Ways to Monetize Your Web Site
Posted on 07. Apr, 2009 by Julius.
Monetization seems very important to everyone running a web site. With the Internet growing at an ever increasing speed, the ways to make money through a homepage are also growing in number.
In this article I will outline the several different options you have when deciding on how to monetize your web site.
This table lists the most common ways to make money off your web site. If you want to know more about the specific method, then just click on the link and it will explain it for you.
| Services | Description | Referral* |
|---|---|---|
| Pay Per Click Advertising | ||
| Google Adsense | Google’s advertisement network, easy to set up | No |
| TTZ Media | John Chow’s advertisement network | No |
| Kontera | Kontera mostly serves In-Text contextual advertising | No |
| Yahoo! PN | Yahoo’s advertisement network | No |
| Chitika | Full-service on-line advertising network | Yes |
| AdBrite | Ad Marketplace serving lots of different ad formats | Yes |
| Clickbooth | CPA and Affiliate Network | Yes |
| Clicksor | Offers inline text links and targeted contextual ads | Yes |
| Bidvertiser | Lets advertisers bid against each other | Yes |
| Paid Reviews | ||
| Sponsored Reviews | Earn cash by writing honest reviews about products | No |
| RevResponse | Advertisement network with lots of different ad formats | Yes |
| Social Spark | Blog marketing network, make money through reviews | No |
| PayPerPost | Claims you can easily make around $500 per month | Yes |
| BuyBlogReviews | Another network that pays you for writing reviews | No |
| ReviewMe | Get paid to review products and services on your site | No |
| Banner Advertising | ||
| PerformancingAds | 125×125 banner advertisement marketplace | Yes |
| Text Link Ads | ||
| Text-Link-Ads | Offers one of the best referral programs | Yes |
| LinkWorth | Offers a multitude of products and services | Yes |
| InLinks | In Content Link Marketplace, good referral program | Yes |
| Affiliate Networks | ||
| Amazon Associates | Old and popular affiliate network | No |
| Azoogle Ads | performance-based online advertising network | No |
| MarketLeverage | Cost-per-Action (CPA) network | Yes |
| Clickbank | Affiliate network with commissions as high as 75% | No |
| Linkshare | Pay-for-Performance Network | No |
| pepperjamNetwork | The “fastest growing Affiliate Network in the U.S.” | No |
| RSS Feed Advertising | ||
| Feedburner | Largest feed and blog advertising network | No |
| Pheedo | Pioneer of RSS Feed advertising | No |
| Feedvertising | Feed advertising program offered by Text-Link-Ads | Yes |
Pay Per Click Advertising
Pay Per Click is an easy advertisement concept. Every time a person visits your web site and clicks on an ad, only then you get paid. That is why it is called “Pay Per Click”, therefore you get paid for every click.
Paid Reviews
The way paid reviews work is actually pretty simple. Advertisers pay you for writing a review about a product or service they choose, which you in turn publish on your blog. Of course criticism of the product or service is good but it should be done in a constructive way.
Banner Advertising
Whenever you see banners on web sites, the advertisement method used on this web site is probably banner advertising. Basically it just means selling ad space on your web site on which advertisement banners will be placed. The size of the banners does not matter and can range from 20×20 to 468x6o pixels.
Text Link Ads
Text link ads are, as the name suggests, advertisements in the form of text links. One of the big differences to other methods of advertising is that it not only boosts the traffic of the advertiser, it also improves his search engine ranking.
The reason for that is that text link ads do not add the HTML link attribute rel=”nofollow” to the ad link. What this attribute usually does is to indicate that a link is of no value, or for that matter that the ranking of the web site in search engines is not increased through the link.
Ever since search engine announced that this way of link building would be penalized, the use of this kind of advertisement has decreased a lot.
Affiliate Networks
Affiliate networks are a bit more complicated than the other advertising methods.
Traditional affiliate networks enable merchants to offer publishers a share of any revenue that is generated by the merchant from visitors to the publisher’s site, or a fee for each visitor on the publisher’s site that completes a specific action.
Basically you earn a share of the revenue of the merchant when you (the publisher) get visitors to take a specific action on your web site.
RSS Feed Advertising
This refers to placing advertisement in the RSS feed, typically it is used by blogs. An RSS feed is basically a stream of articles, written by a particular blog or web site and which can be read through a feedreader. A person can then subscribe to that RSS feed and receive new articles when they are posted.
The advertisement is only placed in the RSS feed, usually at the end of each article.
References and Further Reading:
- 101 Ways to Monetize Your Web Site or Blog
- 28 Ways to Make Money Online
- John Chow’s Recommended Money Makers
If you know more ways to monetize a web site than please let us know through a comment.
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HOBO(nickname)
09. Apr, 2009
That is fantastic information.
I wish I will be able to understand few to apply. Lets see…
jules
09. Apr, 2009
thanks Hobo, you gave me the idea of writing an article like this.
HOBO(nickname)
09. Apr, 2009
Ideas are god’s gift. Yes, I am man of ideas yet to learn how to make money through technology.
Any idea how to understand HELP ?
jules
09. Apr, 2009
what do you mean Hobo? what’s the problem? the different advertising methods?
HOBO(nickname)
10. Apr, 2009
I many times do not understand HELP technical description. And I wish I will be able to understand Services and its Description mentioned above.
Mkcoy
27. Apr, 2009
Thanks!! I been thinking about using an alternative advertiser as a publisher other than Adsense and this post is perfect thanks. I will bookmark this and return when I am ready to choose.