write4money

Many people who own blogs will tell you that it is possible to monetize them with Google Adsense. I have registered for an account and added some ads to my blog. However, I do find that the earnings are rather slow at this moment. It’s probably because I don’t get too much traffic to my blog.

Besides my blog, I have also joined writing sites such as Hubpages. When you publish with them, they will publish your article on a page which has Adsense ads. When people click on them, you get a percentage of the ad revenue. So, I have a couple of sites where I’m generating Adsense revenue.

But up till now, I have to be frank, I have not been paid by them. And the $100 minimum payout does seem like a long way to go. I’m not even close to the quarter mark. There has also been situations whereby people click on your ads on purpose, causing Google to think that you are clicking on your own ads or getting someone to click on your ads. It is easy for others to manipulate the system and you will not get paid because Google would have suspended your account.

I have a close friend who experienced that too. Her friends were helping her to click on the ads, which resulted in her account being suspended and all earnings wiped out. She lost more than $50 there. So, in a way, I don’t really mind that my earnings are a little slow. At least Google would not suspect that I’m launching a click fraud. Slow and steady wins the Adsense race!

Facebook is a social networking site. Many people use it to find friends, look for long-lost friends, colleagues and even relatives. Yup! I use it to do this mainly. Initially I was quite fascinated with the different kinds of applications, games and groups that you can add to your profile.  They were fun and addictive. I wasted a lot of time on them.

But once I realized that they were not making me productive at all, I stopped completely. I deleted all the applications that were useless to me and did not help me add earnings to my pocket. I deleted them all. I left my writing site application, Triond, and Twitter to help promote my articles.

Whenever I publish new content on Triond, I will log in to Facebook to share it with my friends in Facebook and put it up on my profile page, so that my friends will know about them when they read the newfeed about me. You can add URL in the same way. So even if there is no application with your writing site, you can still do this with your article URL.

I also broadcast my blog in Facebook. I have added a newsfeed for my blog in Facebook, so that my friends can read them as well. Once updated, it will automatically capture new content on my blog. It’s a great way to get an audience for your blog too. So make use of Facebook, not just to play Sudoku or throw sheep at your friends, use it to promote your articles instead.

I have decided to put up my articles on Twitter. It’s not that I have not done so before. But I have not done them systematically. As such, yesterday, I sat down to submit all my articles there. If you have a lot of articles, I suggest that you submit them on different days or at different times. But I didn’t have time to do that. I did it all at one shot.

Anyway, today I was quite surprised to see that a few more people are already following me on Twitter. For those of you who are not on Twitter yet, you can be missing out on possible people who may interested to read your articles.

At Twitter, people update what they are doing at the moment. The same feature can be found on Facebook as well. Many people use it to increase their business, to gain traffic to their websites or blogs, or to increase the number of pageviews for their articles (as in my case!).

At Twitter, you can follow others you find interesting and see what they are doing at the moment. Other people can follow you too, if they are interested to know what you are doing at the moment. A couple of people are following me now. I hope they help to increase the pageviews as well as my earnings.

If you have submitted your articles to writing sites that pay from pageviews, you need to promote your articles actively. I must say that I have been very, very lazy when it comes to advertising my articles. Sometimes I do it this month and forget about it for the next few months, until I find my earnings falling. Then I get back up and start promoting all over again. Problem is I can’t remember where I left off the last time I promoted my articles. So I begin all over again.

It’s the end of the year. Maybe people are busy with Thanksgiving celebrations and shopping for Christmas and all. Maybe that’s why they are not online to read my articles. LOL! I have been getting very few pageviews for them. So I have decided to spend December promoting my articles without adding more to my repertoire, to see if it would work to increase my earnings.

I have promoted my articles to various social bookmarking and networking sites since I began promoting my articles. I pick one of them each day and start submitting my article URL and details to them. It takes a long time to complete all 98 articles that I have at Triond. It takes more than an hour but I think it is worth it. So far, I have used Ask.com, del.icio.us, Facebook, Google Bookmarks and Yahoo Buzz. Thus far, I see my earnings increase on average and I’m quite happy with the development. I will continue to promote my articles to these sites and then move on to other article submission sites that I have yet to check out. How about you? Which sites do you use to promote your articles? Leave a comment below.