Making Money on Indian blogs
You are an India blogger having aspiration of making their money online, but, have their blogs hanging out in the blogosphere doing nothing and naturally making no money. Typically, you have added google adsense on your blogs. Google adsense for most of you either does not make money or even if it did after a long time (may be years), your account got suspended for one reason or the other. Mighty number of you have Adbrite advertising on your site which is an alternative you have learnt to live with due to either google suspending you or not approving your adsense account. A lot of Indian bloggers have applied to other ad networks, but, keep getting rejected for not having US traffic or not having traffic at all. Indian ad networks have not come up to the standards. Some Indian ad networks I looked into had insurance, or car sale or airline ticket sale advertisements. Obviously no point adding them.
This article, I am not going to talk about how your blog should be, or how it should be maintained. I will leave that for another day. I will concentrate upon what could be the options of earning the revenue. I would like to know what your opinions are, I have opened up the comments on this article.
Traffic based Earnings
If you have a traffic based website, it depends where is your traffic coming from and how much is your traffic. If you have a pure Indian traffic, you have little choice except google adsense. Don’t waste your time on anything else. But, don’t loose heart, you can skip to my next heading “Page Rank based earning.” If you have a decent percentage of your traffic coming from US and western region, you have a wider choice. Other than google adsense, Adbrite will also make sense. I have noticed that only Adbrite allows smaller websites. Others have either higher requirements or too low for your CPM earning capacity due to your traffic. On the flip side, if any Indian has ever received a check from Adbrite, you can put your hands up. If putting up the hands is tiring, please use the comment box.
I would also suggest you Popup Traffic. Unlike the name suggests, it is actually a pop under. In my opinion, it will earn you better than Adbrite, but, use them as a combo. Your readers are not expected to be peeved major time.
If you have some US search traffic, try to add Chitika with your existing google adsense or Adbrite code. If Chitika works, then it will work better than Adbrite, but, only Chitika code will not do.
Page Rank based Earning
Page Rank (PR) is something that you can check here. Normally, if you have a PR 3 + blog, you have good earning potential. You could get link advertising or you can get to post reviews with links and earn. There is lot of debates on the internet on whether you should sell links on your website / blog or not. Its a dilemma and you got to deal with it. For those who think its right to do it, I have certain suggestions. King among the link revenue generators is Text Link ads. Next best in my opinion is teliad. You can also try out with LinkWorth.
Any other ideas Monetizing Indian websites and blogs?
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