If I review my earnings over at SFM blog in the last one year, banner advertising has a big role in that. You can make good amount of money from banner advertising only if you have a blog with some reputation. So if you are new to blogging niche or already have an active blog, look at ways to build traffic and branding for your blog. And once you have decent traffic, page rank and Alexa rankings, you are ready for monetizing your blog through banner advertising and other mediums of online earnings. In today’s post I’m going to share some proven techniques around making money through banner advertising on your blog directly or through some banner advertising network.

1. Advertise Here Page

First and the most important step that you can take in this direction is creating an Advertise Here Page on your blog. You should share all advertising options with contact details and how actually you accept funds. And once you have Advertising Page ready, show it on prominent position on your blog, may be in your blog navigation and blog sidebar. And don’t forget to link to it from your posts wherever it makes sense. Best thing about getting advertisers through this medium is that, you will be getting all the interaction with customers and can set your own price and negotiate with them. With direct advertising, you will also be able to save some money that you would have to pay as cut in your commission if you use some banner advertising buying/selling networks that I will be covering in this post. So direct advertising is the best option for making money online through banner advertising if you got enough advertisers through the Advertise Here page placed on your blog. And if you don’t get enough advertisers through advertising page or want to make more money showing banners on your blog, you should try other way outs I’m covering below. Click here to know more in details about how to make money-selling ads via Advertise Here page on your blog.

2. BuySellAds Network

Before going into brief introduction about BuySellAds (BSA), I want to make it clear that, this network does not accept free blogs created on any blogging engine and accepts only self-hosted blogs. BSA is a marketplace for buying and selling of banner advertisements. They have thousands of quality advertisers actually interested in buying ad space on your blog. They have been keep the earnings ratio of 75:25 where Publishers are credited 75 percent of their earnings and keep the rest of 25 percent money into their pockets. This ratio looks quite reasonable to me as they will be selling lots of ad slots on your blog, will keep track of clicks, impressions etc. You can withdraw funds into your Paypal account two times in a month. Click here to know more about how to make money-selling advertisements via BSA Network.

3. AdvertiseSpace

You can use AdvertiseSpace as an alternate to BSA. I had little experience of working with this advertising network as I got all of major ad slots available on my blog through direct advertising or BSA network. I think you have huge chance of making money with BSA or even AdvertiseSpace when we have good amount of traffic and place their ads on prominent positions on our blog. Click here to know more about how to make money selling buying ads with AdvertiseSpace network.

4. OIO Publisher Network

I really love OIO Publisher network as it help me manage Ad space on my website or blog for free. Good thing about this ad management network is that, you will not be sharing your revenue with anyone else and also have full control over your advertising space. All you have to do is buy membership of OIO Publisher Network. And in return, they will place your website in its marketplace and have lots of other benefits like banners impression and clicks tracking and reporting, payment integration etc. You have to pay one time cost of $47 to use it and if you use my affiliate link with coupon code TERRA-ANILIMB to buy it, you will get discount of $10. Click here to know more in detail about OIO Publisher network and its features.

5. PerformancingAds Network

PerformancingAds is a marketplace for bloggers and advertisers where both make money through their services. Good thing about this ad network is that they accept blogs of all sizes. And the only banner format they are using is 125125. So bloggers will be placing 125125 ad format in their blogs header, footer or sidebar. And the revenue ratio they are keeping with publishers is 60:40 where they give 60 percent of total earnings to bloggers and keep the rest of 40 percent of your earnings at them. I had some success with PerformancingAds when I tried it sometimes back. So I would suggest PerformancingAds must try money-making opportunity. Click here to know more about making money with PerformancingAds network.

These were some of the ways I use to make money online through banner advertising. Are you using any of the above methods for monetizing your blog or I missed a network that you are successfully making money with, do share in the comments section below so that others can also get benefit.

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So you have finished creating your first blog and now looking for ways to spread words about your blog on internet. In this post, I’m going to discuss in brief about some of websites that you can utilize as way to promote your recently created blog. There is something for you as well even if you have an old and reputed blog in your niche, there must be some key points that you are missing towards your blog promotion:

Social Networks

First thing that you can do is get active on all major social media websites. Create a strong and well informed profile on websites like Twitter, Facebook and Orkut. With this, become active on Social Bookmarking websites like Digg, Propeller, Delicious, Yahoo Buzz, Google Buzz etc and submit some of your latest stuff from your blog on these networks. But dont try to flood these networks with lots of content from your blog at a time. Apart from sharing interesting stories from popular websites you know of, participate in communities, make friends and vote for popular stories on these networks.

