Four Ways to Monetize Your Website - Make Money Online

There are four excellent ways to monetize your website, and you can use all four at the same time.

One important method is of course using AdSense ads or similar programs that are available from Yahoo, MSN, and others. With these programs, you place script on your website, and AdSense spiders your site to find out what it is about. Then when it displays ads on your site it shows ads that are likely to be relevant to your visitors because it matches your pages content. Your visitors are far more likely to click on highly targeted ads than non- targeted ads.

Different advertisers pay different amounts for the ads depending on the subject matter. Some ads go for pennies, and some ads go for tens of dollars per click. If your subject material attracts lower paying ads, it could be worth looking into the second method of monetizing your site, pay per view ads. If you are making more than $1.00 per 1,000 page views, you might want to stick with pay per click ads.

I have a site where an ad agency is paying me 50 cents per 1000 page views for each of two ads on my pages. The ads must be above the fold and the ads cannot be the same size and shape. I use a banner ad across the top of the page, and a skyscraper ad on the right hand side of the page.

That leaves room for another Google AdSense ad on the right hand side below the CPM ad, and one banner ad across the bottom of the page. I make a dollar for every 1,000 page views, and I still make more money from clicks on the Google ads.

I also am a member of several affiliate programs, the third method of monetization. With the affiliate programs you place an ad on your site from the affiliate program you are a member of, and if someone clicks through to the advertiser's site and buys something you get a commission. There are lots of affiliate programs available. I joined Commission Junction, and I'm very happy with the selection of programs available.

Commission Junctions collects the money and pays you for any and all of the programs you join. They provide you with comprehensive stats and all kinds of support. If you are a webmaster you should at least check out their programs and see what's there.

The Fourth method of monetizing your site is called 5 second audio ads. The program is band new, in fact it's still in beta, but it is very interesting. When a visitor lands on your page, a 5 second long audio ad plays. Every time an audio ad plays you get paid. The ads will not play again for at least 3 minutes after your visitor hears one. After 3 minutes since the last ad played, the visitor can hear another if he refreshes the page or goes to a new page on your site.

The ads are very effective, since the visitor isn't off in the bathroom, or grabbing a snack as so often happens with radio and TV. Your visitor is not driving a car either. He is sitting in front of the computer waiting for a page to finish loading. His mind is receptive to the ad. It's actually a quite remarkable way to advertise.

You as a webmaster or publisher can also sign up other webmasters and publishers who want to run ads on their own sites. If you are the one that signs them up then you receive a commission on every ad that plays on their site. It can ad up to quite a bit of income if you get some decent sign ups.

The 5 second audio ads program is free to join so you don't risk anything. It doesn't even take up any real estate on your pages. It has no affect on any of your other advertising. And perhaps best of all, the visitor never leaves your site. It's like finding free money.

So now that you know how to monetize your website or blog, you can move on to promoting your site!
William Lund has been marketing online since 1998. Visit his Web Marketing and SEO website Lund One Marketing and SEO For more information about 5 second audio ads please visit: Pay-Per-Play Audio Ads Get paid for every visitor.

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How to get started in order to earn money on the Internet

The Internet marketing business has seen a high rise in the past few years.
There are many ways to use the Internet to earn money. There are thousands of sites that claim you can earn money very easily and you that all you need to do is join their site or buy their e-book. 
They place ridiculous claims that you can make huge amounts of money, several thousands dollars per month, some even go that far and say you can make thousands in a day. Don't get suckered into buying anything like that.  
A general rule of thumb is, if you see a page in which there's a lot of scrolling down that you can see, and there are  apparent "Testimonials" . 
The author is throwing out all kinds of lies to get you to buy his/her product. 
Don't make the mistake of buying such thing. Of course, there are a few rare exceptions, but you must be very careful when you're tempted to buy an e-book from the internet

What I'm going to present to you is a way to earn money without having to make an investment, i.e pay any fees. All you need is a computer and an Internetconnection.

A good idea is to create a new e-mail specifically for business purposes, since you wouldn't want your private e-mails and your business to mix. Since this is an online business you'll be getting a lot of emails.

First thing you need to do is to set up a web page. There are many free web page services.
Googlepages.com is a fairly decent and reliable free web page service, one good thing about it is that it doesn't include ads to you free web page. Many other free web page services put their own ads on your page.

Choose a simple layout for your web page.

Next, you're going to put some ads on your web page. Several web services pay you from the clicks you get from the ads you place. Google has a service named AdSense, which provides you with an ad or banner which you put on your page, and pays you pretty well for every click that is made on those ads by the viewers of the site. In order to make a significant amount of money from AdSense. In the future blog posts Adsense will be explained in detail. You're gonna need to have sime traffic on your site. Meaning a lot of people need to view that site.
More people/traffic = More money. Simple as that
Hopefully part of those people will click on the ads you placed thus your AdSenseincome will rise. That's why you need to optimize your site and your ads, so that the user doesn't ignore them. This will also be explained in the future posts. Everyone uses Adsense.. you might be asking why? Because it works! And they pay really good if you choose a rich keyword!



You're gonna have to try to get as many visitors as possible to your site. It would be good to optimize your site for the search engines, be smart when choosing your keywords.

Try to do some subtle advertising, which is in no means spam, but for example put your website as a signature in the forums you're a member of.

There are many sites that pay you money for clicking ads and for referringpeople to their site.
Bux.to is  one of the rare sites which does exactly what it claims, it pays you
 for the people you refer to them,  and they also pay for the ad clicks that you and your referrals make. So if you can get a good number of referrals you can make a good amount of money with this site.

The hardest thing is getting the referrals, and the views to your site. Start off by telling your friends to join the site, you will get a few referrals that way.
You can make a serious amount of money on Bux.to , so make sure you join it!
Submit your site to google on this site - Addurl. You have to wait for a weeks before your site gets listed. There are various link-exchange sites, in which you list you website, and they put that link in listing/directory, for
return you need to include their link on your site. But it's worth it.
Linkhelpers is such a site.

This sums up some honest information about the opportunity to make money online. Is it possible do make money online? Yes.. it sure is. But like any other job, it takes a lot of effort and learning in order to get started. A lot of mistakes are going to be made so don't get discouraged. Remember, it's not how many times you get knocked down that matters, but what matters is how many times you get back up.
Most probably you won't make 10 000$ in the first month, probably not even close to that number but if you work hard, you might achieve that number eventually .
The information provided here will help you start making money online, without making an investment or paying a fee. I like to share my knowledge with you, not sell it on e-books like most of the people.

So what are you waiting for? Start earning some money!

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