Website Monetization

What does monetization mean anyway?

You monetize your website by advertising and selling items or programs for a profit. This enables you to make money from the traffic to your site. many people enjoy great success and make an excellent living by monetizing their sites. There are a huge variety of ways to monetize your site, and we'll just be going over a few.

But before you get started, there are a couple of things that you need to know.

1. It's a good idea to wait until you have about thirty pages of content before you start monetizing your website. If you don't hold off until that point (I know it's tempting to go ahead and do it anyway) you could be killing your future chances with the search engines. Why thirty pages of content? Because many directories will reject your site if there is insufficient content at the time they review it. These directories give you quality back-links and credibility with the search engines. Having these links from the directories won't necessarily directly give your site traffic, but it's like a vote of confidence in the eyes of the search engines This translates into more traffic to your website. Traffic translates into sales, so why jump the gun and try to monetize before you're ready?
   
2. In order to monetize you need good content. You will need information-rich, valuable content for your readers - and search engines. If your readers like what you're doing, they'll be much more likely to stick around - and the longer they stick around, the higher the chance you have of monetizing you website.
   
3. It's not just important to have 30 pages of content, but also to have around 30 consistent daily visitors to your site. If you don't have a decent amount of traffic, there won't be enough visitors to buy your stuff anyway. So wait.
   
4. Okay, so now you have your 30 pages of quality content, and a consistent flow of visitors - you're all set to get started. We'll go over some basic ways you can monetize your website.

• Affiliate programs. We already talked about this, so I won't go into it again too much here. You sign up with an online merchant, place their add/link on your site, and every time a visitor from your site clicks through the merchant link and makes a purchase, you get a commission. Amazon, E-bay, E-books are all examples of affiliate programs.
  
• Clickbank. This is a kind of middleman between an affiliate (you) and the on-line merchant. Clickbank takes care of the order processing and billing. You select the products you'd like to sell on your site, and when your visitor makes a sale it goes through Clickbank. Clickbank offers a variety of products for you to choose from, so you can select products that fit with the subject of your website.
  
• Commission Junction. Another Affiliate marketing network, you get to select the products you'd like to sell on your site.
  
• Google AdSense. These are ads or text links you place on your site through Google. You get paid if the ad or text link is clicked by your visitor. You don't have any control over what ads appear on your site. They are placed there by Google based on the content of your site.
  
• Bidvertizer. Just like Google AdSense. However, you have control over what ads appear on your site, and you have the capability of accepting or rejecting each individual ad. This allows you to select ads that don't compete with your site content or other affiliate programs that you may be using to monetize your site.
  
• Chitika. Considered an e-mini-mall, the concept is similar to Bidvertizer and AdSense. The choices of products are a bit smaller, but you do get to pick what you'd like to advertise on your site.
  
• Network marketing. You can set up advertising or text links to a website to advertise products, services or business opportunities. You can easily add a link to your primary business within the context of your website article.
  
• Selling your own products. Maybe you plan on selling your own products or services too. You can design ads to place on pages of your site.

There's virtually no end to the ways in which you can monetize your website. Check out a few that we've mentioned and research it on your own.
The sky's the limit, so have fun with it...

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