This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.
I don’t want to have a blog that is slow and overloaded with ads. Those blogs are a total turn-off for me. They just scream “I do it for the money!” I have never posted any paid advertisements or posts – aka never made any money from my blog efforts. BUT I am trying to be realistic. I have had this blog for about 4 months now and it costs around $40 a month to have this site. Therefore, so far I have spent $160 of my own money.
I really love what I do and I especially love my readers!! I like writing posts, reviewing products and I want to keep doing it! But spending nearly $500 a year to keep this blog running is not exactly in my budget.
Therefore I have been doing a TON of research on how to monetize my blog without all the spam and irritating ads! I take pride in our blog’s mission statement “We’re blogging to bring you nothing but the best” to our readers… so I don’t want to post junk. I want to continue to write honestly and not just post anything that is a paid ad!
I recently heard of SocialSpark and signed up to see what they are all about. It was pretty easy, I gave my email and verified the ownership of my blog. SocialSpark enables bloggers to be compensated for writing blog posts about advertisers on their own personal blogs. Payment is made on a cost per post basis.
Some options of posts include:
- Review a product/service
- Mention a site
- Write an article about a topic
- Write on how to get freebies
There are a variety of ways to do postings and I will control what opportunities I want to write on. I promise I will choose mine carefully, because I don’t want to annoy (or lose!) my loyal readers, because of some cheap-scam posts. This seems like a good way for me to get started in exploring monetization of my blog. We’ll see!