Want to earn money online from your blog/website? Everyone wants to generate good income from this source. If you are a web savvy you would probably want to gain some monetary benefits from your passion. Earning online has become one of the latest trends. Whether you earn by taking part in surveys, writing articles, selling products online or by maintaining a website of your own, each of them have their own benefits.
Ever thought of earning by writing blogs……Well there are lots many successful bloggers who are able to live a decent earning by writing articles on the subjects they found most interesting. And guess what…??? They became successful in driving a good amount of people who would love to read them and appreciate their efforts.
Writing for passion is one good idea, but what if you could monetize from this passion. Not a bad idea???? Earning from your passion for writing would be like adding an extra icing on the top of your delicious cake. To propagate your writing, all you would need is a website of your own with good content. Now that you have a great content and a nice looking website, here are some ways in which you can monetize your website:
Google Ad sense:
This is one of the most popularized way to generate money and a top priority for all. Google Ad sense affiliate network pay you on the Pay-Per-Click (popularly known as PPC) policy. The number of ads that a user clicks on, the more is the revenue. This is very profitable when you have a large audience and they are likely to click on your ads. The click on the ads also depends on layout of the ads, where you position it and how you position it. Visit some of the highly ranked websites. See how and where they displayed their ads and accordingly position it according to the layout of your website.
Besides Google Ad senses, there are some other ways of advertising too. These are explained as below:
CPM advertising:
This refers to Cost-Per-Mille (popularly known as CPM). They pay you for every 1000 page views. This kind of advertisements works most effectively when the page view per visitor is more.
Text Links ads:
Text link ad is a text placed on a website which is hyperlink to some other website page. This kind of advertisement is not proffered by most. It works for some of the websites, for some it doesn’t. You have to make your own choices and experiments to succeed in it.
Pop-ups and pop-under:
This is a kind of advertisement which appears on the screen as pop up and when you minimize it is goes out. Not preferred by many of the lead websites owners due to the unpleasantness it creates for the readers. Although this kind of ads have the advantage that a user might click on the ads most frequently, however the most affected disadvantages is that the user would not like to come back to your site most often. Not preferred if you want to create a good impression of your site.
Direct Banner:
The most profitable way of advertising amongst all. Why?? Because you are in direct interaction with the client and there is no third party involved. In this, you allow the user to advertise about their product on a selected place in your website. You decide the space, the size and the price for the ad banners. If you get advertisers who would pay you a good amount for displaying their ads on your website then this would be the most profitable deal.
Affiliate Programs:
The Internet is flooded with affiliates programs whereby for each product that you sell through your site, you earn a commission. But selling an affiliate product is not that easy, you need to focus on its marketing. Not everyone would want to click on the affiliate link and buy the product. You need to market it so well that the buyer is convinced that you are selling them the best deal. The process of affiliate marketing is simple. You become an affiliate member of a particular product or an affiliate network and for each sale that is made through your site, you earn a commission.
The commission earned for each sale also differs depending on the affiliate programs. There are some which pays you as per Cost-Per-Click (CPC) i.e for each click that directs the users to the affiliate’s website, you earn a commission. While the others pay you on Cost-Per-Action (CPA) basis, which will pay you a commission only when the whole sale process is being completed.
Sell your own product:
Why become an affiliate when you have your own product to sell? If you have a product that you want to popularize, there is no better way than selling it online. One of the best way is to start an affiliate program where you pay people for each sell that they make. Thus, you get to market your product all over the web and the people who become your affiliate would market your product because they would earn good commission. In this way, both the parties are benefited.
Sell eBooks:
One of the most common Scenario. If you have a good traffic and you have written various posts on a particular topic. It is a very common practice to create an eBook and sell it. Guess what??? People tend to buy it because they like your ideas.
Or you if have great ideas and you wish to write a book and publish it, why not popularize it through your website and sell it? Alternatively you may start an affiliate program whereby for each sale of your eBook, you give a certain percentage of your commission to the seller. Digital books have become famous these days; they are handy, easy to store and can be accessed anytime. If you do not have enough money to publish your own book, it is not a bad idea to create an eBook and popularize it through affiliate marketing.
Sell your website:
If you have a website that has a good traffic and a good reputation, then you may sell it at a very hefty price. The money which you earn by selling your site should be too lucrative. There are many sites over the web that are built to dealing with buy/sell site. You can set a price for your site and see people bid on it. When you are getting a higher sum, sell it.
Donations:
If you present a valuable and rich content to the readers, then it is very likely that you may earn a good amount of donations for your content from the visitors who appreciate your effort. All you have to do is configure a Donate button on your website which is managed through your paypal account.
Create “Subscribe to Email (or Newsletter)”:
We as a reader want everything at one place, preferably in our mail box. This feature has proved to be one of the most effective way of attracting traffic and in turn generating revenue. The most common method followed is that you offer your visitors with a free gift (usually an ebook or your most valuable tips) when they subscribe to your post through mail. This way user gets all updated post on his/her mailbox. Sometimes when you are promoting your product and offering some great deals, in that case too information via mail can be most effective. As your mailing list grows, so does your traffic. You have to enable this service on your website from a service provider. Most of the bloggers have preferred to use the email set up services provided by AWeber.
Set up a Pop-Up Domination:
This is an extension to the “Subscribe to email”. You must have seen that for a particular site as soon as gaze through their site for content it doesn’t allow you to read through the content and a pop up appears which asks you to subscribe to their mail. Although you can ignore the pop up, and read the content but many of us tend to subscribe to the site. This whole set up forms the concept of Pop-Up Domination where the pop up is dominated as soon as you enter a site. This set-up has far more benefitted most of the site that have this feature. Nevertheless, in order to not irritate your readers, do try to work on the layout of your Pop-Up Domination set-up.
Create tutorials and video:
If you site has content that educate people in some way or the other, then probably it is advisable to create tutorials and video. People love watching video that explain them things lively. People get more interested in watching them. At first, you could provide these tutorials for free.When they become popularized, you could charge a subscription fee to allow access to more rich and informative part of the tutorial.
Audio and Video ads:
Again an extension to “Tutorials and Videos”. When it comes to video tutoring, you must have noticed that some of the videos have ads for about 5 to 10 seconds. This is quite different from the content and before the actual content comes up. These videos are put by the advertisers who pay you for displaying them. This is one of the ways of monetizing from your videos. The advertisers pay you to display their ads at the beginning of your video.
Submit your posts to blogger community site:
Submitting your article to sites like blog carnivals, hubpages and other community sites is a good idea if you wish to attract traffic to your site. Do remember to do a bit of research before you submit articles to these sites. You should see that such sites should be able to draw you enough traffic to your website. For example, if your post mainly deals with the technical topics, submit it to a technical community site. Give a link to your website somewhere between the content with an emphasis. If your readers are more interested in going through your other topics, they would surely click on the link which will direct them to your website. This way you could increase the traffic for your website.
Paid surveys and poll:
Not highly recommended and nor mostly used by the bloggers/website owners, this service requires you to place the online surveys and polls on the websites that requires people to fill in some information. You could choose the type of polls that you want for your website and earn money. It is better to take time and research about this service before moving forward.
Private forums and premium content:
This type of feature will work only if you have great content and a huge traffic. If you are confident enough that people would pay to read your content or solve their queries through your website, then this is one of the most assured and lucrative way of earning. You will earn good amount and if you really provide some good information, your subscription will increase day by day.
I have already provided an exhaustive list on the ways to earn money online, but this is not all the end of it. There are lot many other way too through which you could generate a very good traffic for your website. You need to keep experimenting about the pros and cons of each of them.