Blog Networks

Next thing that you cn do to promote your newly launched blog is participate in blog communities like MyBloglog, Blogcatalog, BumpZee, Indiblogger etc. When you join these blog networks, you will have chance to interact with lots of fellow bloggers in your niche.

Apply for Google Services

Most important, apply for all major services provided by Google which you will need to run your blog smoothly and for earning some revenue from your blog traffic. So create an account for your blog on Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tool, Feedburner and most importantly apply for a Google Adsense account, but let your blog get some age before you try getting an Adsense Account with that blog.

Become Active in BlogSphere

Make a list of top bloggers in your niche while searching different keywords on Google you want to target on your blog. Once you have that list, subscribe to their RSS Feeds and start leaving your feedbacks and comments on these blogs. Another thing that you can do is send emails to these blog owners and ask them Im interested in writing guest posts on their blogs. When you send such emails to bloggers, there will surely be some bloggers who will turn back to you for guest post. Apart from these, participate in blog contests, carnivals, and offer freebies to your blog readers.

Some Mixed Stuff

Apart from this, create an account on Technorati for your blog. Participate in discussion forums created around your blog niche. Submit your blog in search engines, general directories and blog directories. Create presence for your blog on websites like Squidoo, Hubpages, Google Knol and submit some of your articles on Ezine Publishing websites. Make a list of some popular blogs in your niche and contribute their in the form of comments and guest posts.

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This post is for people who are planning to begin blogging with the primary motive of making money online. Although, making money from blogs is a popular method to make money online these days. Too many people fail half way and get very frustrated. It is for the same reason that I would suggest that you consider the following points before you jump to blog to make money online. For most of us reading this post we all know what a back-breaking job blogging can become, however, it is less of a burden if you blog about the topic you love. A blogger who is new to the scene should definitely look into the following points before blogging, especially if they keep profits as a high priority.

Blogging is Easy

Yes, blogging is quite easy. You can just churn out articles that are of your interest, but its making profits from it that is difficult. There are so many dead blogs on the internet, which have a lot of quality content that the author wrote when he was enthusiastic but the interest dwindled due to the sheer lack of money he earned from it. So realize the fact that making money from blogs is not easy.

Blog with a Long Term Goal

I wish I could tell you that blogs are really good at giving instant return-of-investments. Unfortunately, most bloggers who start up now will take almost a year before they see any amount of money trickling to their bank. So keep long term realistic targets, while blogging. This is not a very great way to make money online for impatient and easily quitting people.

Stick to Your Niche

Time and again we have seen how many bloggers are struggling because their blog is so generally based and does not suit itself to any particular exact topic or niche. It can cause you to have very few regular readers and RSS subscribers. And also be careful not to change your niche every month due to lack of decisiveness.

Test Blog if You Want

If you really want to, then for the first couple of months you can write a few widely varying topics and gauge the performance of the topics on you blog to see which was the best. So it is always great to do a test drive on your brand new blog.

Do you have any points that should be considered before blogging exclusively for money?

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As you know blogs are well known for publication of quality content on regular basis. And all of posts that we publish to our blog are shown in the reverse-chronological order. So all of your quality posts will get away from home page after few weeks or even few days as new posts arrives. So how you will promote or show off your all time quality posts on your blog so that new visitors also have easy access to some of your quality old posts. This post will deal with showing off your old posts on your blog more prominently.

Tips that I will be mentioning here will apply to most of blogging platforms, but have created this explicitly for WordPress blogs:

Show related posts

First thing you can do is start showing some of your related posts towards the end of a current blog posts. And there is a related post plugin available if you are running a WordPress blog.

Create links to old posts

Why not link to your old posts in your future posts where ever they look natural. And most importantly search engines love linking of your old posts in this fashion and will help better search engine rankings and page rank for posts that got linked this way.

Showing random posts

You can think of showing some random post from your blog achieves. There is a random post plugin available if you are running a WordPress based blog. This plugin will allows you to display a random post from a designated category.

