Monetize your site with Google Affiliate Network
Guest post by Google Affiliate Network (GAN)
There are lots of great ways to make money from your blog. One of those ways is to use an affiliate network. Put simply, an affiliate network is a way to promote products from some of your favorite retailers; you get paid when any of those retailers makes a sale based on a promotion you ran on your blog. Our friends at the Google Affiliate Network have a great program and have agreed to make a special offer to our users—so if you haven't heard of GAN already, have a read, and be sure to sign up!
With Google Affiliate Network, you can access affiliate ads for top retailers. If the ad or text link you post on your blog results in a sale, you earn a commission. This means that you can start working with advertisers who will pay you a performance fee for driving a sale or other conversion.
Google
Affiliate Network gives you access to a diverse range of affiliate
programs for advertisers including Barnes & Noble.com, Red Envelope,
Sears, ProFlowers, Abe Books and Puma. Once you have access, you can
apply to create advertiser programs, promote ads, search for links to
specific products, sign up to access product feeds, and utilize Link
Subscriptions that deliver the latest links and promotions directly to
you each day.
Google Affiliate Network is featured in the Monetize tab in your Blogger account or you can apply using the link below (please note that you’ll need an AdSense ID to join).
Here’s how to get started:
Apply before December 13th and take advantage of affiliate exclusive holiday offers from select Google Affiliate Network advertisers. The special offers will be available for Monday, December 13th, from over 20 advertisers including Barnes & Noble.com, Sears, Red Envelope, Arden B and 6ave. For more information, please visit this blog post or apply now with your valid AdSense Publisher ID.
There are lots of great ways to make money from your blog. One of those ways is to use an affiliate network. Put simply, an affiliate network is a way to promote products from some of your favorite retailers; you get paid when any of those retailers makes a sale based on a promotion you ran on your blog. Our friends at the Google Affiliate Network have a great program and have agreed to make a special offer to our users—so if you haven't heard of GAN already, have a read, and be sure to sign up!
With Google Affiliate Network, you can access affiliate ads for top retailers. If the ad or text link you post on your blog results in a sale, you earn a commission. This means that you can start working with advertisers who will pay you a performance fee for driving a sale or other conversion.
Google Affiliate Network is featured in the Monetize tab in your Blogger account or you can apply using the link below (please note that you’ll need an AdSense ID to join).
Here’s how to get started:
- Sign up for a Google Affiliate Network account with your valid AdSense Publisher ID.
- As soon as you're approved for Google Affiliate Network, sign in and apply for advertiser programs.
- Follow the instructions to start displaying cost-per-action ads.
Apply before December 13th and take advantage of affiliate exclusive holiday offers from select Google Affiliate Network advertisers. The special offers will be available for Monday, December 13th, from over 20 advertisers including Barnes & Noble.com, Sears, Red Envelope, Arden B and 6ave. For more information, please visit this blog post or apply now with your valid AdSense Publisher ID.
November 24, 2010
Updates and Fixes for November 22nd
Besides an exciting updateto the Blogger in Draft testing ground, we’ve also made a few updates
to the rest of Blogger. Here’s a quick summary of the latest changes,
hot off the press:
Comment Notifications enabled by default on new blogs
think it’s important to stay in touch with the activity on your blog,
so we’ve turned on the comment notification setting by default for all
new bogs. We’ll send an email to the address associated with your
Blogger account with each new comment from your readers.
Your
old blogs won’t be affected at all, and if you’d like to enable or
disable comment notification at any point, you can easily do so from the
Settings | Comments tab.
Picasa albums created automatically (if needed)
We
hope you are already aware that when you upload an image from Blogger,
it gets added automatically your Picasa Web Albums account in an album
dedicated to your blog. This means that any image you upload from
Blogger will be available to view, edit, and share when you login to Picasa.
Should
you delete the album associated with your blog for any reason, we’ve
made an update which will now create a new album automatically so you
can continue to upload images to Picasa.
