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So tl;dr: you need targeted traffic and not too much else to make money off of your websites. Advertising services are all over the place. Basically, they work by paying you by the thousand visitors (CPM) or pay per click (PPC). You can get as much as 2-5 dollars from 1 outgoing click. My site that got 30-50 unique hits a day made about 25 dollars a month. Although, first, you must find what advertising company you want to associate with: Google Adsense Google Adsense is pretty much the industry standard, but I don't suggest it for the following reasons: Over the past year or so, many people have been having DRAMATIC drops in income from Google Adsense because of changes in payouts, and Google upping the share that they recieve. Every month (it seems), Google changes something that will dramatically effect you and your website and income. I was banned from Google Adsense while I was on vacation with no internet access and in a hospital visiting a dying relative; for click fraud, which I couldn't really have been participating in when I wasn't even online for 2 weeks. People are always getting banned for click fraud for no apparent reason, and like my case, their appeals have been denied and they have not had their Adsense account reopened. There are some major plus sides: It intergrates perfectly with Youtube and Blogger There are many advertising options It is simple to use and has a giant audiences If you have targeted traffic, you are pretty much garunteed money. All the other advertising services are usually just called google adsense alternatives for a reason. Google Adsense is the head of this business and the rest go off of Google's model. can provide stable money and I haven't heard of anyone geting their account closed in the past. You can make money from: There are a wide list of ways to publish ads; publish backlinks or have a normal PPC service It's very customizable You can set all the money to go back into TLA in order to spend money on their many services; adveritsing, backlinks, SEO reports, submissions, etc. Referring people to their service can make you a comission, like a normal affiliate program However, there are a few problems: The PPC service is a little confusing It takes them ages to approve some sites It doesn't pay out as much as some other services Clicksor offers a wide range of banner advertising and PPC advertising. It's probably closer to Google Adsense then anything else. I know TONS of people who use Clicksor instead of Google Adsense, and I'm trying it out on several websites, too. Tons of different options, from text links to banner links to pop-ups Easy setup Paid through by Paypal or Check Video ads available Offers inline-linking Although, it's not all good.. there are a few major cons: Clicksor is notorious for offering low rates due to a low number of advertising, around 3 cents a click. Isn't as dynamic as Google Adsense and doesn't change from page to page; asks for a list of keywords, therefor isn't as targeted Of course, with the less-targeted con, you aren't pulling a Google and searching through your users cookies to figure out what they like, or tracking them around the web, either. Pure CPM advertising is simply advertising that pays you by thousand hits. So if you get 100,000 hits on your site a month, and the payout is 1 dollar a thousand (1-3 is average), then you will make 100 dollars. They usually pay out lower then services like Google Adsense because you don't get paid per click. Advertising.com Value Click Right Media (Yahoo) Affiliate marketing is a huge business for millions of people. Basically, you get paid a comission for selling someone else's product. Here are my favorite services to use for Affiliate Marketing: Clickbank offers a wide range of products and ebooks. The payouts are generally very high and you can make a TON of money if you can find the perfect niche. The highest payout is 500-800 dollars, but the average is around 40-50 dollars a sale. The only con, really, is the fact that you can sell eBooks and I suggest that you review every single proudct that you promote; you don't want to promote crap products. Amazon Affiliates allows you to earn a commission on the majority of Amazon's products. I have come accross many products that they do NOT let you promote (much to my distress). The pogram is fairly straight forward but they don't offer too high of rates (3%-15% commission) Linkshare offers a similar service to Clickbank, and while I haven't personally tried it out, I know several people who use it. The overall feal is the same as clickbank and I would high suggest it from what I have read. Then, theres the niche-specific affiliate marketing programs. Personally, the easiest (that I've found) and my favorite; web host affiliates. Heres two of the best: Dreamhost has always been praised for their affiliate and other such programs. I high recommend them and I promote their product, not only because the payout is great; because of the coupons I can offer people and the fact that this si such a great service. Dreamhost is really something I can stand behind and recommend. I'd recommend it even if I wasn't making any money, since it truley is one of my favorite hosts. Hostgator has a wide rnge of hosting services and, again, a service that I know tons of satisfied customers and I would recommend. The payout starts at 50 dollars and goes all the way up to 125 dollars; so lots of money to be made here! Sponsored Reviews is a great and fun way to make money off of blogs. Alot of blogs don't use sponsor review services as they are scared of killing their blog's credibility. Often you get to review and use a great product, and make money off it too! Nothing better then that. Pay per Post (the pioneer in this field Sponsored Reviews Review Me Email lists -- basically, email lists provide a platform for you to advertising affiliate programs in a newsletter. They can be extremely profitable as it's the ultimate targeted traffic. Aweber Interspire Constant Contact Site Flipping is basically the art of quickly making a website, gaining content and visitors, and then selling it for profit. Of course, you can just sell any website, it doesn't matter if you're truly 'flipping' it. Flippa is probably one of the leaders in this service. PPP/Audio Ads are basically the most annoying way to make money on the web (I find them more annoying then popups, even). It's pretty bad when you have your subwoofer turned to max, playing your favorite hardstyle or dubstep song and boom, someone wants to give you a free iPod. They usually work at a CPM level: around $6 dollars a thousand. NetAudioAds is really the pioneer in this field. Donations can make a small profit (but of course with more and more people going flat broke nowadays, you probably don't want to base your income on begging). Paypal can be used for donations. That concludes this guide! Go forth and earn money online, make money from blogging, from site flipping, or any of the listed ways and make money online by monetizing your site!

