This post is for the bloggers or website owners who have just started a blog and want to make some money out of their blog. During the inception of your blog, you will hardly have any traffic and so to get direct sponsors or advertisers is practically impossible. The chances of making money is lean and you may get desperate.

Let me tell you, every business needs some time to settle and takes some time to start generating profit. You should be prepared for this and should not have any expectation for atleast the first six months in the case of blogging. If you are using a paid hosting, you will have to be prepared to pay the hosting bills from your pocket for atleast 6 months.

To start off, you can use some PPC programs and my experience says that Google Adsense is the best to start off. Apply for a Google Adsense account and start using it. Make sure that you respect the terms and conditions of the program. Let me tell you, you will not get much clicks initially as you do not have much traffic. You need to have good traffic to generate clicks which comes from your visitors. One important factor that you need to check is if Google Adsense will work for your blog. Private sales of Ads and earnings from Google Adsense is something which you should know

During the initial stage just forget about revenue and think about building niche content for your blog and try to market your blog. I have many tips posted in the blog to increase your blog traffic.

You should try some of the tips which I have already discussed

1. Creating a newsletter for your blog
2. Create a Twitter Account and Get some Followers
3. Add Translation to your blog to get International Readers
4. Participate in commenting on other popular blogs and get new friends
5. Create a Feedburner Account and try to increase your RSS Feed readers
6. Organise some contests for your blog
7. Check the Stats of you blog periodically and find out the source of your traffic
8. Blend your Google Adsense Ads
9. Submit your blog to different blog directories
10. Participate in different Social networking and bookmarking sites
11. Market your blog using email signatures
12. Do some Guest Posts at popular blogs about your blog features

Sign-up as affiliate for different programs and start earning affiliate commissions. I work as affiliate for different programs and earn good affiliate commissions. This is an email that I received yesterday for a sale done from my blog

Dear Kishore Asokan,

New sale has been made by your affiliate link and commission credited to your balance. You may find sale details below:

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Payment REF: 6067

Total: 70.00

Product ordered: THiCK – Single License

Your commission: 14

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Best Regards,

The WooThemes Team

http://www.woothemes.com

Getting your first payment from Google Adsense will take some time as you know the minimum payout is US100 and to reach this amount during the inception is something very difficult. There is no shortcut to start earning from your blog from day one, but its hard work and dedication.

I have been earning online for the past few years. I have joined many programs, but only some gave me considerable earnings. Before you join any new affiliate program, you need to go through the earning potential of the program which depends on your blog visitors too. Program like Google Adsense do not work well for me on  this blog, but it works the best for some of my other blogs. I always track my earnings using Google Adsense Channels feature and Google Analytics to analyze my earnings as I have only one Google Adsense Account. I use Google Ad Manager for serving ads on my blogs and it has excellent features to track the ads.

Google Adsense – This is the top earning programs for me still. Even though top bloggers like Darren, John Chow don’t use Google Adsense. Google Adsense will not work for blogs with visitors who use Google Adsense, that’s what my experience says. Amit of Digital Inspiration uses Google Adsense and he earns a very high figure from this program because he has very high page views and most of his visitors are coming to his blog from search engines and are looking for technology related information and not bloggers like us. I had written a post related to Google Adsense Revenue, you can check it.

 Chitika – This is an excellent program which was open to websites or blogs with high traffic, but now they are allowing accounts for small websites also. Its working well for me and I get a payment every month. The advantage of this program is the minimum payout is just US$ 10 and you can get paid through PayPal account. If you do not have a chitika account, just apply for a free account now.

Private Sales of Ads – I have just started getting some income from private sales of ads, but I am not anywhere yet. Private sales of ads will depend on factors like number of RSS subscribers, Twitter followers, Page views, pagerank , etc

Affiliate Program – I have joined some affiliate programs like Affiliatebot, Clickbank, which gives my considerable income. Affiliatebot is something, which I would recommend. If you are not using this program, you are missing a great income generator, Join Now.

