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Need some ideas to help monetize a blog

by TheGodfather
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Hey guys...

My father has 2 blogs. One that's personal and one that's on a specific topic. He writes for the local residents (Croatia mostly) and he writes in Croatian.

So he asked me to ask you guys, since u are the experts, on ideas how to monetize his blogs.

People here in Croatia aren't used to buying or paying for stuff online (only 15% of us do that) so he's wondering if you guys have some idea on how he can monetize his blogs, perhaps some scripts that would "force" the visitors to do some CPA offers b4 he can reveal the content of the posts etc...

He tried with a membership script but it didn't work out so now he'd like to find new ways to monetize.

Thank you all in advance for your help
#blog #ideas #monetize
  • Profile picture of the author Caleb Spilchen
    perhaps some scripts that would "force" the visitors to do some CPA offers b4 he can reveal the content of the posts etc...
    If your looking for that. It would be CPALead or PerfectTracking.

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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      adsense perhaps?

      The blog that has a specific topic should promote affiliate products related to that topic.

      IE: if it's a blog about cooking, you can promote cooking gadgets or cook books.
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  • Profile picture of the author impact-productions
    It sounds to me as though it's a site where people will go to for free content, but won't pay for that same content. I'd immediately question whether any of them would go through CPA offers, particularly on a regular basis, and assuming they're easily available in Croatian.

    Plus, by hiding the content away, he's going to be losing out on the indexing opportunities. Presumably this would decreate the site traffic and be counterproductive.

    To me, it sounds as though advertising or affiliate promotion is the way to go. I don't know enough specifics about the Croatian market to suggest programmes, but I'm sure there are many. Even selling advertising directly to local businesses, or putting up banner ads inviting advertising, might be a good way to proceed.

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    • Profile picture of the author TheGodfather
      Originally Posted by Profit Sniper View Post

      I guess that Ads on Free Work At Home jobs link online surveys will help in monetizing the site since most of you guys don't buy things online and you should seriously consider some pay per click programs.
      true, but not many people click on stuff... we've had adsense on the site for over 2 years now and we still haven't made $50 altogether... it's just not as profitable
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  • Profile picture of the author TheGodfather
    there aren't any affiliate markets in Croatia or intended specifically for Croatia... our economy is going down, everything is overpriced and people are about 30 years behind in thinking like a normal modern society...

    People don't want to buy anything online. period... thus we need something that they can do, ie. click on something or fill out something and that we get paid for it...

    people here have barely money to pass the month let alone buy something online... it's like a whole diferent world here... a one ruled by morons, i'm afraid...
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  • Profile picture of the author bay37
    Toni,

    Croatia is a beautiful country.

    But yeah, I don't think that trying to monetize those blogs is something worthwhile doing... The only thing that could maybe work in those circumstances is Adsense, but even then - I wouldn't bother.

    Edit: well I just read you saying that Adsense didn't work for you. See the thing with CPA ads is that they will cut you off if the leads don't convert (and it's more than likely that they won't). Some niches you just cannot monetize. That's just how it is.
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    • Profile picture of the author TheGodfather
      Originally Posted by bay37 View Post

      Toni,

      Croatia is a beautiful country.

      But yeah, I don't think that trying to monetize those blogs is something worthwhile doing... The only thing that could maybe work in those circustances is Adsense, but even then - I wouldn't bother.
      well my father just want's some extra income... i told him to start doing the stuff in english but he's english isn't as good as mine.

      plus here he get's about 100k visitors a month and has one of the most visited sites in the country...
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  • Profile picture of the author TheGodfather
    sure, here is the link, it's basically a blog about everything, his taughts, and some other general topics...

    the link is: Igor Kostelac Blog
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    • Profile picture of the author Cataclysm1987
      I don't see any obvious ways of monetizing this particular blog. Like other people on here are saying, you might just want to stick some adsense on it and build a crapload of backlinks.

      Other than that, there isn't much you can do. Maybe promote an amazon product every once in a while? Get more traffic?

      Some niches are just very difficult to monetize. This might be one of them.
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  • Profile picture of the author MyBuyTube
    did you(or your father) try with Xclaim or eTarget...pozdrav iz Splita...
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