101 Ways to Monetize Your Website or Blog

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Text Link Advertising

Text Link AdsText Link Ads (aff.) – The leader in paid text link ads.
LinkWorth – Keep up to 70% of the ad revenue.
Text Link Brokers – Make money buy selling links in a directory on your site.
Live Customer – Static HTML ads with flat monthly rates.
LinkAdage – Matches advertisers with publishers
Direct-Link-Ads – Keep up to 75% of the ad revenue.
PaidTextLinks – A smaller text link program.
Kontera – Create contextual links automatically.
AdSter – Customize your ads to match your website.
Vibrant Media – Vibrant in-text advertising.
TextAd.biz – Basic text ad service.
SearchFriendlyAds – Not live yet.
YzMedia – Another text link option.

Direct Sales

KickStartCart – A shopping cart, merchant account and marketing tools.
PayPalPayPal – One of the lowest-cost choices for selling your own products.
EasyStoreCreator – Provides a package that includes hosting, merchant account integration, and shopping cart.
1ShoppingCart – Offers different packages with marketing tools, shopping carts and merchant accounts.
ASecureCart – An affordable shopping cart service
NetSuite – Full e-commerce option.
GotShoppingCart? – Free version available.
3D Cart – Includes marketing, statistics and more.
Americart – 30-day risk-free trial.
MonsterCommerce – Full of features.

PPC

Google AdSenseAdSenseThe industry leader.
Yahoo Publisher Network – Yahoo’s AdSense alternative.
Chitika – eMiniMalls is not a typical PPC program, it is different kind of pay-per-click product promotion.
Kanoodle – A second-tier PPC option as opposed to Google and Yahoo.
Ads-Click – You set the price per click for ads showing on your site.
AdBrite – Control and customization options.
ABC Search – Another 2nd-tier option.
BidVertiser – Large network PPC program.
Clicksor – Contextual ads program.
Qads – Ad program from Qumana.
PeakClick – Pays in Euros.
DoubleClick – Another targeted PPC
option.
RevenuePilot – Keep 60% of the revenue.
Search Feed – Another option for targeted PPC ads.
Targetpoint – For publishers of all sizes.
OneMonkey – Keep 80% of the revenue.
Miva MC – PPC ads plus the option for contextual PPD ads.
ClickBooth – Claims to have the highest payout in the industry.

Banner Ads

AdEngage – Not a typical banner ad, the’re photo ads with text.
AdDynamix – Also offers other options besides just banners.
BannerBoxes – Your keep 75% of the revenue from each click.

Affiliate Programs

Commission Junction – One of the leaders. Manages affiliate programs for all kinds of products.
Click Bank – All downloadable affiliate products.
LinkShare – Claims to be the largest pay-for-performance affiliate marketing network.
Azoogle Ads – Also claims to be the largest performance-based online advertising network.
Amazon – One of the oldest and most successful affiliate programs.
Context Links for Amazon’s Affiliate Program – Auto creates affiliate links to Amazon’s products.

Paid Reviews

ReviewMe – Get paid to review other websites and blogs.
PayPerPost – Make money writing about website, products, services and companies.

Parked Domains

Revenue Direct – Make money from a parked domain.
Parked – Another option for parked domains.

Random/Various

The News Room – Make money by placing news items on your site.
Tribal Fusion – Represents the advertising for selectively approved websites.
IndustryBrains – Has a few different options that would fall into various categories above.
Adknowledge – Options for email, web, and search engine inventory.
Yesadvertising – Lots of options, including contextual ads, email, banners and pop-unders.
ValueMedia – Several different options, including video.
Auction Ads – Make money by displaying Ebay items.
IntelliTXT – Contextual ads that include video.
PremierAd – Lots of different options. You keep 80% of ad revenue.
BurstMedia – A variety of different options.
Advertising.com – Multiple options, including video ads.
Openads – Online advertising software.
Casale Media – You choose what type of ads you want on your site.
VC Media – CPC or CPM options.
Ads by RSS – Places ads on your website, using RSS.
AdSpaceAuctions – Sell ad space on your website through an auction.
TextMarks – Monetize your blog with text message alerts.

