Make Money with your Website, Earn Money on Website, Generate MOney from Website

Charge for access. Does your website contain content or information that people are willing to pay money for access to? If so, then you can password protect part of your site and charge people a fee for access to that information. Many companies use this approach. Part of their website is free, but to access the majority of the information, you have to pay a fee.

Join Pay Per Click (PPC) Programs. These are similar to banner advertising, except you only make money if a visitor clicks on your sponsor's banner. There are restrictions to this though, otherwise some people will abuse the system by just clicking back and forth on the banner to register click throughs (CTRs). Usually, you are paid by what is known as per "unique visitor" to the sponsor's Website. Some of the well-known Pay Per Click (PPC) Programs are: Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network, Bidvertiser, Chitika, Clicksor etc.

Create a "For Sale" or "Coming Soon" Parking Page. If you own domains that don't yet have websites designed, you can create a page to offer the domain name for sale, or to let customers know it is in development and "coming soon". When customers visit these pages, they can be directed to links to similar sites. www.moniker.com offers free parking pages.

Sell your Exit Traffic. When a customer clicks on the little "x" at the top right hand corner of your website, don�t despair, send him/her to a complimentary website. Utilise an affiliate code or arrange for a CPA (cost per acquisition) or CPL (cost per lead) reward for customers that the destination site is able to convert.

Monetize RSS Feed Ads. With the quick adoption of the RSS technology by millions of Internet users, website owners are starting to find ways to monetize this new content distribution channel. Feedburber already has its own publisher network, and you can sign-up to start displaying CPM based advertising on your feed footer. Bidvertiser recently introduced a RSS feed ad option as well, with a PPC scheme. Finally, some blogs are also opting to sell banners or sponsored messages on their feed directly.

Place a "Donate" link. Placing a "Donate" link or button on a website can be an efficient way to earn money, especially if your blog is on a niche where readers learn and gain value from your content. Personal development and productivity blogs, for instance, tend to perform well with donation based systems.

Mentoring Programs. People are willing to pay for someone or something that will teach them and give them knowledge as opposed to mere information. Education is one of the biggest industries in the world, and the online landscape behaves in a similar way. Creating a mentoring program related to the niche of your website could be very profitable if you manage to structure and promote it adequately. There is a wide range of media and tools that you can use to deliver the information, from text articles to audio and video lessons.

Sell Your Website. Selling your website could be your last resource, but it has the potential to generate a big sum of money in a short period of time. Market places on online forums like DigitalPoint and Sitepoint are always active with website buyers and sellers. Some people also make money trading and flipping websites. They either create them from scratch or buy existing ones, and after some revamping they sell them for a profit.

In-text Adverting. There are some in-text advertising networks available on internet like Kontera, Vibrant Media, Infolinks etc. that allows you to place textual ads with in your website/blog content. When a user rolls over any of such link, an advertising pop-up box will open and when the user clicks on these ads, website/blog owners are able to make some money online with that click. There are some websites/ bloggers available on internet who are able to make good amount of money with in-text advertising method.

Sell your content. Your content may be available freely to everyone on the Internet, but not everyone has access to the Internet You can try to sell your stories or information to off-line magazines and publications.

Join or conduct Surveys or Polls. You can conduct your own survey or poll and sell the results to third parties that are interested in your visitors. Also there are services that will pay you money to run a small survey or poll on your website. The most popular one is called Vizu Answers. Basically you need to sign up with them, and select the kind of polls that you want to run on your site. Most of these services operate under a CPM model.

Sell E-mail Lists. If you have a guest book or a newsletter mailing list, you can create a database of their names and e-mail addresses as well as those of your customers. Once you have enough names, you can sell them on to direct marketers. Make sure that you tell your customers their names and e-mail addresses may be rented to third parties. Some people don't wish to receive third party advertising, so give them an option to opt-out of this list.

Monetize Widgets. The latest trend on the web are widgets that let you monetize your website. Examples include Widgetbucks and SmartLinks. Some of these services operate under a PPC scheme, others behave like text link ads, others yet leverage affiliate links. Their main differentiator, however, is the fact that they work as web widgets, making it easier for the user to plug and play the service on its website.

Selling or Renting Internal Pages. Million Dollar Wiki made this concept popular, but it was being used on the web for a long time around. These websites sell for a single fee or rent for a recurring fee internal pages on their domain. Usually they have either high Pagerank or high traffic, so that people purchasing a page will be able to benefit in some way.

Start Marketplaces. Sitepoint is the online marketplace by excellence. Some websites and blogs, however, are trying to replicate that model on a smaller scale. Depending on your niche, a market place that allows your visitors to buy, sell and trade products could work well. Over the time you could start charging a small fee for new product listings. The problem with this method is that there are no standard software on the web, so you would need to hire a coder to get a marketplace integrated into your website.

Sell Pixels or Words on your Website. Do you remember the man who sold a million pixels on a web page for a dollar each, in order to pay for college and much more? Buyers got to advertise how they wanted with their 100 or 200 pixels space. The next incarnation was a buy-a-word site. Pay for a word and it was linked the buyers website.

Sell Sponsored Content Areas. In many industries, companies would be willing to provide content such as articles, online tools and functionality, in exchange for recognition and a link to their website. For example on MSN, ESPN provides sports information and MSN BC provides financial news.

