5 Ways to find Direct Advertisers for your Blog : tells NBO

It is the goal of many bloggers to move from monetizing their blogs with ad networks like AdSense into selling ads directly to advertisers. But getting into this game can be difficult - particularly in the early days while you’re still growing traffic.

Here are 5 ways that could draw advertsires to your newly deployed blog:

1. Type your blogs topic into Google

1st of all it is required for you to know what advertisers come up above and to the right of the search listings? These products and services obviously have budget for advertising online and are looking for exposure and could be open to a direct relationship.

2. Visit other blogs, forums and websites in your Niche

It is required for you to know Who is advertising on them !! These advertisers are targeting sites on a similar topic to you and are more often than not willing to test new sites that have relevance to their industry.

3. Identify Affiliate programs in your niche

Some affiliates will also be interested in an advertising relationship with your blog. This may or may not be in your best interest to pursue depending upon whether your readership converts with affiliate products.

4. Hit the Classifieds

It is important for you to be in the local newspaper in the classifieds and this will help you to attract the advertisers to your blog or website.

5. Online Stores and New Sites

This is another tactic involves googling the keywords associated with my topic and not just looking at who was advertising but looking at what businesses were listed in the search results, particularly those below me in the rankings. Special interest is given to the sites which have a direct revenue from their sites and contacted them to see if they’d be interested in advertising . It is also noticed that new sites who were still getting established were also sometimes more willing to buy advertising.

It is said that when you have a blog with relatively low traffic then none of the above methods can earn a fortune. You’ll need to be willing to price your ads relatively cheaply until your traffic grows - but securing these types of ad deals is better than no income for your blog and means that you already have relationships with advertisers to grow as your traffic increases.

NBO - National Business Online (www.nbo.co.nz )  suggests the above tip and is hence promoting the people to follow these tips.