Monetize Your Blog or Website

Blogging is now becoming more popular than ever before, and you should take full advantage of it. More and more online businessmen are using blogs to promote their products and services, and it just makes perfect sense to follow suit. There are several good blogging sites on the Internet that allow people to sign up and create a blogging account with them for free, such as Blogger or Wordpress. Create your blog and link your home page to it. Updating your blog regularly will allow it to become more relevant to search engines, and as a result, it will help to drive more traffic to your site. It would help a lot if your articles and posts contain the appropriate keywords.

Blogger also allow  you to use AdSense -- another way of making extra cash. Google Adsense lets you place ads on your website. Every time a visitor clicks on an ad, you make money. More clicks means you make more cash!
     
If you have a Gmail or Google account, YOU can easily get started. Login to Google, click My Account and go to Google Adsense to apply.  Ones you get their approval,  you can login again to your account to set up your adsense codes that you can can PASTE to your website or blog.

Other alternatives to Google Adsense can be found here.  You can select other advertisers that allow you to display inline or contextual ads just like Adsense. 

PTR/PTC Programs

Paid to read and Paid to click programs, otherwise known as PTR/PTC are legitimate online schemes  employed by many internet advertising companies. These companies pay people for reading emails. They pay you when you click a link in the email and visit the site that they are advertising, usually for a set amount of time. Others offer payment for surfing, clicking links, banner or just for joining or subscribing to a program.  Joining  PTR/ PTC programs is free.  Here are some links.

• Rich PTC : $1 per click; $1000 pay out.; you also get 10% from affiliate clicks
• Clicksia : $1 pay-out, 0.30 cents per click; you get paid 10% next level
• Genius PTR:  It pays more with higher payout; 10% from your affiliate clicks
• Donkeymails: $1 pay-out; 0.25 cents per click; get paid at several levels

But  I want to be honest with you. Unless you want to make a career out of it, you aren't going to make tons of money from PTR/PTC programs. It won't get you rich quick. But you can make money, and it is really easy.  Recently, there are PTC programs that pay $1 per click. Others are now paying more, but their payout is much higher.

Set Up Your Own Online Store 

If you have a good product or services to sell, you can set-up your own e-commerce store. This type of business requires a more advanced website that can received and process payment. You also need to package your product and do the shipping. This are the kind of headaches that you will encounter. For example, you can set-up a flower shop that deliver fresh flowers everywhere. Aside from the webstore, you also need to set-up your production, sourcing and delivery mechanisms. This is good if you think you have the capital, time and resources to run the business.

Your other option is  to join Amazon associate program and set-up your customized aStore under your  Account.  This associate program allows you to  select and display variety of Amazon.com  products that you want to sell and promote in a self-generating website.  You get paid when people make purchases in your store.

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