How and when to monetize the blog?

[Mike Alike]

I have gone reading a lot on this topic “How to monetize the Blog” I am still in doubts, I do wana know when is the right time to do it? Is it done after getting popularities? Is it a matter of some time intervals? What are the essential things should I need before I go to monetize it? Do it need a certain numbers of entries?

Please do suggest me on the same..

[prinsnezar]

me 2 have blog but i think its important to me

[ChaseMorgan]

I have always monetized it right away. We have 5 blogs and they all got monetized immediately. However, you wont get much income from it till you get a lot of people visiting your sight to click on the adsense ads.

[corcor]

I have heard that you should wait untill you get a good ammount of followers because the adds could annoy any potential readers, however, the last blog I built I monitized before the first post even went up

I would suggest keeping the adds low key until you build a decent ammount of readers, then you can work on making them more visible

[onesimpletech]

I have always monetized it right away. We have 5 blogs and they all got monetized immediately. However, you wont get much income from it till you get a lot of people visiting your sight to click on the adsense ads.

I agree ... most of my time is advertising (building links).

[bixter76]

I tried monetizing mine but it didn't work very well. Actually I made nothing lol

[scheng1]

There are many ways, just make sure you dont over-do it.
1. Google Adsense
2. Amazon affiliate, get the widget and just copy and paste the html into your blog
3. Ebay affiliate
4. clickbank, join and get hoplink from the product you want to promote, either use hyperlink as intext advertise (remember to add no-follow tag), or put in side bar;
alternatively write review for the product.
5. join textlinkads or textlinkbrokers to sell text links, the risk is that they use do-follow tag, and your blog PR will go down.

[joel]

..monetise as soon as you start and you don't have to worry about 'adsense spam' as the ads are targeted. As you start no much traffic therefore not much ads

[neonguy528]

Doing a blog and monetizing it is easy. Driving traffic takes hundeds of hours creating the links, backlinks, adding meta tags, content, blog submissions at sites, forums, etc, etc. Good advice for you from everyone here.

[zoe]

can anyone tell me what "monetizing a blog" is? I'm a newbie.my blog is [url]http://www.chenzhen.me[/url], it's about shanghai world expo.how can I improve it?