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How to make money by blogging with Zemanta

Posted by jure, under tutorial, verticals on February 16th, 2009

One of the bloggers dreams is also to make money by blogging. Maybe not a fortune, but some pocket money would still be nice for long hours we put into creating content and sharing our knowledge and experience.

Zemanta offers two main ways for monetizing your blog: built in affiliate and by increasing traffic.

Built in affiliate

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Zemanta offers direct integration with your Amazon.com Associates Account. By including items that are sold on Amazon in your blog, you’re earning commission from what your readers are buying, after they follow your links.

How it works:

1. Setup your Affiliate ID in Zemanta Preferences. That way we’ll know how to create special hyperlinks that Amazon needs to know who to give money to.

Zemanta Amazon.com affiliate

Zemanta Amazon.com affiliate

2. Just blog normally. While writing you’ll see Amazon recommendations for your links, they’ll look like this, with little Amazon “A” next to it:

When you click on the link, it’s going be automatically hyperlinked in your blog and it will include your Amazon Affiliate ID. More-over, Amazon Covers will also have this ID in place, so that a big, clickable image, works directly towards a sale through you blog.

Increasing traffic

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Feeds from partner sites

You can add feeds from your blogs/partner sites and by using ”related articles”, easily connect them together, thus driving more traffic to them.

Higher reader engagement

By inserting more images and links in your blog, you actually get more click-through on Ads as well as more visitors as your users will return more likely because you have prettier blog.

Broader audience

We regularly add blogs from our users to general recommended articles, this would then recommend it to all Zemanta users, driving even more traffic to your blog.

SEO tags

Better tagged content gives search engines more ways to find you as well as better understanding of your content.

Of course, you can just blog faster which helps you blog more and as a consequence, earn more money :-)

Did you discover any other way how Zemanta helps you make money? Share it in the comments!

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    How do you identify the source of the traffic in the second case? In the case of Amazon, you are considering the Amazon affiliate ID.

  • Jure Cuhalev

    You can take a look at feeds that ping you and look for related articles by Zemanta text to see that it's coming from other Zemanta bloggers. Otherwise they're general page optimizations and you need to use your normal analytics tools like Google Analytics and similar.

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    I never realized how much having installed Zemanta would lead other bloggers to leave track backs to my blog. That has lead do a substantial increase in traffic, and in blog rankings.

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    Suppose we want to feature a particular book and it is not showing up in the recommendations? If that is possible can you tell us how to use Zemanta to add it? Thank you.

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    I think the built in affiliate mode is tricky to use because it involves your blog selling products that you yourself can't guarantee for. I'm not questioning Amazon's reputation here, still I wouldn't advertise a certain kind of camera on my photo blog just because it's on sale on Amazon (unless of course, I think it's a great piece of equipment) Mia Trianz

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