5 Ways to make money with a website

Many people think that earning money from a website is just a myth. Well I can prove you wrong by that by telling you that many websites globally are set up for commercial purposes where the website owners use to generate a second income from.

Some do it as a hobby when they are not busy with their daily routine but others do it as their main Jobs and they make huge amounts of Income from their websites. Earning good money from a website is not as easy as posting a status on social media if you don’t have the slightest idea how to do so.

Here are 5 ways you can make money using a website.

1)  AFFILIATE MARKETING

Affiliate marketing is a popular way of making money online with your website/blog. This is where you join an affiliate program and you are given links to advertise either on products being sold by a company and you post them on your blog/ website and you will earn some certain commission when your links lead to a sale of a product.  i.e If the commission offered is 30% of the product price, so if a product is bought for $500, you will receive $150.

2)  PAY PER CLICK Advertising

If you have a website that you post blog materials like articles on a specific niche, pay per click advertising can be a good option for monetizing your web traffic.

Here you sign up with advertising networks like Google AdSense,   Infolinks , Chitika,  Bidvertiser. And many other advertising Networks in the world. This advertising networks are paid by advertisers to advertise their content and they are always ready to work along with website/blog owners and serve the ads on their sites and you get paid for every click that is initiated on the ads. The payment rate depends on the advertising company and also the cost of advertisement the advertiser is paying to the ad network.

3)  DIRECT SELLING OF AD SPACE

The statement is directly translated and it is easy for you to derive what I mean by directly selling an ad space.

Here is where you sell advertisement space on your website and you place advertisements on the website directly from the advertiser. The mode of payment will be negotiated between you (the website/blog owner) and the advertiser who is willing to pay for the advertisement to be on your website.

  You can place the ads on the main page of your website of in the various pages in the website and the ads can best appear on the sides or between the content.

Direct advertising can be very rewarding unlike using ad networks since ad networks share a certain percentage that they receive from advertisers while here you are reaping 100% revenue.

4)  SELLING YOUR OWN PRODUCT

If you are running a personal business, you can use your website to post the various products that you are selling. This is the best way to reach out to your clients. Your website is the best channel to market your business products as it vastly reaches Millions of people globally or even in the specific country you are in.

Using a website to market your products will increase your sales.

5)  SELL YOUR WEBSITE TO MAKE PROFIT

Building and selling websites for a profit is a good business to do if you truly have the knowhow.  Many people globally are not good in building up websites and many of them hate to build a website from scratch since it calls for a lot of professionalism and a hard day’s work. Many people could prefer to start with a well-built website and could be willing to pay anything just to have the beginning done for them.

If you have the skill or capability to do so then this is a rewarding exercise to try out.