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Generating Revenue from your Website

Even if you missed the dot-com boom, it does not mean that the gravy train has totally passed you by. Here are some ways you can make your Web site pay for itself and maybe even bring you a bit of extra money as well.

Text Ads:

Programs like Google AdSense (www.adsense.com) allow you to carry text ads significant to your site’s content. You’ll earn a few sents every time a visitor views or clicks an ad.

Subscriptions:

Try asking yourself, “Is your Web content worth paying for?” If the answer is yes, then you can charge users for access. However, be informed that subscription management services like VisionGate (www.visiongateportal.com) or MemberGate (www.membergate.com) can cost you from a few hundred to several thousands of pounds monthly, that being dependent on the number of subscribers.

Self-publishing:

Hardball Times baseball site editor-in-chief Aaron Gleeman, utilised a more traditional method of generating income from his hobby. He published a couple of books like The Hardball Times Baseball Annual via Lulu Press (www.lulu.com) . The royalties he generated from it entitled him to pay his pool of writers a modest stipend and to make a comfortable if not easy living.

Affiliate programmes:

A lot of online merchants rely on networks of affiliate sites to move product. Affiliate aggregators like LinkShare (www.linkshare.com) or Commission Junction (www.cj.com) allow you to select from several hundreds of affiliate advertisers where some could offer commissions as high as 40 percent.

These are just some handful tips that can help your website generate revenues and even boost its ranking. Some of them might be effective while some may not. Nonetheless, you are now offered some options you can try and make some out of it.

Be brave to try at least one. Who knows, this might be the one you have been waiting for all along.