More Monetizing Options - Part I

I’ve spoken about using the Google AdSense program and other

merchants’ affiliate programs to generate profits from your blog.

However, there are a lot of other options to monetize your blog,
so we’re going to look into those now.

The first option I'll be looking at is Chitika, which is a very
innovative contextual advertising program and can provide
very detailed advertisements. For example, on your sets and
reps for fitness blog (as metioned in a previous post), Chitika
will show advertisements that are fitness-related. The way they
show them is in different tabs: one for “Best Deals”, another
for “Details”, another for “Reviews” and so on.

This way, it is more informational in nature for your visitor
rather than an advertisement, and naturally the click-through
rate will be higher. You can apply here.

You can also be an affiliate for Amazon.com. Amazon offers
a wide range of products and they are always expanding their
product base. For example, they have a category called “Sports
and Outdoors” which includes, but is not limited to, “exercise
& fitness”, and “athletic & outdoor clothing”. Whatever your
niche is about, you can probably find a something related to
it on Amazon.com. Click here to join the their Affiliate Program.

Once you join, you can refer visitors to them and earn up to 10%

commission. It’s not a lot, but if you can manage to refer big
volumes of visitors, Amazon is for you.

This program really shines when it comes to the ways you can
refer visitors:

1) you can use their predefined templates to pull up recent
items that match a certain criteria you set,

2) you can target your ad to show a specific item on sale or,

3) you can just simply weave your referral links into your blog
posts.