Sell Ad Space

AdSonar -Provide content-targeted ads.
BlogAds – You control the ads that appear on your site.
Crisp Ads – name your price for direct sponsors.
ADSDAQ – Choose your asking price for ads and ADSDAQ matches you with advertisers.
AdVolcano – Set your own prices and ad sizes.

RSS Feed Monetization

Pheedo – PPC for RSS feeds.
PostPostWordPress Plugin – Display affiliate links or ads before or after your feeds (other uses beside just advertising).
Feedvertising – Runs txt link ads in your feed.
FeedBurner AdsfeedburnerIf you use FeedBurner’s services for distributing and tracking your feeds, you also have the option of using their advertising services in your feeds.
MediaFed – Automatically inserts ads into your feed.
FeedShow – Puts PPC ads into your feed.
Fedafi Publishing Network – Monetize your feed with the Fedafi WordPress plugin.
Yahoo Publisher Network – PPC ads in your feeds.

Job Boards

Joards – Put a job board on your site and keep 75% of the revenue.
Job-a-matic – Another option for making money with a job board.

WP Plugins

AdSense-Deluxe – Embed AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network ads into your blog.
AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System – A plugin for blogs that have multiple writers. Let each of your writers make money from ads on their own posts.
AdSense Injection – Inject AdSense ads throughout an existing blog.
Google AdSense Referral Rotator Plugin – Make money by referring other users to AdSense.
Amazon Media Manager – Easily ad Amazon affiliate products to your blog.
WP-Amazon – Quickly search for products and add Amazon affiliate links while writing your posts.
Last Amazon Review Plugin – Displays your most recent review of a product listed on Amazon and includes your Amazon affiliate link.
Text Ads Link Widget for WordPress Sidebar – A simple widget that makes it easy to display text ads in your sidebar.
WPAds Plugin – Show and rotate ads on your blog.
AdRotator Plugin – Randomly rotates ads that you choose.
WP E-commerce Shopping Cart Plugin – Creates a shopping cart with tons of features and options for your WP blog or website.
EasyPayPal WordPress Plugin – Integrates your blog and your PayPal account to accept donations or fees.
Buy Me a Beer Plugin – Accept donations from your readers by asking them to buy you a beer (or coffee) if they liked your post.
CafePress – Sell your own products on your blog.
YAK – Simple shopping cart plugin.

What other methods do you use to monetize your site or blog? This post may be updated, so please leave your suggestions in the comments. If you own or represent one of the advertising programs mentioned on this page and you feel that you should be in a different category, please leave a comment. Thanks!

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237 Responses

miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG August 14th, 2007

Nice compilation :) And thanks for the link to AdSense Referral Rotator.

Great list there. Very useful, as I’m planning on dropping Adsense from my blog very soon.

At the minute, I’m going to be using Clickbank and Amazon. I think I’ll check out a few of your other options first though. :)

Vandelay Design August 14th, 2007

Michael,
I’d be interested in hearing down the road how the new programs work for you. Clickbank is nice because there are so many different producst available, and I think a lot of purchasers prefer downloadable products. Obviously Amazon also has tons of products. While I was researching for this list I was impressed with several of the plugins related to Amazon, especially Last Amazon Review Plugin. Haven’t used it yet, but it looks good.

Microscopic Earthling,
Thanks for reading!

cooliojones August 14th, 2007

I like how you used the icons with the post, and the blog itself looks really cool!

These are some great links, and no matter who you are, you can use at least 2-3 of them. Good post.

Alex Choo August 15th, 2007

Nice list.

Will you consider add WP Text Ads to the list?

I’m the developer of WP Text Ads, a free WordPress plugin that lets you sell text link ads directly to advertisers. This way, you pay no commissions and get paid instantly.

With WP Text Ads, you can sell text link ads for the home page, blog-wide and per-post. These options help advertisers save money.

Version 1.2 has just been released and it comes with an API.

Awwwpuppyawww.com August 15th, 2007

This is very helpful. Thanks, I totally forgot about Clickbank.

Hugo Santos August 15th, 2007

nice list you have there. good job. i’ve signed for a few to give them a try :)

Vandelay Design August 15th, 2007

Cooliojones, Awwwpuppawww, and Hugo,
Thanks for visiting and for your positive feedback.

