ways to make money from your website

Well I guess after you have taken all our tips to get hundreds of visitors to your site each day you now want to concentrate on ways to make money from your website ?

Most people just slap adsense on their website thinking that a few hundred visitors a day is going to make them rich - unfortunately it won’t. It won’t because you need thousands of visitors a day to make a decent living from the internet on adsense and you need to find the best places to put your ads and play around with the colours.

The best tips for adsense are:

- blend you ads with the rest of your site (ie: if your links are red have the adsense links red)

- test where to put your adsense code around your pages and look at the google “heat map”

- test what ad units to place on your site

But adsense is only one option. Of course you could opt for the Yahoo publisher network which is still contexual advertising but another option. Google adsense is easier to manage.

But what about other options? If you take normal conversions from visitors to a sale - on average it’s between 1 and 2% - that means for every 100 people visiting your sales page you’ll get 1 or 2 sales.

With adsense, sometimes the click throughs are only 5% and you’ll get 20cents per click. So those 5 clicks earn you $1 - now what if you could sell a product for $10 or even $30 - that’s a much better return on your investment.

So try and promote affiliate products on your site. There are many affiliate networks to trawl and check out what is going on in the world at clickbank, commission junction, azoogleads and many others. There are so many people who want you to be selling their products for them.

Other ways to make some money are:

- selling links to other peoples’ sites

- taking direct advertising

- charging for access such as a membership site

The list is as long as your imagination - post below to let us know your best ways to make money from a website.