5 Unusual Ways To Make Money Online
You will come across ample of articles across the blogosphere who will you teach you the art of making money online. You will come across many innovative ways to monetize your blog.
You have to do certain basic things in order to make money out of your blog like:
- Register with the Adsense
- Offer the affiliate goods through CPA networks like Commission Junction
- Place the Amazon Ads
- Sell out links through TextLinkAds
When you begin a blog to make money then enabling these factors are essential. But if we all apply the same tactics, then the things get a little dragging. It is time to become a little creative. Here in this article you will come across 5 such unusual ideas to make money online.
Be Innovative: Look At The Unusual To Monetize Your Blog
- PickyDomains. com
PickyDomains.com is popularly known as the risk free naming and branding service. When people feel almost impossible to think of a domain or make a slogan of their own, they can place their order in PickyDomains. When the PickyDomains and their contributors come up with some cool ideas or a name, then the client has to pay $50. If the client does not like, he does not need to pay. Hence, the slogan of the website is risk-free naming.
How to monetize your blog through it? Well, PickyDomains offer the bloggers with $30 for a single review. If you meet their basic criteria of having a Pagerank and at least 100 daily visitors then they will pick you.
- Reader Ads
If you have a quite a good flow of visitors to your blog then start offering the reader ads. Reader Ads, as the name suggests is a one-line advertisement below a post that says:
“ Reader Jonah is an SEO expert and charges $X for every 1000 symbols.”
“Reader Isabella is willing to sell her new e-book for $YYY.”
What may be the key to success for the Reader Ads? – Large audience and Small Price. You should not ask more than $10 for an Ad. Do not accept those SEO links as the Reader Ads.
Direct Selling of Links and PR
You would not find a shortage of SEO specialist in the web world. Contact them directly and tell them how much you charge for a link or an article, what is your Pagerank etc. All the text link services make up at least 100% of the price, so you have a 50-50 chance. It is similar in the case of PR specialists. You can tell them how much it will cost them to publish a press release on your website and mention them the type of content you publish. PR companies look for those blogs or website where they can get an extensive public visit.
Use Of Freelancing Sites
oDesk and eLance are the two popular freelancing sites where you can find freelance writers, designers and coder/decoder to complete orders. How will you make money from them?
Well, if you have a technical blog, you can easily create a freelance section. Offer the freelancer to have a good exposure at a reasonable fee. Approach the freelancers with a convincing rating.
Search For Proactive Advertisers
Do you have an “Advertise With Us” section in your blog? Do you receive advertisers often? If not, then start looking for them at your own. If you have a blog on startup entrepreneurs, then browse through the site KillerStartups.com or any other website, where the startups get added every day. If you come across some interesting Startup, contact them and offer some simple packages – like reviewing their startup websites for which you will charge $Y.
Do have a relevant source of information about your Pagerank, the number of readers at your blog, the total strength of traffic you expect etc. Have a similar approach for the software and the mobile application developers. These people look for blogs and websites who will write reviews on behalf of them, and if they find your offer attractive, then you can surely earn money out of it.
These five ideas are something different from the general ideas that you often come across different blogs. They are unusual and surely going to create a hype this year. Do not waste your time, jump into action with these few innovative ideas. Try them out to monetize your blog in 2013 and make good profits!
Author’s Bio*
* Nelly Jones is a social media expert and a professional advisor for different outsourcing companies to strategize their social media presence. She is now with the call centers in Draper Utah to help them have a better social media customer service platform. *