How Websites Are Monetized

Sites can be monetized through a variety of options. Google Adsense is the main one so you should have (or open) an account with Google.

Sites can also be monetized with Chitika, Amazon, AdBrite, Ebay and any ad network you want (e.g. Clickbank, Commsision Junction, etc.. With User Ads, you can advertise whatever programs or products you like.

Accounts with all the major ad networks are free to open.

All can be used in conjunction with Adsense, rather than instead of it. You can turn on and off ads from these networks in the site configuration as you wish.

In addition, you can also add dynamic in-text links for Infolinks and Kontera or any other service you use which dynamically turns words on your pages into links to ads  or products.

So there are several ways your pages are monetized. There’s no way of knowing how well each of these income streams will do – their performances will be different for each website, but they all add up to that final bottom line.

How Much Can You Expect To Make Per Website?

This is a bit like asking “how long is a piece of string?”. There are so many variables involved: how well your pages are optimised, how much you promote them, how quickly they’re picked up by the search engines, how your pages rank in those engines, how  many people visit your site, how many of those click on ads and links and what particular ads or links they click on. It also depends on how much per click an advertiser is willing to pay for the contextual ads (like Adsense) displayed on your site (the credit crunch has seen Adsense advertisers reducing their budgets for instance). You get the idea.

But a ballpark figure is that you should expect to average $0.10-$0.25 per day per site. Now some sites will do a lot better than this. Some will do worse. But averaged over all your sites, that’s what you can expect per day.

Doesn’t sound like much, does it? But you have to think in terms of numbers here. Big numbers. Because that’s what this game is all about.

To illustrate: Let’s say you average $0.25 per day for your website. That’s $7.50 a month, $90 per year. With 10 sites, that’d be $2.50 a day, $75 a month, $900 a year.

Build 100 sites and you’re looking at $25 per day, $750 per month, $9000 a year!

It's a numbers game.

And suppose over the course of a year, you did build one new site every day. At the end of that year, you’d potentially be earning $91.25 per day, $2737.50 per month, $32, 850 per year!

Ok enough of the hype. What you can see is that the more sites you build, the more money you’ll make and that you don’t need to build a huge number before you start seeing real returns.