This question raised in my mind after getting some experience of having a Make Money Online blog like this one. It’s very difficult to apply income techniques to a blog or website related to the niche, which attracts Internet-Savvy people, like IT, Make Money Online, Open Source etc…

The difficulty lies in the approach. You can’t just put Adsense code and get clicks. Most of the visitors know that the links with small description are nothing but the ads. So, there are very low chances of getting clicks as compared to Entertainment related sites (or blogs).

There are some ways to overcome this. Let’s see some possible ways:

Direct Flat-Rate Advertising

This way certainly eliminates the element of clicking. If you think that clicks are also very important in this type of advertising, I suggest you to see my post about comparison between flat-rate ads and other types like PPC and CPM here.

But the main disadvantage of this advertising is the amount of efforts needed, if you are not so much popular. And there is certain limit on income also. You can’t convert your increasing traffic into increasing income, unless you increase ad-spot price on your site.

This also includes paid links. But you have to be careful here. You can be punished by Google, if you put direct links to non-related sites. Punishment generally includes lowered PageRank and decrease in the rank at Search Engine Results Page (SERP).

CPM ads

This type of ad is very comfortable, if you have high traffic site. The key factor also includes origin of traffic, that is, from where you are getting traffic. Most of the advertisers prefer USA, Canada and European countries.

Support My Advertisers!

And if you are getting good amount of traffic and page-views, but can’t see a conversion of it into income, why don’t say Support Me Please!

You can easily say these words, if you have more than one Ad networks active in your blog, as I had read it in Adsense support forum. These words don’t point to any particular ads, and so there should not be any problem with it.

But there should be some etiquette here. You should keep your site or blog free from intrusive ads, generally seen within blog posts and in interstitials. Excessive amount of Referral links within your posts or sidebar should not be used.

The actual message that these words should convey is like this: “You are visiting my site and are happy with it. If it is so, politely look at the ads, and if you find something interesting there, just click on it!”

Conclusion

You have to have a different approach in creating income stream from your blog or site, if your niche is related to internet-savvy people. You can’t afford to rely just on PPC ads, rather you have to make a shout – Support My Advertisers Please!

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