Upload Image button added to Edit HTML mode
(Blogger in Draft only)
We
heard lots of feedback recently about how you’d like to be able to
upload an image in the post editor’s Edit HTML mode, so we’ve added it
into the new post editor’s toolbar with today’s release. You’ll see it
right now if you go into the post editor. Hopefully this saves you a few
extra clicks next time you need to add images to your posts.
And lastly, a bug fix
Many
of you let us know via the forum that <img> tags for images
uploaded in the new post editor weren’t closing correctly, which was
causing formatting problems in your post. We’ve corrected that problem
in this release, and now <img> tags are closing as they should.
Thanks for letting us know!
November 23, 2010
Welcome, Google Apps Users!
Google Apps users have been asking for Blogger and now, with our recently launched infrastructure improvement,
they can use Blogger for free with their Google Apps accounts. We're
excited to provide Apps users with this great tool to have their voices
heard on the web.Google Apps is Google's suite of cloud-based messaging and collaboration web apps used by more than 30 million users in small businesses, large enterprises, educational institutions, government agencies, and non-profit organizations around the world. If your organization hasn't gone Google yet, you can learn more about how to lower IT costs and improve productivity and collaboration at google.com/apps.
For those Blogger users who have a Google Apps account, if your administrator has already transitioned your organization to the new infrastructure, you can now use Blogger by signing in at blogger.com with your existing Apps account.
For more details, read the complete post on the Google Enterprise blog and follow all the updates on other newly available services from Google Apps users.
October 27, 2010
Safe Browsing on Blogger
National Cyber-Security Awareness Month
is here once again. In that spirit we wanted to share a bit about what
we are doing on Blogger to help fight malicious content, along with some
tips for a safer browsing experience online. While spammers are always
coming up with new tricks, the combination of Blogger’s abuse-fighting
systems and the security features of modern browsers helps ensure that
you’ll be able to browse through your favorite blog content with
confidence.
We’ve
partnered with other abuse-fighting teams within Google to develop
sophisticated systems for automatically detecting and quarantining
nefarious content on Blogspot. Over the years, our teams have analyzed
the patterns and behavior of malicious blogs and code, and with each new
detection our existing algorithms are trained for better coverage in
the future. As a result, we are able to catch and quarantine thousands
of malicious blogs each year, and are happy to say that our overall spam
levels are at an all-time low across our service.
Of
course, while our automated systems provide great coverage for a wide
variety of abuse types, you can always let us know about suspicious
blogs by reporting them directly to us
via our online form. We’re also looking to you, the users, to be our
eyes on the web and let us know anything that may have escaped our
existing systems.
Beyond
partnering with us on the detection process, you can also make a
difference in your own online security by taking advantage of your
browser’s built-in security. Modern browsers have powerful security
features that can detect potentially malicious sites and alert you
should you stumble upon them. Using technology like Google’s Safe Browsing
tools, users of many browsers see warning screens when attempting to
visit sites that automated systems have determined to contain suspicious
content. To make sure you have the latest and most secure browser
version, please check out the following browser sites:
We also recommend using one of the following tools to keep your browser plug-ins up to date: Google-developed SecBrowsing; Mozilla Plugin Check.
For more tips on safe browsing and security on the web, check out the home of Cyber Security Awareness Month at the http://staysafeonline.org/.
is here once again. In that spirit we wanted to share a bit about what
we are doing on Blogger to help fight malicious content, along with some
tips for a safer browsing experience online. While spammers are always
coming up with new tricks, the combination of Blogger’s abuse-fighting
systems and the security features of modern browsers helps ensure that
you’ll be able to browse through your favorite blog content with
confidence.
We’ve
partnered with other abuse-fighting teams within Google to develop
sophisticated systems for automatically detecting and quarantining
nefarious content on Blogspot. Over the years, our teams have analyzed
the patterns and behavior of malicious blogs and code, and with each new
detection our existing algorithms are trained for better coverage in
the future. As a result, we are able to catch and quarantine thousands
of malicious blogs each year, and are happy to say that our overall spam
levels are at an all-time low across our service.
