How to keep the blog online?
Okay, you established a blog, paid for a domain and hosting, what now? Now you can blog for your own pleasure. However, most blogger do want to cover at least the initial expenses spent on the blog, so what’s the fastest and easiest way to do it?
The answer is, get paid for reviewing products. Recently, blog advertising has became a mainstream, and for most bloggers is even the main source of revenue. While most of us don’t even know where to find an advertiser, and if we already did find one, how slim is the chance he would want to get reviewed on our blog? So, alternatively, we can sign up for programs that connect advertisers and bloggers. I’d recommend Smorty dot com, where you can get paid to blog about products and services you like. I have been working with Smorty for a few months now and I really like the way it is run. You get email notification when new campaigns are received and you choose which tasks to take and which not.
Moreover, there is a referral program that allows you to earn 5% of your referral’s revenue for life. So, not only you can get pad to blog, but also get paid to spread the word about it.
First Time Without Adsense
Quite a while ago I took the Adsense down from Nowg.Net website, and now I decided not to plae ANY ads on impulse blogger dot com. It’s not like I don’t want these meastly few dollars that clicks might potentially bring, but…
A. I want to be able to say anything I want on this blog regardless what Google’s moral executive will think about me.
B. I don’t see a point in it. While even my ever successful blog — toptut.com brings a few dollars a day, I can only assume that having 10 times less traffic would mean 10 times less revenue, which means what, 20 cents a day? 30? Having their annoying banners promoting God knows what just does not worth it.
C. Simple calculation. Assuming at the very best this blog will bring 30 cents a day from clicks, after 30 days it could come to 9 dollars. It’s enough to cover the expensive hosting fees (we are 1337 and hosting with hostgator.com) but not enoug to “bring revenue”. Hence, I might consiver taking 1-2 reviews a month, as long as they are relevant — who cares, and this will put more in my pocket yet will keep the readers happy and away from “sky crappers”.
