Making online money from a website
Quiet often as a webmaster you would have given a thought to make money online from your website. However, least one knows about different ways of online earning. Needless to say, online earning largely depends on the traffic or number of visitors that your site generates. Yet there is one more important factor is at play and it is the geographicl traffic. For example, madeitsimple.com is a site and caters largely to Indian visitors. Many advertising networks provides ads that are specific to certain service or a product that is sold only in USA. So putting these ads just for the sake of it will not help. Let us understand some of the most important poitns and some of the best online advertising networks that you can target.
Traffic: As I already mentioned earning from the ads largely depends on the traffic that you can generate from your site. Geographical traffic would also make a large difference in earning.
Content: Content is the major factor that is responsible for the traffic generation and click thru rate. Click thru rate is the number of clicks per 1000 visitors. So one is adviced to maintain unique & fresh contents on the website.
Placement of the ads: This factor would determine click thru rate of your advertising account. Placing the ads in the top left are would incerase the visibility exponentially as top left is the area on screen where a person looks initially.
Type of Ads: This factor gives you an option of different types of advertising options. You may choose from PPC, Affiliate marketing, Inline ads, Video ads, Pay per thousand impressions & Some more.
SEO: Without a serach engine optimization all your efforts of making money online is in vain. Make sure you have basic SEO done for your website. Visibility and search engine saturation also make its due contribution towards optimization.
Caution before you start making money online:
1. Adhere to TOS of the advertising netowrk.
2. Do read the TOS carefully. We all have a bad habit of scrolling down and directly selecting option “Yes, I accept”.
3. Do not violate the advert placement guidelines.
4. Do not click on your own ads
5. Don’t think google is not looking at you.
6. Do not put advert code behind a clickable image.
7. Do not fool around your visitors & always follow transperent policies
8. Lastely, always remember your prime aim has to be serving your visitors. If you do this, money shall follow.
I wish you all the best in your online money making stint.
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