I have been writing a lot about how you can Make Money Online but today I would concentrate mainly on Ways to Make Money from Websites. Let’s say you have your site and want to make some extra bucks out of it. What could be your options and how you can have more than one way of monetizing it?
1. Donations
Easiest way to make money from your website is to ask for donation. Wikipedia is perfect example of it. Asking for donation can vary from site to site and it can be as simple as a PayPal donate button to something like an Amazon Wish List. Just created a simple wish list where I added Windows 7 which I am not looking to buy now but would not mind getting it from someone.
Many people do not prefer to call it a donation and use the terms like Buy me a Coffee or many prefer to term it as hosting expense and many more… You would be amazed to see how many people would donate money to you or buy you things you want to buy but are not really willing to spend on them.
2. Premium Members
The second way you can make money from your website is to have paying members or premium members. The best practices to implementing this are something like having a basic free membership and provide lots of additional features to premium members. The benefits could be anything like an ad-free experience or access to some more features and benefits. Site like LinkedIn have premium membership benefits like they can connect to any other member directly and many others.
3. CPC Ad Network
CPC Advertising is probably the easiest method of making money from any website. There is very low requirement for getting accepted into any CPC Network. Only few days old website and some good quality content and you can be part of CPC Ad networks like Adsense / Kontera / Chitika and many more. After being accepted you can implement them easily in minutes on your site and you would start seeing results.
Though CPC is most preferred method of website monetizing, there is cost associated with it. You have done all the hard work to bring the traffic to your site and you are just letting your traffic leave your site for some cents and if you could do more with that visitor you could have made more from that user’s visit. This is the main reason I do not prefer to have Adsense Ads on one of the most prominent position on Go4Expert.com. You see the ads beside Logo are not from Adsense.
CPC is always best way to start but when you grow big don’t be afraid to try alternatives to CPC advertising.
4. Affiliate promotion
If you have mastered the art of selling, affiliate marketing is one of the most powerful ways to make most money from the web. Amazon, Commission Junction and ClickBank are three of the biggest affiliate marketplaces where you can find thousands of products which you can use. The amount of money you will make would depend on how and what you are selling.
Read 5 Tips to become a better Affiliate
5. CPM (Cost per impressions) Ads or Direct Ad Sales
When you have large audience coming to your site you become eligible for many CPM (Cost per Impression) based ad-networks like TribalFusion, Netshelter, BurstMedia and many others. Each has different criteria for selecting websites. The ads from such network are mainly for brand promotion from large companies and you place banners at prominent positions and you get paid for views of the banner rather than any action on that banner like click, lead or sale. Apart from CPM Ads as your site grows there would be lot of people and companies who would like to advertise on your site and you can get premium rates from such clients.
6. Selling your own product
Many people are confused as to what products they can create but products can be anything like a website design template, sound clips, videos or even your own e-book. If you have your own product you can easily sell them using the best shopping cart solutions.
If you have some more to add to share them in comments.
Further Reading …
What network are you using beside go4expert logo?
go4expert logo as network? Not sure I understand what you mean?
I saw an ad in your blog: Make money with File serve.com by uploading files.
Is it possible to an individual to upload 1000 files in a day or two? Or people use some auto system to upload that many files?
1000 files in a day is possible if you FTP that many files.
Ok! How do I FTP those files? Is there any software for FTP? Is it something like Autosystem?
I heard that such auto system availble for content creation as well. I would like to try this for content rewritng ( atleast it will save time for rewritng contents) .
Please share your views about thse autosystems for FTP and content conversion.
You are trying to mix too many things at a time. FTP is file transfer protocol used for uploading files to server. Now how you use FTP to upload your rewrite content is all together a different topic.
Shabir,
Your link for downloading Jeremy Schoemaker 12 weeks traininig course is not working. This link take me to a blank page. I tried multiple browsers but in vain.
Thanks for your mail.
I just finished reading your blog Earn Money as Freelancer and it is very informative. I am already registered with elance but I was not comfortable with thier confusing process. Their biding process is very tiring as we have to make contract for each assignment. I wonder how you do with elance.
Since I felt it takes so much of time I just left that.
However the second one you have mentioned (Lime excahnge.com) seems to be good. I saw many good assignments listed in it. Very good. But none of thier job list had thier contact details or email address. Do you know how to go ahead with this?
For example, please read this notification. It does not have any contact details.
Hi,
We need article writers who can write 500 word articles on daily basis.
We will pay $2.5 per article.
The topics will be provided on monday morning and u have to give the stuff ready by friday evening.
This can be a long time work if u can provide the quality and your submission must be original, will be checked
Writing topics vary greatly, but are basically in three major topics: DIY (do it yourself), Automobiles, and Finance. Minimal research is required to complete most articles (a simple Google search is all it takes). You will be writing SEO content for various websites, so the work will not need to be absolutely perfect, but it needs to be solid.
You should be able to write atleast 10 articles per week or if u have ability we can offer you more work.
We are not expecting or asking for magazine/newspaper quality work. We are asking for good quality work that makes sense, is informative and correct and reads well.
Please contact us at ********************* to get started or if you have any questions! Feel free to tell your friends! thanks for your time reading this
Please sugggest me how to go about with Lime Exchange projects do I need to make any contract before starting my projects?
Awaiting for your mail.
Regards
Siu Miusn
Try asking the question in the article where you read it.
Ok!
Writing terms and conditions is fine but for each and every bid you participate that too for smaller price bids is time consuming! Again, After the submission of all these, not sure if you get the work or not. Thats s what I meant. (Think like a business, consider all expenses for bidding and winning a work. Time is money, right?
I asked for contact because then the dealing will be more transparent. Otherwise, with limited information available on a notifications how does a service provider able to offer price? Especially, when most of these requiremnts come from countries from US and UK and not India.
I do get assignment only that way.(Mostly content rewriting) Oncee you interact with the client, via email or call, both parties can gain confidence.( Quality and knowledge of service proveider as far as customer is concerned and geting paiid for the work, as far as service provider is concerned.
Look forward to your opinion.
Regards,
Siu Miusn
There is nothing like terms but when any client post any requirement you can ask for more info using their system which works fine and if you are sure about the exact requirement you can bid for it.
It all adds to the cost and you bid accordingly.
I have learned a lot from this article. I did not realize that there are such differences from making money online and making money from websites. But hey, this has been very helpful really. Got to find ways make some alternative sources of income.