Alex,
WP Text Ads looks like it would be a good addition to the list. I’ll add it sometime in the next few days (probably will be making a few other additions as well). Thanks for the resource.

xnepali August 16th, 2007

I don’t know about others but Adster doesn’t pay at all. They haven’t paid 5 checks (was I fool to wait that long?). Now I have stopped using them.

They don’t reply my emails too.

Vandelay Design August 18th, 2007

xnapali,
Thanks for your feedback on that program.

Michael Fultz August 18th, 2007

This is an awesome list! I’m trying to help a friend of mine sell some stuff, so I needed the info on affiliate programs. Thanks!

Jackson Rubem August 22nd, 2007

I think it is very dangerous to monetize a Website or Blogsite with the links sale, because it is against the Google´s regulation. The site that sell links can be punished.

Vandelay Design August 22nd, 2007

Jackson,
It’s definitely a risk, but there are plenty of websites currently doing it that have not been punished by Google. Of course, that doesn’t mean it will never happen. Fortunately there are other ways to make money with your website.

Antonius August 23rd, 2007

Sweet list, I will have to add this to a post I have on monetization…Great job Cathy. Do you use all 101 on the Vandelay blog?

Vandelay Design August 23rd, 2007

Antonius,
No, I think I only use 2 of these right now. I’d like to keep the blog ad-free until it has a larger audience. Even then, I don’t plan on using a lot of ads since this site is primarily intended to promote my website design services.

Sly from Slyvisions.com August 25th, 2007

Nice list there.

By the way, TLA has just updated their referral links. So it might be a good idea to update yours.

Sly from Slyvisions.com

Vandelay Design August 26th, 2007

Yeah, thanks for the reminder to change the TLA link. Fortunately, I think that’s the only one on the site that needs to be changed.

handy tarife August 26th, 2007

wow what a great list.. thx a lot for this.. i didn’z know even half of those

Vandelay Design August 26th, 2007

Thanks for reading! I’m glad you found some new stuff here.

HighFivez.com August 27th, 2007

Very nice list. Thanks.

Rangan August 28th, 2007

A very useful post. Mashable also published a similar post.
Thanks for this wonderful info.

James Mann September 2nd, 2007

Learning any and all ways to make money online is great. I can always drop something that doesn’t work as well but if I didn’t know all the ways I would surely be missing out on multiple streams of income.

Thanks for the great information.

present September 2nd, 2007

Oh, many interesting links. Havn’t seen the AdSense Deluxe plugin before. Thank you!

Vince September 28th, 2007

Very Helpful. Thanks for posting the list!

Immigration Client October 11th, 2007

Making Money is a difficult thing. Finding ways of making money is more a difficult one. I really appreciate for the pain you took for finding the ways. It was a like a 12 bunch of books for reading. All the books will take some time for me to read. Thank you!

unTECHy October 14th, 2007

WP Plugins section is a plus for me. I currently use Nucleus, but I’m in the process of designing a WP platform for unTECHy.com

Nice compilation of info. 5 *’s

omi November 5th, 2007

Hi, it is a very good blog for bloggers. thank u.

Mark November 11th, 2007

As someone who is looking to monetize a site very soon
~THANK YOU~ for putting together such a comprehensive list.

All the best.
Mark

Cathy November 30th, 2007

That was a really very nice complilation very upto the point and very very updated information.

m07 December 12th, 2007

nice post and tips.keep up the good work.

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Thank you for the helpful list. Bookmarked!

LabsLedysed February 15th, 2008

Just discovered a complete list of all marked down products at Amazon, sorted by category
and % off, ranging from 50% off to 90% off (thanks Sonja for the effort).

Actually I never thought Amazon would have articles with 90% off, but only in the category
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Dito February 15th, 2008

wow tons of great stuff in this article, bookmarked!

Toyin Olutola February 27th, 2008

Thanks for this effort but I like to know,how many of these ways can be used together without violating anay rule on google or any other advertising site, Great site you have here

Toyin Olutola February 27th, 2008

Great effort here, and thanks, but Please I like to ask , how many of these ways can be used together on site without violating any rule from google or any other advertising site

Andrey Troy March 2nd, 2008

I suprised for real….tones of great stuff here, need time for thinking…

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Great post, very useful!

