how do websites make money

How do websites make money? For the majority of bloggers, and websites builders the whole purpose is to share information with the world. For some it is to vent, and for a few, people enjoy reading about their life. Then there are many that build websites that make money for them, and more people then we think make a good living just from that. How do websites make money? Thats a good question. But it is a multi-part answer.

How do websites make money? Information

In order for your website to make money, you have to share worth reading information. Anyone can build a website with nothing but ads. Those websites do nothing in my opinion but take up valuable virtual real estate. What I mean is you have to attract the readers, keep their attention, and make them come back. So the first part of "how do websites make money" is through information that readers enjoy.

How do websites make money? Monetize

The second part to "How do websites make money" is to monetize those websites. There are a few ways to monetize a website. The first way is through google adsense. The owner of the website or blog places google adsense ads on their website. When someone visits a website with google adsense there will be ads. If this ad catches the reader's eye the reader will click on the ad. The owner of the website through google adsense will get from a few cents to a few dollars. This depends on the content of the website. Many website owners do make a good living just off of google adsense. To become part of the google adsense commission program, google search google adsense and sign up there. (make sure to follow all rules and guidlines in the adsense program or your account will get banned)

The next way to make money from a website is through affiliate programs. The three affiliate programs I use are Clickbank, paydotcom, and payspree. However there are hundreds more out there. Even though this could be 5 more post I am going to give you the basics of "how do websites make money with affiliate programs." When you sign up to the programs I just listed you will be able to pick through thousands of products that are related to your website and content. You will get links, or urls that have your affiliate ID attached. When someone see a product on your website you are advertising they click on it. Once they make a purchase you recieve a percentage of the sale. Most people who have products in these companies keep the percentage high. That way the more money they pay for refferal sell the more people who will promote their product.

Clickbank
paydotcom
payspree

How do websites make money? Blog Post

This is a simple way of making a few extra bucks. Actually since I started I have made a few hundred. This is through writing blog post or using peoples articles on your blog. I do this through blogvertise Most of the payments for each blog post is 10 dollars. However I have recieved less, and I have recieved more. The more blogs and catagories you have the more gigs you will get. Most of the time the person paying for the post already has a post or article written. All you do is copy and paste as is. Once blogvertise checks your post through their system, you payment is then processed. Really that simple. There are also other programs out there just for blogs. But just with adsense, clickbank, paydotcom, payspree, and blogvertise I make a descent living.

How do websites make money? Traffic

This is the most important piece of the question "how do websites make money" and again this is another one of those 5 post answers. In order to get make money with a website you have to have traffic, or visitors. Without readers you can have your website monetized to the T but you are not going to make money. There are many "gurus" who are selling a push button software that promises to deliver traffic to your website while you sleep. The honest truth is if it worked that good, those so called gurus would not be selling the software. I dont care how good of a saint they want you to think they are. If gurus had the answer they would not make money selling all the garbage they put out each month. The only true way to build a website that makes money is to build a website to get traffic.

The only way to build a website to get traffic is to properly build your website that google loves. If google loves your website than that my friend is free traffic, and could be thousands of visitors a month, week, or the day. If you go through this blog you will read a few post I have on google sniper. I dont want to sound like a fanatic but I absolutely love google sniper and what it has done to my website knowledge. I now have a few websites sitting pretty on first page of google for my keywords. I am not going to go into to much detail about this one but if you click google sniper you will be introduced to a lazy brilliant english guy who by far outranks any "guru" today.

So how do websites make money? I hope I answered that for you, but let me recap
Quality information: readers
Monetize: money
Properly built website: free traffic

To your wealth
James