Show me the Money - Making Money with a Website

Making money with a website can be very profitable with little investment from yourself. As you can make money from affiliate marketing, blogging, selling products and services and advertising.

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There are lots of ways to make money with a website, but how do you make more money from your website?  That is the question

Advertising using Google Adsense

Google adsense is the most popular online advertising used.  This type of advertising relies on traffic from the website and the click-through rate (CTR) and also cost per click (CPC). The CTR depends on the set up and design of your website. Where your ads are located, but the CPC works on the topic or subject of your website.

Traffic that is from search engines perform best as these people are searching for something in particular, and these people tend to click on ads. Though social media have low CTRs because these visitors just ignore or don't click on the ads.

Please check out other advertising networks such as yahoo.  As its always good to use a variety of advertising.

CPM Advertising

When using CPM advertising  you get paid for the number of times your page has been viewed (impressions).

CPM rates are different per advertiser, the location of the ad on your website and the design of the website.  The better the network, the higher the CPM rate.   Putting your ad at the top of the page, the bigger the ad, the higher CPM.  Some of the CPM advertising companies are casale media, value click and burst media.

Find Advertises to Advertise on your website

There are a few different options that you should consider.  Do you want to sell banner ads or do you want to stick with text links? Banner ads are the animated banners you see on websites and text links are simply a link from your website to the advertisers website.

Simply place the banner or text link on your website and generally charge per month for that It's a common practice to offer a discount to anyone that prepays for advertising on your space such as 6 month or annual commitments.  Check out Text-Link-Ads, TNX and Linkworth

Affiliate Marketing

Is a very popular way of advertising. As many bloggers are websites are eager to find revenue streams to receive money from your blog or website.  Once your blog or website is established and receiving traffic, you may want to begin researching affiliate programs that could allow your blog to put money in your pocket.

With affliliate marketing you have a company that is willing to let other people its merchandise and services for a commission  This is also called CPA (cost per action) or CPL (cost per lead).

Affiliates can send interested customers to the company using banners to text links and product reviews.

Check out companies like Dreamhost and SEOBook, or join affiliate marketplaces and networks.

Also look to clickbank, azoogle ad and link share

Monetization Widgets

The big thing on the web are widgets.   Examples include Widgetbucks and SmartLinks. Some of these services have a PPC scheme, text link ads, and affiliate links.

Check out widgetbucks, scratchback and smartlink

Sponsored Reviews

PayPerPost are the masters of this.  Soon other companies followed,  Sponsored Reviews and ReviewMe.
Joining one of these sponsored reviews give you the opportunity to write sponsored posts. 

If your blog has a large fan base, you could also offer sponsored reviews directly.   This would be nice.

List of sponsored reviews and paid blogging networks are payperpost, sponsored reviews and review me.

RSS Feeds

Some blogs are also opting to sell banners or sponsored messages on their feed directly.

Donations

Placing a “Donate” link or button on a website can be an another way to earn money, especially if your blog is on a specialist topic where readers can learn and gain value from your content.

In-text Adverting

In-text adverting networks like Kontera and Vibrant Media will place sponsored links inside your text. These links come with a double underline to separate them from normal links, and once the reader goes over the mouse on the link the advertising will comes up.

Pop-ups and Pop-unders

Pop-ups are a common yet annoying form of advertising on the Internet. If you are just trying to make a much money as possible from your website, definately give them a go.

Ad networks that use pop-ups are tribal fusion, paypopus and adversal

These are just some of the ways to make money from your website and the list just keeps growing.