I just read a blog post where someone was giving advice about scaring people away from your blog by having too many banners. Unfortunately, he wasn’t following his own advice.

Here are the ad blocks he has:

1. A 468×60 banner right below the header
2. A 300×250 banner within each post
3. 2 Project Wonderful 125×125 ads on the sidebar
4. 8 125×125 private ad blocks
5. A PepperJam ad block
6. A Chitika ad block below each post
7. An Entrecard ad block

On top of those, he also has Kontera text links embedded within the posts.

One of my pet peeves is seeing a site that’s set up by a newbie blogger trying to make money online in the “how to make money by blogging” niche and there are more ads than actual content that is worth reading.

Folks, that is a sure path to failure!

You’re better off setting up a blog in a different niche to learn the basics of how to monetize a blog. If you ask successful bloggers in the make money online niche, I can tell you that probably 99% of them make less than 10% of their income through the blog. They have other ways of making money besides the blog whether it’s PPC, their own products, courses, consulting, etc.

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