Comments on: 2010 Reminder: Test the Monetization of Your Blog

By: Bob J.

Bob J. — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:29:55 +0000

I like using A/B “split” testing methods, especially between different monetization techniques. Maybe Adsense vs. an affiliate marketing link. Try each method for at least a week, or at least 1000 visitors, before comparing to another technique.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:37:42 +0000

A really good way to start making money on your blog or website is by putting affiliate that are links related to your site.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 21 May 2011 12:16:43 +0000

Good tips – another thing that you can do is utilize Google Website Optimizer. It allows you to test different site content and design to see which one converts better or gives the desired action you are looking for. Just like keyword research, testing is at times a long and painful process but well worth the time and effort if you do it right.

By: Allison Clark

Allison Clark — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:51:51 +0000

Live and breathe in your blog, that’s what I heard some people say. Text vs. image ad testing, providing quality content, keeping in good relations with your followers and proper promotion. Sounds like a lot but then, all hard work pays off.

By: Bette Stotelmyer

Bette Stotelmyer — Tue, 03 May 2011 03:15:17 +0000

To Dee: To improve your gaming blog income, and improve adsense relevancy, look for satellite words that apply to your reviews and articles. Don’t try to understand words like latent semantic indexing, just bolster each post with more words that tightly describe your topic. This should improve the adsense relevancy, and at the same time to increase traffic when G sees your posts as relating to more specific themes.

By: extremerockclimbing

extremerockclimbing — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:34:28 +0000

Due to not having enough time to test monetisation because of the work involved in maintaining websites all I do is swap out different services starting with adsense, then amazon, then ebay etc until I find one that makes money

By: Surgery Houston

Surgery Houston — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:13:48 +0000

I keep hearing about testing, but it just seems so involved and complicated. I guess if you want to get serious about it you have to do it though.

By: Jason James

Jason James — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:42:53 +0000

I do tests all the time in the past on my dating relationship site but have now settled for Clickbank products. Have finally decided to forego all other avenues such as Amazon and Adsense — too crowded screen appearance and not very profitable.

By: Dee Barizo

Dee Barizo — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:34:29 +0000

Good call. Text vs image ads is a great test to do.

By: Raviaa

Raviaa — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:43:34 +0000

Continual Improvement Through Testing ? I like it…. in Japan they call it “Kaizen”.

I noticed AdSense work with image ads too. I plan to test text vs image ads soon.

By: Forex Divisas

Forex Divisas — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:39:49 +0000

Another good way to monetizing your website is promoting affiliate products related to your blog.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:15:15 +0000

Testing is one of the best things for your business. Pay attention to what is going on and what is working!

By: Max Perez

Max Perez — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:21:48 +0000

I have noticed that in mostly my gaming sites I have the same issue with adsense where it brings up non relevant results. I am still using adsense on most of my gaming sites but not much revenue comes from it. I’ve had better luck in other niches like weighloss niche where my adsense has a lot more revenue and relevant ads show up. On my gaming niche I tend to focus on either CB products or killerguides etc. I find it working a lot better for me.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:30:42 +0000

Interesting thought. I test all the time myself, though probably not to this extent. I think on a non-niche blog it pretty much doesn’t matter what you put on there, you’re not going to get clicks anyway. On a niche blog, you’d think you would get more clicks, but in my case my niche blog after a year still gets few visitors; I assume the topic isn’t as compelling as I’d thought it would be.

But testing things is still fairly important; good stuff.