Making money from your web site.

Making money with your web site can be easy and challenging at the same time. Easy because all you need to do is to place snippet of code in-to your web site’s html code. Challenging because if there is no traffic to your web-site, no matter how many ads you have on it, your will earn zero.

I you have decent amount of traffic to your website and are ready to offer some space to the advertisers there many options available to you. But before you begin, please don’t over do it. Have you ever come across a site that has nothing but ads in it? How long did you stay there? This is exactly how visitors to your website will behave if they see your website as being overstaffed with advertisements of all sorts. Buy providing quality content that is relevant to your visitor, you have a better chance to keep the visitor, to make him come back and along the way to make money with advertisements on your site. Making sure that advertisements on your site are relevant as well will allow you to profit more.

So how do you make money with your website?

There are many options available today to publishers. Some are better than others but neither should be dismissed or overlooked, since each program out there can offer something unique.

Google Adsense

Google Adsense- probably most famous, most sophisticated and most used method of monetizing on your website.

How does Google Adsense work?

Google Adesnse works in conjunction with Google Adwords. Google Adsense is a way of delivering advertisers ads to the end user (Internet user). When an advertiser using Google Adwords choses to have his advertisements delivered via content match, his ads will appear on the sites that are approved by Google Adsense. So whenever you apply and are approved for Adsense your website(s) become a part of Google Network. Google uses sophisticated technology to analyze the content of your website and place advertisements that are highly relevant to the content of your website. So if you have quality content on your website and good traffic, you maybe able to monetize quiet well with Adsense.

What are the alternatives to Google Adsense, how do they differ?

AdBrite and TexLinkAds

While Google is a leader in advertising today there some good alternatives which can be used to make money with your website. We will discuss AdBrite and TexLinkAds among so many other options hoping that you are not bored of your mind and still reading this article.

When using AdBrite or TextLinkAds, the advertisements on your site will be placed in a form so static html links and if your site ranks high in the search engines, you may be able to make $100 or more a week per link. Unfortunately neither Adbrite or TextLinkAds are as much sophisticated as Google when it comes to analyzing the content of your website, so that ads appearing on your site will be relevant to your visitors. But with AdBrite as well as TexLinkAds, you have an option to approve or disapprove an advertiser and therefore to control the relevancy of your ads from these systems to the content of your website.

Many web masters and advertisers will use AdBrite and TexLinkAds to increase “link popularity” for their websites. You too can use these systems for link building purposes as well. But if you have good traffic to your site and your site is ranked high in the search engines, you may make as much money with AdBrite and TextLinkAds as you would with Google Adsense.