How To Create Multiple Income Streams From Your Website
By: Titus Hoskins | Posted: 06th November 2006
Creating multiple income streams from your website
is a proven marketing strategy. An effective strategy
anyone can use to earn a part-time or full-time online
income. If you are not currently earning revenue from
your site, you could be leaving significant amounts of
cash floating in cyberspace.
Significant amounts of cash that can help pay your
monthly bills: your rent or mortgage, your car payments,
your utility bills or even your hosting costs. Many alert
webmasters are doing just that by creating multiple income
streams from their site or sites.
Creating these multiple income streams is not a
difficult task. Nor is it a lengthy or time
consuming one; monetizing your site can be done
within a few hours of work.
Here are some effective ways of creating multiple
income streams:
1. Affiliate Programs
Joining affiliate programs related to your site
is an easy process. Placing html code or java script
on your site with your affiliate IDs embedded only
takes seconds. I find joining major affiliate networks
like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Amazon, ClickBank,
Shareasale... to be the most effective. You can quickly
find and join affiliate programs related to your site's
topics.
Affiliate programs are excellent income producers, all
you have to do is supply the traffic or leads and the
affiliate company does the selling, shipping and handles
all customer interactions. These programs pay on time
each month and there are no disputes about commissions.
Amazon pays quarterly!
2. Google Adsense
Perhaps one of the easiest way to monetize your site
is through Google Adsense. All you have to do is add
a snippet of code to your site and Google serves up
ads to match your site's content. Getting those checks
from Google each month will put a smile on your face.
Guaranteed!
3. Sponsored Links
Another simple way to earn revenue from your site is
offering sponsored links. Selling links to other
sites who want to be listed on your site. Set up
a PayPal subscription service, and if your site
has a high PR page rank you will have plenty of
webmasters more than willing to pay you each month.
4. Banner Advertising
A simple, direct way to earn revenue from your
site is to host and sell banner advertising on
your site. Bit traditional but still a money
producer for high traffic volume sites.
5. List Building
Building an opt-in list of contacts interested in
the topic of your site can be one of your most
effective income producers. Many webmasters and
marketers use followup e-mails to keep in contact with
their site's visitors. This does require some work
and set-up time, but once you have your autoresponders
in place, you can forget about them.
In addition, marketing special deals, joint ventures
and offers to your permission based email contact list
can be another lucrative income stream for you.
That's just five ways to create multiple income
streams from your site. There are many, many more
but these are good starting points for any webmaster
who wants to monetize their site or sites.
Additional Marketing Tip
Here's my #1 marketing strategy on how to
increase your number of income streams:
I use the Long Tail keyword marketing model to
create high ranked keyword listings in organic search
for profitable keyword phrases on the topics of
my sites. First, I use a keyword research tool
like Brad Callen's Keyword Elite or an online
site Yahoo's Overture to find profitable keyword
phrases for my sites.
These tools will tell you how many searches are
made each month for a given keyword phrase and
also tell you how much marketers are willing to
pay for each click to this keyword phrase - as in
PPC or Pay Per Click advertising.
The trick is to find low to mid-range keywords
or keywords phrases that are profitable but
have little competition. Then design a content page
on your site to target these keyword phrases
and draw in traffic. I use keyword targeted
articles which I place on my site and also submit
to online article directories like Ezinearticles,
Goarticles, Articlealley, among others.
In the resource box at the end of each article, I
place my keyword anchor text and links back to my
site. As these are competitively low ranked keywords,
my content pages usually land on the top positions
in the search engines for my targeted keywords
within a week or so.
This is a simple effective marketing strategy
that feeds targeted traffic into my sites, making
them more profitable with each keyword phrase I develop
content for on my sites. It is an online marketing
strategy that you can also use to booster your multiple
income streams from your own website.
Granted, all the above information comes with a
disclaimer, the amount of income will usually
correlate to how effective you are at marketing
your site and how much traffic you can generate.
Your different abilities will play a large role in how
much you will earn. However, there is no reason why
any healthy site getting a decent amount of traffic
can't be used to create multiple streams of income.
Just cash in!
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The author is a full-time online marketer who operates
numerous websites, including two sites on Internet marketing.
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