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Money from a website?

There are a few ways to make money from your website without actually offering any sort of product or service yourself.

If you already have a website you could make a little extra cash hosting adverts from Google or other search engines, or by linking to relative products and companies using affiliate links.

If you don't already have a site, it's fairly easy to pick up some cheap hosting (space on the web to hold your site) a domain name (e.g. www.mysite.com) and some software (sometimes free with hosting).

What kind of web site should I build?

Experienced "Web marketers" will often research lots of areas and develope a site to match a category they think they can do well in, or offer something new in. For your first site however, I'd suggest developing a site about something you already know about, whether it be a hobby, favourite holiday destination etc.

Once you've settled on a topic for your site, you should set about researching some other sites of the same type, then plan your site on paper - remember to include space for your advertisements or affiliate links!

Search Engine Optimisation!

Sounds complicate - but the idea is simple. As I'm sure you're aware, the easiest way to find websites on a particular topic is to use a search engine such as Google or Yahoo. Getting "hits" from people finding your site on a search engine requires a bit more than just submitting your site however, it envolves creating your site so that it is search engine friendly.

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Types of Advertising - Affiliate and Google Adsense

There are 2 types of advertising mainly used by webmasters to generate revenue, affiliate advertising and Goodle Adwords.

Affiliate advertising involves advertising other companies' products on your site, in turn, you get a percentage of any sale that rersults from a user of your site "clicking through" to an advertisers site.

Affiliate schemes are often run by the advertisers themselves (e.g. Amazon runs it's own scheme, and was infact the creator of the affiliate scheme!)

There are, however, online services that specialise in promoting companies affiliate schemes for them. You can sign up and have access to hundreds of affiliate schemes from all sorts of companies, so finding one to fit the content of your website should be easy!

There are two affiliate schemes you should sign up for immediately:

I recommend Affiliate Future and Affiliate Window

Also, sign up for Google Adsense:

Signing up for Google Adsense allows you to place Google adverts on your website. It's extremely easy to do, and the adverts that are shown are automatically generated by Google to match the content on your site - so if you have a site about Trekking in the Pyranees, Google will display adverts related to trekking and the Pyranees! You then get paid comission by Google for every click on your hosted adverts - easy!

Conclusion

So what are you waiting for? Sign up for some web hosting with 1and1 and get your webspace and software, design your site, then signe up for Adsense and\or one of the affiliate programs above, you'll be making some extra cash before you know it!