Mar Matthias Darin March 18th, 2008

I use AdBrite. They work well. You’ll want to be careful with AdSense if you use StumbleUpon. AdSense has a nasty habit of closing accounts that get too much StubmleUpon traffic.

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What a great list. Thanks for the advice.

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Thanks!!

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Thanks for the list.

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Wow! What a great list. I’m not sure if all of them are really needed but a great list nonetheless.

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Myby April 25th, 2008

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Joker May 9th, 2008

I’m bookmarked this article too :)

Andos May 9th, 2008

Thanks 4 the links

Designer-artist May 15th, 2008

Good selection on earnings! At present I use service Adsense Google, but I shall try also other methods described at you. Certainly contextual advertising and partner programs can bring the good income, there would be an attendance greater. Thanks for references!

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Oh, I really like the links you provide here..very useful and open up new possibilities for me..Thanks..

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This is an awesome list! I’m trying to help a friend of mine sell some stuff, so I needed the info on affiliate programs. Thanks!

Roni May 27th, 2008

Nice list

Thank you

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Bachmann June 11th, 2008

Thats a very fine list. It goes right in my bookmarks. Thx.

Science June 13th, 2008

Great list, im also bookmarking this for future reference especially in regards to the wordpress plugins

Dave June 13th, 2008

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Hi

Most of the lists are well known and some I didn’t know.
Anyways, looking forward to see more of them in comind days.

Thanks again
Chris

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jakuas June 25th, 2008

okay… i’m tryinf few of these.. let’s see>>>
Thanx

stray June 28th, 2008

Great list , thank you

Benny Loppa June 29th, 2008

This is wath i was looking for , thanks mate

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What a wonderful resource you have given us and it’s all free to boot

Please keep it up as I have bookmarked this site and will be stopping by regularily

Thanks again

Jason Grimshaw July 6th, 2008

Fantastic post, I’ve bookmarked it so I can take a closer look.

Nice lists….thanks

kyrious August 4th, 2008

wow this is the longest list of making money online opportunities guess i’ll be having plenty of time to surf each one

Joan August 16th, 2008

You can integrate your page or website with nosle to make the contents of your web page payable before view. Make sure you put the javascript as the first line of after the body tag. If you are using blogspot you can add a javascript element and add it below the title at the very top.

Chilli Flakes August 23rd, 2008

Very Informative. Which is top 5 as per you?

Squeaky August 30th, 2008

I have tried Kontera, but it seems that many people don’t like it because of the mouse over popup is distracting to the reader. Didn’t many any money from it, either.

Hjemmesider September 3rd, 2008

Great info .. my webshop rocks ;)

Tom September 16th, 2008

Chitika works great! In fact, over the last year I compiled some statistics of my earnings and I actually earned twice as much with Chitika compared to AdSense. For those of you curious about Chitika, check out this Chitika review for more info and some screenshots.

sam September 21st, 2008

Great listing. But, give affili’s a chanche

Will October 24th, 2008

Good list. I never knew about paid reviews.

Antje Apel December 15th, 2008

Thanks for this list!

My name is Antje and I work for Germany`s largest online video advertising network – Captain Ad.

I found this list of advertising networks and would like to ask, if you could list Captain Ad as well?

Captain Ad places advertisements before embedded videos of any popular video sharing websites like YouTube, megavideo and so on.
Captain Ad is paying for this ad format to webmasters a CPM of 1.00 USD.
The integration is very easy as well.

You can see Captain Ad in action at: http://www.captainad.com/preview/overlay .

Regards,

Antje

water damage denver December 23rd, 2008

I’ve signed up for both Amazon and eBay affiliate programs, as well as a couple more smaller businesses that sold specialty products. I didn’t know about 98% of the ones on this list. Great and useful compilation. Thanks!

outdoor antenna December 25th, 2008

Great list here. I use several of these affiliate programs now. Going to look into some you have here. The problem I’m starting to have is keeping track of all my accounts now. LOL!

