Comments on: How Would You Monetize this Food Blog

By: Jkt100bars

Jkt100bars — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:50:36 +0000

If Veron is still reading the comments, I would be curious to know if she has an explanation on why the number of pageviews is so low compared to the number of visitors. 1.88 pages per visits is a very small number in my opinion, and maybe it can explain why she gets so little revenue from her blog (comparing to her very good stats and her potential). My own blog gets around 500 unique visitors per day only, but also 5000 page views per days (10 pages per visits on average). As the readers spend more time on the blog, they have more chance to see an ad they will like and on which they could click. The content of Sparklette is very good and so is the design, so I cannot figure out why it is so low. Maybe people are only looking for information about one restaurant in particular and are not interested in other pages.

By: Caroline@BudgetMeals

Caroline@BudgetMeals — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:27:23 +0000

I love allrecipes.com or cooks.com! I visit them a lot and I think others would… It might bring you some good traffic!

By: Beluga Kaviar kaufen

Beluga Kaviar kaufen — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:40:03 +0000

Flavorful recipe! ;-). I love studying this blog. Where did you get this lovely homepage template from? Regards from sweden.

By: Paramendra Bhagat

Paramendra Bhagat — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:36:00 +0000

At 10,000 visits per day, making money should be a breeze.

Invest in Aweber software to start creating a mailing list for your blog. Offer a free eBooklet to those who sign up.

Your audience is global. It is not just Singapore. People eat that food all over the world.

By: Blogging Banks

Blogging Banks — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:42:00 +0000

Slap some adsense on it. You coudl also place an affiliate program related to your niche as well.

By: Savory Tv

Savory Tv — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:41:07 +0000

With your traffic, I would absolutely go with a cpm model. Platefull is a great option, as well as Gourmet Ads and Foodbuzz.

By: Crude Oil Trader

Crude Oil Trader — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:23:45 +0000

With this kind of traffic she should be getting a decent Adsense check, but she will have to give in and give it some presence above the fold. That is the most valuable spot.

By: alois

alois — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:48:49 +0000

I just started my food blog and as you can see i didn’t include apost yet. however I found an article that includes 100 ways to monetize your blog that may be can help you.

Go to: http://www.insidecrm.com/features/101-ways-monetize-blog122007/

Good Luck and let me know if it worked for you.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:31:51 +0000

I would stick to well placed affiliate links and an email marketing campaign that you can separate from your blog so it doesn’t look like you are ‘selling out’

By: Restaurant Copycat Recipes

Restaurant Copycat Recipes — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:24:39 +0000

I have found that Adsense along with other affiliate products on your blog is the best way to earn. Just be sure you don’t make your blog solely an advertising/banner laden mess, but a real blog with information people want to read about and then make sure your Affiliate products are related to your content.

By: hokya

hokya — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:32:48 +0000

how about direct sponsored advertisement from Singapore Restaurants themselves ?

By: Lee Ka Hoong

Lee Ka Hoong — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:45:27 +0000

I do have a food blog as well. Try Foodbuzz network, they pay cost per impression ($1-3 per 1000 impression). Since Veron has about 10,000 impression a day, I believe that she will earn quite well with Foodbuzz.

Thanks,
Lee

By: wii games

wii games — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:05:55 +0000

This is the most informative food blog source I’ve come across and I want to thank you for taking the time to lay it out and share your knowledge. The veil over the mystery of advertising is lifting, but the heavy one over the computer programming and customization aspect remains. Any suggestions on where to go for enlightenment on that subject?

By: r4 firmware

r4 firmware — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:43:56 +0000

Hi Guy’s,
According to me you can use Google Analytics to determine if certain types of content are doing better?

By: hospitalera - Blogging

hospitalera - Blogging — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:23:18 +0000

OK, first thing that jumped at me was “What the heck is doing the Bavarian castle Neuschwanstein on a Singaporean food blog”, ok, that might be not the answer you are looking for, but if you want to monetize a food blog then it should also look like a food blog, not like a Bavarian travel blog. Second, where is the traffic coming from? Each monetization of each blog, never mind the niche the blog is in, depends on the kind of traffic the blog receives. Social traffic is notoriously difficult to monetize, search engine traffic is far easier to monetize. No reason to offer apples if your visitors are looking for pears! So, first I would do a lot of research into what kind of traffic this blog receives, which keywords brought the most traffic and which sites refer the most visitors. Try to find out what your visitors are willing to buy ;-) One idea that came immediately to my mind is https://www.projectwonderful.com , not big bucks, but with a high traffic site it could work out. Next would be to create something around the theme “Singapore + Food”, restaurant reviews, shopping tips, an ebook, cooking courses, the possibilities are endless, others have already elaborated on that, so I will not repeat this. Look what is on sale in your niche and what you are comfortable with to promote. Last point, don’t forget that it is important where you place your ads / products, the higher, the better, nobody scrolls down to find a product to buy, an ad to click on, just my 2 cents, SY

By: my business

my business — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:50:06 +0000

I have the same experience making money from amazon more difficult, google ads & chitika is more easy but too little. I think the key is traffic stream….. selling ebook is goods alternative

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:22:40 +0000

Veron – instead of trying to monetize your site directly, why not try adding a service?

For example – offer a review service to restaurants where they feed you and you offer a private or public review (much like Men With Pens website review drivebys)

Be careful with this – don’t undervalue your time & services. 300k visitors is a lot of exposure they would be buying.

Good luck!

By: Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship

Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:35:05 +0000

I would also recommend Foodbuzz ads – they pay by the click ($2 per 1000) so that would be an easy $20 a day.

Best of luck!
Katie

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:09:56 +0000

I’m taking lots of notes. I suggest working something out with a few restaurants and posting daily lunch or dinner specials separately from your regular posts and possibly attaching some sort of coupon. That way you can easily update your blog content daily. Alternatively, you can send the menus to paid subscribers who would appreciate the service.
On another note, maybe you can be a guest writer on Problogger sometime soon and tell us how to increase our traffic to 10,000+ a day!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:16:11 +0000

Wow, I’m blown away by all the great tips posted here!
My foodblog is also a year old and I started monetizing a few months ago, but no significant results so far. I know that’s due to (lack of) traffic but I’m working on it. Needless to say that Darren’s post drew my attention and I will surely give some of these tips a try. Thanks all!

Adsense and Amazon generate some revenue for me, especially after listing some tools that are not frequently used. Currently developing an Amazon Store, but if this doesn’t work for Veron maybe she can work with an Asian or local version of Amazon or Ebay.

I think she’ll have a good shot at selling affiliate products too and the best idea I think is her own ebook. Veron can hire a someone (virtual assistant) to put it together if she doesn’t have time. This would be a one-time investment. Set up your own affiliate program and have others sell the book for you. Since I have a multicultural blog, I would gladly sell it!

Instructional videos for a membership is also a great idea but might take more time and training to set up.

Great site Veron, but even with a T1 connection it takes a while to download. Imagine what would happen to your pageviews if you could shorten that download time!

Good luck with monetizing, I hope you will follow up on the ebook idea :)