Monetizing your Website

Simply what we'll be going over here is how to monetize your website, without having to make your own products. The trick to making all of these tactics work is unique hits, and returning visitors. It takes on average 7 visits to make a sale on an item; so, especially if you want to do affiliate marketing, returning visitors are key. Getting 500 million unique hits a day would be pointless if they aren't actually looking at your website; so thus you need targeted hits. Here's a tutorial on how to get free, targeted traffic quickly. So tl;dr: you need targeted traffic and not too much else to make money off of your websites.

Advertising services are all over the place. Basically, they work by paying you by the thousand visitors (CPM) or pay per click (PPC). You can get as much as 2-5 dollars from 1 outgoing click. My site that got 30-50 unique hits a day made about 25 dollars a month. Although, first, you must find what advertising company you want to associate with:
Google Adsense Google Adsense is pretty much the industry standard, but I don't suggest it for the following reasons:

Over the past year or so, many people have been having DRAMATIC drops in income from Google Adsense because of changes in payouts, and Google upping the share that they recieve.
Every month (it seems), Google changes something that will dramatically effect you and your website and income.
I was banned from Google Adsense while I was on vacation with no internet access and in a hospital visiting a dying relative; for click fraud, which I couldn't really have been participating in when I wasn't even online for 2 weeks.
People are always getting banned for click fraud for no apparent reason, and like my case, their appeals have been denied and they have not had their Adsense account reopened.

There are some major plus sides:

It intergrates perfectly with Youtube and Blogger
There are many advertising options
It is simple to use and has a giant audiences
If you have targeted traffic, you are pretty much garunteed money.

All the other advertising services are usually just called google adsense alternatives for a reason. Google Adsense is the head of this business and the rest go off of Google's model.
can provide stable money and I haven't heard of anyone geting their account closed in the past. You can make money from:

There are a wide list of ways to publish ads; publish backlinks or have a normal PPC service
It's very customizable
You can set all the money to go back into TLA in order to spend money on their many services; adveritsing, backlinks, SEO reports, submissions, etc.
Referring people to their service can make you a comission, like a normal affiliate program

However, there are a few problems:

The PPC service is a little confusing
It takes them ages to approve some sites
It doesn't pay out as much as some other services

Clicksor offers a wide range of banner advertising and PPC advertising. It's probably closer to Google Adsense then anything else. I know TONS of people who use Clicksor instead of Google Adsense, and I'm trying it out on several websites, too.

Tons of different options, from text links to banner links to pop-ups
Easy setup
Paid through by Paypal or Check
Video ads available
Offers inline-linking

Although, it's not all good.. there are a few major cons:

Clicksor is notorious for offering low rates due to a low number of advertising, around 3 cents a click.
Isn't as dynamic as Google Adsense and doesn't change from page to page; asks for a list of keywords, therefor isn't as targeted

Of course, with the less-targeted con, you aren't pulling a Google and searching through your users cookies to figure out what they like, or tracking them around the web, either.

Pure CPM advertising is simply advertising that pays you by thousand hits. So if you get 100,000 hits on your site a month, and the payout is 1 dollar a thousand (1-3 is average), then you will make 100 dollars. They usually pay out lower then services like Google Adsense because you don't get paid per click.

Affiliate marketing is a huge business for millions of people. Basically, you get paid a comission for selling someone else's product. Here are my favorite services to use for Affiliate Marketing:

Clickbank offers a wide range of products and ebooks. The payouts are generally very high and you can make a TON of money if you can find the perfect niche. The highest payout is 500-800 dollars, but the average is around 40-50 dollars a sale. The only con, really, is the fact that you can sell eBooks and I suggest that you review every single proudct that you promote; you don't want to promote crap products.
Amazon Affiliates allows you to earn a commission on the majority of Amazon's products. I have come accross many products that they do NOT let you promote (much to my distress). The pogram is fairly straight forward but they don't offer too high of rates (3%-15% commission)
Linkshare offers a similar service to Clickbank, and while I haven't personally tried it out, I know several people who use it. The overall feal is the same as clickbank and I would high suggest it from what I have read.

Then, theres the niche-specific affiliate marketing programs. Personally, the easiest (that I've found) and my favorite; web host affiliates. Heres two of the best:

Dreamhost has always been praised for their affiliate and other such programs. I high recommend them and I promote their product, not only because the payout is great; because of the coupons I can offer people and the fact that this si such a great service. Dreamhost is really something I can stand behind and recommend. I'd recommend it even if I wasn't making any money, since it truley is one of my favorite hosts.
Hostgator has a wide rnge of hosting services and, again, a service that I know tons of satisfied customers and I would recommend. The payout starts at 50 dollars and goes all the way up to 125 dollars; so lots of money to be made here!

Sponsored Reviews is a great and fun way to make money off of blogs. Alot of blogs don't use sponsor review services as they are scared of killing their blog's credibility. Often you get to review and use a great product, and make money off it too! Nothing better then that.

Email lists -- basically, email lists provide a platform for you to advertising affiliate programs in a newsletter. They can be extremely profitable as it's the ultimate targeted traffic.

Site Flipping is basically the art of quickly making a website, gaining content and visitors, and then selling it for profit. Of course, you can just sell any website, it doesn't matter if you're truly 'flipping' it. Flippa is probably one of the leaders in this service.

PPP/Audio Ads are basically the most annoying way to make money on the web (I find them more annoying then popups, even). It's pretty bad when you have your subwoofer turned to max, playing your favorite hardstyle or dubstep song and boom, someone wants to give you a free iPod. They usually work at a CPM level: around $6 dollars a thousand. NetAudioAds is really the pioneer in this field.

Donations can make a small profit (but of course with more and more people going flat broke nowadays, you probably don't want to base your income on begging). Paypal can be used for donations.

That concludes this guide! Go forth and earn money online, make money from blogging, from site flipping, or any of the listed ways and make money online by monetizing your site!