Summary: Making a little money from your website isn't all that hard, however making lots of money requires a lot of hard work.
Using a website to make money, even if only to support itself, is not an uncommon desire. Here's the original question:
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I want to have my own website, effectively doing it for free by hosting ads. What kinds of ads will support paying for my website? |
Making money on your website is actually pretty easy.
However making lots of money requires work.
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There are many, many programs for website advertising. One of the easiest and now one of the most common is Google's Adsense. Adsense, and its companion program Adwords (for advertisers), are the plain-text ads you see on many websites. The giveaway? The phrase "Ads by Goooooogle" above or below the block of ads.
Adsense is easy to sign up for, and once approved will display ads targeted to the page that the ads are displayed on. Adsense is a PPC or "Pay Per Click" system - meaning that the site displaying ads gets paid when a visitor clicks on one of the ads. The actual amount paid varies based on many factors.
There are other approaches including affiliate programs allowing you to advertise and sell items on your site, making a percentage of each sale. Amazon and eBay both have programs as do many other retailers - the keywords to look for in investigating these sites is an "affiliate" or "associate" program.
One caution: advertising and affiliate programs are all well and good, but there's really a bigger issue that prevents most websites from really making a lot of money: traffic. All the advertising in the world is pointless if no one visits your site and if no one sees the ads or buys the products. Traffic generation is well beyond the scope of this article, but there are lots of resources on the internet that can help.
Related:
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Don Crowther - Pay Per Click Money Machine
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Google - AdSense
Article C2281 - February 13, 2005
I recomment you should add unique and usefull content to your website, monetize it, make at least some basic SEO in the begining, and try to improve it day by day. Making money online is not just a simple one day job. For the SEO I recommend you to take care about on page SEO(metas, keyworts, titles, h1, ect) and fot the off page SEO I recommend you to start submitting to as much directories as you can. Free and paid ( I recommend http://www.weblinksdirectory.net ), article submission, press release, social networking sites, and why not AdWords.
Hope I gave you some starting points!
Posted by: Josh at June 21, 2008 11:52 AMThanks,
Josh
As the others said, directory submission is still important but be careful how you choose your directories. Also paying for links may prove to be worse than getting them free. For this reason I recommend a PR5 free directory www.prolinkdirectory.com
Posted by: Paul Martin at July 2, 2008 9:06 AMHi can someone please tell me how i go about making money on my wesite i am making a web site for my seriously ill daughter to raise funds to take her to the USA to get her seen by a doctor she is under great ormond street in the UK and they dont know what is wrong with her and we are at are wits end seeing her get worse day by day and want to get her seen by the best but that takes money and me and my wife cannont work due to having 4 children who all have special needs so i am trying every avenue to make the money to take her please can anyone help??????????????
Posted by: Tom Baker at July 13, 2008 5:23 AMcan u plz tell me that can i also get paid for the time that the visitor spend on my website
Posted by: anurag at September 3, 2008 4:34 AMI had a blog with ads but to generate more money with it is the problem. Pls send web directories address to my email because am working on a new webpage so i can submit my blog and the new webpage to free web directories. Thanks for your articles.
Posted by: Femi at October 2, 2008 10:08 AMJoel Comm really telling everything in that book. but I still find that everything you need to success in Adsense is SEO.
Posted by: Norhafidz at October 14, 2008 2:04 PMThis is a good question
Posted by: Aki at November 2, 2008 3:18 PMThere is this little thing which i am using
Here is the link, try it out, it may work for you
http://www.yavrim.com/check/
which is best ,affiliate programs or adsense
Posted by: francis at November 7, 2008 3:55 AMMaybe you could try pay-per-play it works for me. They pay me to put a 5 second audio advertise (free) on my website.
http://www.sellingppp.com/a.cgi?ppp=1233112577
Posted by: Gaston at January 14, 2009 8:30 PM16-Jan-2009