Blog for money – Ezoic is one of the best ad networks for new bloggers who want to monetize their blog early and grow it with some monetary motivation. We all know blogging is different for everyone.

There are bloggers who want to grow their blog with an aim of selling it later for a profit, some want to create a blog and make it a full time job down the line.

Blog for Money with Ezoic the Best AdSense Alternative

So whichever case, having some monetization models set up on your blog is a great advantage when submitting it for sale and if you want to blog for money then obviously it is a plus for you.

So without much talking let us get into our ezoic review and updates as they have good news for new and growing bloggers who do not have lots of traffic.

Guess what! Even with less than the initial ezoic 10,000 monthly sessions and Google AdSense monetization requirements, you are now able to get your site approved and start earning from your blog. Isn’t that cool?

Ezoic Monetization Requirements

Ezoic in the past had requirements of Google AdSenseapproval and 10,000 monthly sessions for sites approval into their program. But recently, they have eliminated the pageviews limits and now you are able to apply via Ezoic Access Now where you will be able to access free tools.

However to access the various features now that the pageviews limits are removed, you will have to take some courses in order for you to gain certification and unlock the features.

You can think of this as a self-serve onboarding service because you get to be the determinant of whether you are eligible for approval or not through the courses. They are basic courses on how the platform works and of course they major on ads integration.

How to successfully pass the ezoic self-serve onboarding for your site

1. Firstly you need to go to Ezoic Access Now

2. Sign up by use of your email

3. Complete cloud integration for your site through name servers(recommended), Cloudflare or WordPress plugin. This will enable ezoic to review your site to ensure that it complies with their ad policies.

If you already are approved by Google AdSense you do not have to worry about this as the policies are same since ezoic is a certified publishing partner of Google.

In the past it has been an easy way if you had already approved your site with Google AdSense but under the new terms, you can use ezoic without depending on AdSense approval which makes it necessary for the review.

So if you have not been lucky to gain Google AdSense approval, you need not worry about a thing.

4. After cloud integration, now you have to take prep courses on integration for you to learn what is required for the ultimate ezoic tests. The courses are offered on teachable where you just watch and learn.

There you will learn the required knowledge to unlock the features you need be it site speed or monetization. You have to attain at least 75%+ in order to unlock the various features.

If by any chance you fail to pass the prep course, you can try again under the following conditions:-

• If you scored above 65% but did not make it to 75% you will need to wait for 12 hours to take another attempt
• If you did not manage to score above 65%, you will need to wait for 24 hours before attempting again

FAQ

What is ezoic?

Ezoic is basically an ad network for publishers just like Google AdSense, mediavine,media.net, monumetric and adthrive. It provides publishers with display ads which they are able to generate ad revenue from their site traffic.

Is ezoic better than AdSense?

As per publishers’ testimonials, ezoic is in a way better than AdSense. Well this depends on your site traffic quality.

Regardless of the quantity of your site traffic, if it does not come from the targeted geographic location by advertisers, then in a way it may be considered low quality traffic.

I know it may sound confusing but look at it this way, this comparison to many bloggers involves the earnings aspect.

In other words which of the two ad networks pays more, so what I mean is if you have been monetizing your site with any ad network you might have noticed that clicks from the US earn you more compared to clicks from other countries like India.

So think of a site which receives 10,000 monthly visits from US and UK compared to one that gets 25,000 monthly visits from African countries and India, you will find that they almost earn the same or differ with a small percentage.

What I would recommend is working on getting traffic that is considered high quality by ad networks if you are really focused on earning good money with ads.

How much does ezoic cost?

Ezoic is free to use.  It pays for itself there are no contracts or out-of-pocket costs of any kind not unless you wish to upgrade to their premium program which is completely optional.

How much can you make with ezoic?

The short answer to that is it all depends on your traffic levels. Not only with ezoic but with every other form of blog monetization, traffic is a major factor.

If you have no traffic then that means nobody will click on your ads and no impressions will be generated as well. So work on your traffic for the best results.

Ezoic payment methods

Ezoic just like Google AdSense, it has a net-30 day schedule for payments. You can add your credit card, payoneer or paypal as your payment method from your ezoic profile under payment settings.

What is Ezoic leap

Ezoic leap review overview

Ezoic leap is a feature that replaced the initial site speed accelerator feature. It helps with site speed optimization to improve your site core web vitals.

The greatest thing about the Ezoic leap tool is that it is completely free for every approved Ezoic monetization users and free for pageviews without ads upto 500,000 pageviews, as opposed to the previous Ezoic site speed accelerator which had partial free features and a paid version.

It allows publishers to analyze their sites and understand the actions required to improve the complex performance issues affecting their sites.

These issues vary from site to site so I think Ezoic is doing a great job as you are able to take action on what really is affecting your site personally rather than taking recommendations from other publishers who may be running a totally different site from yours.

If in case you did not know, the main reason behind a large percentage of blogs failing is attributed to the publishers lacking knowledge and understanding on what actions need to be taken in order to pass the google UX (user experience) test with better core web vitals scores and prove the metrics.

Ezoic Leap Features

The Ezoic leap tool has the below features:-

• Overview
• Core Vitals
• Optimization Settings
• Technologies
• Ezoic Lab
• Leaderboard

Now let us see what each ezoic leap feature entails below

1. Overview

As the name suggests, this is more like a glance at how your website is performing in terms of speed optimization and general performance in light of the core web vitals. Learn how to reduce loading page time.

You are provided with recommendations available to improve your site if it is not in its best performance state. Here you generally see a summary of how your website is performing.

2. Core Vitals

The Core Vitals provides guidance for quality signals necessary to offer great user experience. These core vitals apply to all web pages and each of them represents a distinct aspect of the user experience.

