15 Ways to Monetize Your Website
Below you can find 15 different ways to monetize your website. You will find options only for websites that already have good and constant traffic while others can be implemented right from the start. So, take a look and see what will work for you.
- Affiliate Marketing: You can sell (or recommend) a product / service on your website. When the visitor buys the product, you get your affiliate commission.
- Google Adsense: This is a Pay Per Click advertising program. You just open a free Adsense account and you display a code on your website. When someone clicks on the ad, you'll receive money for this click.
- Selling Advertising: This can only be done if you already have some consistent traffic on your website. You create an Advertising page where you say how much you charge, for which space (either the header, sidebar, footer) and for how long you will display the banner.
- Sell your own product / service: You can create a product / service and sell it directly on your website. You need to make sure you have a quality product and an optimized landing page so you can convert well.
- Donations: Setting up donation buttons is easy but you shouldn't expect to make a lot of money from it. Also, make sure to explain your visitors why you ned the money for (hosting, researching costs, new product creation...).
- Accept sponsored posts / articles: If you have good and consistent traffic on your website, you may consider accepting guest posts / articles for a fee. There are a lot of marketers looking for these kinds of opportunities so you may get a good chance of making a nice income. You just need to keep the content relevant and with quality.
- Generate leads for other companies: This is very similar to affiliate marketing but your visitors don't need to necessarily buy anything. It involves capturing information about your visitors like their email or phone number and selling that information to a third party who may want to sell to that lead.
- Building an email list: This is a great way to monetize your website. Just create a great freebie that your visitors want to have. They just need to sign up for your email list to get it. Then you need to set some quality autoresponders along with the freebie and you can send them both quality content as well promotions on other products and services you or others provide.
- Set up RSS feed ads
- Host paid webinars
- Create a membership site
- Offer coupons with affiliate links: People love discounts. If you can offer a good one, make it a go.
- Paid Reviews: Usually people like to read reviews about a product / service before they buy it. So, you can make some extra money by providing paid reviews on your website.
- Related Posts: If you have a Blog, you should consider using a service as Outbrain. You just need to add a code to your website. At the end of each blog post you publish, the Outbrain widget suggests additional related posts. Each time your visitors click on one of them, you get a compensation.
- Email Rental: If you already have a good and responsive email list, you can rent it to third parties who are looking to promote their products or services to your audience.
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