Comments on: Monetizing A Hardware Review Blog

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:39:50 +0000

I just stumbled upon this page and wanted to mention that Chitika works great for me! Over the last year I compiled some statistics of my earnings and I actually earned twice as more with Chitika compared to AdSense. For those of you considering Chitika – try them!

By: Hanne Sena

Hanne Sena — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:03:11 +0000

actually i notice that on january 28, thehardwarereviews publish a “killer” post and got many stumble [i don't know about digg]. ermm, can you share with us how many visitors you got that day ? and if you don’t mind how long the writer spent to create that article ?

By: mymytri

mymytri — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:30:00 +0000

Nice article johntp.I do agree visitors from organic search click the ads.through social networking sites like digg,su don’t give much ad revenue but you can get traffic which indirectly help your blog posts appear in front pages of search engines.

By: Eva White

Eva White — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:48:25 +0000

Hey John Thanks for sharing the information. Keep telling us your feedback about your review of these ad programs. It will help us make money too.

By: JohnTP

JohnTP — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:56:07 +0000

How To Rule The World – I have not tried CPM ads yet as they work best on sites with good traffic. Besides TribalFusion only accepts sites with a minimum of 2000 unique visitors a day. THR only has around 200 unique visitors a day currently. Do you know anything better than TribalFusion?

I tried Amazons CPA programs, but have not had any luck yet.

The only thing that seems to earn me anything are those CPC ads by TTZ Media, Chitika and hopefully Kontera’s ContentLink too.

btw, John Chow let me know that they are working on a better reporting system.

By: JohnTP

JohnTP — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:44:40 +0000

David- I tried Amazon ContextLinks for a few days on THR and now trying one of their widgets. So far I have got a few clicks but earned nothing from it as it is CPA, not CPC. You can give it a try and see how they work for you.

By: How To Rule The World

How To Rule The World — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:57:41 +0000

those CPC are really low. I am not sure it would be worth monetizing on a CPC basis. Have you tried a CPM model or affiliate CPA model. You might have better luck at a monetization. Consider a CPA with 1 conversion could probably pay off better than both months combined.

By: David

David — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:23:23 +0000

I am almost up to 500 visits per day and am thinking about Amazon.com affiliate program. What do u think about them? I buy so much stuff from them I can review their products just about every week.
Also, you need to have a mutual link with Virginia Breeze. We don’t have the same stuff but that is good. We COMPLEMENT each other. Just like businessmen like to go to a movie for entertainment.
I am going to the top and I like you too. And that’s important. You should enjoy the people you work with as you reach for success.
And that’s from someone who knows. Believe it.

By: JohnTP

JohnTP — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:03:53 +0000

Hanne Sena- Ok I will report once in a while on THR and on the blog I am currently working on.

By: Hanne Sena

Hanne Sena — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:12:53 +0000

agree with kevin. hope you continue reporting that blog. anyway, i like ttz media ads compare to chitika ads..