However, the metrics are not standard and may change over time so as a publisher you need to stay updated. Below are the main aspects of the Core Vitals:-

• Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)

This is used to measure the loading performance. You will get the measure of the time it takes for your first page to start loading.

• First Input Delay (FID)

Used to measure interactivity

• Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)

Used to measure visual stability

3. Optimization Settings

Here you will find the actual settings you need to tweak to optimize your site. Below are the main areas you are able to modify within the optimization settings to optimize your site:-

• CSS

Here you get to optimize the stylesheets loading and fonts as well.

• Images

Helps you optimize the loading, serving and sizing of images.

• Static and Cache Policy

This helps you to Cache static assets across your entire web pages.

• Pre-Connect

Helps speed up delivery of assets when requested from other domains.

• Minify

This helps optimize by removing unnecessary attributes that are not useful to the files execution.

• Script Execution

Helps optimize the execution and loading of ads and scripts.

• Content

Helps you optimize the loading of iframes.

Under the optimization settings tab, you are also able to clear your sites cache. This helps update your site to display any new updates.

4. Technologies

Under technologies, you are be able to scan your website and see what is doing best for you and what is slowing down your site as well.

The great thing is that if you have technologies active that are affecting your site negatively, ezoic leap will provide you with better alternatives for the technologies affecting your site thus helping you improve your website for the best performance.

5. Ezoic Lab

Under the ezoic lab is where you are able to perform analysis on your website to see its performance in terms of the core vitals and speed. Ezoic leap has really done a great job as you now get to access all you need in one place.

The results will be generated both for mobile and desktop performance so you are able to know what to work on to improve. How cool is that!

6. Leaderboard

With Ezoic leap you are able to see your core web vital score on mobile and desktop and also you have access to a leader board where you can analyze all you need to do.

From the leader board you are allowed to do so much more like:-

• Ability to see other sites and how fast they are alongside their leap optimization settings which you can implement on your site if you like how they are performing for the other site. This will save you a lot as you will not have to do the hard work of trial and error looking for what to turn on and off for your site to be optimized properly.
• See what technologies other sites are using from their hosts, CDN, CMS, theme, plugins and scripts among many more things that could be in a way impacting or improving site speed hence making it easier for you to know what might work for you.

This way you are able to know what is slowing down your site and gather the necessary recommendations required to improve your site speed.

Ads served through ezoic cloud and leap

When you integrate your site with ezoic cloud and leap, ads get delivered along with the entire page to ensure that Core Web Vitals are passed which is essential for search engine optimization.

Save with Ezoic Leap

It will save you so much because many people spend a lot of money paying experts to help with site speed optimization, your Ezoic manager will help with all that for free and trust me you won’t regret it since they are dedicated to working on improving your site for the best.

It will also save you the time you could have spend wondering on how to go about speeding up your site thus more time for content creation and promotion.

Ezoic is one of the ad networks that is always improving major factors and this is among the biggest features they have come up with not to mention the big data analytics where you can get to break down every detail on your site and get the proper insights on what decisions and actions to take.

How I got approved into Ezoic in my second month (Steps)

Starting a blog for money requires attention to the blog setup and content. Below is a process that I use which I believe will help you with your ezoic application.

1. Content creation

My aim from the start was getting the site into ezoic, so with the experience I got while trying to monetize the previous blogs, I knew that in order to increase my approval chances I had to come up with great unique content.

So I wrote 17 blog posts with at least 1,000 words each.

2. Started the blog

Now after creating my content for the site, I went ahead to create and set up the site. With that amount of posts written beforehand, it made it a bit easier for me to manage and run the blog since my schedule was to post twice a week.

I went ahead and purchased the domain and hosted my blog on blogger.

However, I was a bit skeptical about approval since many informational content online highly advocate for self-hosted site for approval but I found out that it was all a lie.

I always believed content is all that matters, it doesn’t matter where you are hosting all that counts is the value you are offering and actually achieving your blogging goals.

3. Blog promotion

After starting the blog, I fully customized the blog to my level best and scheduled my content to publish every Sunday and Wednesday. That covered some few weeks ahead so I did not have to worry about rushing to create content to update the blog.

Now I had good time for promoting the blog and getting it in front of my target audience. I went ahead and created a pinterest business account for the blog and created pins for all the posts on canva.

At least 5 pins per post and for the same, I used the free pinterest scheduler to automate the pin publishing. It allows upto a maximum of 30 pins but it is better than having to pin manually when you can utilize it.

This was at least 3 pins per day. So the rest of the work now was promoting as much as I could on other social media like Facebook groups.

4. Ezoic application

After the posts were already published and live on site, I went ahead to apply for the ezoic access now program. I integrated the site via name servers and took the pre-courses.

I waited for the 10 business days ezoic gave me for policy review and lucky enough, before the 10 days were over, I was able to access the main monetization and site speed courses.

Those are the main courses which by gaining certification, you get to unlock your ezoic monetization and site speed features. It all depends on what you really want, if you only want the monetization feature, it is totally okay you can go for that and vice versa.

It is not a must to take all the courses. However, you will need to achieve at least 75% to unlock the features. To my surprise, I found that the tests were not so hard actually all was covered in the pre-courses.

I got the pass in both monetization and site speed in my first attempt and I believe if I did it anyone out there can do it as well. More ways how bloggers make money.

Conclusion

We have come to the end of the post “Blog for Money with Ezoic the Best AdSense Alternative”. I hope you found it useful and that it gave you some insight on how to go about monetizing your blog with ezoic.

If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free to get in touch in the comments section below I will be more than happy to hear from you and be of help.

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