You need traffic in the range of 5000 monthly impressions before thinking of making some decent money from your blog. If I analyze those blogs that blog about ways to make money online and blogging, they seem to be making most of their earnings through showing PPC Ads, Affiliate Ads in the form of banners and links, selling text link advertising, selling banner ad space, paid reviews and some CPA or CPM based revenue models. Today post will remain focused at ways to make money online through banner ads advertising on our blogs and website. I used to make good amount of money on my blogs showing banner ads through direct advertising or through banner advertising ad networks. We need to have a blog with decent domain authority, Ahrefs Rank, search engine traffic, strong social media presence, and branding to start making real money from our blogs. Most of monetization methods through banner advertising that I will be discussing in this post, will be helpful for all website owners as well. If traffic is the problem you are facing with your blog, you need to solve that problem first. Here are my proven way to increase traffic to your website. I’m hoping you will be able to bring in lots of traffic on your website by applying these methods. So let’s start today’s post where I’m just going to share proven methods that are tested by me to help you make money selling banner advertisements on your blogs:
How to Make Money Selling Banner Ads on Your Blog: Top 10 Ad Networks for Publishers
1. Create An Advertising Page
First of all you need to create an Advertise Here page on your blog to inform potential advertisers about the advertising opportunities on your blog. You need to convince potential advertisers why they should advertise their products and services on your blog. You should share website traffic metrics like monthly unique visitors, page views, bounce rate, percentage of traffic stream coming from various demographics, etc. Apart from this, you should share your website latest domain authority (DA), Ahrefs Rank and Email subscribers, Twitter followers count, and Facebook Fans count, etc on the advertising page. You need to share most of the advertising options including banner ads that you are accepting on your blog through this page like image ads format, their respective locations, availability of ad slots, monthly pricing for each ad unit, etc. If you are accepting image ads on a trial basis like one week to give advertisers a chance to get a feeling of your blog traffic, you should mention that on the advertising page. Most importantly you need to share how you will be accepting money like via Paypal or through credit cards etc. You should also share how advertisers can contact you by sharing your email id or by adding a contact form on the advertising page. If your blog had even been covered on top blogs and websites in your niche or in general, should share links for the same on advertise here page. From time to time, you should write special articles and blog posts for the promotion of advertising page on your blog. Once you have included what I have discussed above on adverting page on your blog, you need to promote this page. You can promote this page by adding a link for it on prominent places on your blog where it gets maximum exposure. I would recommend adding a link for advertise page in your blog header section and sidebars to send maximum clicks to this page. The best thing about direct advertising is that you can set your own pricing and all money that you made through this method will be going into your account. If you are selling ads through a network, you need to give 25% type of your earnings to those networks. So you can keep all your earnings with you by selling ads through the advertising page on your blog. You will be the only person who will be doing all communication with the advertisers, keeping track of sold banner subscriptions, keeping track of the number of page views and clicks that generated for each banner ad on monthly basis type etc. So the only downside I see with this method is that you need to work to manage things at your end if you are aiming at making big money through direct advertising on your blog. But on lots of occasions, we don’t get enough advertisers through advertising page or we think we can sell many more ads on our blog by joining some banner advertising networks. So here are some more banner ads advertising networks (Ads space buying and selling networks), we can use to make extra money from our blogs.
Read: Learn How to Make Money Online with Advertising Page on Your Blog
2. Google Adsense Ads
If you already have a Google Adsense account, you can place its code to show banner ads on your blog and website. As we all know Google Adsense allows us to add advertisement in the form of text ads, link ads and image ads on our website. Google Adsense supports all standard banner ad formats. So you will not find difficultly in adding ads of your choice from Google Adsense on your blogs. With Google Adsense, we are paid for each click, which is made on a Google Adsense Ad, which is placed on your blog. But we need thousands of daily impressions on our website to starts seeing good earnings in our Adsense account. Apart from banner ads, I would recommend you try Google Adsense text ads to increase your overall earnings to great extent.
Read: 5 Tips to Improve Google Adsense CPC and CTR Also Read: Best Money Making Alternatives to Google Adsense
3. BuySellAds (BSA) Advertising Network
BuySellAds, which is popularly known as BSA, is a marketplace for banner ads buying and selling. Lots of advertisers use this network to buy advertisement in the form of banners on top blogs and websites in their niche. And bloggers from all categories use it to make extra money online from their blogs by showing BSA ads on their blogs. Buy Sell Ads only accept blogs with decent traffic into its marketplace. All ads are purchased on monthly basis through this banner’s advertising networks. BSA has been maintaining a revenue ration of 75:25 with its publishers where publishers will be getting 75% of their total earnings and rest of 25% money goes into BuySellAds account. Publishers can accept payments through Paypal, Check and Wire Transfer through Buy Sell Ads Network. Through Paypal, publishers can transfer funds two times in a month into their Paypal account whenever they want. In case of Check, Publishers can ask for Check once in a month. BSA used to send payments via Wire Transfer every week. But you need to have a minimum payout of $500 before using this facility and you have to pay a fee of $35 every time you use Wire Transfer facility. So far, I have used BuySellAds Paypal and Check facilities. If you have an active Paypal account, I would recommend using that for accepting funds because in that case, your earnings will be credited into Paypal account instantly.
