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Weekly report: Monetizing my blog + Social Media #5

This week we focused on staying on budget. I also applied and was accepted to an affiliate program which I'm very excited about!

I'm looking up a lot of information on affiliate marketing and best practices. Some of the info I've learned is how to market the products on Pinterest. I plan on doing most of the affiliate marketing on there, and maybe sprinkle some cool products on twitter and the blog.

Right now I am using ShareASale to find affiliate links to try and make money. My strategy is to find programs that will help people get out of debt. So far I am doing affiliate stuff for a Cashback website called DollarDig (https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=569535&u=2292638&m=51865&urllink=&afftrack= ) and a discount jewelry store called Balla. (https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=785753&u=2292638&m=52317&urllink=&afftrack=)

For those of you interested, the way I can make money with these company's is if you click on the links and register to DollarDig, then i get paid when a person registers. If you click on the link for Balla and you purchase something, I get paid for that. Easier said then done.

This February I will be on my fifth month of blogging! On month six of having the blog is when Adsense lets you put ads on the blog. I'm still up in the air on putting uncontrolled ads on the blog. I want to put products that will help people get out of debt, not get more into it.

I also follow a lot of people on twitter who use Mediavine for ad management, but there criteria is a bit higher then Adsense. They want the MPN to be 25k for sessions and mine is almost at 100 a month. Maybe that can be a goal to try and reach that, and if i'm not happy with Adsense (if i choose to do ads) then I can switch.

The plan for this month is to pay off debt on our Pay Day. This time of year is when we have a lot more money coming in because of incentives at work and tax season. I think that paying debt on Pay day controls how much we're paying. We still need to pay off the dentist bills and then we are on to the big credit card.

What are your views on ads on websites? Do you think they are worth it, or are they just annoying? Tweet me @DitchinDebt or comment down bellow!

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