If you made it this far on the website you must be serious about making money online.
Below is a list of popular money making opportunities you need to consider adding to your website.
Affiliate_Programs
Pay_Per_Click_Programs
Private_Advertising
Sponsored_Reviews
Premium_Content
Affiliates refer their visitors to various company websites, and when a sale is made earn a commission. Most affiliate programs are free to join. It's as simple as filling out a form however; you need an active website or blog. Some of these programs will also have traffic requirements for a certain number of monthly unique visitors. They also often have quality and topic requirements. The idea is to build a site that is rich in content or an informative blog about the products and attach links from your site to the products.
There are many affiliate marketing programs to choose from. You can sign up with more than one. For your convenience I listed a few of the better affiliate programs available in one list. When it comes to commissions, brands and promotional tools these programs are fantastic. Become an affiliate and start making money today!
Pay per Click Programs
Pay per Click programs are Internet advertising programs which companies pay to have their ads displayed on search engines results for keyword searches. Companies typically bid on the amount they are willing to pay per click. There are also pay per click programs where companies place advertisements over relevant websites on the Internet. As a publisher you place ads that match your site's content and audience. Depending on the type of ad you earn money from clicks. The profitability of the ads depends on factors such as website traffic, the click-through rate and cost per click. Natural search engine traffic tends to perform better since these visitors are already searching for something using your keywords. Google AdSense is the most popular but there are many others.
Cost per Mille or CPM advertising networks behave just like Pay per Click networks except a publisher gets compensated based on the number of page views. Page views are also called impressions. If your website has 50,000 page views each month displaying an advertisement with a $1 CPM would earn $50.00 for that ad. Rates vary by network, format and placement of the advertisements. Below is a list of popular CPM networks.
Burst Media
Value Click
Private Advertising
Selling advertising space on your website is another way to monetize your site by using traffic that already exists. The number of visitors your website gets each month will directly affect how many advertisers you have to choose from and how much those advertisers are willing to pay for advertising space. One method is selling space is to seek out advertisers yourself.
Ask for advertisers on your site by placing an ad on your site letting visitors know you are selling space. It is also a good idea to create a page that clearly identifies what you are selling and why an advertiser would find value in purchasing space on your site. By doing this you avoid having to pay commission to anyone else. This also gives you the flexibility of directly building relationships with the advertisers.
Try using an ad management program such as OIOPublisher. This ad platform gives you control over your advertising while automating sales for you. It manages advertising on your blog or website and lets you keep 100% of the money you make.
Also consider using online auction sites to sell your advertising space. These sites allow you to buy and sell ads through a bidding process. Adspace-auctions, Bidtopia and eBid are auction sites you can use to sell your ad space.
Another method is to use a third party that brings website owners and advertisers together. These sites sell advertising space for you. They work with your advertisers, create the ads and manage payments. This allows you to concentrate on building traffic to your website because you do not have to deal with any of the administrative work of selling or management. BuySellAds.com helps small to medium sized website publishers do just that. This can be especially helpful if you are running more than one site.
Sponsored Reviews
Sponsored reviews are articles you write about various products. Essentially you review different products and services for companies and post your review on your website or blog. Each company you provide a review for will have certain requirements such as article length, sponsor disclosure or link information. Compensation can range from just a few dollars to thousands of dollars for the most popular blogs. Smaller websites and blogs can still earn respectable income writing sponsored reviews especially if you have a niche site. Don't recommend products you don't like or that are not related to your site or you will end up alienating you visitors.
If most of your traffic is generated from organic searches you need to consider how search engines view sponsored reviews. Google views these as paid text link advertising because the reviews include a paid link back to the advertiser's website. The advertiser's inbound links are artificially increased. These links increase the page rank and increase the site ranking in keyword searches. Google doesn't like paid links because these links give the advertiser an unfair increase in page rank. In the worst case Google could penalize the advertiser and you.
In order to stay within Google's quality guidelines make sure you disclose paid links with rel="nofollow" attribute to the <a> tag or redirect the links to an intermediate page that blocks search engine robots. Only accept offers from products in a related niche and label sponsored reviews as such. Sponsored reviews can be a good source of income if managed properly.
If you are interested in getting paid to write reviews you will find that SponsoredReviews.com has advertisers willing to pay you for honest reviews of their sites. The nice thing about this site is you set your own price and are compensated bi-weekly. Your constructive criticism is not only appreciated, it is expected.
Premium Content
Some websites charge for access to the premium content or tools. Membership sites offer website operators a steady income by charging a subscription fee from members to access information in a password protected area on the site. You can offer exclusive information or a service. A good example is SEOmoz. This site provides advice on a variety of SEO topics and charges a monthly fee for premium articles and tools.
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