You’ve built a Web site, and you’re getting a decent amount of traffic. Now it’s time to make some money! Seven ideas on how you can turn a profit from your Web site, or at least make it pay for itself.
1. Sell Banner Ad Space
If you can show businesses that you have a steady stream of traffic (targeted traffic is even better), you may be able to bring in some money by charging for banner ads on your Web site. Log into your analytics account and look at your unique visitors. This is the number advertisers will be interested in because it shows roughly how many different people visit your Web site on a regular basis. That translates into the number of impressions their ad will get. The higher your number of unique visitors, the more you can charge for the ad space on your Web site.
2. Place Pay Per Click (PPC) or Cost Per 1,000 Impressions (CPM) Ads on Your Site