Real ways to make money from home

Simple & sure ways to make money with your website

I think the most legitimate work from home/online money-making method is designing your own website and then turn it into a host of money-making activities. The website is the ultimate money-making machine, it earns even when you are sleeping. Today, the Web is an intensely commercial medium, offering plenty of ways to make money. So your best strategy is to earn as much money as possible.

I have enlisted simple & sure ways to earn cash with your website.

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ADVERTISING ON YOUR WEBSITE

The best and most proven method of making a profit out of your website is using advertising. Internet advertising is on an ascending trend, which shows plenty of potential for the near and distant future.

1. Contextual Ads

The popular search engine – Google has introduced a dramatic new contextual advertising service called AdSense which allows virtually any website owner to make money without having to do too much. AdSense is a program in which you get paid for targeting your readers to another website's product or service. 

Google AdSense simply requires the host site to paste in a few lines of HTML code on their pages where they want those ads to appear. This code creates the ads that you see and when someone clicks on one of these ads they go to the advertiser’s site. The advertiser is then charged for the click by Google and Google shares the money with you.

Sign up for Google Adsense and place Google ads on your site. Google will display the most appropriate ads according to your content and you will get paid for every click on an ad. People are making thousands a month with this.

2. In-Text Ads

When you mouse over one of these doubly underlined sponsored links you will be presented with a ToolTip describing an advertiser’s product or service. If someone clicks on the keyword and it will act like an ordinary link taking the visitor to a page belonging to the advertising company. For every click on a highlighted keyword, you will receive a small payment.

The In-Text Advertising solution allows you to monetize your content in real-time, allowing you to raise ad revenue step by step and offering a new source of untapped ad inventory that does not overlap with the other ad programs on the web. Thereby providing you with a new revenue stream from the content within your site. ContextWeb provide in-text ads to websites.

3. Display Affiliate Programs Links & Banners

Another method of monetizing your traffic by putting links/banners of affiliate programs on your website. The concept is really quite simple. Everything is based on a paid referral system. Visitors come to your website, you introduce them to a third-party vendor's product or service through a banner or text connection, and the merchant pays you a commission in one of several ways:

a. Paid per click

b. Paid per lead

c. Paid per sale

You can choose to affiliate-programs where different advertisers offer their banners codes and links that will display their banners on your site along with tracking of your sales and leads. Best affiliate networks to get affiliate programs are :

1. Commission Junction
2. Clixgalore
3. Linkshare

4. Sell Affiliate Products

Another profitable way to earn money is to sell affiliate products. You simply direct traffic to their Website and earn commissions when people buy products.

1. A good way to start with affiliate products is to sign up with ClickBank. There are well over 10,000 different Digital info products. Write up some reviews and recommendations and send traffic to the ClickBank merchant, and if the product sells, you get commissions sometimes as high as 75%. 

This type of Website is very simple to set up, however, it requires a large amount of visitor traffic to earn significant money. It’s easy to complement an existing Website with affiliate links for offering related products to your visitors and, at the same time, earning money.

2. Make money selling other company’s products through affiliate programs. They’ll give you a link to track your sales. Amazon.com is a great place to get HTML codes for various products to promote and earn a commission. Thousands of people are making a full-time income just by driving traffic from their site to merchant sites, never touching or shipping a product.

5. Charge a Fee to Access a Section of Your Site 

Provide free access to the main sections of your website, but you can charge a fee for access to the member's lounge where more lucrative information is often available. If your content is unique and valuable, you can make money charging for it online. People will pay for access if it’s useful to them. Your member's lounge could be a forum, downloadable software, eBooks, listings, etc.

6. Collect and Sell Information 

Creating an information database isn’t just a good idea – it's good business. e.g., you can compile listings for free classified websites, ezines, directories, work at home websites, etc. Put a price tag to download them.

7. Sell your Own Services to your Target Audience

For example, if you have a website dedicated to "making money online" and you are a web designer, you can offer to create a website for one of your visitors so that they can profit from it. You want to be able to take credit cards (at least with PayPal if not otherwise) on your site and deliver your product to your customers as fast as possible.

There are many more methods to make money, but the given methods can generate a substantial amount of money for beginners and let us leave the rest for expert guys.

Lastly, when your website is up and working, invest your 75% time in promoting it. Remember most important factor is the amount of traffic on your website.