Waheed January 5th, 2009

Great List!

I noticed that there are no directories listed. Similar to the Job Boards we provide free directory technology through a partner program and you get to keep 75% of the revenue!

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Kim January 6th, 2009

I’m bookmarking your list! I always refer to your blog. Well-written.

Get Paid From Us February 15th, 2009

This is a really nice guide.

peterK February 17th, 2009

What a great list. I already use some of the affiliate programs. Very helpful guide.

roms February 22nd, 2009

very very useful list. Big thanks!

Great ways to monetize any website. I am currently using adsense but I have noticed that sometimes the ad value is very low, even when I removed the majority of low paying ads. That makes me think about other possibilities of monetising.

UMTS-Vergleich April 9th, 2009

Thank you for this great list!

Gloria Shivers April 27th, 2009

Hi, I cant understand how to add your site in my rss reader. Can you Help me, please :)

Vandelay Design April 27th, 2009

Hi Gloria,
The feed URL is http://feeds2.feedburner.com/vandelay/. Just add that to your feed reader.

Ramona Chevez May 16th, 2009

I wonder if there is some program we can use on wordpress.com to monetize the blog

4design May 26th, 2009

Thank you for such a large and a complete list, but my main income comes from a blog with contextual advertising, as Google AdSense. But you can try other ways of earning, which are described in your article.

Flooring May 31st, 2009

These are awesome. I have been looking to get into affiliate marketing and earn some passive income and this list is just what I needed.
5 stars!!

Liam June 5th, 2009

I think even low traffic sites can still monetize if some thought is put into how they wish to monetize.

As mentioned from the posts here, methods using direct sales, affiliate sales, PPC, CPM, microtransactions, donations, etc……there is always something out there that will fit neatly with your website and its target audience.

Also, use of such monetization methods are important in my view. For instance, if you have PPC ads on the top and bottom of your site, you may get a few clicks as people pass over them….but this situation could be improved if…..(a bit of shameless promotion now)….you used an API like that found at tag-box.com.

The idea is that you would generate a focal point for your users to pool to. Couple that with your PPC code in the API header and you could start paying back the cost of your website in no time!

I think this method works for all forms of monetization, and if employed, would help a lot of webmasters and bloggers see better returns for their efforts. :-D

Unlimited Hosting June 8th, 2009

I want to say thank you for this amazing list! You made a lot of search to put them together?

Prepaid June 9th, 2009

Thx for this great list. Very, very usefull. Nice to know!

Web Hosting June 11th, 2009

Thanks a lot for this great list! I’m really interested in PPC advertising. Regards!

weighlevel June 12th, 2009

Arh Sweet list. Bookmarked and shared!
And tweeted ;)

jaxrogue July 4th, 2009

Very good list. I’ve been meaning to find a way to sell ad space on my site.

Great list. I currently use Adsense and some Affiliates to monetize on my blog. It hasn’t been successful though ):

mcbain213 July 7th, 2009

Some of the links don’t work anymore. But you do have some good things here that do work.

Gutschein July 14th, 2009

Nice list, but some of the links doesn’t work!

Vandelay Design July 14th, 2009

Gutschein,
The post is almost 2 years old so some of the links are no longer active.

tmanning July 14th, 2009

I think some of the links don’t work. An update would be great.

pelfusion July 14th, 2009

i heard text-link-ads are not good for your PR…google will drop down your rank
is it true?

Vandelay Design July 14th, 2009

Pelfusion,
Yes, that’s true. The post is almost 2 years old and was published around the time when Google started to crack down on that. I would stay away from buying text links, but they can still be done effectively, but you have to be careful (I don’t have personal experience buying links, so I don’t have much insight to offer on the subject).

proxymus July 26th, 2009

anybody expirience with “publisher.yahoo.com” ?
is this only in beta availiable ?

China Surfer July 26th, 2009

is chitika currently online? i can not reach this website…

Michael August 9th, 2009

adspilot dot com offers 80% for publishers. as far as i know, they provide CPC, CPM and CPA pricing models.