4. OIO Publisher Network
OIO Publisher network gives the facility to manage advertising space on our blogs quite easily. We don’t need to share our revenue that we make by selling banner ads with anyone. We need to pay a one-time fee of $47 to start using OIO publisher network. And with JUNO-BP discount coupon, you will get it for $37 only (Help you save $10). Once you have purchased the membership for OIO Publisher network, your blog will be listed into its marketplace and you will be given OIO Publisher software that you can use to manage various banner ad slots on your blog. As an OIO Publisher, you will have full control over ads that will be shown on your blog. Click here to know more in details about OIO Publisher Network for managing and selling advertising space on your blog. Once you start getting some advertisers on your blog through this network, there will be many more who will be following them to place their advertisements on your blog. They have been keeping a variable revenue ratio of 70 to 80% for the publisher, which is decided on the factors like your blog quality and advertisers feedback about your blog. For advertisers, they are able to place their ads on top blogs in their niche for low amount as low as $20 for a month. Publishers are paid into their Paypal account every month and they have been keeping a minimum payout of $25 for Paypal users.
5. Adblade
Adblade offers you 100% safe and premium tier network of advertisers to display various ad types on your blogs and websites. It also offers you real-time reporting and provides all the data such as number of impressions shown, click-through rate, cost-per-action, cost-per-click and so on so you can easily find and analyze your ad performance. That being said, you can start using their network only if your site gets more than 500,000 page views a month and your site will be usually reviewed in 1-2 business days after you sign up.
6. Revenue Hits
With over 2 billion ad impressions served daily across the world, Revenue Hits is the most popular ad network used by thousands of publishers all around the world and it offers a wide range of banner ads including;
Display banners Pop Ups Buttons Footer Interstitial Shadow Box Slider and so on
It offers you a self-service platform which helps you easily create your ad placements, manage those ads and monitor their performances. You can show your ads on desktops and mobiles and you can pick your ad placement, insert code and the ads will start showing up.
7. Sharethrough Ads
If you are looking for a modern ad network where you can display ads that fit in naturally within your content, you can give a try to Sharethrough ads where you can display programmatic display and video ads. Here are some interesting stats of this ad publishing network
40B impressions per month 203 million uniques (320 million Global) 2.8x Higher CTR than Native Competitors
Not only that, Sharethrough uses dynamic adaptive templating technology that automatically fits your site content requirements by serving the appropriate ads. Each placement is optimized for high click through rates to increase your revenue.
8. Adsterra
Just like RevenueHits publishing platform, Adsterra also offers you 100% fill rates to monetize every impression on your site. The good thing about using Adsterra is that it provides superior security and protection against malware and spam ads using their fraud detection system, so you can customize your website with high-quality ads to boost your income. It also offers you desktop and mobile ad along with a ton of ad types to start monetizing your website. It also offers a ton of banner sizes: 160600, 300250, 72890, 46860, 800440, 32050 where you can show various ad types including display banners, popunders, interstitials, push-ups, direct links and slider ads.
9. Epom Market
If you want to monetize all types of your website traffic across different devices including web and mobile, you might want to give a try to Epom Market. You can monetize your site using their platform in various ad formats including;
Banner Native In-feed Catfish
Their image ads are 100% programmatic friendly and they offer a 100% fill rates with various types of ad units including 300×250, 728×90, 160×600, etc. It also offers you video ads so you can monetize your videos as well and the video ad types include;
Video Slider In-banner Video In-roll Instream Video Slider
10. Propeller Ads
Propeller Ads is one of the biggest publishing networks which is used by more than 150,000 people worldwide. This network moderates all of their ads manually 24/7 and uses high security integrations to reduce virus, malware or obscene content etc Weekly payouts are made every Thursday and the minimum withdrawal is now as low as $5. It also offers a wide range of ad types including;
Push notifications Onclick ads Widgets Interstitials Smart links
It also lets you publish various ads for both web and mobile users to improve your overall ad income from your websites. Recommended resources around making money:
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Final Thoughts
These were the ten methods I had so far used to make money online selling banner ads on my blogs and websites. Are you using any of the above method to make money online from your blog and how you will rate your success with them, please share in the comments section? Are you using any other advertising network, which is helping you make good earnings, please share below so that other bloggers and website owners who are interested in making money online can get benefit from it?
