Most people would love to make more money. We all have this in common. If you have an existing online store that you sell products on your are probably wondering what you can do to generate more sales or just more revenue overall. If you have an information based site you may also wish to add money making possibilities to your online presence.
If you sell products or services on your website you may want to think of offering some sort of affiliate marketing opportunity to your visitors. In effect, this is like having your own sales team working for you around the clock without having to front a bunch of money. Your main expense would be an affiliate tracking software so that you can assign each affiliate their own tracking code and keep the earnings and reports all organized. While you may give up a portion of the sales to pay your affiliate, you will more than likely generate so many more sales that it will more than make up the difference.
Another great program for existent merchants are pay-per-click programs and advertising. Advertising is pretty self explanatory, you just purchase ad space where you believe that visitors will be prone to visit your site and you pay for it. With pay-per-click you only pay for your ads when someone clicks on them. This is the case with companies like Google AdWords and Yahoo!.
If you have a website for whatever reason and you would like to generate some income, there are some programs that you can look into. One of these is Google AdSense. Advertisers sign up for advertising space and you place ad units on your website. Most of the time the ads will match up with your content. So if you have a site about fly fishing, you will have ads for sporting good stores, fishing supplies, etc. Every time you have visitors click thru on those ads you make a little money. The key here is to get as many visitors as possible to your site in hopes that they will click thru.
You can also have advertisers buy ad space directly from you. This is not usually lucrative unless you can prove to potential advertisers that you get a lot of traffic that is targeted.
You can also join affiliate programs and be a publisher for the advertisers. This means that you have great content on your site and wherever applicable you place an ad unit for a specific advertiser. This can be very lucrative if you choose the right network or advertisers and you build a website that draws in the visitors.
With websites the possibilities for income are really without limits. It is up to you and how much time and effort you want to put into it.
