A look at the basics of internet advertising
Thursday, May 14th, 2009I'm new at this game and want to make an effort to monetize TopCommentator.com when I get it up and running. It's more of a learning curve for my first look at online advertising than a money making plan. I just want to use it as a platform initially experiment the different types of ads and affiliate program available and how I can use them on the site. Maybe this isn't the best way to it but everyone has to start somewhere. At this point I'm still at the stage where I'm looking at advertising terminology and what it means. Here's a list of 3 basic types of advertising:
CPM: Cost per 1000 impressions
CPC: Cost per click
CPA: Cost per action
Yes at this point this is as far as my knowledge goes but I'll learn as I go. This blog has a long long way to go, there's millions of people more knowledgable than me and lots to learn but if I want to make some money online this is one of the areas I need to gain experience in. My goal is to create 'at least' one good/popular website in the next 2 years and I'll need to have the skills to generate some revenue from it when the time comes so it's time to start looking at these things now!
This is the 14th day of this blog and for anyone reading thinking of starting their own blog that doesn't already have one my advice is to go for it! It's not easy posting every day but so far I feel that I'm learning something new each day. I'm looking at other blogs thinking how focused they are on very spefic areas and thinking mine is lacking in direction and quality to date but it's all a learning curve. If I keep learning then my posts will get better and better and with some luck I'll get 1000 visitors in one day some time soon. For the time being though I'm enjoying the experience and coming up with different ideas all of the time. Watch this space



















