If you run a blog and are wondering what the best way to make money with your blog is, you've likely stumbled upon the idea of earning a profit through displaying ads on your blog.
I have created and run several blogs in my day and have gained a great deal of experience in this arena.
Here are my tips on making money through advertising on your blog.
What we're talking about is basically earning a profit through the actual content of your blog.
This involves selling advertising on your blog as your method of monetization.
By providing useful content to web users, advertisers will pay to have their ads shown on web sites that have reasonable traffic.
Search engine pay-per-click companies like AdWords have made monetizing these web sites more popular by making the advertising process easy.
Rather than individually negotiating contracts with individual advertisers, all blog owners have to do is allow the pay-per-click companies to place their ad copy on their blogs.
Then they're paid a specified amount by the advertising companies when someone visits or clicks on the ad.
My personal experience is that making money by displaying ads on your blog is actually one of the least profitable methods of monetization.
I have found time and time again that the pay-per-click monetization per visitor is always lower than monetization through sales.
Obviously, with the right visitors and proper targeting of the ads on the content pages, this could possibly be improved, but it would certainly not be my first recommendation.