Of
course, while our automated systems provide great coverage for a wide
variety of abuse types, you can always let us know about suspicious
blogs by reporting them directly to us
via our online form. We’re also looking to you, the users, to be our
eyes on the web and let us know anything that may have escaped our
existing systems.
Beyond
partnering with us on the detection process, you can also make a
difference in your own online security by taking advantage of your
browser’s built-in security. Modern browsers have powerful security
features that can detect potentially malicious sites and alert you
should you stumble upon them. Using technology like Google’s Safe Browsing
tools, users of many browsers see warning screens when attempting to
visit sites that automated systems have determined to contain suspicious
content. To make sure you have the latest and most secure browser
version, please check out the following browser sites:
We also recommend using one of the following tools to keep your browser plug-ins up to date: Google-developed SecBrowsing; Mozilla Plugin Check.
For more tips on safe browsing and security on the web, check out the home of Cyber Security Awareness Month at the http://staysafeonline.org/.
October 20, 2010
Back from BlogWorld
Sometimes
returning to a nice, quiet office can be just what the doctor ordered
after an exhausting trip away. And for the handful of us on the Blogger
Team who just returned from BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, this was definitely the case.
For
the first time since the convention’s debut four years ago, we set up
shop on the tradeshow floor with our very own Blogger-themed exhibit.
Armed with demo stations, Blogger t-shirts and chip clips, and our very
own bright red marshmallow couch, we spent our time showing off the
latest features and talking to literally hundreds of folks about their
experiences with Blogger. And we learned a lot.
returning to a nice, quiet office can be just what the doctor ordered
after an exhausting trip away. And for the handful of us on the Blogger
Team who just returned from BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, this was definitely the case.
For
the first time since the convention’s debut four years ago, we set up
shop on the tradeshow floor with our very own Blogger-themed exhibit.
Armed with demo stations, Blogger t-shirts and chip clips, and our very
own bright red marshmallow couch, we spent our time showing off the
latest features and talking to literally hundreds of folks about their
experiences with Blogger. And we learned a lot.
 |
| shaun, vardhman, chang, antin, brett, and tina on the marshmallow couch. |
The
feedback that we got was both encouraging and enlightening, and we’re
still in the process of digesting everything. First, we want to thank
everyone who came by the booth to say hello, test out the new features,
spend a few minutes getting interviewed, or to tell us what we could be
doing better. Having so many passionate bloggers in one place to
interact with was an incredible resource, from the gentleman we spoke
with who has been blogging since 1995 to the fitness blogger who set up
her first Blogger blog right in front of us. So once again, thanks for
sharing!
feedback that we got was both encouraging and enlightening, and we’re
still in the process of digesting everything. First, we want to thank
everyone who came by the booth to say hello, test out the new features,
spend a few minutes getting interviewed, or to tell us what we could be
doing better. Having so many passionate bloggers in one place to
interact with was an incredible resource, from the gentleman we spoke
with who has been blogging since 1995 to the fitness blogger who set up
her first Blogger blog right in front of us. So once again, thanks for
sharing!
 |
| demoing with the guys from vanilla. photo credit: brendan sera-shriar |
We’re
excited about what’s in store for Blogger in the coming months, and
after this trip we’re even more committed to delivering the best blog
service possible. In the spirit of keeping the conversations going, feel
free to send us a tweet or post on our wall if something’s on your mind. Or, if you want to give us some more detailed feedback, please let us know on our Product Ideas page.
excited about what’s in store for Blogger in the coming months, and
after this trip we’re even more committed to delivering the best blog
service possible. In the spirit of keeping the conversations going, feel
free to send us a tweet or post on our wall if something’s on your mind. Or, if you want to give us some more detailed feedback, please let us know on our Product Ideas page.
Finally, we want to thank Rick Calvert for reaching out and encouraging us to be a part of BlogWorld Expo. We hope to see you all next year!
