How to Make More Money From Your Blog
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I have several blogging experiments running. My goal is to compare several ways to make money blogging to determine what works well and what doesn't. Since Google and other search engines frequently update their search engine algorithms, I plan to keep these experiments running long-term to monitor for changes in web traffic patterns. Some of these experiments have been running for 16 months now, providing valuable data on the best ways to make money blogging.
Experiment 1: Blogger vs HubPages
As of today, I have published 82 posts on Penny Pincher Journal 82 featured Hubs on Dr. Penny Pincher's blog at HubPages. I started both of these projects within one week of each other and have added posts/Hubs to each at about the same rate, so I have a good comparison. I monetized my Blogger site in a similar way to HubPages monetization using AdSense, Chitika, Amazon, and eBay.
Experiment 2: eBook
I used Smashwords to publish an eBook. I published my eBook for free and even received an ISBN for my eBook. You can buy my eBook on sites including Amazon, Apple, Sony, Barnes and Noble, and many more. This link to my eBook Penny Pincher Journal: How to Save Money Every Day shows many of the retailers that carry my eBook.
Here is an article that tells you how to publish and eBook for free and get it sold at all of the popular on-line book retailers: How To Publish an eBook for Free!
This experiment is looking at how much you can make selling eBooks vs revenue from advertising and affiliate marketing on a blog or website.
Experiment 3: top-level .com domain vs subdomain
My latest experiment is to compare the performance of a top-level domain vs a subdomain. My blogger site pennypincherjournal.blogspot.com is a subdomain of blogger.com. My HubPages website is on a subdomain of hubpages.com. It's URL is drpennypincher.hubpages.com. Both of these sites are subdomains of major websites- blogspot.com and hubpages.com.
My latest website, dppmoney.com, is not a subdomain. It is a custom top-level webdomain that I attached to my Blogger blog called Fast Money Answers. This experiment will give me insight into whether search engines prefer domains over subdomains. Some sources suggest this is true.
In fact, HubPages is running its own experiment with this right now. They have selected some Hubs as "Editor's Choice" hubs and place these on the top-level hubpages.com domain. I have had a number of hubs selected as Editor's Choice, so I have another way to compare the performance of top level domain vs subdomain in search engines.
Experiment 4: Short posts
I am running a blog called ClickFact which features very short and to-the-point answers to popular questions. Supposedly short websites and blog posts are not preferred by search engines, but it seems that when I am doing web searching short pages are often near the top of the search engine results page. Short posts are certainly easier to write, so I am giving this a try.
Experiment 5: ClickBank
I decided to try ClickBank to make money from my blogs. Essentially ClickBank provides e-books that you can sell and get a very high commission- 50% or more. Many of the eBooks are fairly expensive, so you can make $25 or more from each sale. I won't reveal the complete results of this experiment, but you'll notice that none of my blogs have ClickBank links any more...
Expermiment 6: Amazon vs eBay
I have been running both Amazon and eBay affiliate marketing on some of my blogs and websites. I have obtained a lot of data on the relative performance of these monetization tools.
Experiment Results- How to Make More Money From Your Blog
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I plan to continue Experiment 2 (eBook) by publishing an eBook with detailed results of these experiments and tips to make more money blogging... For now, keep reading Pro Blogging Journal!
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