Problem:

My blog is read by people already making money online or those planning to make money online. This target audience is aware of Google AdSense and know exactly what it is about.
In other words: a substantial amount of my readers are ad blind. This means little or no clicks for me = no money = waste of expensive ad space = even less money.

Solution:

I’m trying to choose ads that are 100% relevant to the content of the individual post, or category. Moreover, besides the ads being relevant, I want the services to give real added value to my readers.

It appears that this requires hard work of hand picking advertisers, image ads, etc. But, I do believe that on a blog read mostly by publishers this is a way to go and worth the time spent.

The big question is will Google AdSense generate more income than affiliate programs? And, although asked much later down the road, will Google AdSense generate more income than direct advertising?

I will have to wait and see. This is my journey and Google AdSense is on the Celebrity Map…

- Alex

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Why Did I Join Google AdSense?

Should I assume my application was rejected, or something went wrong with it? I will drop them a line tomorrow with hopes to clarify what went wrong.

Nevertheless, I joined affiliate programmes on a few hosting providers, please see my previous post. These went smoothly, and this marks the start of my “affiliate department”.

- Alex

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My Attempt at Joining My First Affiliate Programme – Update

After writing my Establishing Net Presence (1) post, where I write about my purchasing my fist piece of Internet property, a domain name, and mention GoDaddy.com as my chosen registrar, I thought that since I’m telling people about this service, why shouldn’t I try to make money as well? I mean, some of my readers are probably going to use GoDaddy.com’s service, and it won’t affect their price whether they used an affiliate referral link or a direct link, so why not…

I went to GoDaddy.com, found the affiliate link and followed the required steps to sign up as an affiliate. They still need to approve my application. I figure they will visit my site to check if it has appropriate content, use their tools of choice to tell how is my site indexed in the search engines, etc.

Anyway, it is the second day, and I’m hoping to receive a Welcome mail to join my first affiliate programme.

- Alex

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Money Online – Attempt at Joining My First Affiliate Programme