Put Your Ads on My Blog - For Free!
We all want the cash. It’s a simple fact. When you make a blog your goal is to put some cash in your pockets, and if you are saying that you didn’t start your blog to make some money then…
You are a liar
-or-
You are a better person than I am
Bloggers are quick to try and monetize their blog, which is great. You need to see a return on your efforts as quickly as possible. Trust me I know. I need to make some huge cash this month or I am back to “grind.” For the most part every blogger can follow the same monetization strategies, affiliate links, paid posts, private ads etc. But every blogger is going to have varying success with each method depending on their blog.
The one thing I see quite often are really new blogs that are trying to monetize through private ads, and charging a fortune for the ad space. I hate to say it but, no one will buy your ad space. You just do not have the traffic or readership yet. I like to go and check out the advertising prices page on blogs to start getting ideas for pricing my blog for when I begin to sell private ads. For the most part on these page all I see are a bunch of ads sizes and prices, and no stats! How am I supposed to discern what kind of value I am getting for my money.
It’s like playing Monopoly with blank real estate cards.
So before I go ahead and start selling private ads for a random price, I need to know what kind of results someone would expect if they were to purchase an ad on my site. For this I am going to need some help. And you are going to help me. I need to know exactly what kind of results people can expect from purchasing an ad on my site. In order to do this I need to have ads up first, but I can;t sell them because I do not know what they are worth, so I have to do the next best thing.
Give away free 125×125 ad space on my blog
Now I cannot just give away free ad space to everyone, so I have to limit the amount of space to just four blogs. I am running run a contest for free advertising on my blog for one month. So if you would like to help me figure out the value of my ad space by advertising for one month for free on my blog here is what you need to do:
1. Mention this contest within a post on your blog.
2. Provide a link to this contest, and a link to the Living on Adsense main page [http://www.whiteleyenterprises.net].
3. Leave a comment below with a link to the post you wrote.
The contest will end on March 14th at 12:00 am PST. I will choose 4 winners at random, and the winner’s ads will run from Monday March 17th until Thursday April 17th.
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I’ve been blogging for quite awhile, and now currently have 4 active blogs, none of which are monetized. It’s just an obsessive hobby for me right now. Best of luck to you though on making a few bucks… and stuff.
Monkey Tale’s last blog post..My Day Could’ve Been Better
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http://fool.tumblr.com/post/28334925
Ok, I will play!
Thanks.
Fool’s last blog post.. Living On Adsense, gives away real estate!
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Hey Chris, I found a couple of posts that could help you out on other people monetizing their blogs. Check them out:
http://www.lifeiscolourful.com/february-2008-proved-to-be-one-significant-month-of-earnings/
http://www.tylercruz.com/blog-earnings-february-2008/
Ren B’s last blog post..Bookshelf-Staircase
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Here’s my entry: http://ireviewyou.com/2008/03/10/living-on-adsense/
Hope you enjoy the free review too.
Ren B’s last blog post..Living on Adsense
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@Fool: Thanks for “playing”
@Ren B: Those sites were pretty nice to look at…jerk. I cried myself to sleep
I really dig your entry. I think the site you created is a fantastic idea. I hope it works out well for you!
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ok, thx. I’ve added a post, a link and a blog roll link too!
good luck to us all!
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[...] it’s my own fault for not promoting as well as I could have, but the contest was a real flop. I talked to a ton of people to get some hype together, but most people said [...]
“..if you are saying that you didn’t start your blog to make some money then… You are a liar -or- You are a better person than I am”
How about I started with just a passion to blog and then get corrupted with money making thanks to John Chow? lol
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