Free Home Jobs – I have just started a free affiliate program, but still I have not started getting any revenue from this. If you are interested, you can join this program. Join Now

My recommended Affiliate Programs

• Chitika PPC Program – Best PPC Program – Apply Now
• Affiliatebot – Get paid for referral – Join Now
• Bidvertizer – Excellent PPC Program
• Revresponse – Excellent Program
• Google Adsense
• Free Home Jobs
• Twitter -  Follow me on Twitter for all the latest updates instantly

Chitika is a PPC program, which has very high payment rate. This program is highly recommended by me and is one of the best revenue generator. Earlier it was very difficult to get an account from Chitika, but I think now they are bit liberal. The payments are very prompt and you can get paid by paypal unlike Google Adsense.

There are different Ad formats available for this program and will surely suit your website does not matter what kind of posts you do. The support is excellent and you get paid 10% of the revenue from the people you refer for the first 15 months.

This program will be very more revenue generating for websites which have US traffic, but not to worry if you don’t have US traffic, I can  assure you, 75% of my revenue of Chitika is from non US traffic. I have been using Chitika for the past 6 months and now every month I get a payment. You can surely use it with Google Adsense.

If you are interested You can signup for an account now

I just finished setting up my ads for this blog using Google Ad Manager. Its very simple, and I would like to share this with my readers.

First you need to activate your Google Ad Manager Account, every Google Adsense account has Google Ad Manager enabled by default now, so just login to your Ad Manager Account.

Create Your Ad Slots

Suppose your are planning to to display 4 125 x 125 px image ads, you need to create 4 Ad-slots. For this you need to go to the inventory tab of your Ad Manager and click on “Create New Ad Slot”. Give a name like I have given the name “Asokans_125×125_1” for my first Ad Slot. You can give any name which is meaningful. Please note that there should not be any space in the Ad Slot name. Next select the size as 125 x 125 , next you should uncheck the Adsense Ads. You should also enter a description for the Ad Slot.

Follow the same procedure and create another 3 Ad Slots in the similar way, namely, Asokans_125×125_1Asokans_125×125_2, Asokans_125×125_3, Asokans_125×125_4 with the same settings, except the description.

Now you need to create the Ad Placement for these Ad Slots

Create Placements

Now go to the placement tab and click on New Placement. Enter a name for the placement, like Image_125×125. Make sure that you add all the 4 Ad Slots to this placement.

Now are done with the Ad slots and the placement for the multiple ad widget. Next you need to create the order for these Ad Slots.

Create Order for Ad Placement

Click on new network order and enter the details like the name. You can set the delivery time to unlimited and the price also to unlimited. Now you need to select the placement that you have created to this order. You can also set targeting conditions for the order. Next you need to save the order and activate it.

Create Creatives for your Orders

Next step is to create creatives for the order. Creatives are the real advertisements where we either enter the rich media code or the image url and the final destination url. Click on the creatives links and enter a name for the creative. You can enter the ad name, the size, and the ad type needs to be selected and saved. In this way you can create un-limited creatives for your order. Now you are almost done. Make sure that you create at-least 4 creatives.

Generate HTML Code

Final step to be done with the Google Ad Manager is to generate the code. Go to Inventory->Ad Slots and click on the Generate HTML code. You need to select all the 4 Ad Slots and click on the Generate code button. Now you have the code ready to be inserted to your web page.

The first part is the code which needs to be inserted inside the <head> tag.

<!-- PUT THIS TAG IN THE head SECTION -->

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://partner.googleadservices.com/gampad/google_service.js">

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">

  GS_googleAddAdSenseService("ca-pub-8573782302712174");

  GS_googleEnableAllServices();

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">

  GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-8573782302712174", "Asokans_125x125_1");

  GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-8573782302712174", "Asokans_125x125_2");

  GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-8573782302712174", "Asokans_125x125_3");

  GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-8573782302712174", "Asokans_125x125_4");

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">

  GA_googleFetchAds();

</script>

Next you need to insert the code, which needs to at the place where you want to display the widget, which is probably the sidebar. You can open the sidebar.php file of your wordpress template and insert this code.

