Make Money With Websites

Frankly if you don't have knowledge of computers and internet, your chances are very slim of making on internet. So, you want to make money from web site

! Like you I decided to make money from my website. It took me whole 6 months to know all about this fascinating way of making money from home.

Have you ever wondered how do websites make money ? Answer is simple. Websites turn to a host of money making activities like affiliate programs. Website is the ultimate money making machine, it earns even when you are sleeping. So instead of earning few $s from 10 different websites, it is wise to have your own website and only effort you have to put is to make your website popular, in return you can earn hundreds of dollar every month.

Anyone who has a website, or can build a website, has a great basis for making money online. Any web site can get advertisers even if it is relatively unknown. Most of the websites, now a days earn extra income from this great opportunity called Pay-Per-Click Contextual Advertising.

Another way, by which web sites

earn money are Affiliate Programs. So, what are Affiliate Programs - Affiliate programs allow you to make money from your website by displaying advertisements on your pages and receiving commissions per click through or product sold. Affiliate programs are another way of making your web site profitable.

Affiliate Network

is an intermediary from where you can choose affiliate program from a wide range. The process to join a Affiliate program/network is very simple. Just visit their site and fill their application

form. You will get instant consent in some programs while in others manual checking of your application is done. On approval, you will get a piece of HTML code, to be cut and pasted on your website.

If you don't have a website, no problem just make one, these days making website is a fun with the availability of HTML editors

like Dreamweaver.

Now , if you are planning to design your website in order to make money. I would advice you to read following sections, so that when your website is up on net, it is fully optimized for various search engines

, because most of the traffic you site is going to get from these search engines, and best of it, for no extra cost.

Start from here along with designing your website -

Theme of your website - Prefer a theme for your website on which content is easily available from offline sources like, magazine, newspaper, books etc. This has many advantages,firstly you can find large volome of content for your website, remember larger website perform batter as they keep visitor on your web site for longer time, secondly, you don't have to waste much time searching for content to update your site.

Importace of Content - Want to know what makes one website a stand-out when others fail ? In a word, it's content. Visitors to your website want to find a clean, readable design that has the right fonts and colors and quick downloads--but then they want the design to "get out of the way." Web users are voracious consumers of information. In fact, today's web surfers are looking at more web pages

in a single session than ever, but are spending less time per page. So for your site to deliver customer satisfaction and build sales, effective content is of paramount importance.

Content should be fresh, informative and unique. This will make visitor to stay and come again. Update your web site with fresh content regularly, so that evey time visitor come to your web site to find new information.This will increase the credibility of your web site.

Must for a website:
Professional Look - Professionally designed web site helps to increase credibility of your web site.
You should provide visitors a way to contact you from web site.
Provide your web site visitor a option to subscribe update newsletters.

Optimizing your Web site to Earn Money:

If you have a website which is running all you have to do is to insert "Google Contextual Ads" on all the web pages of the site at appropriate places and website will start earning money instantly!

Ways to Make Money on the Internet

Adbrite - Sell space on your site for text ads

Amazon Affiliate Program - Easily create a store or shopping section on your site instead of sending your visitors to Amazon. Amazon handles the shopping cart and fulfillment.

Amazon Seller - Sell your stuff on Amazon

Associated Content - If you write a story, how-to, rant, etc. you can submit it to them and they will pay you $3-$20 per article if they like it

Azoogleads - Another ad program. They do have some decent companies lined up as advertisers. You provide space, they'll provide an ad.

BidVertiser - PPC (pay per click) program with a low $10 payout amount.

Build a Niche Store - This is a simple store / website development platform which enables you to create content based sites that generate income through the eBay affiliate programs. Pretty darn simple.

Blog - Start a blog and consistently write excellent content. With good ad placement, you may make some money. I detail my process here: Simply Said, How to Blog .

Business Opportunities Blog - I am adding this because I am a subscriber to their site and I see ideas everyday that could result in making money. A lot of the ideas pertain to online businesses. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, it's a good reference.

Cafepress - You provide a design, they'll toss it on a T-Shirt, Hat, etc. No upfront costs. Get a free online shop and promote your products on your website.

Chitika - Their eMiniMalls service has shown great results for many Bloggers and site owners. You choose a keyword and they show relevant products on your site using a pretty unique interface.

Clickbank - Quickly becoming my favorite affiliate program. They have thousands of things for you to advertise on your site.

ClicknWork - Get paid $5-$150 per hour for basically doing freelance work on a per-assignment basis. You have to pass a pretty tough test to get in.

Clicksor - These are the guys that generate contextual ads on sites that show up when you hover over a double-underlined word.

Commission Junction - If you have a site, you can join Commission Junction. Once enrolled for free, you can choose companies whose ads are pertinent to your site. Companies have the ultimate say on working with you. There are easily over 1,000 companies to choose from here.

CreamAid - For blogs only, advertisers provide you with a topic and you write about it on your site. To do this, you have to install a flash widget into your blog post. The more people you bring into the conversation through the widget, the more you get paid. It's difficult to explain.

eefoof - Think of it as YouTube + Flickr + Music. You add original content and they pay you based on the visitors you attract.

Ether - If you are an expert on something, Ether provides a way for people to pay you to talk about it in a one-on-one setting. If you want to charge $250/hr, that's fine. You have to do all the advertising so you should have a blog or site already established.

eBay - Come on, you know what this is. Gather your junk and sell it!

eBay Stores - If you have a real store and want to sell your stuff online, this is a decent option to get you started.