Create a conference around the website. If your website takes off and becomes an authority on its niche, you could create a conference around it. Depending on the size of your audience, the event could attract thousands of people, and you could make money directly from conference passes and sponsors.

Sponsors for Single Columns or Events. If you website has specific columns or events e.g. a weekly podcast, an interview series, a monthly survey, a special project, you could find companies to sponsor them individually. This method increases the monetization options for website owner, while giving advertisers the possibility to target a more specific audience with a reduced commitment.

Monetize Text Link Ads. Text Link Ads is the program that manage text link sale. This program facilitates advertisers which pay money that aims to get traffic and top searches at search engine. If you have a website/blog with good page rank and decent Alexa rankings, you have a chance to make some money by selling text link ads on your website/blog. There are some text link selling and buying marketplace available on internet like Text-Link-Ads, TNX, Linkworth, Linkadage etc that you can use for this purpose.

Start your own Affiliate Program. With your own Affiliate Program, you can recruit an army of people i.e your affiliates who will recommend your product on their website for a percentage of any sale they refer. You have the power to exponentially increase your income as more and more affiliates sign up and you continue to teach your existing affiliates how to increase their commission checks and also your income.

Join Cost Per Action. There are numerous CPA affiliate networks programs accessible online. All you have to execute is sign up with one of them, and drive traffic to the parent website. You get paid when someone performs an Action on your website such as filling out a form with their email address or their zip code. The company paying for the CPA lead gets to market to that person filling out the form and you get paid for bringing that person in as a "lead" for the company to send their marketing advertisements out to them.

Sell Ad Space on your Website. This has always been a good money maker. The catch is that you need to build your website to such a level where it brings in substantial traffic. Once your website has lots of highly targeted traffic or a large targeted opt-in list, you may be able to sell advertising. This in turn brings in advertisers who are willing to pay you to display their ads on your website when they are being directed at large numbers of their target market. Selling ad space can be a great additional profit stream but it is unlikely to keep your business afloat on its own.

Start Sponsored Reviews on your Website. PayPerPost started this model with much controversy on the beginning. Soon other companies followed this, most notably Sponsored Reviews and ReviewMe refining the process and expanding the paid blogging model. Joining one of these sponsored reviews, marketplaces will give you the opportunity to write sponsored posts on a wide range of topics. Not all bloggers are willing to get paid to write about a specific product or website, but the ones who do, are making good money out of it. If your blog has a big audience you could also offer sponsored reviews directly, cutting off the commissions of the middleman.

Join Affiliate Programs. On the Internet there are lots of companies all around at this time, who are literally throwing away cash to get customers to their sites and to promote their products and services on your website. You do this by adding their advertising banners and text links to your site. They are so called affiliate programs. Once a customer clicks on an affiliate link on your site which takes them to the affiliate site, if he then make a purchase at the affiliate site you earn commissions ranging from 3% upto a massive 50% depending on which affiliate scheme you join.

Play Audio Ads. Also called PPP (Pay Per Play), this advertising method was introduced by Net Audio Ads. The concept is pretty simple - play a small audio advertising, usually 5 seconds, every time a visitor enters into your website. The user should not be able to stop it, creating a 100% conversion rate based on unique visitors. The company is still rolling tests, but some users are reporting to get from a $4 to a $6 CPM. Regardless of the pay rate, though, this is a very intrusive form of advertising, so think twice before using it.

Join Pop-ups and Pop-unders Programs. Pop-ups are a common yet annoying form of advertising on the Internet. If you are just trying to make a much money as possible from your website, you could experiment with them. If you are trying to grow the traffic and generate loyal visitors, however, you probably should stay away from them. Just consider the hundreds of pop-up blockers out there: there is a reason why they are so popular. Ad networks that use pop-ups are Tribal Fusion, PayPopup, PopupAd, Adversal.

Join CPM Advertising Networks. CPM (Cost per Mille) advertising networks behave pretty much as PPC networks, except that you get paid according to the number of impressions i.e., page views that the ads displayed on your site will generate. It refers to the cost for 1,000 impressions. CPM rates vary with the network, the position of the ad and the format. The better the network, the higher the CPM rate, because they have access to more advertisers. The closer you put the ad to the top of the page, the higher the CPM. The bigger the format in terms of pixels, the higher the CPM. You can get as low as $0,10 and as high as $10 per 1,000 impressions. CPM advertising tends to work well on websites with a high page views per visitor ratio e.g., online forums, magazines and so on. Popular CPM advertising networks are Casale Media, Burst Media, Value Click, Advertising.com, Tribal Fusion, Right Media.

Create a high demand Newsletter or E-zine. If you can provide in demand and industry leading information on a monthly, bi-monthly or weekly basis, you can sell subscriptions to a newsletter. Delivered via e-mail it costs nothing but time to produce. In the same way as information products you can focus your newsletter on just about any topic and find interested subscribers. Although it is always best to concentrate on some area you have an interest yourself. So, say you sell your subscription for a measly $5 a month and you have 500 subscribers that represents $2500 per month for a days work. Add to that the possibility of selling advertising space in your newsletter and promoting your affiliate programs and you have a very viable business. You will need a website to attract subscribers and the facility to take credit card subscriptions online. You should also offer automated delivery of the first newsletter when a subscriber has paid.