The Best Way to Make Good Money From Your
Website Using Affiliate Programs

by Jonathan White

Published on this site: February 10th, 2006 - See more articles from this month

Have you got a website that is not making you much money? Have you ever sat down and thought to yourself, “what’s the best way to make some good money from my site?” If so, then this article should give you some ideas of how to make more money from your site.

There are thousands of different types of sites online, but most of them are online for one reason and one reason only and this is to make money.

So how can you make money from your website?

Making money from any individual website can work. How you make money from your website depends on the topic of your site and also your site visitors. Listed below are some of the ways that you can earn money from certain websites.

1. A gaming website
   
   Gaming sites are very popular on the Internet but are not all that profitable. They are so popular that they tend to attract large amount of visitors rather quickly depending on how good your games are and how often you add new games, etc.
   
   Earning money from gaming sites can be done. Because gaming sites are so popular and it is an ever growing online industry, then earning money from these type of sites can be somewhat harder than earning money from something like a financial site or web hosting site.
   
   Some of the best ways to earn from a gaming site is to either use ad networks that pay on a CPM model or to offer your own CPM advertising or to use Adsense.
   
   
2. A web hosting directory
   
   Web hosting is a very popular type of online company. People need web hosting to host their sites. Web hosting providers pay hundreds of dollars on advertising fees just so that they can get a slice of the online web hosting market.
   
   Earning money from web hosting directories like http://www.1hostseeking.com is rather a lot easier than earning from gaming sites as you can earn more. For example, if you used an affiliate program that pays per click, then you can be looking at around $0.20 - $10.00 per click depending on how many advertisers the affiliate programs network contains.
   
   
3. A freebie directory
   
   A freebie directory like http://www.1freebieseeking.com is similar to a gaming site as it is very popular, but is not all the profitable. If you can attract a good crowd of visitors to your freebie site then you can expect to make a nice amount of money from your site. There are many ways of making money. You can make money using ad networks that pay on a CPM and CPC model as these normally pay the best. But another good way of making money from a freebies directory is by joining some of the Ad networks that pay on a CPL and CPA model and offers freebie campaigns, which only needs a visitor’s email or zip code for you to get paid for the lead or action.
   
   You can find a large amount of good quality Ad Networks that pay on a CPL and CPA model at http://www.affiliateseeking.com in the "Affiliate Programs" category.
   
   
4. Earning from a large content site
   
   Earning from a site that has lots of visitors and a large amount of content that is updated on a daily basis is a lot easier than earning from some other sites.
   
   You have more opportunities for earning from your site, as more ad networks are likely to accept you into their affiliate program. The best way to earn from these types of sites is to use a CPM or CPC model. As you have so many visitors it would be best if you set up your own advertising so that you can cut out the middleman and get 100% of the advertising revenue.

Jonathan White has been involved in online affiliate marketing and general online marketing for over three years now and is the Webmaster of http://www.simplysearch4it.com and http://www.simplysearch4it.co.uk