How does someone make money owning a web site?

How can I make money off of my web site?

• Hello I want to make money off of my website ($5 a week I all ready live off of $0 a week and want to make money off of my web site) How can I do this?

• Answer:

  Affiliate Advertising Adsense (Google's Ad Program) Adcenter (Microsoft's Ad Program) Email Marketing Personally, I think affiliate advertising will generate the most income because you're working directly with each company instead of working through Microsoft or Google. However, most affiliate advertising programs only pay you on commission or PPA (pay-per-action), so if the content of your website doesn't influence it's visitors to complete some action or purchase something, then affiliate advertising is less likely to work. If it is a blog, generally Adwords will bring in the most income because they pay-per-click whether or not the visitor completes an action. The payout is much smaller, but more frequent. Example: Affiliate Advertising: Sign-up might get you $2 - $5 and a purchase might get you 3% - 50% of total. Adwords: normally $0.10 - $2.50 per click generated (depends on the keyword, $0.10 - 0.50 would be the most common) If your website has a newsletter or weekly/monthly email list, than you could display any of the above ads somewhere in the content of your email. Remember, the biggest key is getting visitors to your website. Without that, you could display all the ads in the world and not make a penny. The best way to get visitors is create great, original, and informative content that visitors will like to read. The second best way, is to rank high on search engines. If you do not know how to do this, search SEO (search engine optimization) on Google. Above all do some research and find what advertising program would work best for your specific website. Good Luck!