How do I Monetize a Free Website?

If successful at monetizing your site, you'll make more than just change.

The first step to making money with a website is monetizing it correctly. You can monetize a website with several different items such as products you make yourself, pay-per-click advertising, and selling for other people to gain a commission. Once your site is monetized, you need to drive traffic to it. Your goal is to get hoards of people to visit your site each day and click on your ads, buy your products or buy products you are selling for others.

Instructions

1. Go to the Google Adsense website (see Resources). Sign up for an Adsense account. Select the size you want your ads to be and the color scheme for both the background and text of the the ads. Copy the html code the site generates after you've completed the ad design. Take that code and place it on your site to make Google Adsense ads display on your webpages.

2. Go the ClickBank website (see Resources). Sign up for an account. Search for a product in the Clickbank marketplace that interests you either by putting keywords in the search box or searching by category. Click on the product and copy your personal Clickbank hop code for the product. Paste the code onto your site where you want an advertisement for the product to display.

3. Create your own product by writing an ebook or an informational report. You can also hire a freelancer to write the ebook or report for you. Go to a site like Ejunkie and upload your informational product. Ejunkie will give you a code you can place on your site that will produce a "buy now" graphic and send people to download your product. Put the html code on your site.

References

• Google: Good Expands Advertising Monetization
• Stanford Graduate School: The High Price of Internet Keyword Auctions

Resources

• E-Junkie
• Google Adsense
• Clickbank