Smart Ways To Monetize Your Blog

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Blogworld ExpoI am leaving soon for the Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas. I love going to new conferences that I have never been to before. Plus this is the first every Blogworld Expo so even that much better. Its just always good to branch out more.

On Thursday @ 10:15-11:45 I will be speaking with Brian Clark, and Assaf Henkin from Kontera on “Smart Ways to Monetize Your Blog”.

This is the most excited I have been to give a presentation for a longtime. I have always been known as “The AdSense guy” but AdSense has accounted for less then 5% of the incoming revenue to our company(s). While I have had a lot of success years ago with Google AdSense I think I am far better qualified to speak on other ways to monetize.
So what will I be talking about? My portion of the talk will be on how to monetize you blog using direct ad sales (how to price them, how to start) and affiliate income from blogs. In October shoemoney.com did just under $30,000.00. About 50% direct ad sales, 30% from affiliate, and the remaining from other sources. I plan on showing a few things I think people might be surprised about including a post on shoemoney.com that generated over $4,000.00 in 1 day from an affiliate program that I have never disclosed before and nobody has ever even guessed.

Tell you what… if you want to take a guess at which single post on shoemoney.com made over $4,000.00 in one day the first person to guess correctly wins $50.00 paypal. You have until the end of today. Just post guess urls in comments. I will give you a hint and tell you it was an affiliate program.

You can see the full schedule here (yes my name is spelled wrong). Unless they got someone named Jeremy Shoemaker to speak on it….

edit: comments closed, winner will be announced on monday when I get back. Great guesses!




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    105 Comments

    @November 6, 2007 9:53 am

    Not sure, I would guess something like http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/10/18/whatsup-widgetbucks/ where you slam a company. It was probably an ebay thing though or even botw. I have no clue, but that is a nice payday for one affiliate. Are you planning to video tape and post the vid from the conference?

    @November 6, 2007 9:57 am
    ShoeMoney Says:

    I have 2 presentations.

    1 for if its being video and 1 if its not. I wont disclose some things on video that I would just speaking to a room of people. I should probably just play this one safe ;)

    Btw good guess on eBay in general but nope =(

    @November 6, 2007 1:51 pm

    That is why I need to be at pubcon. I need to get the “not recorded”/not for general audience info ;)

     
     
    @November 7, 2007 4:01 am
    Jack Says:

    Of course it is the best affiliate program on the web.
    shoe got money from his coupon code. am i rite shoe?

    *waiting for the 50 :p

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 10:12 am
    Sandi Says:

    i thought you earn way more than 30k per month :-X

    @November 6, 2007 10:17 am
    ShoeMoney Says:

    nope this blog has never made more then 30k per month. No worries though…. most people are confused and think this blog is all I do =P

    @November 6, 2007 11:13 am
    Domtan Says:

    Nonetheless, 30K is an impressive figure for a blog which you only treat as a “hobby”.

     
    @November 6, 2007 2:48 pm
    LeGo Says:

    Wait you do other things? I might be one of the confused ones…

    @November 6, 2007 4:17 pm
    Neon Says:

    what? did shoe do anything besides shaking legs… hmmm…

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    @November 6, 2007 4:26 pm
    LeGo Says:

    to be honest I never saw him post that he made money on the blog. i thought this was just a hobby during free time at the 9-5.

     
    @November 6, 2007 5:23 pm
    ismar Says:

    wow are you guys crazy?

     
    @November 7, 2007 3:47 am
    Matt Says:

    ahahaha shoemoney.com trolls

    i thought shoemoney was actually a money making robot! o_O

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 8:00 pm
    ShoeMoney Says:

    test

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    @November 6, 2007 10:51 am
    chetan Says:

    I knew and expected that Jeremy had something else that earns huge.. not this blog..

    And he revealed his adsense check secret here - http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/11/04/the-adsense-check-for-13299497/

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 10:18 am
    Egonitron Says:

    Looking forward to the expo, I signed up to view your presentation. I’m sure you’ll impress :)

     
    @November 6, 2007 10:20 am
    George Kim Says:

    BOTW post should be close but I’m guessing Yahoo Search Marketing 100$ Coupon post.
    http://www.shoemoney.com/2006/10/13/overture-yahoo-search-marketing-100-coupon/

     
    @November 6, 2007 10:21 am
    johnny boy Says:

    It’s gotta be that Yahoo Search Marketing coupon!!?!?!

     
    @November 6, 2007 10:24 am
    gamermk Says:

    I tried for a bit and now I’m bored. WTB Archives! (or some that I can find…)

     
    @November 6, 2007 10:24 am

    Hi.

    $4,000 for a single day is great, especially if you don’t own the product and can’t handle with all the customer support! I guess it can be a high dollar ticket.

     
    @November 6, 2007 10:25 am
    Chris Says:

    @November 6, 2007 8:05 pm
    TDave Says:

    That was my guess too.

