The article was way too light, I agree, but I'm a huge fan of affiliate advertising. More bloggers should use affiliate marketing, rather than blogads.

Cal,

What is your problem, dude? I'm trying to indulge in some third grade-level humor and you actually offer some useful advice - what's up with that?

Isn't he the guy who wrote "Rusty Bedsprings?"

Craig,

Does it always have to be bathroom humor? Grow up, man!

John, could you call the WaPo and have them page Mike Hunt? Thanks.

Back in the days before dinosaurs, I went to school with a guy named Paul Dick. We called him "Shorty" for extra effect.

In Portland, Oregon, there was a lawyer around for years (may still be) whose name was Theodore Bear. I know that's slightly off the subject, but I've always admired someone who could go through life with a burden like that.

Is that Hugh Jass any relation to the Dover's, Ben and Eileen? Just askin'...

Nah Brew, Hugh Jass is much more closely related to Haywood Jablome...by marriage I think.

And didn't they have cousin who was a gynocologist named Buster Hyman?

btw, the damned "remember personal info" thingie never works for me here.

That damned thing never works for me either. I run W*ndows 2000, and I noticed the other day when I was on a machine running XP that there's a 'point and click' thingamajig, for bold, italic, etc., when I'm on that machine. Maybe the same goes for the 'Remember Personal Info' option. Freakin Bill Gates.

OK, I just had to change the post because an error message told me that Win-you-know-what is 'Questionable Content'

????

How did this guy survive elementary school?

Well, it wasn't easy. I had a lot of tootering, was held back a couple of years, cheated on tests, but I made it. I was 24, but I made it.

"I'm trying to indulge in some third grade-level humor and you actually offer some useful advice - what's up with that?"

Yeah. It's a problem sometimes. Sorry.

But since I started:

Here's the tradeoff. If you accept pay per click, you will be generally offering ads with little use to your readers, because you're accepting money from companies generally eager for any visibility. If you get paid for space based on the amount of eyeballs (ie, CPM counts, blogads), then cool, but again, you're bound by what other people want to pay for--and of course, you have to have a lot of eyeballs to make money.

Affiliate advertising, on the other hand, you can choose merchants that your readers actually use. Five magazine subscriptions for $30. Dell Systems coupons. Best Buy sales. Whatever. You only get paid based on what they buy, but it turns out that pays pretty well. I make $10-12K/year from my forum (not FFFT).

It's also easier to get your readers' buy-in when you post ads they actually use. For example, my members are much more likely to buy books using a link from one of my many affiliates (Amazon, B&N, Powells) because they know I make money from it. Also, worst case, you can send all your friends and family through it.

Here's a sample of the type of ads you can use--but it's not done yet, so please ignore dupes and other anomalies.

One more example, and then I swear I'll stop proselytizing. Here's an example of how you could link to the Michael Moore Hates America image that Ace is advertising right now. So if people bought it from Amazon, B&N, Buy.com, or anywhere else, you'd take a piece of that action, rather than taking a (probably) small amount of money from the advertiser.

For all that people talk about the brave new world of blogs, they're still dealing with the old method of advertising. Find ads that make real sense for your demographic, and make your site be an actual resource for good merchants and good sales.

I'll shut up now. Ace knows I'm fixated on this subject, so hopefully he'll forgive me.

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