this a continuation to oue previous articles concerning making money online
Indirect
Methods
12. Job Boards
All
the popular blogs are trying to leverage job boards to make some extra income. Guy
Kawasaki , ReadWriteWeb , Problogger … you name it.
Needless
to say that in order to create an active and profitable job board you need
first to have a blog focused on a specific niche, and a decent amount traffic.
The
advantage of this method is that it is passive. Once you have the structure in
place, the job listings will come naturally, and you can charge anywhere from
$10 up to $100 for each.
List
of popular job board software:
·
Jobbex
13. Marketplaces
Sitepoint is the online marketplace by excellence.
Some websites and blogs, however, are trying to replicate that model on a
smaller scale.
Depending
on your niche, a market place that allows your visitors to buy, sell and trade
products could work well. Over the time you could start charging a small fee
for new product listings.
The
problem with this method is that there are no standard software on the web, so
you would need to hire a coder to get a marketplace integrated into your
website.
14. Paid Surveys and Polls
There
are services that will pay you money to run a small survey or poll on your
website. The most popular one is called Vizu Answers .
Basically
you need to sign up with them, and select the kind of polls that you want to
run your site. Most of these services operate under a CPM model.
15. Selling or Renting Internal
Pages
Million
Dollar Wiki made
this concept popular, but it was being used on the web for a long time around
(check Pagerank10.co.uk for instance).
These
websites sell for a single fee or rent for a recurring fee internal pages on
their domain. Usually they have either high Pagerak or high traffic, so that
people purchasing a page will be able to benefit in some way.
Implementing
this method on a small blog would be difficult, but the concept is interesting
and could be explored further.
16. Highlighted Posts from
Sponsors
Techmeme probably pioneered this idea, but somehow
it has not spread to other websites. The tech news aggregator displays
editorial posts on the left column, and on the sidebar they have a section
titled “Techmeme Sponsor Posts.”
On
that section posts from the blog of the advertisers get highlighted, sending
qualified traffic their way. Considering that the monthly cost for one spot is
$5000 and that they have around 6 sponsors at any given time, it must be
working well.
17. Donations
Placing
a “Donate” link or button on a website can be an efficient way to earn money,
especially if your blog is on a niche where readers learn and gain value from
your content.
Personal
development and productivity blogs, for instance, tend to perform well with
donation based systems (one good example being Steve
Pavlina ).
A
small variation of this method appeared sometime ago with the Buy Me a Beer plugin. This WordPress plugin enables you
to insert a customized message at the bottom of each article, asking the
readers to chip in for a beer or coffee.
18. In-text Adverting
In-text
adverting networks like Kontera and Vibrant Media will place sponsored links inside your
text. These links come with a double underline to differentiate them from
normal links, and once the user rolls the mouse over the link the advertising
will pop. Should the user click on it the site owner will make some money.
Some
people make good money with this method, but others refrain from using it due
to its intrusiveness. It is also interesting to note that very few mainstream
websites have experimented with in-text advertising.
19. Pop-ups and Pop-unders
Pop-ups
are a common yet annoying form of advertising on the Internet. If you are just
trying to make a much money as possible from your website, you could experiment
with them.
If
you are trying to grow the traffic and generate loyal visitors, however, you
probably should stay away from them. Just consider the hundreds of pop-up
blockers out there: there is a reason why they are so popular.
Ad
networks that use pop-ups:
·
PayPopup
·
PopupAd
·
Adversal
20. Audio Ads
Also
called PPP (Pay Per Play), this advertising method was introduce by Net Audio Ads . the concept is pretty simple:
play a small audio advertising (usually 5 seconds) every time a visitor enters
into your website. The user should not be able to stop it, creating a 100%
conversion rate based on unique visitors.
The
company is still rolling tests, but some users are reporting to get from a $4
to a $6 CPM. Regardless of the pay rate, though, this is a very intrusive form
of advertising, so think twice before using it.
21. Selling the Website
Selling
your website could be your last resource, but it has the potential to generate
a big sum of money in a short period of time.
Market
places on online forums like DigitalPoint and Sitepoint are always active with website buyers and
sellers. Keep in mind that they most used parameter to determine the value of a
website is the monthly revenue that it generates, multiplied by a certain
number (the multiplier can be anything from 5 to 30, depending on the
expectations of the seller, on the quality of the site, on the niche and other
factors).
Some
people also make money trading and flipping websites. They either create them
from scratch or buy existing ones, and after some revamping they sell them for
a profit.
Related
links:
Indirect
Methods
22. Selling an Ebook
Perhaps
one of the oldest money making strategies on the web, using a website to
promote a related ebook is a very efficient way to generate revenue.
You
could either structure the website around the book itself, likeSEOBook.com ,
or launch the ebook based on the success of the website, like FreelanceSwitch
did we the book How to be
a Rockstar Freelancer .
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links:
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