Using a Website to Make Money

If you want a website to make money there are many options available.

We will presume that you already have a website, if not checkout our other pages on building a competitive web business and generating web traffic.

How do websites make money without directly selling a product? Advertising
 
The type of ways you can make money from a website should be related to your website model.

This means only advertising products which are inline with the subject or theme of your site.

If you want a website to make money be smart with your advertising - think like a visitor

It never ceases to amaze the number of very good sites that are getting a lot of traffic but advertise products totally unrelated to the subject of the site.
 
Next we have sites that actually compete against themselves, imagine if we have a website selling gardening equipment directly and we add Google Adsense, how much revenue is being lost due to people clicking out of the site and instead of getting a possible sales worth, say £100 we get a click worth 20p, now do the math if our profit on the sale is £35 that means we would need 175 clicks to break even, so how likely would it be to get more than 1 sale per every 175 clicks?

This also confirms that profits are being made after paying Adword fees

If your site sells a product, sell yours and not someone else's, your time could be far more rewarding financially if spent learning marketing and building up the reputation and name of your site and products.

Tools such as Google Adwords and getting other people to come to your site or actually sell your products.
 
If your website is information based the advertising world is your oyster when it comes to choosing which revenue stream.
 
There are two main choices pay per click such as Google Adsense where you get paid when someone clicks on one of your ads this can range from a few cents to dollars, but is generally around the 25 cent mark.

The next type is sale based, if someone clicks on a site ad you get nothing until they actually buy something, due to this model the payout per sale is usually much more than getting paid per click.

Getting paid per click is offered by Google Adsense – all you need to do is register with them to setup an account, and if your site is deemed suitable, most are you will be accepted, then you simply need to follow there prompts to create your ad code – once you have this its easy to copy and paste to every page – the ad itself is considered a smart ad as it only puts relevant ads on your site inline with the content of the page and generally this works very well.

Getting paid per sale is offered by thousands of companies, many of them go through sites such as linkshare or click bank, register with them and you will see literally thousands of companies that you can sell products for. Some of the larger online companies have there own affiliate sales program, these companies include Amazon and eBay, but many more can be found simply by looking for the type of product you wish to sell Google or Yahoo and then look for there affiliate program, you really will be surprised by the amount of companies that offer this.

In my personal experience I have found Google Adsense to be the best way for my website to make money, but affiliate programs such as click bank also provide a nice income.

Speak to any webmaster and you will see that different types of advertising work better on some sites than other, the best advice I can give is do not simply make the whole page one big advert, give value to the page, this way people will return time and time again.

Do not get too caught up with a single revenue stream, try a few and see what works for your website and make the most of it, remember above all your website needs to offer value and not just a sales page otherwise you might get the odd sale of click, but as for site longevity it will forget it.

Having a good content site is a win win win situation – not only will people find it interesting and rewarding, but they are more likely to pass the word around and purchase items and click on your ads.

Not only this, but having good quality content on your pages will get you ranked higher in the search engines, this then means more visitors – more clicks – more sales and more revenue.

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