October 23, 2009

10 Ways to Make Direct Money with your Website/Blog

Increasing your traffic and your Click-Through-Rating are the ways to improve your click through rating. I will list the direct ways to make money from your website or a blog. Also, I will include link to the most popular services for each title I write below. Enjoy making money online with your website or a blog.

1. Pay Per Click (PPC) Ad Networks

For sure, this is the most popular way to make money with your website. It is a very simple way to advertise where you need only to copy-paste a provided code to your website. Advertisement contents are generated automatically, depending on your website niche and content.

PPC Ad networks can help you to improve your ad Click-through rating. Making you opportunity to receive more clicks and by that more money. Every possible click made with these networks at the end is payable for you. Of course, the most popular PPC ad network is Google AdSense, but there are much others.

Popular PPC Ad Networks:

* – Yahoo! Publisher Network, or YPN is in beta stage for a long time. Accepts only publishers from the USA.

2. Cost Per Mile (CPM) Ad Networks

CPM Networks are a very similar to PPC ad networks. Only this way you can be paid according to number of impressions you get for the selected advertiser (page view). Cost Per Mile refers to cost of the 1000 page views. If you have loads of traffic, this technique can be a very effective for your website.

A little example: Let’s say you have a blog that generates 100.000 page views per month. And that site display advertisement which costs $1.00 per CPM – you will earn $100.00 with it per month. A simple math thing.

Prices per CPM may vary from service to the service. Also from advertiser to advertiser. It may be low as $0.10 per CPM to even $10.00 or more per CPM. If you have a website with a high traffic you should definitely try one of these advertisement techniques.

Popular CPM Ad Networks:

3. Affiliate Marketing – Affiliate Networks

This is a very popular way to make money online with your website. It works differently than any other advertisement technique. It works on the simple Cost Per Action (sale) or Cost Per Lead principle. Allowing you to generate a much more potential money with your affiliate partners because they would give you a commission for every sale or lead you make through your links.

Affiliate marketing usually works with all types of advertising. Including the popular ways to advertise like with the Banners, Text Link advertisement, product reviews and much more others. Usually, you decide which affiliate partner you are going to advertise on your site – which may improve your CTR and overall quality for sure.

Many individual companies allows you to use their own affiliate marketing services like Aweber or many hosting providers. There are a many services on the internet which works this way.

Popular Affiliate Networks:

4. Direct Banner Sales

You can sell your own advertisements on your blog or a website. This is a popular self-advertising method on the internet. A website owners can determine a price to sell that ad spot freely. The most popular banner dimensions are 468×60, 300×250 or 125×125 banner ads. These last ones are extremely popular on a blogs.

Bad thing about this ad method is the time you need to spend selling and managing your sales on your website or a blog yourself. Also, you might need a high-traffic to receive some qualified and good advertisers.

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5. Text Link Advertisements

This advertisement technique once was a very popular through the internet. After Google has declared to penalize a websites which directly sell text-link ads on their pages (without no-follow tag), this technique became a less popular.

Many website and blog owners still support these ad sale technique on their own sites. Some of them uses a no-follow tag and some of them not. Anyway, you can use some specialized services to automate the whole process, or directly sell your advertisements to the advertisers.

Text Link Ad Networks and Places:

6. Sponsored Reviews

This is a very popular advertisement technique, specially among bloggers. Allows you to sell your own blog or a website reviews for a price you determine. This is a very good advertising model for all those which like to write.

You can choose which reviews you are going to write on your blog. I recommend you to choose the most appropriate topics – related to your blog niche. This way, this method can be useful for you and for your advertiser which have purchased that review from you.

There are a few services on the internet which allows you to completely automate the whole process. Also, you can sell a reviews directly on your website – decision is yours completely.

Popular Sponsored Review Services:

7. RSS Feed Ads

RSS Feeds are adopted by millions on the internet. It is a technique that allows you to subscribe and view some website or a blog content without actually visiting that specific site directly. Because of it’s popularity, it becomes a good way to advertise through.

Recently, Google AdSense has allowed to place an advertisements directly into RSS Feeds. Allowing you to make money from your loyal readers (subscribers). If you have a large number of subscribers through your RSS feed, this is the ideal way to make some additional income.

Many popular blogs currently uses this advertisement techniques for their own RSS feeds.

Popular RSS Feed Ads Links:

* YPN is only available in US. I have not test this feature, but I have been told that Yahoo! supports it.

8. In-Text (Inline) Advertising

This is a popular advertisement technique which allows you to place an advertisements inline with text on your website content. Usually has a very good Click-through rating but there are lack of good and quality advertisers. These links comes usually with a double underline attribute to make them different from other links on your site.

I have heard that some people makes a very good money with these services. Others (and myself) does not like them because these ad networks usually display not-related advertisements – probably because they have a lack of advertisers. I would wish that some other popular ad networks adopt this feature as well.

Popular In-Text Ad Services:

9. Widget Monetizing Services

This is one of the latest trends in the internet advertising. A good examples of this is the first two networks that works with this advertising module: WidgetBucks and SmartLinks. A whole concept is based on the advanced widgets that can display advertisements in the nice user interface.

Some of these services works like PPC and others behave like text-link networks. Anyway, you can try and see how this advertising method works for you and for your website. These widgets works like any other web widgets, making you to easily place them on your website or a blog.

Popular Widget Monetizing Services:

10. Provide Job Boards

Most popular blogs are trying to leverage job boards to make some additional income. There are only a few that comes on my mind right now, like Problogger, Guy Kawasaki, ReadWriteWeb, WordPress… and others.

Of course, to make money with this technique you will need to have a blog that has a targeted niche and of course a reasonable amount of traffic. This may give you a very good (and constant) income to you directly.

Once you have a structure in place, the job boards will come naturally. Making you to limit which price you are going to charge for each job board you provide. Check these above sites and see how much they charge for placing the job board on their sites and set your price correctly.

Filed under Advertising, Affiliate by John Regis on Oct 23rd, 2009.