Comment Friday for January 18th

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1. C-Squared said:

   honestly I have no idea how to monetize a blog. I just started myself. However, I’ve heard that adsense doesn’t do much. Also, if you look at John Chow’s financial stats, paid reviews earn him more than anything. Even with all his traffic his ads dont actually get him that much.

   January 18th, 2008 at 12:56 am
2. free template said:

   it’s being my lucky day. since this is my fisrst friday comment on your blog and i won your 100ec (perhaps) 🙂

   this week i only success porting 1 wordpress theme into blogger platform. it’s named by ‘farfalla’.

   another one still in progress and might be ready on next monday.

   just wish me. thank you.

   January 18th, 2008 at 1:35 am
3. BroTee said:

   My blog is a personal diary. So it contains various subject and addresses no one in particular. I didn’t set it up initially as a revenue earning blog. However, after six months of blogging, I decided to monetize the blog. I use Google Adsense, PayPerPost and direct advertisement. Cheers.

   January 18th, 2008 at 1:37 am
4. Alfred Saforo said:

   Monetising my blog has been really difficult. My AdSense revenue is so low I’m even embarrassed to share. I have actually been concentrating on creating more interesting content to attract more visitors/subscribers.Although i have more than 500 visitors a day from various sources. I must confess myblog cant pay for itself yet. However I’m not really in it for the money at this point, maybe when my traffic goes over 1000 organic visitors a day I’ll start looking into it.

   January 18th, 2008 at 4:19 am
5. SunEGrl said:

   Hi, this is my first Comment Friday although I have been reading your blog for awhile now. I haven’t had any luck with blogrush either, so I thought I’d give scratchback a try. I just signed up to put a scratchback widget on my blogs, so I’ll let you know how it goes. Have a great weekend!

   January 18th, 2008 at 4:22 am
6. Martin said:

   I’m pretty much only using adsense now that I’ve updated the look of my blog, I’m having a complete re-think on how I monetize it. I’m hoping to come up with a new monetizing strategy soon.

   Cheers
   Martin

   January 18th, 2008 at 5:37 am
7. Erz said:

   Using widgetbucks but it is a little slow in generating any revenue.

   Regards.

   January 18th, 2008 at 6:11 am
8. Hawksdomain said:

   Mostly adsense, also widgetbucks…. considering adding scratchback after reading your post on it. 🙂

   January 18th, 2008 at 6:51 am
9. Erica said:

   Yesterday I finally started making money with my blog. Thanks to Project Wonderful, I made 6 whole cents. At this pace, I’m on par to make $20 this year. I’ll be rolling in the…pennies.
   Seeing as ours is a personal blog (and has a very bare bones theme), I’m just happy to have others read it and comment! That’s worth more than Adsense or any affiliate sales could ever make me.

   January 18th, 2008 at 8:14 am
10. ryan said:

    I am using AdSense, a bunch of affiliates, and quite a few other programs to make money online.

    January 18th, 2008 at 10:05 am
11. Matthew Henrickson said:

    CSquared- ADsense can be good for certain niche blogs. I dont know how much yours could earn with reviews, but you could get away with a few adsense ads here and there.

    Template- Good luck on winning 😉

    Brotee- Nice move on those ways to monetize. There are several more you could add as well

    Alfred- If you are having trouble feel free to drop me a contact and let me know if you need my help

    SunE- Welcome to comment friday, thanks for coming out and commenting. We appreciate your support. Good luck with scratchback, let me know how you like it.

    Martin- I like the new look, everything actually loads now 🙂 lol

    Erz- I never really got into widgetbucks

    Hawks- glad to see I bribed you into scratchback lol. Let me know how you like it

    Erica- Im trying out project wonderful as well, We’ll see how it goes.

    January 18th, 2008 at 10:32 am
12. sir jorge said:

    on my review blogs i’m trying amazon affiliates, not working.

    on my main blog i have 3 adsense blocks, not working.

    and that sums it up.

    Nothing is working.

    January 18th, 2008 at 11:20 am
13. Sue said:

    Things have not been going too well on this end since Google spanked us. Ouch!

    January 18th, 2008 at 11:37 am
14. Jason - GorillaSushi said:

    I’ve tried EVERYTHING but the only way I’ve made serious steady cash is using PayPal to sell my own 125×125 ads. I’ve got enough traffic to get them filled and I get to have personal contact with my advertisers.

    January 18th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
15. Beth said:

    My blog has never been a “niche blog” and I refuse to change to please advertisers. The bloggers and companies who have advertised with me have always been very pleased with the results. What I find so odd, since beginning with EntreCard, I see blogs with virtually no readers and low rankings charging $20+ for ad space or reviews and people buy it. Content is and always will be King. Provide content in which readers interact and monetizing becomes a little easier. I’m not making a fortune, but paid reviews and ad space has the potential to make between $500-$1000 on my blog.-And I’ve managed to stay a PR3.