WAMM August 12th, 2009

Hey thanks the info. I knew about some of these but not all of them.

robert August 16th, 2009

Nice list and right of you. Have bookmark this site

Blogineer September 3rd, 2009

What a great list. Thanks

R Kumar September 14th, 2009

Phew, that was an awesome compilation.
I do not think that you can find such a huge list of monetizing options anywhere on the internet.

John Smith September 14th, 2009

Great ideas! I noticed you didn’t include email marketing, though. Here is a great post about how to boost your readership by converting your RSS to email. (In turn, making you money.)

http://www.aweber.com/blog-newsletters.htm

For 20 bucks a month it’s totally worth it!! :)

Søgeoptimeret hjemmeside September 15th, 2009

Great list! A 2009 update or alternative article would be great. I have bookmarked the site and is looking forward to see new suggestions on how to make money on your well trafficed website.

Zweipunkt Medien & Marketing September 21st, 2009

Nice compilation of ways to monetize your website, thanks for it.

Kinofilme October 4th, 2009

great list… thank you very much

Prepaid October 6th, 2009

A very nice list and I think the Google Adsense Partnership is the best one!

Artikel October 6th, 2009

I sell a lot of links with inlinks.com – but i dont find this service in your list… is Inlinks.com bad?

Vandelay Website Design October 6th, 2009

Artikel,
I don’t really know anything about inlinks. This post is almost two years old, so it is not up-to-date. I don’t think inlinks existed at that time (although maybe it did and I just didn’t come across it).

Paul Van Leasing October 18th, 2009

Great List, are link ads the way forward these days, im sure many of the search engines will put a stop to the blatent spam these sites offer..

Anyway while we still can im sure we will

Sell Text Links October 20th, 2009

Even though this post is 2 years old, it’s amazingly still pretty accurate and relevant. I found a few sites on here I had not yet heard about so let me express a well belated thanks for the post.

Wedding Kisoks Essex October 23rd, 2009

Great List should come in handy

Moshe October 24th, 2009

Making your website business model based on ads is very difficult goal to achieve. You gonna need at least 1 million unique users a month in order to earn around 15-20K $

1 million! there are only few websites in the world that attract that much of traffic.

There are different ways to monetize your website, i developed a truly unique system that monetizes content discussions – http://itok.in

The website offers only a limited version to get the first impressions, but websites that really wants to upgrade their performance can contact me through my email.

Motorradhelm November 3rd, 2009

Nice List, thank you very much. I think google adsense is the best ^^.

Markus November 9th, 2009

Very useful list! Thank you!

Jollydays November 10th, 2009

Thank you very much for the list. Some of the link are very interesting for my projects.

cctv essex November 30th, 2009

Great list, they say a great list for bloggers but is a no follow now which should slow the posts down on this now

Steve December 4th, 2009

Great job done on this very useful list. I bookmarked it. :) I really got good numbers now on text link, banner ads options and wordpress plugins.

Just a suggestion.

I understand that it took a lot of hard work in putting up this great list for viewers. But it would be even better if you can put a rate for the popular urls from each type where all your commenter can rate.

Thanks again..

eToro Erfahrungen December 7th, 2009

Great resource, thank you very much

Online Texter December 17th, 2009

Wow, a great list! I missed Zanox and Affilinet in the affiliate section

Pelle December 30th, 2009

Awesome compilation man. How long did it take you? Congrats! :)

Vandelay Website Design December 30th, 2009

Pelle,
I don’t really remember how long it took because it was so long ago, but I know it did take some serious research.

Simon February 1st, 2010

Great post, only used a couple so plan on testing some more out in the coming weeks.

Again thanks, must have taken ages to compile.

mushtaq February 5th, 2010

Thanks for the post might haf take a long to research on those but looks handy
Thanks Again

WC Deckel February 17th, 2010

This post is 2 1/2 years old and still relevant. Really great work. Congratulations

Website Designer Software February 22nd, 2010

Great list. I’ve been looking for an alternative to adsense for a while. Looks like I’ve got plenty to choose from, thanks. :-)

Wordpress Tutorial February 25th, 2010

How about infolinks in text link advertising, i am earning good with that.

Download Photoshop February 27th, 2010

Usually, for the monetization of their projects, I use Google AdSense, and any other contextual advertising, but after reading this article, I will probably use something else. Thank you!