Republish your old posts

There may be promotional, product based or your favorite posts, you want to show on your blog home page now and then. And to achieve this, you should seriously think about republishing your old posts. If you are ruining a WordPress blog and your Permalinks structure is of /%post% format, go to any of your old post, simply change the publication date, and that post will start showing your blog home page. There will be some issues if your Permalinks structure is of format /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/. Because, it this case, you will have new URL every time you republish your old blog posts. So all of your efforts, you will put in for old posts will be gone. All bookmarks, links that you gathered for that post will not work any way. So what is the solution to this problem?

There is a Permalinks Migration Plugin for wordpress from Dean Lee website. You can switch to more SEO friendly Permalinks structure /%post% with this plugin quite easily and most importantly, this plugin will create a 301 redirect from your old URL’s. Click here to know more about migrating your permalinks to SEO friendly URL for WordPress blogs.

Create themed posts

Creating themed posts will also help you show of your targeted posts back on home page. I himself used to create themed posts here on my blog. Some of themed posts that I created in past were:

Paid blogging options for making money online

List of making money online websites

How I make money online doing blogging

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Top 5 ways to make money from your blog

Search Bar Option

I have doubts, how many of our blog readers actually use search box to find a topic of their interest. But if you want, you can test by showing a search box in your blog header or sidebar and see how it goes. This way also, you can showcase your old posts to your targeted visitors.

What you do to highlight your old posts to the world, please share in the comments section below.

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I have been working on blogs for the last 5 years and have so far learned many techniques that help us to make our blogs popular and effective. I learnt a lot from other bloggers in our niche. Here is the list 51 ways you can implement to make your blog more popular and successful:

