Making money on your website or blog
How do I make money on my website or blog?
Users
who are running their own website may be interested in making money on
the website to help with the cost of running the website and to help pay
for the time spent creating the website. Often individuals can generate
money on their website using referral programs, associate programs, and
Internet advertising.
Advertising and associate programs
The amount of money generated from the website and what
programs will accept you is dependent on the amount of content you have
on your page as well as the amount of traffic you receive. Below is a
short listing of some of the different programs on the Internet that can
help generate money on your website.
Amazon associates
- The Amazon's associate program enables any user to setup links to any
Amazon goods and any purchases made from those goods or any other goods
a user may make while browsing Amazon's page after clicking the link
from your web page you will generate a small percentage of income.
Google AdSense
- A fast growing advertising network, Google allows users to setup
advertisement banners on their page and have the ads generated off the
content of the page. Any ads that are clicked (CPC) generate revenue. Google AdSense is the advertising network Computer Hope goes through.
There
are many more services that allow users to make additional revenue from
their website that are not listed on this page. If you have a favorite
site, or a site you often purchase products through check for any
"associates" program. Often big sites have associate programs and allow
you to make money for referring people to your favorite spots on the
Internet.
Sell goods or services
If you plan on creating a website that is going to sell
goods or a service that you will charge for you will either need to
setup a method of accepting payment or a web store to list your
available goods.
Micropayments
Micropayments are another way to make money on the
Internet. The idea behind micropayments is that if someone has enjoyed
or found your content on your site or blog useful they will send you a
small amount of money. With the potential of thousands of people sending
you small amounts of money you can generate a large revenue from your
content.
Flattr - A
great service that allows anyone to send a small amount of money to any
website with a Flattr button. The service works by you depositing how
much ever you want into a Flattr account and then at the end of the
month your deposit is split among every webpage you clicked the Flattr
button on.
Donations
If you have a web page or service that provides
something that cannot be found anywhere else or is unique you may also
want to consider creating a place where your visitors can donate money
to you. Below is a short listing of easy ways of setting up your own
donation system.
Amazon honor system
- A popular and widely used service because of the amount of people who
already use the Amazon site for purchasing goods. The Amazon honor
system allows for anyone to setup a method of accepting donations on
their web page.
PayPal
- Another very popular method of accepting donations, PayPal is a
widely used service and an easy way to accept donations from your
visitors.
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