Is your website making you money?

When it comes to monetizing your website there are so many things you need to test and try before you find out which one works best for you. Although it might take you a while to find out the best way to make money from a website, you need to be patient and try new ways till your website starts generating a decent amount of profit.
Tips for monetizing your website

1. Affiliate Marketing

This has come up as one of the most preferred money making tactic for webmasters. What you need to do is find a product which you want to recommend to your audience and then promote the product on your website. If the product or service you are endorsing matches the requirements of your audience then they will be clicking on your affiliate link and make a purchase. Whenever they make a purchase you will be getting a fraction of the sale price.

1. Google AdSense or Pay Per Click Advertising

AdSense allows the webmasters and bloggers to make use of the enormous advertising network of Google and make money by displaying advertisements on their website. There are 2 easy ways of making money with Google AdSense.

• Impression based: Here the money you’d earn would depend on the number of page views.
• Click based: Here you’d earn some money every time your visitors clicks on the ad on your page.

Although AdSense works great on self-hosted WordPress blogs, its’ not compatible with a free WP blog.

1. Infolinks

This advertising platform would place in-text adverts in your webpage and you’d get paid whenever one of your visitors click them. Infolinks would identify the most important keywords within your content and double underline them. When the visitors moves their mouse over those keywords, a related advert would be displayed. Now if s/he clicks on the ‘learn more’ button you are going to get paid. Infolinks is a superb way to garner a little extra revenue while you’re starting up so that you get to cover all the basic website expenses.

1. Direct Ad space

When your website starts getting a decent amount of traffic, you’d slowly be able to sell direct ad space on your site. Not many advertisers would like to invest on a space in a brand new webpage, but once your traffic starts to increase the advertiser might find it reasonable to buy a direct space on your website for a monthly fee. Suppose you are running a blog about pet care and a retail pet shop was paying $3/click on Google AdSense. So if your blog gets more than 30,000 visitors every month and generates over 100,000 page views then you can charge the advertiser a flat $500/month for a banner ad. While this could be a great opportunity for you to make money out of your website, while the advertiser also gets to save a good deal.
In conclusion it needs to be mentioned that before you start making money out of your website, you’d need to get it thoroughly optimised so as to increase its’ traffic. In order to boost your website’s traffic you should consider hiring a professional SEO agenc