Dollar James !

It has often been said the key elements to making money online with a blog is to have regular quality content on it and an attractive design. This is surely true for the top range blogs such as Problogger.net, JohnChow.com, but i can prove you that a small free blogger blog can make you money!

The blog i am talking about is The Color Contacts blog i own. As you may see it is hosted on blogger.com the design is a free awfull template, and content on it is rather basic. This blog can earn me up to $77 dollars a month depending on how many posts i do per month (max 3 or 4). You may ask me how did i manage to make this money with a such a dumb blog? Well i will answer it may not be so dumb than you may think it is.

First of all, i used various softwares available online in order to compare keywords and try and find a niche market (where searches are high and results are low) where adsense click rate is ok (above 0.2$ average per click). Once this was done i created a free blog and chose a free template which had colored circles, a bit like color contacts actually!

The second part of my job was to optimize it for adsense. For that i simply used the blogger plateform, gave my Google adsense account and placed my ads where i wanted. The most important part was chosing the right place for my ads. First of all i placed a skyscraper ad in my left menu and used colors so that it would look as if it was part of my blog. I guess people think it is a menu and click on my ads ! Secondly i placed ads after my posts so that once people have read my article well they read my adsense ads and often click on it!

The third part was writing the content. Well that was quite easy, just go on google, surf around found interesting articles about color contacts, and then just write about what you remember! This was very easy to do! The content of my blog is surely not of a great quality but it is basic and sufficient in order to be read!

Last of all, was how to get traffic…. Well first of all, you need to be patient, and posting regularly as it will take you time before earning money! You need to have been posting for several months before starting to earn! I also used this blog in order to promote my Color Contacts blog. I also pinged directories using pingomatic.com!

All in all this simply shows you that even a dumb old blog can make money! So if you are not making money with your blog, then you should think again about it and try and optimize it and i am sure you will be able to get profit out of it!

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