1. Good domain name It becomes easy for your blog visitors to remember your blog name if it is proper and short. For most of people, its really difficult to remember a long website address. So try to get a short and domain with proper keyword as much possible.
2. Regular posting In case of blogs, regular posting is required. Try to update your blog more frequently. If you are updating your blog once a week right now, try to update it twice in the week. The more content you have on your blog, chances of your blog, appearing in all search engines for various terms increases. And if you have a new blog, update it with new posts very often. If you are able to update your blog on regular basis, you will have more traffic and more loyal readers for your blog.
3. Forum signatures Use your blog links in your forums signature. Some of popular forums related to Search engines and internet marketing are DP forum, Sitepoint, Seo Chat. So one should search for forums related to their niche and devote some time there. These forums will give lots of quality links, traffic and popularity to your blog.
4. Link trading Exchange links with blog/websites of your niche. When you have your blog included in top websites or blog of your area, will result in lots of loyal visitors to your blog.
5. Paid advertising You can use pay per click advertising program like Google adwords, Microsoft Advertising etc if you have some money to advertise your blog on top websites or blogs. So in this kind of advertising scheme, you will be paying only for the clicks that are made on your blog.
6. Adding the Mata tags Fill up all the Meta tags on your blog. Through Google dont give much value to Meta tags, but still there are some search engines that give Meta tags some value. So there is nothing wrong in trying this technique.
7. Submitting on Social bookmarking websites If you have some decent posts on your blog, you can submit them on social bookmarking websites. Some of the popular social bookmarking sites where you can share your blog/website content are Digg, del.icio.us, propeller, Mixx etc. All these social media sites can bring tons of traffic and targeted visitors to your blog site.
8. Making comments Dont forget to make comments on the top blogs/website of your niche. Leaving a value added comments on blogs will build some valuable links and visitors for your blog. This is a great way to have interaction with the similar minded blogs/website of your area.
9. Replying to the questions When a user send an email or add a new comment to your blog in the form of question, dont forget to reply to that. When you continuously reply to your readers comments, then they will become your regular readers.
10. Using StumbleUpon Create an account on Stumbleupon and submit your favorite stuff here. Add Good Stumblers in your friend list and review other people post/blog here. This way you will also get your blog/post reviewed by other stumblers.
11. Sphinn It If you blog about blogging, social media and internet marketing kind of stuff, submit your stories on sphinn.com
12. Use attractive Avatar Choose an avatar for your profile that motivates people to click on it. Try something very funny or strange icon as your avatar.
13. On Facebook create a profile on Facebook and submit your blog there. And get involved with other users there.
14. Blog logo Create an attractive logo for your blog and use it in your blog.
15. Reviewing other bloggers Review other bloggers of your niche. Also give link to new as well as popular bloggers of your area.
16. Create lists Create a list of things or bloggers of your niche. Contribute on other blogs as a guest blogger which will help you get some loyal readers for your blog.
17. Blogging problems notify bloggers if you notice some error with their blogs like 404 problem, page not found, broken links, design related issue and browser compatibility etc.
18. Blogs voting submit the blog posts of your favorite or top blogs of your niche in social media sites like dig, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us etc
19. Text readable – make your blog text more readable by using proper titles, headings, bold, italic, lists, proper fonts and other means for making your text more readable. Use H1 and H2 tags properly.
20. Proper text & background color Use proper text and background color on your blog. Use the color scheme in a way that makes your text more clear and understandable.
21. Image in Posts use images in your blog posts to make them attractive and popular among your blog readers. But use images according to your blog posts.
22. Using screenshots use screenshots to make your posts more clear and effective. If you have a screenshot that clears your point in a better way, dont forget to use that screenshot as a part of your post.
23. Small size images dont use big size images. If you blog has lots or some images of big size, then it will take lots of time for your blog readers to open your blog. So try to use small size images. And if you must include a big image, use their thumbnails.
24. Conduct interviews conduct interviews of the famous and most interesting bloggers of your niche and some bloggers who blog about general things in life.
25. Use blogging communities create your profile on blogging communities like Mybloglog, Blogcatalog, Bumpzee, Spicypage etc. Add your blog there and get in touch with other bloggers of your niche there. These blogging communities give you a chance to meet and get in interaction with millions of bloggers whom you otherwise will never been able to get in touch with.
26. Pinging services Use pinging services like Google blog search, Technorati pinging and ping-o-matic for distributing and spreading your latest blog posts all over the internet.
27. Give away links Give links to favorite bloggers of your niche and hope some of them may link back to you as well.
28. Using RSS feeds Show a large RSS feed icon on your blog so that the visitors on your blog can easily subscribe t your blog feeds. You can use Feedburner service to burn the feed for your blog. Also give the visitors option to get subscribed via email as well. When you create an account on Feedburner, you will have more idea about the number of people who have subscribed to your blogs.
29. E-mail Signature use your blog name and url in your all outgoing email signatures.
30. Too many ads Dont fill your blog with lots of ads. Instead use fewer ads if you must use them.
31. Starting a contest start an interesting contest on your blog and spread it around.
32. Creating a poll Creating polls and asking questions from your readers will also make your blog popular.
33. Writing e-books write e-books and offer for free to your blog readers. With this you can offer other freebies like T-shirts to your selected readers.
34. Top commenters Include your top commenters in your blog sidebar. And give special attentions to the top commenter on some occassions.
35. Wikipages add your blogs and its posts in various wiki sites including Wikipedia.org, wiki.com, wikihow.com, ehow.com etc. But dont try to spam them.
36. Classifieds submit your product related entries on classified sites. There are many free classified sites where you can submit your stuff.
37. Group Discussion participate on Google, Yahoo and MSN groups and crate group targeting your blog there.
38. Paid review Ask some famous bloggers to do the paid review for your blog.
39. Yahoo Answer participate on Yahoo answer, Answerbag and kind of stuff and spread your blog there.
40. Article distribution write some articles and submit them on ezine websites. Some of famous ezine websites where you can submit your articles are ezinearticles.com, findarticles.com, goarticles.com etc
41. Surveys do surveys and publish the results for your blog readers.
42. Tools build some tools that your visitors may be interested in and offer it for free.
43. Newsletter start offering newsletter for your blog and ask people subscribe to them.
44. Social media activities work actively in social media sites by voting, commenting and submitting the interesting stories.
45. Good design Create an attractive design for your blog and if you are not good in designing take some designer help.
46. Blog directories Submit your blog on famous blog directories. Some big blog directories are mentioned here.
47. Search Engine submission Submit your blog url on major search engines including Google, Yahoo & MSN.
48. Feed submission submit your blog rss to the popular rss submission websites.
49. Blogger forums go and spread your blog on blogger forums and reply to the interesting stories there.
50. Squidoo & Hubpages create a lens on Squidoo about your blog site and let the traffic flow from there on your blog. Also create a hub on Hubpages to get more popularity.
51. LinkedIn create a profile for you on LinkedIn, Claimid kind of social media sites and include your blog there.

These are some of the steps on can follow to make his/her blog popular. Ive so far implemented some of them and will try some of them in the coming days. If you have something more to add to this list, let me know I will add that to this list.

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