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DEAD SIMPLE BLOG MONETIZATION METHOD THAT NETS AN EXTRA $ 2,000 A MONTH
Your results will vary , of course . There is a young lady in the IM niche who maintains 3 separate IM type blogs . And without revealing too much ( we don ’ t want to create direct competition for her ) here are the methods she ’ s tried and the ones that worked in monetizing those 3 blogs . To begin with , she tried Adsense . But that only made a few bucks and she quickly abandoned it . Then she tried renting out banners , but since her 3 blogs combined receive about 10,000 visitors a month , she didn ’ t get a lot of interest .
She does put up Clickbank ads , and those bring in about $ 1,000 a month from all 3 blogs combined . Not bad , but obviously not that great , either . Especially when you consider that she posts 6 days a week on each blog . Next , she decided to devote one blog post out of 6 to promoting an affiliate product . This wasn ’ t an easy decision for her , because she was afraid her readers would be alienated and they would stop visiting her blog . But on the contrary , her promotional blogposts were well received and they ’ re making her money . In fact , it doubled her income and then some . So now she was making over $ 2,000 a month on her three blogs but she felt she could do better .
So what she did next was a little unorthodox .
She had a pop-up to get people to subscribe to her mailing list , which she decided to rent out .
That ’ s right – she ’ s renting out her pop-up . She devoted the top right sidebar and the bottom of each page to capturing email addresses for herself .
Then she made a page showing her traffic stats , her own conversions on her own pop-ups , some demographic info and so forth .