October 07, 2010
Help Us Make Blogger Better (again)
To date, we’re happy to say that we’ve been able to launch most of the top-requested features from the list. Here are just a handful of the features you asked for which are now live:
- New Template Designer
- Spam Comment Filtering
- Built-in Blog Stats
- Improved Post Editor
- Static Pages
- Jump Breaks
- Background Image Uploads
- Accurate Post Previews
- Photo Captions
- More Default Templates
...and that’s just the beginning of the list. We’re also working on a few big improvements that we’re pretty excited about, so stay tuned as we continue to roll things out of the oven in the near future.
Just as we did last year, we’re asking for your input on our Product Ideas page. As always, our ears are open to your feedback and your input has been invaluable over the years in helping us figure out where to put our time and energy.
Please take a moment to vote on and submit ideas, whether specific feature requests or general service improvements. Think about new features that would make you use Blogger more, the things from other services which may be missing, and even the things which may be frustrating at times. We promise to once again take a long look at the feedback, and hope to tackle many of the top issues just as we did last time around.
Thanks again in advance for all your help making Blogger the best service it can be!
Guest post: Discover amazing products and earn money with OpenSky
This is a guest post by John Caplan, founder and CEO of OpenSky. OpenSky
allows bloggers, including all Blogger users, to discover unique
products and sell those on their blogs. As we are interested in helping
our users find various ways to monetize their blogs, we’ve asked John to
introduce OpenSky for our users. -- The Blogger team
For most of you, writing a blog is about sharing your passion in a way that connects you with others. That’s why Blogger was created -- to help people have their own voice on the web to share that passion.
We at OpenSky want to empower you to share even more with the people who read your blog. We do this by helping you discover great products and giving you the ability to share those products on your blog. Not only will you deepen your relationships with your readers, but you’ll also earn money from every sale.
Most everyone who reads your blog probably loves discovering new products, especially unique items that they wouldn’t find in a giant chain store. And your readers will especially love learning about stuff from someone they trust, like you.
That’s why blogging and product recommendations work so well together.
How OpenSky works
OpenSky is a free platform that empowers you to discover and sell unique products that speak to your passion. So you can hook up your readers with great things they’ll love.
While most affiliate programs draw away your audience, on OpenSky you’ll drive readers to an environment dedicated to you and your products.
For every sale you make we split the profits 50/50, which means you can make up to 4x more than a run-of-the-mill affiliate program. We take care of all the order processing, fulfillment and customer service. You get all the credit.
Sign up now, and discover great new products today.
What People Are Saying About OpenSky
Fast Company described us the best when they said:
"OpenSky may have cracked the code for web publishers and small e-tailers, delivering profits to both while helping consumers with a pain-free shopping experience."
Also, see what The New York Times, LA Times, VentureBeat, TechCrunch have written, or watch this video about us from Good Morning America:
Join us (and start selling) today.
For most of you, writing a blog is about sharing your passion in a way that connects you with others. That’s why Blogger was created -- to help people have their own voice on the web to share that passion.
We at OpenSky want to empower you to share even more with the people who read your blog. We do this by helping you discover great products and giving you the ability to share those products on your blog. Not only will you deepen your relationships with your readers, but you’ll also earn money from every sale.
Most everyone who reads your blog probably loves discovering new products, especially unique items that they wouldn’t find in a giant chain store. And your readers will especially love learning about stuff from someone they trust, like you.
That’s why blogging and product recommendations work so well together.
How OpenSky works
OpenSky is a free platform that empowers you to discover and sell unique products that speak to your passion. So you can hook up your readers with great things they’ll love.
While most affiliate programs draw away your audience, on OpenSky you’ll drive readers to an environment dedicated to you and your products.
For every sale you make we split the profits 50/50, which means you can make up to 4x more than a run-of-the-mill affiliate program. We take care of all the order processing, fulfillment and customer service. You get all the credit.
Sign up now, and discover great new products today.
What People Are Saying About OpenSky
Fast Company described us the best when they said:
"OpenSky may have cracked the code for web publishers and small e-tailers, delivering profits to both while helping consumers with a pain-free shopping experience."
