Yesterday I wrote a bit about search targeted advertising and a company called Chitika.  Search targeted advertising is advertising that is customized and geared towards visitors who arrive to your site from a search engine.  When it comes to monetizing, one of the things that mom bloggers are afraid of is alienating or scaring off [...]

Last year I put up a post on my blog about monetizing your site with an ad company called Chitika.
Chitika is an ad network that shows text type ads and pays per click and is SEARCH TARGETED.  This means that your regular users don’t see the ads, only those who find your site from search [...]

A CPM ad network is a network that pays you a certain dollar amount for every 1,000 impressions (pageviews) their ads show on your site.  Most networks do not guarantee a set CPM, some ads will deliver $6 or $7 (gross, then the network takes a cut) and some ads in the network will deliver [...]

With my MomDot interview, I introduced a few of my blogs. Free Sample Deals is a free sample site that I manage. It earned about $50 in it’s first month. It now earns over $1500 a month in just over a year.
Some asked the questioned how that was achieved. Some of it was done with [...]

This is a quick post on some quick money I made signing up with Linkworth. I wish I could tell you at what point I signed up with them or where I put their affiliate links that someone clicked on them, but I did.
And people clicked.
And I made some moola.
Last month, quite randomly, a check [...]

When you’re looking to monetize your blog, one of the simplest affiliate programs to join is Amazon Associates. Sign up, start receiving their promo emails and check their blog. Then try these strategies to maximize your affiliate earnings:
1) Get your readers there
Kim mentioned the basics of Amazon Associates in her post on How to use [...]

One controversial method of monetizing your blog is to sell text links.  Text links, for those who have no idea what I am talking about, are links that you put in your sidebar or posts with what is called “anchor text” and links to another website.   If you have a blogroll and put links in [...]

So all you smart people either cheated or guessed really well because banner #2 was the correct answer to Affiliate quiz #1: which banner performs better.
More than half of you who voted chose correctly, that is actually better than I expected!

Banner 1 has a 3-month EPC of $13.91 and a 7-day EPC of $124.56
Banner 2 [...]

There are a lot of affiliate networks out there on the web giving you a wide choice and variety of options and advertisers to promote and hopefully earn money from.  But it takes a lot of time and energy to go around signing up for all of them only to find out they don’t have [...]

When you look at a specific advertiser in the Commission Junction account manager, they give you statistics on how each available ad or banner has performed in the network. They give you the EPC (earnings per 100 clicks) over a 3 month and 1 week time span. This helps you make a determination [...]