SEM Tycoon

**Jmz** · 11-13-2007, 06:03 AM

My blog has been up a few weeks now and is hitting around the 400 uniques per day mark. Most of the traffic comes from links to a few css tutorials I put up so I'd say most of the traffic is targetted towards that.

My question is:

I didnt set the blog up to make money, I just want it as a side project (I have other sites that are there to make money). However, it would be nice if the site could pay for its hosting/domain renewals itself and mabe have some money left for advertising.

I've joined amazon affiliates and commission junction, the amazon css books (in my opinion) are a lot more targetted than the cj ones, what will be the best way to monetize the site?

What I dont want is to have loads of ads all over the place lol.

**Stas** · 11-16-2007, 10:41 AM

Jmz,

Contextual in-line works very well for blogs. The targeting is great because blogs tend to be very content rich and in-line pop-overs lay dormant until a reader hovers their mouse over the keyword to "activate" the ad.

Might be the solution to at least cover your hosting.

**rayww** · 11-17-2007, 05:56 AM

Why not apply for adsense?

i think cj gives only commission for affiliates.