Many things happen to new bloggers when they spend their time to getting the success with their blog and more of it discourage after their first year of trying to make money online. It can happen that when blogger checks her own site to see which are the response on the earns, it are surprised to find out that their income go down in some periods of time.

The same thing is worth for me. This happen when asked me which is the reason because I made more money in a month than I did in another. The answer are: I worked on my sites, I was making sales, and I didn’t measure how well I was doing.

How To Market The Blog Well

The first thing to make, I monitor click-through rates and ad earnings at least once every week. For example Adsense provide a simple, free and effective way to monitor your Adsense CPM and CTR through your control panel. 

Use Adsense Channel

“Channels enable you to view detailed reporting about the performance of specific pages and ad units. By assigning a channel to a combination of pages or ad units, you could track the performance of a leaderboard versus a banner, or compare your motorcycle pages to your automobile pages. You can even create a channel to track each of your separate domains, so you can see where your clicks are coming from. While channels can be used to track performance and revenue, they won’t have any effect on your earnings or ad targeting.”

We all know one things for getting success online is to have a good conversion-rate. Have a look at the top products like for example Clickbank’s, is just way to have an high conversion. If a website converts at 2% for a $100 product, you’d know that every 100 visitors that land on the site will net 2 sales($200). So the average visitor value of this site is $200/100=$200.

So, if you want to getting a just income from your site for high pay keyword it’s better to target phrases which contain several keywords instead one or two because it’s less competitive. The reason of the success of the terms like Clickbank’s is because it making money for people who promote them. And that’s why they continue to promote them.

Try Other Affiliate Programs With Ad Format

My quest to increase my affiliate income, also has convinced to me to diversify my income using more than one ad program. So, has been this interesting use of great affiliate programs like adsense, Kontera and Chitika that has take me a additional income stream.

One of the methods easiest and one of the most underrated is to try experimenting with ad formats (colors and tables) and placement on your site.  As you know, there are a large number of ad formats that you can choose from while implementing Adsense on your website. Maybe what you can not know is that while some ad formats work well, others get low click number by your visitors. Personally, I focus my adsense banner using Square (250 x 250) and add it inside on my blog post  I think that is the placement better than others.

Develop And Increase Your Traffic

Traffic is always the best way to increase your earn. If you don’t have traffic to your site, it’s similar to opening a  market store in the middle of the desert! No one will find you. One key question that shouldn’t be ignored is if you should to choose between higher traffic or higher conversion, you what you choose? Personally I choose the conversion, however the happy medium is the challenge facing every blogger that develop a blog that are optimization completely (traffic and conversion).

This is not the first time I’ve talked about this alternative form of program to make money online, so today I’ve decided to talk about a great program called “Kontera” and I’ve also included some tips you can use to increase your revenue in the short run.

Kontera is one of the most popular ways to get money with your website / blog. Kontera have a different approach to contextual advertising.  This means that you do not need to put ad banners or anything like that. Instead, the pre-existing content on your blog can be converted into advertising. Some keywords in the text will become hyperlinked and the sponsored links are double-underlined to differentiate them from regular hyperlinks.

When a site visitor hovers his or her mouse pointer over the sponsored link, a small window pops up that displays the actual ad itself.

If at the start your CPM is just little cents there are some things you can do to increase it. For first, you must know that kontera unit placed inside the fold tend to get the most click, of course if the blog post includes quality contents. You must write at a level that is beyond most of your readers. Headers, sidebar and footer should not be included. Also, change your content in some different keywords and you could get completely different Kontera ads.

However, if you want better answer on how make money with Kontera, I can say that the main advice that is floating on more than one place on the internet, says that to have succes with Kontera you need to get a high traffic.

Looking this numbers taken from doshdosh.com, we can see how an increase number of impression and click correspond an increase amount of money.

$30.20 from 6063 impressions and 295 clicks
$18.88 from 5374 impressions / 218 clicks
$110.0 from 6,003 imp / 1270 clicks
$0.34 from 115 impressions / 7 clicks

Since setting up Kontera a few days ago, I’ve gotten a 2.75% CTR and have averaged around $0.20 per click, while my Effective CPM remained around $5.41 for each 1000 impressions, which I think is pretty decent. Note that this will of course vary, depending on your site content and traffic levels. The payout rate for Kontera is currently set at $100, which can be reasonable when you have a strong website that receives lots of visitors daily.

Also, the code below allow you to control what parts of your site gets spidered:<div class=KonaBody>The content you want Kontera to consider for ContentLink goes here.</div>

Make Kontera Links to the same color as normal links, the code which controls link color is var dc_AdLinkColor=’#xxxxxx’.

How Add Kontera ContentLink In Your Blog

First and foremost, you need to sign up for the Kontera program. All you have to do is enter Information about you and your website( First name, Last name, Email, Title, Website URL, Category, Website, Monthly Page Views).

According to Kontera website, USA, Canada and UK publishers can be accepted into their network. However I was been accepted like Italian publisher, therefore these limitations cannot be accepted for European publishers. According to Kontera, maximum page impressions per month required for your website should be 500,000. Also the main language that should be supported by your website are English.

Conclusion

I think that Kontera and Adsense can be used together into a website because Kontera can be an additional and effective way of monetizing your website but also because according to adsense policy, you can put Kontera and adsense in the same page. The only problem are that the banner pop-up could not be wished by users that visit your website because Some publishers may think that In-text advertising might devalue the worth of your content. I’m sure Joel Comm knows all about Kontera as it make an additional $75/day.