    January 18th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
16. Matthew Henrickson said:

    Sir Jorge- Let me know if I can help in anyway. Feel free to contact me or IM me anytime.

    Sue- I feel ya, Ive changed several things on this blog to get out of the “spank”. Last update I was definitely hoping for a 5 but we stayed at 3.

    Beth- Thats pretty good, congrats on the success. As always let me know if you need anything. I tried to contact you about the project wonderful ad but the contact form didnt work for me

    January 18th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
17. Beth said:

    Matt: I need well nothing at this point. I’m trying to stick with advertising and paid reviews on my own rather than going through certain companies. I received your message- I bid again. I’m having issues with DreamHost and any type of php form on my blog so I’m looking for alternatives.

    Thanks for the head’s up!

    January 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
18. Matthew Henrickson said:

    no prob, I dont know why its allowing people to bid nothing though, its pretty irritating

    January 18th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
19. Madhur Kapoor said:

    Currently i have monetized my blog with adsense and TLA . Adsense was doing really well for me until google redefined the click areas . TLA works fine for me . Atleast i have a fixed income of around $90 per month from it. I have been thinking about trying some new ways which you have mentioned in your blog.

    January 18th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
20. Eva Smart said:

    My blog is kind of like a non-profit–we need cash flow to do the good work we want to do.

    We have some affliate ads to try to pay for our basic business expenses.

    Our work, though, is to sell a carbon offset exchange, where bloggers donate at least $5, and we use the money to plant bamboo to help replenish the planet. The blogger receives a thank you post in our blog, a link in our blogroll, a badge and the good feeling that comes from doing the right thing.

    We need to learn a lot about marketing, so we’re reading marketing and monetizing blogs like crazy!

    January 18th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
21. C-Squared said:

    Quick Critique!

    1) you have way more posts shown per page (10) than you have actual sidebar content to match. Scrolling is just one of those things that the longer you spend time doing it, the more likely you are to lose your focus. Reducing your scrollbar size/posts per page will help readers a lot.

    2) Your background is a nice neutral color, but i’m not quite sure how it fits in with your blog. It also doesn’t fit much with your banner, which is everything but olivey-grey-green. I feel like all that intense graphical candy flying off of the guy in that banner should keep going into the right side, you know? Where does it go? 🙁

    bonus) Where it is right now, your search box is relatively unnoticeable. Center it and place it under your Project Wonderful ad?

    Thanks for the business! Hope this helps.
    http://darkiseasy.blogspot.com

    January 18th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
22. workout mommy said:

    I’m making pennies from adsense! I’d like to sell adspace, but I’m very new to this and still learning.

    January 18th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
23. Matthew Henrickson said:

    Thanks for the critique, Ill keep the changes in mind 🙂 Ideally we would love a brand new theme.

    Workout- I see a few problems you might be having with adsense, I sent you an email

    January 18th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
24. valmg said:

    My first comment Friday! I’d love to win the contest! I had no luck with Adsense ever even when I only put relevant ads. So after their recent behavior I removed them from all blogs but one and it’s coming off of that one this weekend. I’ve had very little luck with affiliate programs in general and am actually considering removing them as well since they’re not performing.
    I have been considering scratchback and chipin this week. scratchback is nice because it offers the links which is advertising. chipin has a nice little graph and takes no cut.

    January 18th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
25. Emma said:

    Hey project wonderful is a good idea. I’ve been seeing these around. Once again, thanks. I think I’ll try it.

    January 19th, 2008 at 12:05 am
26. Thomson Chemmanoor said:

    This is my first Friday Comment on your blog. I monetize my blog through adsense and CPA affiliate networks(neverblueads)and Kontera Ad network. Most of my content is based on Affiliate marketing, make money online and Search Engine optimization.

    Thanks
    Thomson

    January 19th, 2008 at 8:41 am
27. Bruce said:

    I just decided to try out Project Wonderful too. I originally set the initial bid at 0 and that brought out a lot of advertisers that I needed to deny. I had my ads full and then canceled them all and put a .50 cent price. I’m not doing to to really generate revenue, I just it may be a good way to allow my readers to advertise their blog at a cheap amount.

    By the way this is my first Friday Comment so I guess that enters me for the credit prize.

    January 19th, 2008 at 9:56 am
28. vhxn said:

    Sorry messed two days..

    January 20th, 2008 at 8:22 am
29. Matthew Henrickson said:

    SunEGrl is our winner 🙂

    http://sunegrl72.blogspot.com/

    January 20th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

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