In my last post here Blog Subway, looked at some more ways to keep things clean and tidy when it comes to running one of these blog hosts. Now its the turn of the revenue generating parts of the blogs.

There is a section in the user panel called revenue share and this is where you can set up your affiliate ids for a variety of revenue generating entities, such as adsense, eBay, Kontera and now Amazon and Chikita. The last two were just added with the latest upgrade to the system and they are both useful additions to your blog’s ability to generate revenue, or more basic to make money online.

Simply fill in your affiliate or publisher ids in the relevant boxes and hit the update button and your data is saved.

Now your blogs will serve ads for adsense, kontera and chikita automatically without you having to do a single additional thing. For eBay and amazon, you need to go to the relevant tabs in your settings and update each panel to suit the ads you want to appear and follow the instructions on how to insert the ads into your posts or pages.

A note on serving affiliate ads:

With eBay and amazon ads, it is actually a better practice to serve those ads in specific “pages” rather than actual blog posts. This is because the search engines don’t much like to see a page of affiliate ad blocks on a homepage of any website or blog and may penalize your blog if it sees them on yours. That could take the form of a serps penalty, which means less traffic for you or even the sandbox which will mean next to no traffic for you!

This is why placing affiliate ads in pages is far better with a link to those pages in a sidebar widget. That way, your visitors can see where you have stuff on sale and the search engines see a home page with a legitimate post with relevant content for visitors to read.

Easy when you know how!

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