Earning Dollars from Blog

Title: Meraup Dollar lewat Blog
Writer: Agus Hery Prasetyo
Publisher: Gradien Mediatama
Year: 2007

This thin book gives practical and easy tips how to earn money from the ads displayed in a blog. The writer recommends 4 websites which offers their ads online, i.e. Google AdSense, Adbrite, Text-Link-Ads, and Amazon Affiliates.

The book begins with the explanation of some steps for making a blog. It takes www.blogger.com as the example. This part explains about how to make a new account at Google, make and register a new blog under the Google account, give name/title to the blog, choose templates, post writing comprising title and post editing.

The next chapters discuss each of 4 recommended ads websites as above. In these chapters, the writer give detailed steps on how to register the blog made to either Google AdSense, Adbrite, Text-Link-Ads, and Amazon Affiliates through their product offers covering either affiliation programs, site page rental program or per click payment program. The details also explain the terms and conditions, payment systems, the steps on choosing the ads offered from each ads website above.

The writer gives some suggestions to make the blogs more efficient and more prolific for making money as follows:

 Blogging and earning money from blog are 2 different activities. Blog is a media for expressing ideas, opinions or giving public information. So, utility becomes the parameter of its success. Further, a successful blog will invite more readers and advertisers will be willing to use the blog for its ads media.
 For those who understand above well, the contents of the blog become business assets that will lead to bigger profits. Therefore, it is highly recommended that the owner of the blog keeps updating its contents. Communicating more globally will help to attract more readers. Activities of joining mailing lists, blog communities or forums will also help.
 Apart from the blogging skills, the communication skills become crucial in keeping in touch with the advertisers. Having an account in Google AdSnse, Adbrite, TLA and Amazon is like having a business contract. Therefore, it is recommended to carefully pay attention to the terms and conditions, procedures of each. Contract termination can happen because the blog owners do not understand or they ignore those clauses.