28 Ways to Make Money with Your Website

There are several lists with “ways to make money with a website” on the Internet, but none of them seem to be complete. That is why I decided to create this one. If you know a method that is not listed below, just let us know and we’ll update it.

Guide to Backlinks for SEO, How to Make them Where to Place them

What are Backlinks

Okay, If you are a seasoned pro at Search Engine Optimization (SEO) then this article will be of little value to you. However, if you are just now taking your baby steps on generating revenue from online methods then this article will be crucial to your understanding of the value of quality backlinks.

If you're just starting out, you will see terms like: backlink, backlinks, quality backlinks, high PR backlinks. And you'll be thinking, "what the heck is a backlink?" Simply put, you can thnk of a backlink as a directional pointer to your web site or article, or whatever you are promoting.

Some backlinks carry more weight than others and then some carry no weight at all. It all depends on where you place the link and the type of link you are placing. Some links will generate targeted traffic. Targeted traffic comes from people that search for your keywords on the search engines and find your link embedded in an article, blog , or forum post.

How to boost your AdSense revenue

Google's AdSense is a superb revenue generating opportunity for small, medium and large web sites.

Some webmasters are designing brand new sites specifically for serving AdSense ads. (It's against the AdSense rules to design a site purely for AdSense ads, so you'll want to include a few affiliate links or sell your own product, too.)

Here's the background info, from Google:

AdSense overview
AdSense Help Center
AdSense policies
Google's Inside AdSense blog

AdSense allows you to serve text-based Google ads - and/or image ads - on your website and receive a share of the pay-per-click payment. AdSense text ads are similar to the AdWords ads you see on the right-hand side at Google when you do a search there. You can choose from a variety of ads sizes and choose whether or not you want to display image ads.

It's often much easier to generate revenue from AdSense than from an affiliate program, especially if you don't like selling.

10 Ways To Make Money Online

The following is a list of 10 ways to make money online, but this also includes a quick glossary of terms used when speaking about online income generation. A list of ways to make money online is useless if the terms and acronyms used have no meaning.

CPA
CPA stands for Cost Per Action. CPA programs include affiliate and referral programs which pay a commission based on specific actions taken by a user.

Examples:
You refer a user to a company. That user purchases a product from the company. That action (the purchase of the product) earns you a commission.
You refer a user to another company. That company is hoping to get users to fill out a form, giving them information such as name, email address, etc. When the user completes the action of filling out the form, you earn a commission based upon that action.

I’ve already discussed affiliate programs in depth here, but some quick examples of affiliate networks are LinkShare and Commission Junction.