9 Ways To Monetize Your Site:
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing or revenue sharing, is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts. There are four core players: the merchant (also known as ‘retailer’ or ‘brand’), the network (that contains offers for the affiliate to choose from and also takes care of the payments), the publisher (also known as ‘the affiliate’), and the customer. One of the biggest affiliate programs on the internet today is Amazon.
Contextual Advertising
Contextual Advertising is targeted advertising that typically occurs on a banner or pop-up ad on a website. Contextual ad systems target advertising to a specific user based on the keywords on the page he or she is visiting (hence, the context of the ad comes into play). There are many methods of contextual advertising, such as: display advertising (banner ads); search engine marketing; search engine optimization (SEO); and social media marketing. Publishers and advertisers bid for the use of keywords in an auction system run by a contextual advertising company. Publishers and advertisers only profit from the advertisement when a user clicks on the ad in what’s commonly known as pay-per-click or PPC advertising.
Email (Direct) Marketing
From the name itself, this is a marketing process that involves reaching out to your customers via email.
eBook
eBook, electronic book or digital book consisting of text, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices, can be used as a method of inbound marketing. This type of internet marketing involves sharing of free valuable content to your target market to convince them to become your loyal customer. This could be done by setting up a business blog. Most commonly used to build email list as a free gift for signing up to a newsletter.
eCommerce
eCommerce, or electronic commerce, is the trading or facilitation of trading in products or services using computer networks, such as the Internet. Setting up a shopping cart via Woo-Commerce is the most common methods for many WordPress users.
Event Calendar
Event Calendar, an event, promotion and calendar management system, with quality content, streamlined operations, and increase traffic, you’re sure to generate the revenue you desire.
Industry Directory
Typical industry directories can appear to some to be spammy and will not bring you the quality and quantity of traffic your site desires. Creating a niche industry directory is the right path to take. Usually a good niche directory will host a forum, an events section, or a whitepapers resource page (or all of the above). This is a sign that the site owners are interested in building a community of real visitors and gaining real industry clout. An added benefit is that the directories with user resources will typically send more referral traffic than directories without.
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