Also, see what The New York Times, LA Times, VentureBeat, TechCrunch have written, or watch this video about us from Good Morning America:
Join us (and start selling) today.
September 29, 2010
Stats Gadgets Graduate from Draft
Last month
we released two new stats gadgets to the Blogger in Draft testing
ground; after hearing your feedback and making a few tweaks, we’re happy
to announce that they are both now ready for the main stage. The
new-and-improved Popular Posts and Blog’s Stats gadgets can be added to your blog right now from the Gadget Directory by clicking Add a gadget from the Design | Page Elements tab.
Both of these gadgets take advantage of the traffic data that is being collected by Blogger Stats and provide an easy way for you to pass that info on to the readers of your blog.
The Popular Posts gadget will automatically find and display your blog’s posts that have the most pageviews. You can choose whether to display image thumbnails or post snippets in addition to the post title. You can also choose the time window to be used for calculating pageviews and the number of posts you’d like to display.
The Blog’s Stats gadget lets you show off pageview data for
your blog, with a handful of configuration options that are easily
controlled. You can choose from a variety of styles and display options
to suit your blog. We also provide an option to let you select the time
window to be used for calculating pageviews.
We hope you enjoy these new gadgets and want to thank you again for your feedback as we fine-tuned them to their current state.
Both of these gadgets take advantage of the traffic data that is being collected by Blogger Stats and provide an easy way for you to pass that info on to the readers of your blog.
The Popular Posts gadget will automatically find and display your blog’s posts that have the most pageviews. You can choose whether to display image thumbnails or post snippets in addition to the post title. You can also choose the time window to be used for calculating pageviews and the number of posts you’d like to display.
September 21, 2010
How Blogger Inspired The Creation Of BlogWorld & New Media Expo
Guest post by Rick Calvert, CEO of BlogWorld & New Media Expo
When the Google Blogger team asked me to write a guest post
for the Blogger Blog, I really didn’t know where to start. Today it
occurred to me that the story of how I found Blogger might be a good
place.
I have been reading and commenting on blogs since the year 2000. I am a news and political junkie so most of the blogs I read were political. Tons of them were hosted right here on Blogger. I was amazed at the original news being reported; the insightful commentary and opinion; the incredibly moving personal stories from Milbloggers and their families and yes the crazy conspiracy theories. This Blogging thing was really incredible. Who were all these smart people?
So many times I wished I could be a blogger, but I wasn’t a techie or a geek and it just seemed like it would be too difficult. Fast forward to 2005; I was in the middle of my two-hour daily commute home on the 91 freeway out of Los Angeles and listening to center right talk radio guy Hugh Hewitt. He said something that got me worked up so I called in. I don’t remember what we talked about but at the end of the conversation he said “you should start a blog.” So that night I went home and Googled “how to start a blog.” Blogger was the first result. So I clicked through and found the message you have all seen and the message that changed my life forever “Create Your Blog Now.” I had no idea how easy it was to start a blog! It only took me five minutes to do something I had been longing to do for nearly five years!
Things started moving very quickly from there—someone actually read my blog. How the heck did they find me? I wondered. Top political bloggers from both sides of the aisle were linking to me. TO ME! Every political pundit I asked to interview said yes! Other bloggers were selling books on their site through Amazon. I thought to myself, I read a lot of books; I should sell the books I like on my blog. A friend helped me sign up as an Amazon Associate and I was off to the races. Then one day an Ad Network contacted me and wanted to sell ads on my blog.
I had so many questions. How much money could I make blogging? How do I add things like widgets and blog rolls to my blog? Can I do audio and video posts? So I started looking for the “Blogging Tradeshow.” Being a tradeshow and conference organizer for the last 15 years I knew there was a tradeshow for every industry. I was stunned when I realized no such conference existed. I asked my blogger friends if they would ever attend the “Blogging Tradeshow.” They all said yes. I asked my tradeshow friends if they thought it was a good idea. They all said yes.
And so BlogWorld & New Media Expo
was born in November of 2006. We held our first event in November of
2007 with 1,600 attendees! This October 14-16 at Mandalay Bay in Las
Vegas we will host the fourth annual BlogWorld & New Media Expo.
