How to Monetize Your Website/Blog

Revenue from advertisements is surely one of the best forms of earning money from your websites. If a single day passes without any ads banners on your site, then you are literally losing money. Monetizing your websites and blogs simply means earning money from your sites. You can earn money from your sites in 2 major ways: 1. Earn Revenue From Advertisements Or 2. Sell Products & Services Lets focus on the first method for now. Do you know that you can earn money from ads banners placed on your site? Even if your site or blog is relatively new and unpopular, you can still make money from it. HOW DO YOU DO IT? Very simple. There are thousands of digital advertising networks out there. Sign up with any of them or with as many as you wish. After signing up with them, an account will be created for you where you can log in your details, including your payment details. These Are Some Of The Top Ads Networks: Google AdSense Admedia Zanox Createspace Addynamo Openadnation Amazon Regnow Chixgalore Linkshare Media.net Viglink Chitika Kontera Clicksor And many more HOW DO YOU EARN REVENUE? There are different payment schemes adopted by these ads networks: 1. CPM (pay Per impression) 2. PPC (Pay Per Click) 3. CPA (Cost Per Action) HOW DO YOU GET PAID? All the ads networks will provide you with a web form where you will be required to enter your bank account details if you desire a direct bank transfer. Other methods include: Cheque Payments Paypal Etc Direct Transfer WHEN DO YOU GET PAID? Most of these networks would not want to waste resources in issuing cheques for small amounts. They would, therefore, set a minimum amount of pay-out (called Threshold) before you can get paid. The threshold could be $25, $50, $100 or even N5,000 (Naira). That is, you would only get paid when your total accumulated revenue has reached this threshold. Some of them will pay you at the beginning of a new month; some will pay at the middle of the month; while others will pay at month end. However, it is very important to inform you that you can easily be banned by these advertisers if you breach any of their TOS (Terms of service). Check out my article on: how not to get banned by Google AdSense. Do you have a website or a blog? If you have, that is quiet great. If not, then check out: http://www.free9jaexpo.blogspot.com to get started.