Tuesday 12 October 2010

How to monetize your blog

How to Monetize your Blogs

If you intend to make money through your website or blog. Of course it would think, where that money will be obtained? Is the money can be generated through one source or multiple sources?
There are many ways you can do to make money from the internet. However, there are 3 most common ways people get money from his Internet business.

3 things include the following:

1. Making money by selling your own product

This is the most common thing people do in online business. The purpose in this case one can sell goods / products or services that he has.

In the form of goods that in itself can be physical or non physical form (downloadable).

In the physical form of people can earn money by selling goods on the internet, send to the customer and the customer will be able to use the benefits of the goods after he received. Let's say selling flowers online, computer, shoes, clothes, cd / dvd and other physical goods.

While the non-physical products only be sent via email and the customer will receive the goods after he downloaded or download from the link given seller. Also called as digital products (non-physical form). Suppose that sell ebooks, software, membership, and other non-physical goods.

Well for this service products are very common. People who sell services would get money from customers when there who use their services. Of course that is needed in selling services on the Internet is a skill / expertise that should be owned. Suppose that sell web design services, home design services, consulting services, web hosting and other services.

By selling your own product this means full control of your business. You are the one who manages all business operations include designing its own products, to control the website, online business management, customer service down to marketing on the internet.

2. Making money with other people's products sell

There are businesses on the internet that you do not have to have your own product, sell product but with other people. In return, you will get a commission on sales that occur through your own links. This is commonly referred to as affiliate marketing or affiliate business.

This business is quite easy to do, ie you can only give the link an affiliate link on your own website. Or even to put banners of websites that sell products with affiliate system.

The easiest example is the example you will market the product in the form of books owned by Amazon.com. Then put a banner or a link to books that Amazon.com sold on your website. If there is your web visitors who are interested in a particular book and eventually a sale. Then you will get a commission from the sale. Later you will get a check and the money will be obtained after the liquid.

This is something that could be considered easy but also difficult. It would be easy if you have a lot of targeted visitors who are interested will emang affiliate products that are sold and you alone know how to sell affiliate products correctly. And it would be difficult to find a buyer if it does not know the proper techniques, visitors are few, and do not have a website.

Affiliate business that focuses on long term should have its own website. Actually, affiliate business can be without a website is an example by providing a direct link or with a redirect through our own domain on the ads that we attach. But better would be to have your own website, many successful internet marketers recommend it.

3. Making money by selling advertising space or from advertising

Visitors to the website in the number of lots owned can be a tool for your moneymaker. How not to many advertisers who are interested to advertise. Moreover, he advertised in accordance with the website you have.

Well, by making a spot advertisement on the website can also make people a lot of money. For instance for a local website like detik.com who earn more money through advertising revenue.

That's great website, how about a smaller website? Relax, many third-party or advertising companies such as google adsense, adbrite, kliksaya and other companies that can bring advertisers to your website. You can also easily obtain the advertiser directly if traffic and advertising costs are also quite affordable.

So in this case can be said that advertising revenue can be obtained either from direct advertisers or third party (such as google adsense, adbrite, kliksaya, etc.).

The three sources or how the money obtained can be combined between two or all three. Suppose you could sell their own products as well as selling other people's products and also install Google Adsense ads.

And the essence of business success on the internet whether money obtained by selling their own products or affiliate and advertising is the traffic of your website. More and more traffic will be more and more also the coffers of money that will be obtained.

For that we need a lot to learn in terms of bringing traffic to your website, because these things become critical factors for business success on the internet. And the owner of a successful business or website and felt comfortable gain money easily via the Internet would also feel the gain high traffic to the website.