Over 4,000 bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers, internet radio, and TV
broadcasters will be attending and things have come full circle.
We are thrilled that for the first time the blog platform that
changed my life, Blogger, will be exhibiting at BlogWorld. We have had
folks from Blogger speak at the conference every year, and this year
Product Manager Chang Kim will be speaking on “The Future of Blogging Platforms.” And now for the first time all of you can visit the Blogger booth (# 308)
and ask your own questions. Or just stop by to say hi and meet the
Blogger team, or like me stop by and give them a huge THANK YOU for
changing your life.
By the way if you still need to register for the show, as a member of the Blogger community you can use this special code for 20% off of any registration package at BlogWorld 2010: BLOGGER20
I have been reading and commenting on blogs since the year 2000. I am a news and political junkie so most of the blogs I read were political. Tons of them were hosted right here on Blogger. I was amazed at the original news being reported; the insightful commentary and opinion; the incredibly moving personal stories from Milbloggers and their families and yes the crazy conspiracy theories. This Blogging thing was really incredible. Who were all these smart people?
So many times I wished I could be a blogger, but I wasn’t a techie or a geek and it just seemed like it would be too difficult. Fast forward to 2005; I was in the middle of my two-hour daily commute home on the 91 freeway out of Los Angeles and listening to center right talk radio guy Hugh Hewitt. He said something that got me worked up so I called in. I don’t remember what we talked about but at the end of the conversation he said “you should start a blog.” So that night I went home and Googled “how to start a blog.” Blogger was the first result. So I clicked through and found the message you have all seen and the message that changed my life forever “Create Your Blog Now.” I had no idea how easy it was to start a blog! It only took me five minutes to do something I had been longing to do for nearly five years!
Things started moving very quickly from there—someone actually read my blog. How the heck did they find me? I wondered. Top political bloggers from both sides of the aisle were linking to me. TO ME! Every political pundit I asked to interview said yes! Other bloggers were selling books on their site through Amazon. I thought to myself, I read a lot of books; I should sell the books I like on my blog. A friend helped me sign up as an Amazon Associate and I was off to the races. Then one day an Ad Network contacted me and wanted to sell ads on my blog.
I had so many questions. How much money could I make blogging? How do I add things like widgets and blog rolls to my blog? Can I do audio and video posts? So I started looking for the “Blogging Tradeshow.” Being a tradeshow and conference organizer for the last 15 years I knew there was a tradeshow for every industry. I was stunned when I realized no such conference existed. I asked my blogger friends if they would ever attend the “Blogging Tradeshow.” They all said yes. I asked my tradeshow friends if they thought it was a good idea. They all said yes.
And so BlogWorld & New Media Expo
was born in November of 2006. We held our first event in November of
2007 with 1,600 attendees! This October 14-16 at Mandalay Bay in Las
Vegas we will host the fourth annual BlogWorld & New Media Expo.
Over 4,000 bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers, internet radio, and TV
broadcasters will be attending and things have come full circle.By the way if you still need to register for the show, as a member of the Blogger community you can use this special code for 20% off of any registration package at BlogWorld 2010: BLOGGER20
September 17, 2010
Super Simple: Your Creative Canvas
When it comes to design, sometimes less can be more. This is the mantra behind our newest variant Super Simple, freshly-released to the Template Designer this week. We’ve taken the original Simple variant and stripped it down to the bare essentials, putting your actual blog content front and center on the page.
As
with all of our variants, you are free to tweak all of the individual
elements and styles to your liking. And if you are looking to design a
fancy blog template from scratch, the Super Simple variant is also a great frame to build upon.
with all of our variants, you are free to tweak all of the individual
elements and styles to your liking. And if you are looking to design a
fancy blog template from scratch, the Super Simple variant is also a great frame to build upon.
You can check out the new variant right now in the Template Designer, under the Simple category. As always, our ears are open to your feedback, so please feel free to let us know what you think.
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