Yakezie.com - Topic: What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/ Simple:Press Version 4.5.1 TightFistedMiser on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/page-2/#p89776 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/page-2/#p89776 I used to make almost all my money from direct ads. The past few months it has been about 40% adsense, 30% affiliate, 30% direct ads.  I'd like to make affiliate income my main source of income and ads be just a small part of my income. That is something I will work on.

]]> Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:35:34 +0000 Jake@iHeartBudgets.net on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/page-2/#p89772 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/page-2/#p89772 Financial Samurai said:

Jake,

If it makes you feel better, I've been a client of USAA for over 10 years, have about 8 different products open with them, have half a mil in CDs there and they declined me as an affiliate. My grandfather fought in WWII and my father fought in Vietnam for USA. Oh, and Financial Samurai has a lot of relevant content about insurance, banking, investing, and retirement.

Perhaps they are against anything Japanese theme related given the atrocities of WWII? Who knows. The point is, bloggers get rejected from seemingly logical affiliate products all the time. I go the path of least resistance most of the time. If an affiliate doesn't see value in my platform, I'll just move on and continue to find products that see the synergies.

Sam

 

Thanks Sam. It's frustrating, but I'm not going to get hung up on it. I'll link to anything for free to help my readers, but building this blog as a business makes me want to get compensated for throwing business at these places that didn't ask for it. Oh well, I'll keep doing my thing, and look at other opportunities that fall in line with my roadmap. (I'm pretty sure I just recycled what you said in my own words, lol.)

]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:32:13 +0000 Budget & the Beach on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/page-2/#p89767 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/page-2/#p89767 OK thanks! I guess I have to wait for the next google pr update. I have gotten a couple of emails, but they never got back to me. grrr! 

]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:05:23 +0000 My Personal Finance Journey on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/page-2/#p89766 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/page-2/#p89766 They come to you via your contact page. I don't think you can really do much about actively seeking them out. 

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Budget & the Beach said:

Were most of you going out to find direct ad sales, or did they come to you? I'm still waiting for a google PR (I switched over to self-hosting after the last update was done, so I'm at 0), so what might happen after I get a rating? 

]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:59:58 +0000 Budget & the Beach on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89763 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89763 Were most of you going out to find direct ad sales, or did they come to you? I'm still waiting for a google PR (I switched over to self-hosting after the last update was done, so I'm at 0), so what might happen after I get a rating? 

]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:50:27 +0000 Financial Samurai on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89747 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89747 Jake,

If it makes you feel better, I've been a client of USAA for over 10 years, have about 8 different products open with them, have half a mil in CDs there and they declined me as an affiliate. My grandfather fought in WWII and my father fought in Vietnam for USA. Oh, and Financial Samurai has a lot of relevant content about insurance, banking, investing, and retirement.

Perhaps they are against anything Japanese theme related given the atrocities of WWII? Who knows. The point is, bloggers get rejected from seemingly logical affiliate products all the time. I go the path of least resistance most of the time. If an affiliate doesn't see value in my platform, I'll just move on and continue to find products that see the synergies.

Sam

]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:06:34 +0000 Jake@iHeartBudgets.net on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89742 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89742 Direct ads, but have an affiliate strategy in play. Can't get approved for those darned CC's! Got frustrated enough to write my CC rewards churning article (quickly becoming the most popular article on my site) and link to the CC's for free. But working with a few reps to make it happen. Got a payout from one of my other affiliates, but not much. Haven't worked on may other products thus far, but there are deifnitely opportunities.

 

I like Jeff's strategy of spreading out the income streams. I'm not using adsense at the moment, but will most likely implement once I load my new theme (sometime after tax season).

 

I'm also with Sam, I'm trying to move away from direct ads to affiliate, adsense, and others within the next year.

]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:55:23 +0000 KyleAAA on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89734 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89734 I'm about 50/50 between adsense and affiliates, but I've been slowly shifting towards affiliates. Adsense is effective, but it's ugly. 

]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:10:08 +0000 Lena Gott on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89720 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89720 Wow, this is some good stuff.  Keep it comin'!

I'm super lazy with my blog advertising and primarily rely on AdSense for now. I've been burned before and didn't learn my lesson...planning on changing the mix in the future.

]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:04:02 +0000 Nunzio Bruno on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89687 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89687 Thanks for the heads up Sam - I've been really thinking about kicking up the my affiliate efforts. But I totally agree with making sure that they will be things that I can 100% get behind. 

]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:57:39 +0000 Financial Samurai on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89683 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89683 Jacob, depends on what your definition is of modest. Perhaps as low as 25k pageviews a month for $500-$1,500/month in affiliate income if it's focused traffic.

]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:58:37 +0000 My Personal Finance Journey on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89682 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89682 I have a question about affiliate ads. In everyone's opinion, what is the minimum required traffic level in order to make a modest amount of money with affiliate ads? Is it 200k visitors per month, or can it be 10k per month? Just curious..

]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:55:32 +0000 Financial Samurai on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89678 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89678 I encourage everyone to go the large majority to affiliate income and much less in direct advertising in 2013 and beyond. Find products you use and love and tie them in with content you have a deep understanding for and interest about. Much safer, more passive, and more sustainable over the long run.

Based on my conversations with friends at Google (I'm based in SF and have a regular VC/internet poker game), there is going to be continued large changes this year. Those who didn't take heed in 2012 and didn't adapt are at higher risk.

Good luck everyone!

Sam

]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:12:29 +0000 This That And The MBA on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89677 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89677 100% direct advertising here.  I had very little success with adsense...and then took it down for a while because it was taking up space and earning me nothing..

]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:05:17 +0000 maria@moneyprinciple on What's your blog's primary income source? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89674 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/whats-your-blogs-primary-income-source/#p89674 Direct advertising (100%) - which I am trying to change and diversify.

 

Maria

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