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Permalink Reply by Gary Bembridge on March 18, 2011 at 8:13am

on my blog Tips for Travellers at http://www.TipsForTravellers.com, I have been using Google Adsense and also placed some widgets that advertisers have approached me to run.

But in reality most of my income comes from YouTube videos that I embed. It seems that this generates by far most of the income. I guess due to the volume of traffic they get.

I resist running guest and sponsored posts as I feel they weaken the independence and the "my voice".

I run Amazon links, but they generate very little

So what is the biggest / single most important thing I shoul try and do nowto making more income off my blog?

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Permalink Reply by Megan Eaves on March 21, 2011 at 10:25am

I agree with Gary's questions about the most important thing to try in making income. And am also very curious about his strategy with YouTube videos. I didn't know that embedding YouTube vids could make money? Is this from the GoogleAds that run at the bottom of the vids or something? More info on that please!

 

For my blogs, I am a member of two major affiliate ad sites, as well as Google Adsense, but so far, haven't seen a single drop of income from any of them, despite upwards of 200 hits a day (which I know isn't lots in the scale of some websites). So, basic information on how to monetize these sites is what I'm looking for. Where should the ads appear on the site? Are text links better than visual links? Etc.

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Permalink Reply by Heather Cowper on March 21, 2011 at 10:26pm

I'd like more tips on how to make affiliate marketing work for me in the travel space. Also Ideas for travel related e-products that will attract sales - My blog's destination focussed but I'm not sure I can compete with Lonely Planet

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Permalink Reply by The Honourable Husband on March 22, 2011 at 11:34am

Blog to book.  How is it done?

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Permalink Reply by Paul Corbett on March 22, 2011 at 11:40am

As someone who doesn't have any ads yet, what works?

 

Which are the best affiliate sites and what sort of income do you expect from each based on the visits to your site.

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Permalink Reply by Butterflyist on March 25, 2011 at 10:11am

I'd like to ask the following:

1) The common ways to make money from a blog are affiliate marketing, Google adsense and advertising, and also the creation of your own product such as eBook further down the line. To what extent do you feel these different areas should be concentrated on?

2) In operating more traditional advertising on your site - how do you work best with advertisers and how do you approach them? What kind of rates are expected for advertising on blogs?

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Gary Bembridge on March 25, 2011 at 11:31am

Most of my income by far comes from the ads that are run next to and over my videos. You need to apply to become a partner of YouTube, though I was one of the early people they approached when they were testing it all out a few years ago. I have over 255 videos and they get a lot of views and so traffic is the key. My Youtube channel is at http://www.youtube.com/user/tipsfortravellers and you can see how it works. I then emded them on my blog and facebook and tweet them

Megan Eaves said:

I agree with Gary's questions about the most important thing to try in making income. And am also very curious about his strategy with YouTube videos. I didn't know that embedding YouTube vids could make money? Is this from the GoogleAds that run at the bottom of the vids or something? More info on that please!

 

For my blogs, I am a member of two major affiliate ad sites, as well as Google Adsense, but so far, haven't seen a single drop of income from any of them, despite upwards of 200 hits a day (which I know isn't lots in the scale of some websites). So, basic information on how to monetize these sites is what I'm looking for. Where should the ads appear on the site? Are text links better than visual links? Etc.

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Permalink Reply by Ellen on April 17, 2011 at 3:34pm

I just became a member of Travel Bloggers Unite and I am wondering if there is a round up available of the conference for member of TBU, as I would love to hear about all the topics, tips&tricks etcetera that are discussed there. It would be a great service to provide to the members and I hope this is available! Maybe it is, then I'de like to know here to find it. Thanks!

Happy traveling!

Ellen

 

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Permalink Reply by Oliver Gradwell on April 17, 2011 at 4:00pm

http://www.travelbloggersunite.com/page/tbu11-manchester

 

That link will take you to an overview page for the Manchester conference.  From there you can read various posts from delegates there.

 

The following from Heather is a good overview and contains links to the talks http://www.heatheronhertravels.com/travel-bloggers-unite-11/

 

 

 

Ellen said:

I just became a member of Travel Bloggers Unite and I am wondering if there is a round up available of the conference for member of TBU, as I would love to hear about all the topics, tips&tricks etcetera that are discussed there. It would be a great service to provide to the members and I hope this is available! Maybe it is, then I'de like to know here to find it. Thanks!

Happy traveling!

Ellen

 

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Permalink Reply by Ellen on April 17, 2011 at 5:17pm

Thanks Oliver, I'm reading already :-)

Oliver Gradwell said:

http://www.travelbloggersunite.com/page/tbu11-manchester

 

That link will take you to an overview page for the Manchester conference.  From there you can read various posts from delegates there.

 

The following from Heather is a good overview and contains links to the talks http://www.heatheronhertravels.com/travel-bloggers-unite-11/

 

 

 

Ellen said:

I just became a member of Travel Bloggers Unite and I am wondering if there is a round up available of the conference for member of TBU, as I would love to hear about all the topics, tips&tricks etcetera that are discussed there. It would be a great service to provide to the members and I hope this is available! Maybe it is, then I'de like to know here to find it. Thanks!

Happy traveling!

Ellen

 

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Permalink Reply by Karthick Madhavan on September 4, 2011 at 6:37am

In order to make money from affiliates links we need to have more traffic, How generate traffic in a cheaper way? Stumbleupon.com provides an opportunity to promote our site in a cheap way, Just 0.5 cents per page view, if you go premium its gonna cost you 0.10 cents per page view, You will have to start a campaign like you do with Adwords, Before starting a stumble upon ad campaign look up in Google how stumble upon works, 

Stumble upon can even generate 100k visitors in a day or just 20 visits a day, its all about how users review our website, so key is to have good content on our blogs and some good high resolution pictures on the site, 

The more stumbles we get, the more visitors it generates to the site, thus will generate income from affiliate links or can even attract Paid ads from Travel related companies.

I'm starting a campaign soon with stumbleupon soon, i have planned to start the campaign with $20, lets see where it takes me. 

Welcome to WanderPost - Thats my site.

 

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Karthick Madhavan on September 4, 2011 at 6:44am

Have anyone of you tried www.hotelscombined.com Affiliate ?? They pay 50 cents to $ 1 per lead, i know its very less, but in the log run it will make more bucks into our account, 

Visitors does'nt need to buy anything with hotelscombined.com, we get paid for just referring, and the cookie is live for 365 days, every time a visitor click the link we get 50 cents for the lead. its simple and good. 

This works more like adsense but hotelscombined pay more than adwords. 

 

Happy blogging all,

Regards,

Kart.

 

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