Comments on: Monetizing Your Travel Blog

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:51:57 +0000

Great article, currently we are using Adsense and affiliate programs to monetize our blog of 100 places to visit before you die. http://www.100placestovisit.com but still trying to get more conversions, traffic is increasing but just need to provide the exact advertising to match each destination to make it more relevant.

By: Jim Sutton

Jim Sutton — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:18:33 +0000

Thanks for the awesome tips on blog monetizing, I just made a new blog just for this purpose.

In my past experiences with blogging is that it’s hard to get started. you really need a good or controversial topic to even get people to view your blog.

I was looking for help with driving traffic and this forum seems to have some good discussions going on that helped me.
http://www.monetizationforums.com

By: Billy Cruz

Billy Cruz — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:21:53 +0000

Advertising travel blog is not actually easy for those travel writers. They just need some advices so that they will be able to post their blogs and make some money at the same time.

By: Francine

Francine — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:13:42 +0000

I have the CPC ads and it seems to work fine so far. So if you will be asking me which to use, of course, I will suggest the Per Click.

By: CryStyle

CryStyle — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:52:36 +0000

Great idea, always looking for news to better my blog.

By: Trisha

Trisha — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:25:56 +0000

@Akila – thanks again for your kind words! It’s so nice to know that we’re able to help……

You’ll already know this from my response to your email, but I thought I should post it here as well, in case anyone else gets a similar advertising invitation from the same blog network……

From what I’ve been able to learn by researching, it seems like a perfectly legitimate opportunity with a reputable company, and I am comfortable advising anyone who is considering it to have no worries as long as they pay attention to two factors:

1. Your site’s design and layout – can you fit the ads where they want them? If not you may have to consider changing your design or Theme;

2. Page views – ads that pay based on CPM are, as we’ve already mentioned, a “pay per impression” model, which should be the number of pages views on which ads are displayed – you’ll want to be sure you know if the agreements specifically states that it must be “unique” page views (from different IP addresses) or not, and you’ll want to match any numbers provided by the advertiser network with your own statistics. Google Analytics is free and a great way to track your sites traffic statistics.

Please let us know how it works out for you if you proceed with it and we’ll do a follow up blog post about it!

By: Akila

Akila — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:03:52 +0000

Trisha, I have been here all along — all your wonderful articles keep me sane when I get completely confused! That’s very interesting about CPM usage. I sent you an email about the details that I received from the company.

By: Trisha

Trisha — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:41:37 +0000

@Akila – welcome back! CPM generally is used to refer to “Cost Per Thousand” (’M’ being the roman numeral for 1000), and it refers to “impressions” – how often an Ad is displayed as a “page view”. I’m surprised that anyone would pay based on CPM because as metrics go, it’s an easy one to monkey around with and impression fraud is almost as rampant as click fraud.

I would be interested in knowing who you received the invitation from – if you’re not comfortable posting it in a comment, email me directly (use our Contact page) – perhaps I can give you more advice.

By: Akila

Akila — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:15:40 +0000

As usual, this is all very helpful. We weren’t really thinking about trying to monetize our blog for a couple of months because we wanted to build interest and a following before including ads. Recently, we got an invitation to join a blog network that pays by CPM. What does this mean and how does it work? I am going to call them and find out all the details but I would like to talk to them without sounding like a complete idiot.

By: Dave and Deb

Dave and Deb — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:57:10 +0000

Thanks for your response Trisha. I will not let them link to my title, lucky your site is here to learn from before we make mistakes! I will let you know how it turns out. I need to look up H1 H2 H3 etc tags. I don’t even know what they are:)