The Green Ninja

You all may have noticed the advertising spots on the right sidebar of my blog. A couple of months ago, I read about OIO publisher over at Felicia’s blog and thought that it might be worth checking out.  There are lots of ways to find out how to make money with a blog – but private pubishing is one area that I had never really checked into.  I’ve used Google Adsense, affilate partners such as Amazon and Clickbank, a little bit of paid posting and various other methods to make money with my blogs, but this was something I wanted to check out.

OIO Publisher is a great little script (or plug in) that you can use with your wordpress blogs. You purchase the scrip one time and then upload it to any or all of your blogs.  You then go to the settings area and choose which types of ads you would like to sell. For now, I decided to stick with the simple 125X125 banner ads that you see at the side, but you can choose other banner ads, text link ads or even paid posts.

Once you set up your ad zones, you then go over to the OIO Publisher site place your site and information into their marketplace.  When advertisers are browsing the marketplace to find places to put their ads, your site will be there.  You set the prices for each of your blogs and ad types, so you are in control of how much money you can make.  If you would like, you can even upgrade to a premium listing so that your blogs will stand out to publishers.

Another way to for people to buy advertising space on your blog is to visit your blog and click on one of the Advertise Here spaces.  The process is totally automated! They fill in some information, upload their ad and make a payment.  The ad then appears on your page.  Easy, right?

So far, here are the drawbacks that I have encountered:

• I have yet to sell any ads.  I have not, however, paid for a premium listing, which is something that I am looking into for the new year since I have added this plug in to several of my sites. Also, the sites that I have listed do not get a ton of traffic yet, so that may be a factor in folks wanting to advertise with me.
• The default “advertise here” space is not very attractive.  You can see an example of the default settings at my laptop bag site. I got around this issue rather easily by going over to this site and made a cute little banner in just a couple of minutes. It’s easy and it’s free!
• There is a learning curve in using this script.  However the site is full of information and has great customer support.  It took me a couple of days to figure it out, but now I can operate it like a champ.

And on the plus side:

• There is plenty of money to be made.  Let’s say you have a 4 blogs.  You can place 4 little 125×125 ad spaces on them each and charge $15 per month for that ad space.  That’s an extra $240 per month – from an entirely automated process.  Pretty freakin awesome!
• More blogs = more money.
• You can use replacements in ad spaces that have not been sold – like the Human Rewriter button over there.  This way, that is not wasted space. And if someone wants to order articles though my Human Rewriter link, I will make a commission.  Once the ad space is bought, my default ad is replaced with the paid ad.
• There are a ton of features that I have not even explored yet.

If you are a blogger who thinks that OIO Publisher may be for you, you can order though my link and save $10 through the month of December by using my coupon code : FAWKES-NINJA

If you have any questions about OIO, leave them in the comments area and I’ll do my best to answer.

Note: If you are reading this post after December 09, just leave me a comment and I’ll give you the coupon code for the current month.

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