I know, I know. I swore off using AdSense last year. So why is it back in WebGrrrl.net?

Frequent visitors to my site may have noticed that posts in this site has been sporadic these past months. The reason is because I’ve only started to create niche sites that not only am I passionate about, but plan to monetize on. Lots of it failed, but I managed to flip them and get a few extra buck out of them. Still, I’ve finally hit the jackpot with one of my site that focuses on a pretty small arts and crafts niche, which is earning me about $6 in September, and has jumped to $27 in October.

Back to the matter of putting AdSense. The thing about WebGrrrl.net’s traffic stats is that this site gets around 3,000 unique visits a month, with about 70 feed subscribers, and an 80% bounce rate. A bounce rate that low, for those of you who are not familiar with the term, means that out of 10 people who visit my site, 8 will never return. That’s pretty bad. Page views are about 1 to 2 pages per visit.

My stats on the new niche site of mine (note the word site, not blog) only recently gets around 3,000 unique visits a month, up from just about 60 uniques in July. It currently has 30 subscribers, half of it via e-mail, and a fantastic 35% bounce rate. Page views per person is at least 10 to 15 pages per visit. Isn’t that great?

However, due to the nature of that niche site, its earnings are pretty low. This WebGrrrl.net blog, on the other hand, tends to get higher CTR even though page impressions are less than 50 (only my games-related posts have AdSense). Plus, being an IT / computer / technology blog of sorts means that there tends to be more high-paying advertisers in the market.

So I’m putting up ads back in WebGrrrl.net to see exactly how AdSense earnings are influenced by this blog’s niche (which is a bit too broad for my liking) as well as the influence that the site’s stats has on the ads earning. After 6 months, I’ll be switching off the ads again, and make a comparison with my niche site to see what I can conclude from them. Please bear with the interruption as I research my way into this. (more…)

Other than affiliate programs, I find that paid-to-blog programs to be an excellent online money-making venture. You benefit more when your site is generic (not a niche) and when you have a Google PageRank (PR), which most paid blogging use to value your site; the higher the site’s PR, the more assignment choice you have and the higher pay you get for each post.

With that comes a small problem that I face every single time — which post should I accept first? And believe me, a lot of time I do find it hard to decide. Here’s my three simple guidelines for selecting the assignments that have saved me a lot of time, effort and headache.

1. Do posts with the shortest minimum words. This is my favourite tactic, due to the fact that it takes me the least amount of effort to come up with ideas on what to talk about. I blog this way a lot for my PayPerPost and Payu2blog assignments. I usually finish up my Blogsvertise assignments sooner too, because of its low 75-word minimum limit which is a piece of cake.

2. Do posts that pay the soonest. Smorty and Payu2blog seem to be the fastest and most consistent when it comes to payment, therefore when opting for posts to get the most buck the soonest, I would finish up assignments by both this programs. Also, it’s always nice to see money credited into my PayPal account ever so frequently.

3. Do posts that pay the most. To be honest, I don’t often put this guideline to use, because most higher-paying assignments would require a higher minimum of at least 200 words and the topics are sometimes just not worth it. However, it would be such a waste as some of the effort per post in LoudLaunch and PayPerPost can be payable for as much as $15 to $20 per post, equalling four times the effort to do Payu2blog assignments. I finish up my LoudLaunch assignment specifically for the high payment.

I’m sure you go through some selection method with your paid blogging too. How do you do it? Let me know!

Paid-to-blog programs are an excellent business opportunity and can pay-out in many ways. There are reams of dedicated servers just teaming to serve your personal blogs and articles on any number of topics, including web hosting and seo firms. Its all about generating the traffic from value driven content.

I know I must be one of the last persons on Earth to find out about this newest addition to the pay-per-play monetizing scheme. I have just signed up for NetAudioAds (affiliate) after reading one of the e-mails from one favourite affiliate program of mine. Its founding company, V2P Communications, was even featured in a Wall Street Journal article on NetAudioAds as well as other ad programs by Google and Amazon.com.

I’m intrigued as to how pay-per-play would perform on my blog, although I expect its monetizing performance would almost match pay-per-click programs. I have only around 2,000 unique visits a month, and from what I’ve experienced with pay-per-clicks and its cousin programs, I shouldn’t be expecting too much moolah coming in with that kind of traffic, regardless of what my Google PageRank is. If you are like me, chances are you may not care much for annoying text ads, let alone a talking one. My biggest worry is that my blog’s loading time increases as more multimedia-based ads are shown. Doesn’t hurt to check it out for a few months, though; passive incomes are always worth the try.

Here’s the sales pitch page of the NetAudioAds program which should answer some of the general questions we may have. If you haven’t signed up, you may want to do so now (normal link here or affiliate link here) before its launch date on February 1.

Kontera is another program that I have decided to go without in this blog. Almost 6 months of usage and I got a measly USD 4.03 to show for it. Not only does removing the code gets rid of those annoying underlined text, but it’s also lighter on my blog’s loading time.

I’m telling you, apart from a couple of affiliate programs and sponsored posts that I’ve joined, really nothing else off the Web can make me good money.

Not on my blog. The two main reasons why I signed up for LinkWorth was the option to manage my ad sales, and the ability to do sponsored post. LinkWorth looks very much like a combination of Blogsvertise and TextLinkAds, but based on my 4 months of experience using it, not only is LinkWorth a confusing system to use, but my income on that programme is nada.

So today I decided to remove LinkWorth’s tracking code from my site for good. I’m reaching an income of almost a thousand US bucks in total by using Blogsvertise, and TextLinkAds has given me a decent passive income of around USD 20 a month, so removing LinkWorth is totally not a loss to me.

Would you mind sharing your LinkWorth’s success or failure to me, if you’re using it?