Other than selling products from your website, the ways to make money off your site are: - Selling Ads (best method)
- Affiliates
- Donations
Sellings Ads There are many different ad selling hosts, but the best by far is Google Adsense. Adsense is extremely easy and best of all, it's completely FREE. What Adsense does is allows advertisers to bid for slots to display their products and services on your website. Anytime a visitor on your website clicks (or in some cases just sees it) on an ad you get paied by that advertiser through Google. The best part about Adsense, is that it searches your site for content and key words to use in the ads, thus maximizing your profit potential. The MOST important fact about maximizing the potential for visitors to click on one of your ads is: LOCATION. Make sure your ads are in easily viewable and appealing spots, or people won't see them. Note About Adsense - Make sure you read all the terms of use before you start, so as to make sure you don't violate anything and get your account banned. Some quick reminders about Google Adsense: - You can't have more than 3 ads per page
- You can't have a donations button on the same page as the ads
- DO NOT: ever tell anyone or hint to clicking on your ads
- Don't click on your own ads
Affiliates Affiliates are like ads but harder to work with and usually less profitable than ads. What an affiliate does is give you a button or ad for their website to put on yours. When a visitor clicks on it and subscribes to their program or service, after being reffered to from your website, you gain a percent of the commission or a profit. For instance, for every subscriber to SiteBuildit you reffer, they will give you $75.
Donations Pretty straightforward. You can place a donation button on your website to give your users an option to send you a donation. Usually it is done through PayPal. Generally donations aren't used alongside ads and are used to just maintain the website.
No matter which method you use, the best way to maximize your revenue is by Getting More Traffic
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