Previous Experiences with Web Site Monetization

While Renegade Marketing Strategies is a relatively new venture, I actually have a few years of experience in the area of website monetization. I found this old post on my personal blog, and decided to re-post it here, because it is pretty applicable to what we are doing here. It is, however, a little dated, and many of the techniques that I touch on in this article, I will expand on in future posts.
This information is a good, quick intro, but within the Renegade University, you will learn many more techniques to monetize your site, and they will be explained in great detail. If you are interested in learning these techniques, and are more than a beginner, I suggest you check out Ann Sieg’s book, “The Renegade Network Marketer” and when you are done, spend some time on the Renegade University site, to learn more.

Earn Money On The Internet!
April 12, 2006

I am actually earning money with my personal website! How, you ask, am I doing that? With Google Adsense. If you notice, there are Google and Firefox links on every page of this site. Click them and I get paid. Pretty simple huh? If you would like to earn money on the web then click the Generate revenue on your site with Google Adsense link. Sign up for an Adsense account, then get paid. It couldn’t be simpler.

Tips:
Promote your site - You won’t earn a penny unless people find you.
Feature your ads prominently – People won’t click what they can’t see. Place multiple ads on every page. Not only does this make your ads more visible, but it might help your Google ranking. Google will find it’s own ads on your site. The more places you have ads, the more pages google will want to index. You scratch their back…

Create multiple Links - Give people options. Promote Firefox and Adsense and host links to other businesses.

Have a ton of great content! - This one is most important. Google Adsense creates ad content based on the content of your site. Google indexes your site based on content. People find you , read your page and return because of your content. If you don’t have good content you won’t have good conversion.

Create multiple sites - Search engine optimization 101 here. One of the factors that contributes heavily to your Google ranking is outside links. Many times, depending on the type of site you have, getting outside links is difficult. This is where multiple sites comes in. If you own three websites that all link to eachother it looks like each site has multiple outside links.

Create a free page - This goes along with the last tip. You don’t have to spend a bunch of money to have multiple websites. Check out Spaces.MSN.com, Yahoo 360 and myspace. These all will be found by Google, as readily as a hosted website with a unique domain name.

Remember that only Google matters - If you notice, the only search engine I mention in this posting is Google. Google OWNS search. If you are not being found on Google, chances are, you are not being found. Work to maximize your Google exposure. Read articles on seach engine optimiziation (SEO). Follow the directions. You will see a difference.

If you can follow these simple tips you can earn money with your website too.