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DEAD SIMPLE BLOG MONETIZATION METHOD THAT NETS AN EXTRA $ 2,000 A MONTH
Your results will vary, of course. There is a young lady in the IM niche who maintains 3 separate IM type blogs. And without revealing too much( we don’ t want to create direct competition for her) here are the methods she’ s tried and the ones that worked in monetizing those 3 blogs. To begin with, she tried Adsense. But that only made a few bucks and she quickly abandoned it. Then she tried renting out banners, but since her 3 blogs combined receive about 10,000 visitors a month, she didn’ t get a lot of interest.
She does put up Clickbank ads, and those bring in about $ 1,000 a month from all 3 blogs combined. Not bad, but obviously not that great, either. Especially when you consider that she posts 6 days a week on each blog. Next, she decided to devote one blog post out of 6 to promoting an affiliate product. This wasn’ t an easy decision for her, because she was afraid her readers would be alienated and they would stop visiting her blog. But on the contrary, her promotional blogposts were well received and they’ re making her money. In fact, it doubled her income and then some. So now she was making over $ 2,000 a month on her three blogs but she felt she could do better.
So what she did next was a little unorthodox.
She had a pop-up to get people to subscribe to her mailing list, which she decided to rent out.
That’ s right – she’ s renting out her pop-up. She devoted the top right sidebar and the bottom of each page to capturing email addresses for herself.
Then she made a page showing her traffic stats, her own conversions on her own pop-ups, some demographic info and so forth.