How will I Earn with my Blog?

You want to have an opt in form so that you can follow up with your subscribers.

You also want to add some affiliate programs in your niche too on your home page.

There are tons of ebooks for food, cooking etc. Do a search for a free one you can giveaway to your list.

Write unique and good content, when you get more traffic then apply for adsense or try to sell related affiliate products.

have some interesting recipes added.
include restaurant ratting
include some sort of dishes ratting/recipe ratting to involve the audience.
Add some sort of feature listing or special offers by restaurants to make some money.

You have two options. Either go with google adsense or build your list and promote affiliate offers. Building your list is the recommended way.

Banners,ads,sell,and so on

Contact resturant owners and ask them if they want to advertise on your blog. If you have good traffic that is, and if you don't then you can do this when you get enough traffic.

Check some good affiliate products from clickbank related to your blog niche and have few banners of them on your blog. Also recommend them in your informative articles. And it will help you to generate some income from your blog.

Cheers!

Ever seen that show on Food Network called "Pioneer Woman"? It's this lady named Reed Drummond. She has her own super successful food blog (and show). You should study her blog and emulate a little of what she's doing.

Your blog made me hungry! Yum!

I just noticed that your blog posts are reviews of bakeshops, cafes, etc., which are mostly located in Iloilo. I'm thinking that your target audience are mainly Ilonggos (people who live in Iloilo) who love to eat. The content would appeal to such an audience and to foodies who travel around the Philippines. However, the content wouldn't matter a lot to people outside Iloilo, especially those outside the country. With such a limited audience, your blog will have very little traffic, so Adsense wouldn't be a good option to monetize your blog.

I also see that you're also selling some advertising space. Restaurant owners in Iloilo might be interested in buying a spot, but you'll have to convince them that their target customers are reading your blog. Your blog has to be popular among Ilonggos or foodies who might visit Iloilo one of these days. If I were a restaurant owner in Iloilo, I'd want to see that you have hundreds, if not thousands, of blog readers before I pay for an advertising space on your blog.

Well, let me cut to the chase and offer some suggestions:

1) Clearly define your goals.

- How much do you want to earn per month?
- How do you intend to earn that amount of money using your blog?

There are a number of ways to earn from your blog. You could use it as a portfolio item if you're going to offer writing services, especially if you want to write reviews for clients.

You can sell advertising space, like you're doing now. But do you think you'd hit your monthly income target that way? How many restaurant owners would be willing to pay for an advertising space on your blog at the price you want?

You can post Adsense ads and drive traffic to your blog, but like I said, if you have a limited audience, that wouldn't be a good idea. You'd have to reach out to a broader audience and offer content that's relevant to them.

You can sell affiliate products and earn commission. However, the products have to be related to the content of your blog. You also need to establish trust and position yourself as an expert in your niche before you can sell to your audience. People buy from sellers they trust. To gain your readers' trust, you'd have to show them that you really care about them. You must offer content that's useful and relevant to them. You can offer tips, how-to's, video tutorials, etc.

2) You need to determine your target audience. Considering how you want to monetize your blog, what type of readers would help you hit your monthly income target? Let's say you want to sell cookware on your blog. Who are going to buy those? Perhaps chefs? Maybe housewives? Cooking enthusiasts?

3) Then you have to determine what type of content your target audience would be interested in. What type of content would be useful and relevant to your audience? You can also try to find out what questions they usually ask and then answer those questions on your blog. If your blog content resonates with your intended audience, you'd be well on your way to achieving your monthly income goal.

I hope you find my suggestions helpful. Best of luck!

By the way, I lived in Iloilo for three years. I graduated high school from Assumption-Iloilo and I'm a big fan of JD Bakery.

Before you start thinking about earning, focus on building your traffic. Engaging your traffic and creating a community. This is the hard part, after that, earning is easy. When you have lots of traffic your website will be very valuable. People will sign up to your lists, pay for advertising, and people will buy affiliate products that you recommend. Check out clickbank for affiliate offers. Make sure to put an opt in box after every single post.

From what I know, earning money with your blog is quite hard. You could use AdSense, but that takes forever. Or not, if you have a lot of traffic. Do you have a lot of traffic?

Well most people going blogs as startups use adsense or other such advertising network.

Live your dreams,
Ean Stark

This can turn like a citation page. Great work ! I guess you need a form to get your visitors in your data base. Real reviews and you are set.

You can build a list and sell a product. Place a bait, an eBook, a membership pass, or anything deliciously irresistible in exchange for their information.

You can earn from banner advertising.

You can ask money from restaurants for better rankings. Though it's a little bit fishy.

I agree lead capture with a free offer related to your niche is the best idea.

Apply for google adsense. If they approve the code, you will earn a handsome amount if you have a genuine number of visitors in your site. There are couple of other sites as well that provides adsense like chitika, adroll, buysellads. All offer services for ads in the website.

Sweet blog you have.
I would contact all cafes and restaurants in your area and proposed them a paid review of their place in your blog. At least you may count on a free meal in exchange for a review. Saving money on food is kinda earning as well ;- )

You made a huge mistake when starting to allow advertising for the site - especially for just pennies! Wait until you start getting mass traffic and fans then start to advertise when you've got the traffic.

I suggest you use an opt in form so that you can get subscribers. You can offer them an incentive such as a free cookbook. Also, get some ads in there such as Adsense. That could help you make a couple of dollars now and again. Also, the advertisements are too cheap, I mean $1 for an ad? Most advertisers would ignore this because they think you don't have high quality traffic or even a decent amount of them. Try offering them at a higher price but in bulk.

Sign up for a Adsense account and add the feed to your blog, or you can sign up to affiliate networks like Clickbank and you can put banners with ads relating to to your blog.

Who are you writing too?
Who is your target market ?
You are never going to make money by selling ad space when you are avg 1 visitor a day according to alexa!

Match your who you are writing too(your target market) with offers that apply .

Make a free recipe report and give it away along with updates to get people to subscribe!
You have to lead your visitors down a path that you want them to go down and that should result in some kind of action that puts money in your pocket ...

Best of luck

Think big. Rather than having those sponsor placements like you do now, find something that 1) earns a lot, and 2) is laser-relevant to your traffic.

$1 a month for an advertisement..? I have a feeling that's you not believing in yourself.

Nice blog dear i think you apply for google adsense .

First, Do you have much traffic came to your website. if so you can make a huge passive income from your website.

you can run Google ads or banner ads, there are many places for that like buysellads.com signup as a publisher then your are ready to run ads on your website.

the big profit comes from selling products to your visitors. The only important thing the i can tell you and will help you a lot is to build a list. put opt in and collect people emails. build relationship with them and then sell them your recommended products. there are many way to monetize your website to make money.

I have this course and I recommend it to you. I think it will help you a lot like it did to me. it's called blogging with john chow. it will help you to monetize your blog well and build profit