Build Web Traffic March 5th, 2010

Thank you for this excellent list. A lot of people work so hard on their websites and blogs by providing value to their readers and wonder how to make a little bit of money for there time and effort. This is a great list of ways to monetize. Thanks a bunch for sharing these.

Max March 7th, 2010

I have tested everything from Google Ads to Layer Ads. I ended up with affiliate marketing and I stick to it for now more than 2 years. It is the most effective way.

Gutscheine March 20th, 2010

Very useful list, thanks for this, but some links are broken. :-(

Vandelay Website Design March 21st, 2010

Gutscheine,
Yeah, the post is really old so many of the links are not up-to-date.

Rafael March 24th, 2010

Hi

One other alternative is when a brand wants to get more exposure (and Links) though blogs.

we have just signed http://www.verticalblogger.com and works quite different from others.

We get offers sent via email, write an article and then we get paid at the end of the month.

Hope it helps and thank you very much for all the tips in this post.

rafa

toplist April 30th, 2010

Thank you for this excellent list. A lot of people work so hard on their websites and blogs by providing value to their readers and wonder how to make a little bit of money for there time and effort. This is a great list of ways to monetize. http://www.msnforum.tk Thanks a bunch for sharing these.

Gutschein May 23rd, 2010

Thanks for sharing this list. There are so many ways to monetize. This gives good advises. BR

The Easy Cash June 27th, 2010

Incredible list. I’m sure it took some time to put it together. I will definitely return to try some of the links.

bmw June 29th, 2010

Nice compilation :) And thanks for the link to AdSense Referral Rotator.

Contract Hire July 7th, 2010

Great List, thanks. Text link ads are definately the way the go at the moment. It is always important to explore other methods though.

Thanks for sharing this list. There are so many ways to monetize. This gives good advises. BR

Jonny White July 13th, 2010

Have you heard of zim.ma. It’s a great tool for monetising external links from a website.

Zim.ma adds a useful bar to external links from a website, blog or printed publication. So instead of loosing the visitors that click away it can bring them back again.

External links will feature:

- your logo, linking back to your website
- your adverts (optional), to generate revenue
- share links, to make your links viral

It’s easy to integrate too with a WordPress plugin and drop-in javascript.

To see the service on-line please go to zim.ma

Trends September 7th, 2010

Thanks for this great and useful list…! Some links are not working anymore :(

Patrick October 1st, 2010

Affiliate marketing is really the best way to monetize your site if you have good traffic for special topics. If you have generel interest user, google adsense might be better…

Harry Potter October 3rd, 2010

Great list!

Gonna implement some of these seeing as Google have suspended my Adsense account!!! :(

Mayur November 6th, 2010

Great… But none of them will work if you don’t have any good amount of traffic. And i mean traffic around 50 thousand unique visitors per month at least. That too, majority of traffic from US or Canada.

Finance Guy November 23rd, 2010

This is a helpful list of advertising networks that you have created here. It can be so hard to keep up with all tha is going on in the world of online advertising, blogging and publishing.

Oh and by the way yahoo has canceled their program and has refered all publishers to chikita.com

I have tried quite a few my self and find adsense is overwhelmingly the best. Though they dont have a “kontera” like equilavent. The do have a much better display and cpm thing going now but it could be better. AdBrite is good for display asthey have a lot of inventory and other options as well such as full page ads.

Chikita has a really cool thing going on with their premium search ads.

any how i appreciate all the work you put in to dig up all these resources thanks.

- Finance Guy

Gutschein Codes November 23rd, 2010

This is a really impressive list and it’s still “up to date” after 3 years!
My favourite ones are adsense, affiliate marketing and adspace selling.

The earnings depends on the niche and the traffic, put with the right mix and the right partners, everybody can make a huge income from his own site and/or blog.

Edie November 26th, 2010

These are wonderful opportunities to monetize your website! Some of these programs I registered and I await the results, others are not profitable for me. But the internet is full of great opportunities. Let me share with this site.

