How to Monetize Your Website or Blog

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Review of Affiliate Programs

The Internet today provides so many opportunities for ordinary people like you and me to make money from websites and blogs. These opportunities range from contextual advertising to affiliate marketing.

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Squidoo.com

Ideal place for beginners to start...

If you're new to the idea of 'monetizing', then a really good place to start is right here at Squidoo, especially if you don't have your own website yet. Squidoo gives you the opportunity to build pages on any topic you like, and in return gives you a share of the revenue. And, best of all, it costs you nothing to get started, and there's a wonderful community to help you along.

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Amazon Affiliate Program

If you're an Amazon Associate, you have the option to put on your own affiliate links on Squidoo, and potentially earn more. These tools from SquidUtils generate affiliate link code that is compatible with your lens.

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Google AdSense

E-Books and Video Guides

The biggest and best know monetization program for websites is Google AdSense. Quite simply, AdSense will put ads on your website that are relevant to the content on each of your web pages. However, realising a generous monthly income from AdSense can be quite a challenge.

These great eBook and Video Guides can help you maximise your income:

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Fair Ads Network

Looking for an alternative to AdSense?

Target your ads in front of millions!


Looking for an AdSense Alternative?

It's called Fair Ads Network. And it makes sense considering everything they've done to ensure not only the advertiser benefits as much as possible, but also the publisher. There's no more unfair practices where the publisher gets the boot every so often without warning and there's no more over-populated ads from the advertiser and wasting their money.

FAN introduces the first ad network of its kind. You can earn an income regardless of whether you sign up as a publisher or an advertiser. In fact, you can register as both! They didn't stop there though, you can even transfer your funds back and forth as you please! They give you total control of everything.

Another reason to go now is because they are only accepting a limited number of members! They are partnered with 2 multi-million dollar companies and backed by a handful of millionaires. They would not have that kind of support if the potential is not there.

Tired of seeing your contextual ad earnings go no where?
» Become a FAN and see the difference.

Blogging To The Bank 3.0

The Most Successful Step-By-Step Blueprint For Long Term Blogging Success



Blogging To The Bank 3.0
is a step-by-step roadmap for you to use every time you create a new successful blog that will bring money in automatically for years to come.

There's nothing but hard hitting, proven techniques for you to use to build a blogging empire that could bring in thousands of dollars every month. Here's just a tiny fraction of what you'll discover...


  • A simple formula to create cash on demand without owning a product or website
  • Why owning your blog is an absolute must
  • Which hosting company you should use if you're just starting out
  • How to tap into the hottest new niches that have little or no decent competition
  • Which keyphrases to target to generate the most money in as fast a time as possible
  • The 2 stats you need to analyse when choosing an affiliate program
  • How to pass the 7 seconds test...
  • How to create real blogs in just a few minutes

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Sell Digital Products with ClickBank


Promoting ClickBank products is the easy way to convert your online skills into cash.

  • Clickbank has 10,000 products you can promote.
  • You can earn as much as 75% per sale.
  • Also earn recurring revenue from subscription products.
  • Single-page order form optimized for digital product conversions.
  • Real time sales stats, with ROI and campaign management tools.
  • Direct deposit of your earnings, now with weekly payouts!

You select the products you wish to promote. ClickBank handles all the tracking, accounting, and payouts automatically. With ClickBank as the trusted third party you always get paid what you are owed. Setting up is simple:

  • Sign Up as a ClickBank affiliate.
  • Search the ClickBank Marketplace for products to promote.
  • Incorporate our simple hoplinks into your marketing campaign.
  • That's it!

Guides and Tutorials to ClickBank

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ClickBank Ads for Your Lens

Thousands of products are waiting for you to promote and sell on your lens, giving you the chance to earn even more money from Squidoo.

All you have to do is put them there!

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Shopping Ads

Monetize your site with live merchant listings

ShoppingAds.com


    "This is an exciting new joint venture between TLA's parent company, MediaWhiz and ShoeMoney Media. ShoppingAds allows you to monetize your website by displaying products from merchants that match the content of your website. We are excited to offer you this new way to make more money with your website!"

I've been trying it out on one of my website, and here's what I think of it so far:

  • basically, it's like AdSense but for actual products rather than just ads
  • you can specify the exact keywords that you want to search for
  • all ads are geo-targeted (i.e. visitors see items for sale in their own currency and country)
  • affiliate returns are higher than with a regular affiliate accounts
  • they pay you at the very beginning of the next month - no more waiting
  • you can use ShoppingAds at the same time as Google AdSense

» Click here for more information about ShoppingAds.com
 

Important!

Super Affiliate Handbook

Using a step-by-step plan to business-building, the Super Affiliate Handbook answers all of the questions you will have and many, many more.

HubPages

If you like Squidoo, then you should definately give HubPages a try! It's ideal for any one looking to get into affiliate marketing.