You need to add this CSS style to your template style sheet.

.ga-zone-position {

    position: relative;

    margin: auto;

}

.ga-img-border {

    border: 2px solid #C0C0C0;

    text-align: center;

}

.ga-img-border, .ga-img-border img {

    border: 0px;

    margin: 0px;

    padding: 0px;

}

Now you need to insert the code to the location in the sidebar where you need to display your Ads

<div style="padding: 3px; border:solid #CACACA  1px;font-size:9px;">

    <div class="ga-zone-position" style="width: 260px; height: 265px;">

        <div class="ga-img-border" style="width: 125px; height: 125px; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px;">

        <script type="text/javascript">

        GA_googleFillSlot("Asokans_125x125_1");

        </script>

        </div>

        <div class="oio-img-border" style="width: 125px; height: 125px; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 135px;">

        <script type="text/javascript">

        GA_googleFillSlot("Asokans_125x125_2");

        </script>

        </div>

        <div class="oio-img-border" style="width: 125px; height: 125px; position: absolute; top: 135px; left: 0px;">

        <script type="text/javascript">

          GA_googleFillSlot("Asokans_125x125_3");

        </script>

        </div>

        <div class="oio-img-border" style="width: 125px; height: 125px; position: absolute; top: 135px; left: 135px;">

        <script type="text/javascript">

          GA_googleFillSlot("Asokans_125x125_4");

        </script>

        </div>         

    </div>

    <a href="http://kisaso.com/advertise/">Advertize Here</a>

</div>    

You are done. You may need to wait for sometime for the ads to start serving.

I had requested for a Chikita account long back. I had got a reply saying that my traffic does not qualify for their publisher program.

Recently I got an email for reapply for the program and I got my account activated. Interesting fact is that I find the earning potential good. Its working good for some of my websites as I have some good traffic from the US.

There are different earning options and the integration with a website is easy. The biggest advantage is you can receive the payments by Paypal and cheque. The minimum payout by Paypal is US$10 and by cheque is US$50.

It has excellent reporting system and the user interface is good and easy.

If you are interested in signing up as a Publisher, you can do it now

I just received an invitation for scribefire, which is a new advertising program which is still beta. You need to install scribefire. You need to apply for an invitation to use this program. I am not aware of the earning potential of this program.
Its very easy to use this program using the scribefire extension for firefox. You get an attachment with the account details once you sign-up. You have to open the extension file using firefox and its installed. You will get a $ icon once its installed. You need to update your account settings and start using this program
I will comeback with more information soon

Just thought of writing a small post on Tyroo, which is another pay per click program. Its totally an Indian site and dedicated to Indian websites. I see most of the advertisers are Indian websites and companies. I used this program for few days and just removed it, but the earnings are good. I removed it only because, I was happy with working with Google Adsense. Tyroo shows ads for the category that you select. Its a good one as the earnings are good. Payments are done in Indian rupees and by cheque.

You can try this and check how it works for you.

I am right now on an official trip to a resort in Maldives. The resort is about 1 hour fly from the Male’ International airport called Vilu Reef. I have some excellent videos taken from the sea plane which I will post when I will be back to Male’. Probably I should be traveling back tomorrow. I did some posts on my Money making blog, but here I could not do as I need to work on the pictures and videos. I forgot to carry the cable to transfer the pictures from my camera or I could have posted it now. I am using EDGE to access Internet on my laptop. Just using the Internet sharing feature of my windows mobile pocket pc. I use a HTC TyTN which has this feature. All I need to do is connect the pocket pc to my laptop USB port using the cable provided with the pocket pc and go to the connection manager and activate the Internet sharing. Its done, I can even upload images and use my window live writer which I use to do my posts.

I believe in using the best and latest technology. I use features like Microsoft push technology, almost like a blackberry to get my emails pushed to my PDA.

I will back with some stunning videos and pictures of this travel soon

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