I have had an interesting time with today’s exercise in monetizing my blog. This is an area I have started to work on after reading John Chow’s Make Money Online. I have just reread his book and working back through tasks I started and didn’t complete. Do you know that feeling, it relates a little or a lot depending on your view to the information overload. What I need to do is get back to having my vision on view and see the end in mind.
By next week I will have a well monetized blog. My focus is on completing 10 days to a better blog and will implement all of John’s suggestions that I believe are appropriate for The Abundance Highway as well.
I also found today challenging in that I think I need an instant WordPress primer. I have found inserting some code has not worked for me; also some of my plug-ins are not operational. So this has slowed my progress down somewhat.
Back to the monetization.
Wendy’s first suggestion was joining Text Link Ads of which i was already a member.
Wendy is also big fan of Affiliate marketing as a way of generating income and recommends Rosalind Gardiner. This is a great resource for anyone starting out in Affiliate Marketing: Rosalind Gardner’s “I Raked In $436,797 Online in One Year” Super Affiliate Handbook
Another affiliate program I use and highly recommend is Mark Ling’s Affilorama. This is a membership site which is packed full of affiliate resources, has a great forum, in which Mark actively participates. There is a monthly newsletter and membership comes with a fantastic free SEO tool Traffic Travis, as well other free software, audios and more.
On the subject of affiliate marketing, I should also mention that I have put the banner of Blogging to The Bank 2.0 in my sidebar. I have bought the book and can see there are some good points. Rob Benwell the author has changed many things I believe from reviews I had read of his first book. When I have read and employed a few of the techniques in his book I will review it.
When I have finished this post, I will complete my resource page with the tools and programs I use and recommend.
In Part 2 I will discuss the various advertising programs Wendy uses and recommends that I still have to implement. We had an outage for about 12 hours that has put me a day behind. I have discovered how reliant I am in being connected to the net to operate successfully.
Suz,
Great post, expecially in that we must remain connected with emotion to our vision if we want to stay focused and see the outcome. We must remember to stay with our intuition and allow thing to flow into place.
I appreciate all you’ve written here, thanks!
Jes
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title to a Better Blog: Monetize Part 1 | The Abundance Highway. Thanks for informative article