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You've created a great site with lots of great content and have chosen your web host. So the big question is what’s next? Unless you are especially altruistic (and if you search the web, you’ll be surprised to see just how many people are), you’ll probably want to make some money out of your efforts. But how do you turn this stream of dots on a screen into a revenue stream? Here are a few pragmatic tips that might help basic steps that will get you started and (hopefully) start you thinking.
How will people find my site?
Submit Websites to Search Engines For Free
Before you can make money from your site, people have to visit it - it’s as simple as that. Your first job then is to get people to visit your site. It doesn't matter whether you have the best site in the world, if people can't find it you are never going to get any visitors. Getting your site known means using search engines, and to get you started, that means submitting to a few of the key engines, particularly Google.
Luckily, there are a number of free web sites that help people to submit sites to search engines. The one I use is Addme.com. This has a very simple interface which guides you through submitting to a number of engines including Subjex, Alexa, Scrub The Web, FAST Search AllTheWeb, LookSeek, Jayde, InfoTiger, NerdWorld, Aeiwi, Walhello, LifeTips, ExactSeek, and EntireWeb. Most importantly, Addme.com gets you into Google. You might want to supplement this with a registration to MSN and Yahoo! (outside Google two of the biggest players) although I have never found registration to the latter particularly easy. Take a look around on the Internet - you might see others submission sites that I don't know about that will help you out with Yahoo! In fact there are thousands of search engines you need to submit to, but for now, until the ball starts rolling, this will do. Don't make the mistake many people do, hitting as many registration sites as possible in order to increase your chances of a good placing. It doesn't work like that. Submitting to the same engine many times actually does the opposite. In fact, it could get you completely banned from a search engine. And don't submit specific pages of your web site as an alternative, it won’t help.
What is Pay-Per-Acquisition?
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Although niche web sites might be able to attract advertisers with fewer visitors, the fact is that most sites need some traffic before advertisers decide to invest in them between 500 and 2,000 visitors a day or more are really necessary for serious advertisers. One alternative to this is pay-per-acquisition schemes. Let’s imagine you have you have a community-based web site covering a particular area. It might prove that you could set up a page for a local restaurant. The page could provide a form which people could use to reserve tables at the restaurant. The form sends an email to you, and to the restaurant. If the customer turns up, you get 5% of the meal price as commission. Of course, to work this way, you need to build very trusting relationships, but believe me, if you start sending customers to a restaurant (or anywhere else for that matter) from your web site, they won't cheat you!
Pay Per Click Affiliates Programs
Can I have my own Affiliate Program?
As you will probably see if you enter the Linkshare.com site, the technology used for affiliate programs is pretty intense probably more than you can handle at the beginning. But it doesn't have to be that way for you. Again, use your imagination. Now that you have a website, you are part of the Internet community. Although it might not be a face-to-face meeting that you have, you WILL meet other webmasters and website owners, and most will be in the same boat as your limited technical skills and money. If there is a match, put your products or services on their web sites and split the profit. They can set up forms to provide the local restaurant with bookings, but you will remain the middle man. Again, there will be an element of trust here. Generally in my experiences when people see a revenue stream growing they are pretty keen to nurture it!
Is it possible to sell my content?
One final way of making money from a web site is by selling its content. Especially if it is particularly specialized content, you can pass what you write on to other web sites and possibly even newspapers and magazines. However, you have to be pretty good to make this pay, and unless you have a background in writing and can produce the volume required, this might not be for you. So where does that leave me?
Generating Revenue
A good measure of site success is revenue, how much revenue does your site bring in per month, or how large of a profit do you make? This is where the demographics you had to think about when planning your site come into play. Do you have a site that makes money?
Affiliate Program: Also possibly called a revenue sharing program, a partnership program, or any other variation of the term, an affiliate program is a program in which you typically sign up with a merchant to sell or advertise their products and then they give you a commission based on the sales you generate. Variations of the typical affiliate program could also pay you based on user registrations or any other user action. As has been mentioned there isn't much of a difference between affiliate programs and CPA advertising.
If God gives you lemons, make lemonade. Likewise with a web site! So long as you do not set off with a view that you will be rich overnight (or even after a few months), you will be able to maintain the motivation to see the site through until it does start making money. Aim to make a (moderate) living from it that’s all. The rest will be a bonus. Look at what you have and the limitations that impact the site. Work within those limitations. If you don’t have money, you can’t really invest in the technology that will help your site compete with the big boys. Consider low-cost, pragmatic ways of generating revenue. Once you start on this path, you will start seeing possibilities and connections low-tech solutions in a high-tech world!
"If you've been on the Internet for a while, you've probably subscribed to a few ezines. Many ezine publishers will include an article written by a guest author. At the end of the article are a few lines of text about the author referred to as bylines or resource box. These lines of text are basically just an advertisement for the writer. They usually contain a couple of lines about the author and a web address.
The writer gives the publisher permission to publish their article, f-r-e-e of charge, in exchange for the publisher including the author's bylines. By writing articles and allowing them to be f-r-e-e-l-y published, your articles will have the potential to be viewed by millions of Internet users. They may be published by several ezines with subscriber bases of a few hundred to several thousand. In addition, they may be displayed in ezine archives or on high traffic web sites."
How to make links work for your website
By Gerry McGovern
Quality links from external websites will help get more of the right people to your website. Well written links within your website will ensure your readers can act in a way you want them to. Linking is about driving action. It’s about getting the right people to the right content as quickly as possible. The more external links you have, the more ways there are to get to your website. A link is like embedded word of mouth. It’s a very positive thing. The more times people see links to your website, the more likely they are to visit. The more links you have, the more likely you are to rank highly in search results. Here are some tips when getting external links:
1) Get relevant links. If you’re selling content management software, there’s no point in being linked to from gardening websites.
2) Avoid reciprocal linking. Getting a link by giving a link is generally not a good idea. Unless the other website absolutely makes sense to link to, don’t link to it.
3) Get linked from websites that don’t link to too many other websites. If you’re just one link among a long list of links, there’s not much value there.
4) Get linked from websites that are also well-linked. The more other websites that are linking to the website that is linking to you, the more valuable a link from them is.
5) Get links that reflect how people search. Let’s say that your customers search for content management workshops. If you can get links with that exact phrase, the chances of you being found during those types of searches are increased.
6) Don’t keep changing the structure of your website. If you change the structure you risk breaking incoming links.
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