How to use Contextual Advertising on your Blog or Website

Contextual advertising is a link or banner on your page that is advertising something that is related to the content of your blog or website. Inline ads are the highlighted words that appear within your text. For example, once I finish writing this particular article, there will be a few inline ads that will appear.

Here's how you can take advantage of contextual advertising and inline ads for your website or blog.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. First and foremost you must have a blog or website. Bring your page(s) up to speed by adding quality content and text to your site. To take advantage of Context Advertising your information will have to be clean, in other words, if your site is x-rated you won't be able to affiliate yourself with this method of generating income.

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   Sign up for a couple of Contextual ad Programs. You don't want to sign up for more than two because some ad networks do not allow advertising from competing companies.
   
   Google Adsense is by far the largest and most popular of the contextual ad programs, but there are others. Google has a very strict policy of you NOT promoting, clicking on, or telling others to click on your ads in any way, shape, or form. You will quickly be banned for life if you do not adhere to their strict guidelines. Guidelines which can be somewhat confusing to the novice. If Google suspects that your clicks are not legitimate your account is terminated and trying to appeal to the Internet Giant for reinstatement is futile.
   
   There are other ad programs however, so if Google gives you the boot, or does not accept you, here's a list of other ad programs:
   
   - AdBrite
   - AffiliatesGarage.com (Get paid by ClickBank and PayDotCom)
   - AmaSense Ads (must have Amazon account)
   - Bidvertiser.com
   - Chitika.com
   - Kontera
   - Miva
   - Text Link Ads
   - Yahoo Publisher Network

3. Read the terms of agreement for any program that you sign up for. If you have more than one Blog or website you can use one ad program for one page, and another ad program for another page. It is not recommended that you use two different ad programs on one page but this is why it's important that you read the terms carefully.

4. Click the resource links below to sign up for the ad program of your choosing.

Resources

• AdBrite
• Affiliates Garage
• AmaSense Ads
• Bidvertise
• Chikita
• Kontera
• Miva
• Text Link Ads
• Yahoo! Publisher Network

[rn-writer]

on 2/8/2010 I truly love this article. I'd like to learn more about advertising for my blog, but I guess at this point I must focus on adding more health-focused content on my blog for the purpose of helping more people; thereby, learning exactly what knowledge they need to get in great shape, because at this time in America, this information is needed as evidenced by the obesity epidemic. I just want to focus on getting as much information as possible out there for the public via a blog site, website, and etc. Thank you Barry for this info.

[skinspecialist]

on 7/7/2009 Good tips!