Contrary to popular belief, not everyone running a blog can benefit from targeted advertising provided by Google AdSense or Chitika EminiMalls. Monetizing your personal blog for example wont necessarily get you that many clickthroughs, if any at all. In fact, unless your blog concentrates on at least one or more ‘niche subject’ areas I doubt it would make you much more than a few cents per week, at most.

I recently removed Google AdSense from one of my personal blogs because although it was displaying ads, these ads weren’t relevant to my journal entries and thus I decided weren’t of interest to my visitors. People weren’t regularly clicking my ads either, which was another indication that they just weren’t working.

Effectively monetizing your blog requires serious dedication, targeted content and a lot of research. If you find that your blog just isn’t niche enough and you’re getting irrelevant ads, then maybe monetizing your blog isn’t for you or to the benefit of your visitors.

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