How to Make Money With Your Website
Getting Started
Are you a webmaster and don't know how to make a profit with
your website? Or do you want to create a site but don't know how
to get started?
If you fit in the latter, here's a few suggestions:
- Choose a topic for your site. Preferably, you should choose a
topic that you are familiar with and that you enjoy. The worst
thing you can do is choose a topic you are not comfortable with
and your site will suffer. So, if you are an avid fisher, why
not create a site about fishing? If you love music, create a
music site.
- Choose a reliable host. There are tons to choose from. We
suggest that you do your research, and remember, Google is your
friend. Be sure to Google every hosting company you are
considering. Read what others have to say about them. You might
even find good deals in the process.
- When choosing a host, be sure to buy the correct hosting
package. Importantly, monthly bandwidth and diskspace. For small
sites, it's safe to purchase a package with 5-10 gigabytes worth
of monthly bandwidth. Similarly, be sure the hosting package
provides enough disk space for your site to grow and expand. 200
megabytes of space should be sufficient for small sites.
- The key to any successful site is content. Try provide
original and interesting content that people would actually need
and/or read. Copying and pasting content from another source
doesn't cut it, and you could be infringing copyright laws. Be
creative.
How Do I Make Money?
After your site has been developed, it's time to make some
money. There are various ways of doing so. The most common ways
are through direct sales and advertising.
If you have something to sell that is related to your site's
topic, sell it on your site! For example, if you have a fishing
site, why not sell fishing poles, bait, or hooks?
But what if you have nothing to sell? Then why not sell
yourself! If you have a skill that you can provide to others,
why not offer it? If your site is about webdesign, why not offer
a service where you design sites for customers? If you have a
knitting site and can knit yourself, why not offer knitting
services?
What if you have don't have merchandise or a service to sell?
Then the most popular method of generating a profit through your
website is by selling advertising space. There are several
affiliate programs that will "buy" space on your site for you to
display banners in various sizes. Most of these companies pay
monthly and are a good source of steady income. Below are a list
of recommended affiliate programs.
Sign Up with Affiliate Programs
Below are a list of recommended advertising affiliate companies
to join. Most require a site with decent content and a top level
domain. Be sure to read each companies Terms of Service and
Frequent Asked Questions (FAQs) for further details.
PayPopUp.com : PayPopUp is
one of the smaller but very reliable ad agencies. They offer
standard size (468x60) and leaderboard (728x90) banners. Not
only that, they offer layer ads, popups/popunders, and
interstitials. To top it off, they pay for raw impressions!
Casalemedia.com :
Casalemedia offers one of the highest quality popup and banner
ads. They support leaderboards (728x90), skyscrapers (120x600)
and medium rectangles ( 300x250). They offer great rates and
even provide real time statistics.
MammaMediaSolutions.com
: MammaMedia is another fantastic ad agency. They offer
CPM and CPC campaigns. They support skyscrapers (120x600),
standard (468x60), and leaderboards banners (728x90).
Similiarly, popup and interstitials campaigns are available.
Google Adsense :
Google Adsense is the premier CPC program. Look no further than
Google. They support every banner size imaginable.