For anyone starting a website and not being familiar with how websites make money from advertising, this article will explain the process in detail. When designing a website, it's important to remember that the Internet is all about information, information, information. Consider your site an informational source, not just a site that you hope will sell your product or service. The key is to build traffic, and that is accomplished by providing good information. From there, you monetize your website in some of the following ways.
Google ads
One of the primary ways website owners make money from advertising is by running Google ads on their sites. All one has to do is register with Google. There is no cost, and you can select the types of ads you want to run, the size of the ads and the pages on which to run the ads. Google ads are the most popular advertising tool on the web. Google will pay you as visitors click on the ads and purchase a product, or they will pay per click. This depends on the advertiser and the type of Google ad program they are running. Google keeps track of all this and pays website owners after they've earned $100 or more through Google ads.
Yahoo Publisher Network
Like Google, Yahoo has its own ad program that lets website owners make money running advertising related to their websites. They have all the tools to easily help you set up ads to monetize your site. Their tools can help you filter out competitive ads to protect your business, and they have four ways you can get paid, including via Paypal for a quick return.
Affiliate ads and programs
Another way websites make money off of advertising is through affiliate programs. By writing articles, reviews on an affiliate or simply running affiliate ads, a site can make some extra cash each time a visitor makes a purchase from an affiliate or joins an affiliate program. Check the links below for ideas of where to sign up for a free account with an affiliate marketing company that lets you choose from thousands of affiliate programs.
Sell banner ad space on your website
Besides running ads that you select from Google, Yahoo or other sources (see links below for additional sources), you can also sell banner and ad space on your website. If your site gets a lot of traffic, you will gain the interest of other companies who will possibly be interested in tapping into your traffic. You can barter for products, services or advertising from these other sites or simply charge a monthly rate.
Text Adlinks
By registering with a text link site, you can choose the type of text links you run on your site. Basically, various words and keywords on your site will link to products, services and other websites.
Chitika eMiniMall ads
These ads look a lot like Google ads, but the traffic that is generated to your website from Chitika ads only come through search engines. For example, if you sell cars and someone puts in the keywords of "red convertible," he or she would be taken to an ad on your website about convertibles. It is free to register with Chitika. They provide you the code, like all ad links, and you simply add it to your website.
