How to make money from your website
June 17th, 2005 at 3:18 pm
No matter what your website is about you probably wouldn’t mind if it made you some money. You don’t have your own product to sell? No problem, you have many other options for making some extra money with your website. All you have to do is to fill your empty space with a few ads and attract a decent amount of visitors.
Advertising
If you can’t find your own advertising there are plenty of good programs out there which will put ads on your website. Of course you do give up a cut of the revenue earned to them. Most of them are very easy to setup and use. Programs like Google Adsense (already running here), Fastclick, Blog ads will serve your website with banner or text ads.
Affiliate programs
Affiliate programs are another popular way to earn some extra money with your website. In this programs you link to various products or services pages. If people follow your links and purchase something then you get a small commission. There are thousands different programs out there. Some pay a percentage of income generated from those being referred from your site, others pay on a per click basis, others pay for leads. On of the most respected and popular affiliate programs is Amazon Associates. You can also look at programs like Commission junction, LinkShare, AffiliateSensor and many others.
Begging for money
Not actually begging with but asking your visitors (readers) for donations. The most popular ‘begging tip jar’ is PayPal.
There are many other different approaches, how to earn extra money with your website, that you might want to check out. So, if you already have a website, why wait, start earning now.
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