The Simple Change That Increased My Blog Profit By 50%
I have been testing and tweaking different money making strategies on one of my blogs because I wanted to see if I could make some more money from it.
FranchiseBuzz is an Australian blog that I started late last year, worked for a couple of months and it grabbed some nice search positions and hasn’t had a new post in a couple of months – yet it has still be bringing in consistent income on a monthly basis.
Now since about February it is comfortably been making about $100 a month through Google Adsense. I had a very ugly theme with a lot of ad’s – but it was converting well.
$100 was nice, but at less than 5% of my total online income – I wanted more.
What I Did To Increase Blog Profit By 50%
1. Changed from the BlueSense WordPress theme to a much cleaner Librio theme (which was inspired by Mac OS X Leopard).
2. Placed a simple Clickbank review at the top and bottom of each post.
I spent a lot of time browsing the Clickbank marketplace to find what I thought would be the perfect product for the target audience and seems I was right with 4 sales in the last month.
So one month on from implimenting these simple changes this blog is now making:
- Adsense: $61
- Clickbank: $103
I just wanted to show why we need to be constantly be tweaking our blogs for maximum profit! There is still more tweaking to be done with this blog but I am happy with a $150 a month for a blog that I don’t post to any more.
Question:
What simple things have you implemented on your blog to see a great result?
9 Responses
6.29.2010
What plugin do you use for the boxes? Thanks Greg Ellison
6.29.2010
That Clickbank ad position is something that I have also been experimenting with on some of my niche blogs. Some people will now tell you to remove the Adsense ads because they’re taking away from your Clickbank sales. I have experimented with this extensively and am convinced that having both only adds to your revenue. I believe people clicking on the ads are already on their way out, and have not been sold on the Clickbank product.
6.29.2010
Looks very nice i ill add similar theme to my site and will find if i can monetize well
Sri
6.30.2010
Very well done Tom, good job! :)
7.4.2010
Interesting! I have never checked out ClickBank, but after seeing your results I’m heading over to the site now.
7.7.2010
Good job Tom. Try Keep it up .
7.7.2010
Tom,
That’s simply amazing! Sometimes it just takes a little creativity to get the attention. Good work.
7.19.2010
Good for you. Try increasing your serps and you would see more revenue.
- Arnold touch
8.5.2010
I too had to first change my template, although I have a blogger site not wordpress, then I incorporated different gadgets and widgets for people from just about every popular social network on the internet. I also have begun to post more often and make sure any extras I add are in harmony with my blog theme and what my readers are interested in.
p.s – Don’t over crowd your homepage with too many ads though, it will send the message that all you’re in this for is the money(people don’t like cash mongers).