Six Ways to Monetize Your Website

Doug Williams @ 5:23 am

This blog entry was posted on April 28, 2009.

If you have a blog or an informational website, how can you turn your website traffic into a stream of income? How can you work from home and earn an income from the Internet? The web today has many opportunities for the entrepreneur.

Google Adsense: Sign up for an Adsense account and place Google ads on your website. These are context relevant search engine ads where you are paid every time someone clicks on one of the ads.
Text Link Ads: This is a controversial tactic, selling text links for link popularity, but perfectly acceptable if “no-follow” tags are added. Once your blog has a decent PageRank, sell one-way text links to webmasters who have niche relevant websites.
Video: Thenewsroom.com allows you to find and embed videos on your website. When video news content with an advertisement is played by your viewers, you’ll earn a flat-rate CPM (cost per thousand plays).
Affiliate Programs: Be a middle man! Receive a commission every time one of your readers ends up buying. This includes companies like Amazon.
Blog Writing: Contract to write postings on your own blog. This can include product reviews and postings with links to sponsored websites. You can get writing assignments from services such as PayperPost, Review Me and LoudLaunch.
Ghost Writing: Take writing assignments for businesses that don’t have the time or skills to write their own basic blog content. Here you will write for their blog

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I run a local, very niche website for Portland public transportation. I use both Google Adsense and Text Link Ads to generate revenue.

While I don’t bring in tons of traffic (simply because there isn’t a lot of traffic there anyway), I do make enough to cover my hosting month-to-month from TLA; Google Adsense makes me around $1 – 2 a month. And you need to make at least $100 for Google to cut you a check.

Affiliate programs are interesting… and something I would really recommend. From my standpoint, really the only affiliate marketing opportunity I have is to get people to buy Portland public transportation fare (which I’ve contacted TriMet and been notified they currently do not and will not ever do).

Comment by Christian — April 28, 2009 @ 10:49 am
Now i am looking for make the money through online I think this is very helpful to me .Thanks

Comment by SEO India — April 29, 2009 @ 4:22 am
Hi Doug,
it’s very easy to start up a web site running Adsense, but quite another story getting the site to rank well enough in SERPS to gain any traffic or exposure.

Many advertisers have caught on to arbitrage, as a method used by marketers, to make money from their clicks. They can select to not have their ads displayed on content pages, & keep the clicks for the SERPS. If one could manage to gain some traffic, have a decent niche, however; it would certainly pay off.

I believe their is another proviso, in that if one runs Adsense, I don’t believe Google would allow you to run competing ads from other advertisers; so I’m not sure if having Adsense + Amazon Affiliate would work.

Interesting article nonetheless. Some good information, thanks.

Comment by Self Catering — April 29, 2009 @ 6:35 pm
Doug, great ideas. I noticed you didn’t include email marketing, though. Here is a great post about how to boost your readership by converting your RSS to email. (In turn, making you money!)

http://www.aweber.com/blog-newsletters.htm

For $20 a month it’s definitely worth it.

Comment by Greg Jones — September 14, 2009 @ 10:00 am

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