online business. This takes time and effort, however, it will be worth your time. In five years time you could be earning what you are worth.

In the beginning it is a lot of work. Being your own boss requires discipline, passion and dedication. If you enjoy what you do it is not work.

Here are some reasons to create a new online business:

(1) You are in control. You can decide what to focus your time on.

(2) Flexible working hours. You maybe more productive later on in the day.

(3) Have more time to do the things that matter to you. You want to travel more? Learn more about a certain past time? Become healthier? These options are surely better for you than making your employer wealthy?

(4) Commuting you can save money on petrol. Also when the weather conditions are bad, dangerous driving conditions can cost you more than your employer.

(5) You can earn as much money as you want. There are no limits on your earnings. In life, you got to realize that working hard for someone else is not going to make you wealthy. However, working smart on certain projects can make you better off. Invest in yourself, it doesn’t matter how hard you work for yourself, because you will reap the rewards.

(6) Multiple streams of income is smart. You never know what may happen. If your company went bust and your only stream of income was from that job. It is not a wise decision to place all your eggs in one basket. Although, society preaches you should get a safe steady job? No job is safe and our current climate proves that. Any employee is replaceable and employers will find someone to replace you.

(7) If you work from home you are more likely to be healthier. If someone goes into work with a cold or virus you are likely to catch it if you are run down. That is one thing that really bugs me, is catching other people’s germs.

(8) You decide when to finish work. For many, work feels like a prison sentence. When you have to stay at work for a number of hours. I know people that are clock watching and to me that is the worse thing ever. I am not a great fan of Monday mornings, but I look forward to the weekend. Although, I spent most of the weekend working on my blog, because I know in the next few years it will help me to succeed on the things I want from life. Follow your dreams and your goals but most importantly listen to your heart.

(9) You can wear what you like. Having a job is expensive, because you have to buy clothes and suits for your work and pay for petrol, travel in dangerous conditions. Plus it costs us a great deal of our waking hours during the week. Surely there are better ways to make a living?

(10) Maybe you feel that you are doing all the work in your current job, where as others are slacking off. You are probably getting paid the same amount in your office for doing the same job. If you are hard working and determined focus on a project that will benefit you. You don’t want to be carrying others. Creating a useful online resource will serve others and people will respect as your website or blog continues to grow.

(11) Office politics. Are you fed up with the brown nosers getting all the appraisal? They maybe terrible at their job, but as they suck up they are thought higher than you. It is not a way that I would exceed in my career.

(12) You could be generating some of the best work your clients are happy with it, but your employer will not give you a raise. Everyone wants to get what they deserve. So starting an online business will be the best solution.

(13) Go on holiday when it suits you not your employer. Holidays are your time. You should be allowed to go on holiday when you wish.

One of the major advantages of working for yourself, when you are making a decent living is that you should have more leisure time than ever before. Life should be about having a good balance, although in today’s world that maybe difficult. Depending on the level of responsibilities that you may have. Once you have the vehicle for a successful new online business begin marketing and stick with it, because later on you will be able to have more of your time.

However, I must emphasize that creating an online presence, takes a great deal of time. You are not going to generate lots of traffic over night, unless you are very lucky. Rome wasn’t built in a day, an successful online business should be a long term project.

In the lifetime of any blog or website you must focus on developing useful fresh content when the reader will return again. Focus on your audience and the rest will come. Start small devote an hour a night to your blog and develop this in your spare time. You will be surprised with the content that you will produce.

Come and be apart of this culture that will continue to grow in the years ahead.

With expertise in the field of web design, graphic design, e-learning and new media, atmmultimedia has helped businesses and individuals find interesting ways to maximize profits and sales too. Make sure that you always stay updated by subscribing to James King’s RSS feed.

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