I’ve been offering our Niche Friday Gift for a few weeks now, and it has been well received. Thanks for all your comments and positive feedback. Elle and I decided, we’d take it one step further and make some suggestions on ways to monetize your existing blog or use the Niche Friday Gift.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know what Adsense is. But, Adsense for most bloggers is a disappointment and the earnings from it, especially at first, are a big yawn. To make Adsense work for you– you need understand a bit more about what it is and how it works. 

The really big money from individual clicks on Adsense is in only a few niches: financial, insurance, weight loss, legal issues, etc.  It’s no secret that these niches are at the cut throat competition level either.  Unless you’re able to compete there…or you’re in the other niche categories, your clicks are only going to earn pocket change.

To be successful with Adsense, you have to use all the tactics we’ve written about before. Your keywords have to be right on the money. The ads that appear on your page will be a very close, if not an exact match to those keywords. Your keywords will bring targeted traffic from the search engines who might just click on your ad when leaving your blog. You also want to keep promoting your blog to get more and more traffic. The more traffic you get, the sooner that pocket change begins to add up.

You’re doing what you need to do in the first place to promote your blog. The dividend it will pay in the future is more Adsense income.

I look at Adsense as one of those *passive* types of income. You set it up…and it grows with your blog’s popularity. It’s not a magic button. You won’t get rich overnight with it. But it is income, and it will grow if you continue adding to your blog’s content regularly and make the effort to increase your readership.

There are other ways to monetize. Adsense is just the one that most bloggers start with because they hear the stories about the big guns who make thousands a day or more.

Yes, they really make that much, but they are usually in the high click niches, they have hundreds of pages, and they have thousands of visitors day in and day out. They usually have several blogs or websites, too. But we’ve discussed that when you first start out, it’s better to focus on Blog #1 and get it profitable before diluting your efforts and focus to start up another. Tommorrow, I’ll talk about a form of monetizing that many bloggers have never heard of .

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