     
     
     
    @November 6, 2007 10:28 am
    Chris Says:

    not sure if my last comment posted correctly, if so just delete this one, but here is my guess shoe.

    http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/10/09/best-affiliate-program-on-the-web/

     
    @November 6, 2007 10:28 am

    You did 30k in Nov already? I think you might have meant October.

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 10:35 am

    I am going to take a wild guess here -
    http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/01/25/i-am-selling-domains-for-charity/

    Here’s my thinking.

    You posted a nice post about selling domains for charity. You have double digit unique visitors every day. A large percentage of them clicked on this link.

    I bet you redirected to eBay using your affiliate link, planting a cookie on everyone’s machine (and if you didn’t - then why not?)

    Then with time, some of those people made purchases on eBay normally, not even knowing that they have your aff link planted in their cookies.

    @November 6, 2007 6:24 pm

    That’s brilliant. I’d vote for that as well, but Adrian beat me to it. :)

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 10:36 am
    Ventrilo Says:

     
    @November 6, 2007 10:37 am

    Really looking forward to what you have to say on the subject Shoe

     
    @November 6, 2007 10:38 am
    Ventrilo Says:

    Nevermind, I am changing my vote. I think it was this one

    http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/07/19/books-that-motivate-me/

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 10:47 am

    I’m thinking it was a post from a long time ago for Crazyegg.com.

     
    @November 6, 2007 10:51 am
    Jack Says:

    I think most of the guesses are too obvious since he said “from an affiliate program that I have never disclosed before and nobody has ever even guessed. ”

    Amazon, for example, everyone knows Amazon links on blogs are affiliate links. And if someone is specifically making a post about the best affiliate program and things like that, I would think they are making money off it. Has to be something more obscure.

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 10:55 am

    I beleive it was your post about A page on MillionDollarWiki.com

    http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/09/11/million-dollar-wiki-a-good-investment/

    @November 6, 2007 11:02 am

    No affiliate-link there

     
    @November 6, 2007 12:13 pm
    Brent Says:

    TenBloggers I think you are right. you punched me to the beat!

     
    @November 6, 2007 4:51 pm

    I conquer. I’d be willing to bet on this one :)

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 10:59 am

    I’m going to stay loyal to AZ and bet on this one:
    http://www.shoemoney.com/2006/04/13/azoogleads-rock-my-socks/

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 11:12 am

    I think it is the Best of the Web affiliate writeup.

     
    @November 6, 2007 11:15 am
    Mubin Says:

    He said that he had never mentioned the program, can you break it down for us like whether it was in October or any of the previous posts?

     
    @November 6, 2007 11:19 am

     
    @November 6, 2007 11:29 am

    I would say your post about directory listing and their affiliate program.

     
    @November 6, 2007 11:31 am
    Dee Says:

    Hello, i am guessing that the post that made the most was:
    http://www.shoemoney.com/2006/10/13/overture-yahoo-search-marketing-100-coupon/
    Yahoo Search Marketing $100 Coupon

    Let me know shoe!

     
    @November 6, 2007 11:39 am
    chetan Says:

    If it was botw one, then chris was fast in answering that…. lol

    Anyways if not, then i stick with my answer that i gave earlier.

     
    @November 6, 2007 11:47 am

    I was just looking at Kontera today, too. Other than one miracle $9,000 month, Adsense has never really provided a large amount of monetization for my sites. I’m thinking JoeTech.com will need to plan for some ad spaces when I have it redesigned.

     
    @November 6, 2007 12:01 pm
    bmunch Says:

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 12:09 pm
    Farmer Says:

    @November 6, 2007 12:33 pm
    Farmer Says:

    Well that wouldn’t be right…you’ve never disclosed it! back to drawing board.

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 12:28 pm
    Kiley Says:

     
    @November 6, 2007 1:09 pm
    The King Says:

    Funny nobody said this yet but it was probably one of the “Next Internet Millionaire” posts.

     
    @November 6, 2007 1:19 pm
    James Says:

    I guess that’s when you called for sponsor for your blog contest, 4000$ worth of prizes in one day, this is a smart way to monetize your blog so that makes sense:
    http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/10/16/final-call-for-contest-sponsors/

     
     
     
     
     
    @November 6, 2007 1:56 pm
    Ben Cook Says:

    I thought it was already disclosed somewhere that the Tshirt one Al mentioned was an affiliate post?

    Or did you mean it hadn’t been disclosed on this site that it was an aff thing?

     
    @November 6, 2007 1:57 pm
    Mike Says:

     
    @November 6, 2007 2:12 pm
    Israel Says:

    best of the web

     
    @November 6, 2007 2:16 pm
    Harshad Says:

    I guess its the post you made about your site which sells products for under a dollar from eBay.

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 2:31 pm

    http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/10/26/mmmm-affiliate-cookie-killers/

    I think he made $4,000 off of this one. Seem like he could flip that pretty easily.

