How many of you have signed up for an ad network, placed the code on your site/blog, made a few bucks and then removed it, just because you weren’t hitting the minimum payment threshold quick enough. That doesn’t mean you won’t hit it at all!

I’m writing this from experience, I’ve spent too many weeks and months optimizing with one ad network and removing it after I didn’t get to the minimum payment too fast. Impatience is the number one reason why you will dump one network to move onto another.

Sometimes you just have to give things time. This is even more important if you do not have a high traffic blog, and if your visitors are not targeted enough. Actually the targeting is something that you cannot prevent much, just yesterday I had a search engine visitor for the phrase “how to make yourself go into labor” – I’m on the second page. Weird.

Stay the Path

Ask yourself this. Why did you go through the process of -

• signing up for a network
• optimizing code with colors, fonts etc… and
• placing code

…if you cannot stick with it till you meet the minimum payment? After you install that code and make some money, stick with it till you get paid. If you have even one hint of resistance that you should not go with a network then don’t sign up. Just because XYZ or ABC signed up, or recommended it, doesn’t mean you have to go with it.

If you have made some money with a new network, but not enough, the best thing to do is too stick with it till you reach the minimum payment. Because if you don’t you’ll be stuck with a bunch of money across various networks that is “owed” to you, but never really yours. That’s when you begin to kick yourself.

Once some money starts rolling in optimize, optimize, optimize!

To summarize

• Choose only ad networks you know will work for your blog/site
• Don’t sign up with too many till you succeed with at least one or two
• Once you see some money rolling in – optimize the ads, rotate, change colors, do whatever it takes to keep the momentum up to hit that minimum payment
• Get paid

Of course all the above points are directly related with the amount of traffic you get, the kind of traffic you get and the demographics that visit your blog/site.

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About the author

Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.