Sam January 16th, 2011

Thats awesome post and comments still coming since last 3+ years. Great work guys :) I wish to add a wordpress plugin to monetize wordpress content that is yourcred, site http://yourcred.com. Hope it will help in adding a little value to this great post :)

Bobby January 28th, 2011

clicksor is scam. deleted it. :(

Bread February 7th, 2011

well what a nice list.. 10x for this.. i didn’z know even half of those

Morten February 9th, 2011

“clicksor is scam. deleted it.” ….. I must agree …. clicksor su….

Jennifer March 15th, 2011

There is a widget http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/make-money-via-social-deal-map which display Groupon and other social deals on a local map (GEO IP location detected so that the map is always centered at the reader’s location). You can configure it with your own affiliation id and start to make money from it. These deals are usually quite attractive with huge discount and they are local. Blogger /website owner should be able to generate good revenue from it.

Michael Weinert July 20th, 2011

These are wonderful opportunities to monetize your website! Thanks a lot for this great list! I’m really interested in PPC advertising. Regards!

Sebastian Krausing December 29th, 2011

Great list! – I did not know that there was this many opportunities to monetize a website! Thansk

Rajnish March 20th, 2012

WoW! Really Great and Huge List you Have created here, I was not knowing about the Job Board Idea. Thank You for Letting me Know

Brian May 7th, 2012

Would be good if you could add http://www.cxdigitalmedia.com under Affiliate Programs. We certainly have competitive offers and have been around for 7 years so we’re quite established. Thanks.

Daniel May 21st, 2012

Really nice list of monetizing options….

I have bookmarked this page for later reference, and I will also now go and check out this site further…

There are so many choices out there for monetizing websites, including many new products and systems, that it can become a little confusing when wishing to make a choice…

Betsy Rogers September 3rd, 2012

Regarding an earlier comment that it is against Google’s Terms of Use to monetize a Website or Blogsite with links sale:

You replied that, “It’s definitely a risk, but there are plenty of websites currently doing it that have not been punished by Google. Of course, that doesn’t mean it will never happen. Fortunately there are other ways to make money with your website.”

It’s kind of sad that you find it so easy (and encourage others) to compromise on ethics/morals just because “everyone else is doing it.” Aside from the risk to your business, this is just another example of how some people find it so easy to sink to the level of the “lowest common denominators” of society.

pretty sad….

Steven Snell September 3rd, 2012

Besty,
I think you are totally misinterpreting what I’m saying. It’s a fact that many people are buying and selling links. We have never bought or sold links, although we are approached every day about selling links. I don’t think there is anything wrong with acknowledging that a lot of people are buying and selling links. I’m not in any way advising it (as I mentioned it is a risk), just observing that it happens. What I meant by “Of course, that doesn’t mean it will never happen” is that just because sites and companies haven’t yet been caught and punished by Google doesn’t mean that they never will. That is acknowledging the risk. And by “Fortunately there are other ways to make money with your website” I am saying that you don’t have to sell links in order to make money online. You can do any number of different things that won’t put you at risk. So I am not at all encouraging anyone to compromise ethics or morals. In fact, I would advise people not to buy or sell links, especially since we have never bought or sold links. Lastly, if someone does decide to buy or sell links it’s not a case of being immoral or unethical. Yes, it is against Google’s policies and it puts you at risk, but it’s not illegal or immoral. Google just condemns it because it impacts their search results.

You’re also reacting to a comment that is over 5 years old. In the world of Google and search algorithms that is a lifetime. And just like I mentioned there being a risk in that comment, during the past 5 years Google has punished a lot of sites. That just proves my point about the risk.

Mak January 28th, 2013

I found a wonderful list here. Thank you for sharing. I have recently applied for Google Adsense on my blog. Waiting for their approval or rejection! What would be the best alternate to Google Adsense?

Steven Snell January 28th, 2013

Hi Mak,
I’ve look at, and tried, a few AdSense alternatives and I haven’t yet found anything that is worthy or recommending. There may be something out there, but from my experience if I wasn’t able to use AdSense I would probably look for some good affiliate programs to promote.

Cathy February 16th, 2013

I tried The Newsroom, it looks pretty outdated. This is a great resource list yuo have here, I’d love to see it updated.

Thanks :D

Cathy

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