Today I was talking with my sister about my blog. She is very wondered about what I’m doing here, and how I’m doing it. She asked me many things related to the monetization, because she never imagined that you could make money online.

As she, I’m pretty sure that many people is wondered about the topic, so in this post I’m going to tell you how it is possible.

There are many ways which I make money with my blog: by displaying advertising, by reviewing services provided by other websites and by selling private advertising. I’m going to focus in the last one, the private sales.

What can you sell in your blog?

In your website, you are able to sell whatever you want. This includes banners (125×125, 468×60….), text links, reviews, packages, ebooks, a kind of membership or anything else you want to sell. In fact, there is a plugin for wordpress called WP Auctions, which you can sell whatever you want though bids. Of course, that’s if you are using wordpress to manage your blog, but as you see, there are no restrictions to sell on your website.

How to motivate the people to buy in your blog?

This is something very interesting, and a doubt which many people have. This is not an easy task, in fact this is pretty hard, and sometimes it can be impossible. You need to do your best to get people buying stuff in your blog:

• By taking part in social media networks: Being an active member of many social communities, you will get credibility though a wide audience, making your blog a potential marketplace to advertise on.
• By having many subscribers: Let’s face it, nobody will buy a banner on your blog if the only person who visit your blog is your mom. If you have just a couple of subscribers (I’m talking about 20), will be very hard to sell a banner, for example. The most subscribers you have, the most banners you will sell because this is an indicative of your popularity and brand in the web. But to get many subscribers, you need to be good on what you do.
• By having good traffic: The most expensive advertising is these which is in a highly visited website. And this is something obvious, you can’t sell a banner at the same prize of JohnChow (who gets thousand visits a day) if you get only 100 visits a day. To learn how to increase your traffic, check the category Improving Traffic.
• By having good rankings: This relates the preview point. If you have highest rankings, will be best for you because this suggest that you have a defined presence in the web. This mean that many people knows about you, visiting your blog several times a month. To learn how to increase your rankings, check the category Improving Rank.
• By displaying ads on your site: If you are selling ads, you don’t want to show a hole of empty slots. If you do this, you are saying that nobody is interested on your blog, and you are not having success with your sales. This is psychology, if the people see that you are selling banners, the customers around your blog will feel motivated to reserve a slot for them.
• By promoting your stuff: Well this is an obvious point. If you want to sell something, you need to let the people know you are selling something! So a page or section of “Advertising” would be great on your site, this way the people will know that you are selling something.

By following the tips mentioned above, you should start to sell some banners, text links or another stuff in your blog, and start to make some money from your home.

This business is all about socializing and imagination. If you have a great idea never revealed before, make sure to materialize it and if the idea is enough good, you will get a lot of money from it.

Happy Selling