The new year is here and its time to try some fresh ways to make money off your blog. Here are some of the ways ImAFish makes money through advertising. ImAFish got 250,000 hits in 2007, at the beginning of the year I was just using Google Adsense, by the end I had experimented with a range of other ways to monetise the site. Google Adsense Adsense works by delivering relevant ads based on your content. There are three different product types ImAFish uses through Adsense:

1. Text Ads - the ones you see in the navigation and scattered within content, these are pay per click.
2. Search - when someone uses the search on ImAFish then clicks on an advert.
3. Product Referals - e.g. Firefox and Google Pack, paid a set fee for installing.

Advantages:

• Good range of products.
• Quick and easy to setup.
• Adverts can be customised in a range of ways including different colour schemes and rounded corners.

Disadvantages:

• Adsense advert are very common (it seems half the internet is made for Adsense).
• You don't know what cut Google are taking from the ads.
• Sites with a high number of impressions but low number of clicks are known to be penalised.

Text Link Ads TLA works differently to Adsense, you simply get paid for displaying your advert rather than on someone clicking on it. TLA find the advertisers for you then split anything 50/50. I've found TLA to work as well as Adsense. Advantages

• You are paid for displaying the ads.
• They do the work in finding adverts for your site.
• Paid by PayPal.

Disadvantages

• They decide how much the adverts on your site are worth.

PayPerPost I first experimented with PayPerPost in October 07 and until December 07 wrote a number of sponsored posts. However then Google removed the majority of my page ranks and the opportunities available to me dropped from $45/post (

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