  • Publish online with easy, non-techie tools
  • Be widely read thanks to HubPages heavy traffic
  • Create ongoing royalty opportunities
A Hub on HubPages is a rich web page that you write and design. Each time you want to write another article, you'll create another Hub. It's just like in a website, which has multiple web pages. You have the capability to add text, pictures, videos, and links in your Hub.

The HubPages "Royalties" provides you with an easy way to take advantage of the Internet's top ad revenue and commission generating tools.
  • You can set up affiliate accounts with Google, eBay and Amazon.
  • Google automatically displays ads in your Hub that are relevant to your topic.
  • eBay and Amazon products can be featured in your Hub - you decide which products to highlight.
HubPages earns its revenue from these ads, so they split the impressions with their writers.

Read the HubPages FAQ for more information, or visit my profile to see my hubs.

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Text Link Ads

Make more money by selling text based ads.

Text Link Ads


Text-Link-Ads.com are in the business of selling text links - a great way for websites to get exposure and better search engine positions. This means they need some space to put those ads, and this is where you can make money.

Once you've signed up with TLA, you put their special code on your website, and they'll sell this off to advertisers, and give you 50%. And that's all you need to do - all the sales and money stuff is handled on your behalf.

They also have an affiliate program, which can earn you $25 whenever you refer someone who signs up.


Find out more about the Text-Link-Ads.com Publisher program...

Reader Feedback

If you have any comments or questions, you can post them below. Let me know of any good programs that are missing from this list.

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    Roman Feb 11, 2012 @ 6:07 am | delete
    I've found another way to promote my blog. It's a new traffic exchange service (http://liqad.com/) and it sends back to my site much more readers than I send to liqad. I mean it's absolutely free - my stats are going up. Admin says it should be possible to sell extra traffic to monetize blog soon.
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    ashonray Feb 1, 2012 @ 9:48 pm | delete
    Great tips and lots of great information. Thanks
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    MareeT Jan 4, 2012 @ 12:04 am | delete
    Thanks so much for the great tips!
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    NickyT Dec 19, 2011 @ 3:06 pm | delete
    Great ideas here, thanks for such a comprehensive look at blog income sourcing.
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    yarddog2k Dec 10, 2011 @ 10:03 am | delete
    Good stuff. When I tried affiliate marketing, I went about it all wrong. I was trying to "sell" the product or service. That's a big mistake. The best thing to do is educate potential customers of the product's possibilities and how the customer can benefit from it. Putting things like "buy now" just makes customers go the other way. Anyway, thanks for the tips and great lens.
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    ScottiesRock Nov 25, 2011 @ 3:20 pm | delete
    Thanks for the great article. As a newbie, I need all the help I can get!
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    spikey64 Aug 14, 2011 @ 2:37 am | delete
    Excellent lens, the guide by potpie girl is especially useful. Many thanks.
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    IncomeBooster Jul 25, 2011 @ 6:44 pm | delete
    Google Adsense has always been the best for me. I am using TLA now and have a question for you - do you sell links automatically or manually?
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    Jul 18, 2011 @ 7:34 pm | delete
    wow. this was some great information there I read. Thanks a million for the great post. Are you an internet marketer or blogger. I would love to connect with you sometime to trade some ideas and stuff like that.
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    Props-n-Frocks-Fancy-Dress Jul 15, 2011 @ 8:41 am | delete
    Great lens thanks a lot for sharing - I will be back to read again as I want to make more of my Squidoo lenses & Hubpages
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    Ghaznfr Jul 10, 2011 @ 4:09 pm | delete
    I want to monetize my blog by hosting third party videos integrated with advertisement. Please suggest me the names of video advertisers offering services to blog publishers. Thanks
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    rosepearl Jun 28, 2011 @ 1:31 am | delete
    A very useful guide. Thanks
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    AigulErali Jun 27, 2011 @ 7:46 am | delete
    Lots of good ideas to monetize my websites. Thumbs up!
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    jack341 Jun 26, 2011 @ 9:05 am | delete
    Great, useful lens :) will definitely be trying some of these.
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    Yogizilla Jun 11, 2011 @ 11:37 pm | delete
    A great source for beginners and people looking to diversify their income streams alike. I find that the key thing to do is to build up active and residual income side-by-side. As you build up residual income, we free up more time to work on the things we are most passionate about, thus being able to actively update key content. It's a natural and more realistic approach to things. Don't expect to join an affiliate network, put up ads, throw up some nice content, and have the big bucks pour in.. If only it were that easy!

    The good news is that the rise of social media and gaming mechanics on the Internet has made it easier for the little guys to get noticed. It's not merely about finding a niche. It's about engaging our audiences in meaningful, authentic ways.. That's what creates life-long customers and your most avid supporters!
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