Free Gadgets To Monetize Your Blog

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All bloggers know of the complicated ways in which we're taught to monetize our sites. The extent is such that some writers and Internet-celebrity bloggers make a living selling costly e-books and tutorials showing us just how to make it big. Not all of those recommendations will work for everyone. After all, even if you're doing everything right, you first of all have to build up an Internet reputation before anyone starts to take notice of anything you say, let alone salivate on your every word. Reputation building takes time, but in the interim, here are some free gadgets you can make use of to bring money to your site. All you have to do is click.


Note: all of these gadgets can be found on your gadgets page. To access, go to your Dashboard. Design. Add a gadget. There are four separate groups of gadgets: basic, featured, most popular, more gadgets. 

Pages

Pages is the first gadget you come across on your basic gadget page (page 1). It allows you to create free standing pages on your blog. This is a great way of doing paid posts you don't want your regular readers to have to wade through. Creating your post on a page gives you an url and a real post. However, it doesn't clog your new and regular updates. You can always add links of these posts on your disclosure page. Someone who's actually chosen to click on that will see a short cut to all the paid posts you've done. Remember that there are limits to how many pages you can create, so you'll want to pace yourself.

Search box

Briefly, a search box allows your visitors to search the Internet to find exactly what they want. This is providing they couldn't find it on your site. You'll be doing your readers a favour and enhancing their visitor experience on your site. At the same time, adding a search box on your blog means that your visitors stay for much longer than they intended, giving your site more search engine weight. Here is an in-depth article which will teach you all you need to know about adding and monetizing adsense for search on your blog. This gadget is also found on the basic gadgets' page.

Adsense

It goes without saying that Adsense is one of the main, free gadgets with which to monetize your blog. After setting up your Adsense account you'll need to do a few basic tasks to make your ads really work for you. Many bloggers simply add this gadget and never look at it again. If this is you, you're limiting what you can actually make. Pennies are not enough for all the hard work you put in. You can make a lot more with a few tweaks. Find out in this step-by-step article how your Google adsense can earn you even more. Many bloggers started taking notice only after they received their first Google cheque. This one is also found on your basic gadgets page.

Amazon deals

This one is found on the featured gadgets page (page 2). Amazon deals, and indeed any amazon links can potentially make you money. This feature can be easily added to any site by also going to your blog's dashboard, design, then click on 'Monetize'. You sign up as an Amazon associate and will be given a publisher account. After this it's child's play in getting the links on your page. Simply underline any word you've written in your text and your dialogue box (which will appear on the right of every post you're preparing) will give you all the possible products or books associated with this word. Choose the link, the image or both and you'll get a ready made link on your page. Nothing could be easier!

If you've had experience with any free gadgets that really helped you earn some cash, please share with us in the comments box below. If you think this post can help someone you know please share it with them or on any of the social networking sites below. Here's the page for the rest of useful, free Blogger gadgets.

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