8 Steps to Developing Ad Revenue from Your Website
There are three primary ways to monetize (that is, generate revenue from) a website: Ecommerce . Receive profits from direct sales of products or services. Affiliate marketing . Receive referral fees from merchants when a product or service you linked to results in a sale as a result of your link. Advertising . Receive ad revenue for displaying advertising on your website, blog, or e-mail newsletter. It’s the third approach that we’ll be exploring in this article. Your dream may be to build a website, have people visit in droves, and then rake in ad revenue while relaxing at the beach. It’s a common dream, but an unrealistic one — for most people and businesses, that is. If you have the right kind of site and if you work hard and smart, however, you might be able to achieve at least modest advertising revenue from your site. Whether you’ll put in much beach-time, remains to be seen. Stating the Obvious Before I begin, let me state a few obvious principles of...