     
    @November 6, 2007 2:33 pm
    King Jacob Says:

    My guess is the ebay one buck one, though I think you could have made a pretty penny if the bodog ones were monteized.

    @November 6, 2007 10:45 pm
    serge Says:

    couldn’t have been that, money from that site take to long to roll in… but its kind of residual because the more things people buy–over a buck— the more commissions he makes. Pretty cool because he (or other ebay affiliate marketers) make commissions on all of the wins from the visits of the below a buck site. Did I get that right?

     
     
     
    @November 6, 2007 3:23 pm

    My guess is the BTOW post:
    http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/10/09/best-affiliate-program-on-the-web

    I just checked out your advertising page and gave me some good ideas on how to how to start selling ad spots on my blog. Thanks!

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 4:01 pm
    Tom Says:

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 4:12 pm

    Was it the post where you promoted Best of the Web with your Shoemoney code so people can save 5%?

     
    @November 6, 2007 4:14 pm
    Nick Says:

     
    @November 6, 2007 4:23 pm
    don Says:

     
    @November 6, 2007 4:25 pm

    Name spelled wrong?

    I feel your pain! Nobody every spells Edmondson correctly. Although my primary blog is at BrianEdmondson.com I gave up on relying on people to spell it correctly, and use a simpler: BlogWithBrian.com…

    Spelling your name wrong though? That’s ridiculous!

    Sincerely,

    Brian T. Edmondson

     
    @November 6, 2007 4:45 pm
    Neon Says:

    i guess it is http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/10/09/best-affiliate-program-on-the-web/
    shoe mention, he just make a link to the info page and he start receiving signups.

     
    @November 6, 2007 4:49 pm
    Sam Says:

     
    @November 6, 2007 4:53 pm

    That’s great! Have a fun time @ the blog conference! :D

    I guess the Million dollar wiki page.

     
    @November 6, 2007 5:05 pm

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    @November 6, 2007 5:16 pm

    Hmmmm. Sounds like a trip to Vegas is in order!

     
    @November 6, 2007 6:27 pm

    You should definitely do a video post on this one Shoe. I’m looking forward to what you think about it.

     
    @November 6, 2007 8:11 pm

    Are you going to get your own place in Vegas?

     

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    @November 6, 2007 9:44 pm
    Lurksteraz Says:

     
     
    @November 6, 2007 9:51 pm
    chetan Says:

    So what’s the answer Shoe?

     
    @November 6, 2007 10:31 pm
    Craig L Says:

    I would say my guess would be http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/11/02/a-big-set-of-tits-perry-marshall-gorilla-marketing/ just because I saw that The Next Internet Millionaire has an affiliate program and Shoemoney has mentioned that site quite a few times.

     
    @November 6, 2007 10:40 pm
    serge Says:

    not sure if someone said this yet, but what about the Pubcon in vegas, you had to have inspired people to spend the money to sign up there?

     
    @November 7, 2007 12:12 am

    I will like to guess..http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/09/24/pwning-facebook-how-to-think-like-an-uber-affiliate/

     
    @November 7, 2007 2:49 am
    Alex Says:

    To all you Americans - Don’t you ever get bored of bragging about how much money you’ve made/got/spent etc. It’s so monotonous……….

     
    @November 7, 2007 3:40 am
    Sandi Says:

    i meant 30k overall. i was surprised that you actually replied to my question - this shows that you are not spoiled yet, very good. will you go to affililiate summit in vegas in feb? hope you meet you there. i ll bring you a tshirt from my country hehe :-)

     
    @November 7, 2007 4:09 am

    This is easy: The time out for our Sponsors Post
    A whole post dedicated to sponsors that should make a dent if he’s using it I should too.
    http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/10/07/time-out-for-our-sponsors/

     
    @November 7, 2007 4:17 am
    James Says:

     
    @November 7, 2007 5:53 am
    Nathan Says:

    Lol.. people posting the same link as those before :P He said he’d send $50.00 by papal to the first person … so if you are second or third then there’s really not a reason to guess :D

    “Plus this is the first every Blogworld Expo” - typo ;-)

    @November 7, 2007 8:13 am
    chetan Says:

    Haha yeah Nathan i saw people using the link of BOTW about in 7 comments :D
    If it was, then Jeremy would give it to 1st person..

     
     
     
    @November 7, 2007 7:12 am

    Heh, if I could make 4k in a day I’d be one happy bunny.

    Been reading this blog for a while and finally decided to post; I’ll be contacting you soon about one of those Free Shirt Fridays though as I think it would give my blog a decent traffic boost… :D

     
    @November 7, 2007 7:28 am
    Ginene Says:

     
     
    @November 7, 2007 8:14 am
    Amit Says:

    Its obviously the BOTW 10k contest post :D

     
    @November 11, 2007 4:19 pm

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