Earn money with a website

Originally Posted by merline I would like to know the different ways to earn money with a website. Thanks

Hi Merline

I know that you posted a very broad question but I will try to offer you some ideas based on my own personal experience. I started marketing online about 12 years or so ago. I did not really make any money to speak of until about 3 years in but things are very different now and if you don't fall into the usual pits it can be done a lot faster.

1. Just do something: find something that you have a general interests in and that you can promote with a bit of passion and develop a site around that topic. Something that interests you will likely be easier to be consistent with working on. Don't worry about being perfect instead remember when you start it will be likely the worse you will ever do and if you are consistent you will get better. DONT just chase this and that make a decision and start a project and stick to it.

2. Set aside time & Money: A business will have a budget and will require consistent work. A hobby disguised as a business in your mind will miss one or both of these and trust me it will get frustrating. So set small goals and start with a SMALL budget.

Ideas:

Nothing new Affiliate Marketing:
a) find a good product that interests you

b) look for something with a good commission $20 - $50+ / Sell
especially at first you want to make as much per sell as you can . Not because of greed but because you will need to reinvest your earnings into your business to grow it and you will need to make something noteworthy as fast as you can so that you are motivated to scale up your actions.

c) build a site & offer free quality content and build a list via Email,twitter,facebook etc and update with good content consistently
( Money is in the list ).

d) offer something of quality and contextual as an incentive to join your site or list.

e) Test what works and keep a journal: if you buy services or ads keep good track and removing the bad performing ads or services + reinvest in what you find that works. Look for competitors and figure out everything you can about what they are doing to market their stuff.

Dont over sell and dont over promote and try to really share things you have found valuable. This will work well in my experience.

ADsense is good also:

You will have to pick a good niche ( profitable KW ) Buy a good domain and consistently offer good content. You will also need to find good people to work with by outsourcing some things. I think it is very important to know how much your site will make per 1000 visitors and then learn to target the best affordable traffic. Yes SEO is going to be your best friend but find everything you can about getting traffic fast because real SEO will take time.
Good luck and I hope some of this helps you out.