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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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Blogs can make money online and that’s a fact and blogs hosted at Blog Subway can too. There is a “revenue share” tab that you can open and enter your adsense publisher id, your eBay EPN number and also your Kontera user id if you have accounts with any or all of these website monetization programs.

If not, don’t worry as there are still many ways to make money online with a Blog Subway blog.

If you haven’t already, get your self an account with Clickbank as they are one of the largest and most reliable affiliate marketing sites out there. They have a huge variety of very saleable products from ebooks to software and online services that I’m sure you’ll be able to find something that matches the theme or topic of your blog so that you will be able to offer your readers something that might be of use to them and that will earn you a nice slice of commission.

There are other affiliate programs around too, such as Commission Junction, ShareASale, PepperJam, LinksShare (these all provide affiliate programs for bloggers worldwide) and if you live in the IS, there are several more programs that you have access to that the rest of the world does not, such as Project Payday.

If you want to use PayPerClick but don’t have an Adsense account, there are other options such as Bidvertiser, Adbrite etc that you may be able to use by placing their code in a text widget in the sidebar of your blog.

There are plenty of options for using your blog to make money online as well as just write what you enjoy writing about, so why not give it a try and see what yuou can make from your blogging efforts!

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