ELance - Name gives it away. Programmers, Codes, Web Designers, Writers, Editors, can look for freelance opportunities.

Feedvertising - This is an arm of Text Link Ads and is currently only good for Wordpress 2.0 Users. This does me no good currently, but as you can guess, they place ads in your feed(s).

Feedburner / Google - Not only are they the best place to house your feeds, they will also add ads to your feed and website. You get paid per impression and if you implement Google Adsense to your feed, you are paid per click.

Google Adsense - Come on, you don't need an explanation; these ads are all over the place. Google displays relevant ads based on your site's content

Google Adwords - Create simple text ads and choose keywords that determine when they are displayed. This is where the Adsense Content comes from. You do not need a site for this.

H3.com - Get paid to fill jobs. Commissions range from $50-$5,000. It all depends on how tough the job is to fill and how desperate the hiring company is. This is another one that's tough to explain.

Indeed.com - Add their job board to your site. They then post jobs based on the geographic location of visitors and the position types you pre-select. I tried it and I they continually report that I sent 0 visitors and I know that's not right. Nevertheless, I may have an isolated problem so they make the list.

InnerSell - If you have a customer that wants to buy something you cannot sell, you can sell the lead here.

Jellyfish - This is a shopping site that pays you a percentage of the purchases made by people you refer. They are not part of a wider affiliate program so you do it direct.

Jigsaw - It's a pretty flaky model but if you have a Rolodex full of good contacts, you can sell them here. I can't make sense of it but it looks like you get $0.10 per profile.

KarmaOne - They are basically a recruiting website. If you fill one of their jobs by finding a good candidate, you'll get paid anywhere from $50-$12,000. It all depends on how desperate the hiring company is.

LinkShare.com - If you have a site, you can join Linkshare. Once enrolled for free, you can choose companies whose ads are pertinent to your site. Companies have the ultimate say on working with you. Like Commission Junction, there are a ton of companies waiting to evaluate your site.

Microsoft Adcenter - Bid on keywords and Microsoft places your created ads then they are searched for. This is similar to Google Adwords. You do not need a site for this.

Overstock.com - Sell your stuff on Overstock.com

Pageflakes - This is a company that developed a user-defined Ajax homepage to show feeds, flickr photos, and a ton of other things. Think of it as a replacement for your Google Homepage. Anyway - they'll pay you $1 per referral that you send over. They are not part of a wider affiliate program so you do it direct. This one is pretty simple.

Pay Per Post - I don't agree with this model entirely but they have advertisers that will pay you to write about their products on your blog.

Pheedo - If you have an RSS feed, run it through Pheedo. Like Feedburner, they can include ads into your feed and if you really become large, advertisers will pay a premium for you to show their ads.

Shareasale.com - I've never really worked with them but I do have an account. They are similar to Commission Junction and Linkshare however they seem to have lower tiered companies with advertising offers.

Shoemoney - This is a blog that can teach you a ton on making money online. I've spent hours reading his old stuff.

Software Judge - They will pay you up to $50 to review software.

Text Link Ads - I have never made a dime here but I know people that have. You can earn by sending advertisers to them or by selling spots on your site. You must have a real site or blog to do this - nothing on a shared domain (i.e. /blogspot).

Vibrant Media - Don't bother unless your site has 500,000 page views of text based content a month. If you have that readership, these are the guys that display bubble box ads to underlined words on your site.

West Work At Home Agent - Not entirely online but this is worth a mention because it's won awards and is very legitimate. If you are an at-home Mom or free-lancer without work, you should check this out.

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions - This is a pretty simple and cheap way to create an online store

Making Money With Google Adsense.

Google AdSense is an ad-serving program that places ads based on relevant content and assumptions about who might be interested in that content. AdSense is an application of the broader concept of Contextual Marketing

Contextual Marketing is just what it sounds like. On a website about pet dogs, you might have an ad for dog food. On a website about learning dance, you might have an ad for dance tutors. A hockey site might advertise hockey sticks…and a tennis site, tennis shoes.

Contextual Marketing just means aligning the ad serving with the context/nature of the website and its audience, the same way like items are grouped in a store. And the “context” can be cut much finer than website level, it can be page level, article level, and so on, so the ads always match the material they are appearing near, and thus, appeal to the interest of the reader/buyer at any given moment.
So what’s in it for you – the website publisher/owner?

That’s easy. Every time a visitor to your site clicks one of these ads, you make money. The better the ads are targeted, the more clicks you get, the more money you make. AdSense displays easy-to-read, text-based, relevant ads that don’t overshadow the content of your website or annoy visitors. Actually, you have seen hundreds of these ads yourself, as you’ll realize in a moment.

The magic of Google AdSense is this: It allows you to earn money through every page of your website. On top of that, with algorithms used to align ad content with page content Google automatically selects and displays ads for your website that are likely to generate the highest revenue for you.
How the Ads Get On Your Site

Once you join the AdSense program – and Google approves your site or sites,the actual process of displaying ads on your website is extremely simple. You are provided with a small HTML (javascript) script, which you can paste anywhere on your webpage. You may paste this code on multiple pages, and watch the ads get served! Google automatically places AdWords ads that are most relevant, from its extensive advertiser base. Google employs various sophisticated algorithms to determine the relevancy of the ads to your content.

You can even place adsense on free blog sites like blogspot and free webpages like googlepage.

TIP: Read the terms and conditions of google and follow them strictly. If you violate google terms & condition, your adsense account will be terminated and you will loose a genuine money making opportunity on the net.