How do you make money on a website?

How do websites generate revenue?

When you have a website, you have a number of available options to generate revenue. No matter what options you choose, having a good amount of traffic is the key. The more users and visitors you have increased the chances of generating revenue.

Having a subcription site is the most direct. Websites that use subscriptions charge a user a weekly, yearly, or annual fee for the use of the site and its contents or digital products like downloads. Some sites would include dating sites, newspapers, sites that give technical information, or sites that allow users to download software of applications. Users normally pay through credit or debit cards. A user will normally pay through a thirdparty processor such as PayPal, 2Checkout.com, CCBill.com, etc. These processors allow for an easy and secure checkout process for the user. With today's rapid amount of online fraud having a secure and trusted online transaction processor is a must. Before settting a prices for your goods or services, be sure to checkout what the rates are for your goods and services. Keep in the mind that if you have a new site, it takes time to build up a customer base and for users to trust doing business with you.

Pay Per Click Advertising is an easy to implement and can be quite profitable. With PPC advertising, you sign up through a site such as Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network, or maybe Adbrite. By placing generated code within your webpages, ads will match up to the content on the pages. Enough revenue can be generated to pay for your hosting fees or perhaps allow you to make a full time career out of being a webmaster. Once again, alot comes down to good quality traffic and keeping users interested in your site. Be careful though, since the ads that match up can be from competitors who will have your traffic, and business, directed to their site for purchased you may be misssing out of. If you sign up for this, be sure to read all the terms and policies of the company you decide to go with.

Selling ads directly on your site is the third option where you charge a business or website advertising space on your site for money. This really only pans out for larger sites with huge traffice. Still, you can put on your site a "Advertising" page or advertise your space through Adbrite, for example, where you can great exposure for selling ads and even setting your price for ads.

No matter what you decide, you should be able to generate some income. Even if it just pays for the hosting. One of the most important factors of having any site is to have one where the site is about something you have interest in or expertise.