HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR SITE

Want To Make A Little Money?
Most people that have personal Web sites have them so they can show off their family, talk about things that are important to them or tell the world what they are all about. No matter what your site is about you probably wouldn't mind if it made you some money.
Making a little money from your Web site doesn't have to be difficult. You don't have to sell things and you don't have to email people. All you have to do it fill in some of that ugly white space with a few attractive, small ads. Of course you will have to have a decent amount of visitors, but that's another subject all together.
What Are Your Readers Looking For
Before you sign up for an affiliate program ask yourself why people come to your Web site and what kinds of people read it. Then imagine what kinds of things your readers would be interested in buying. For example, if your site is about your cats, you might want to sign up for affiliate programs that sell cat food or cat toys. If your site is about children you might want to consider an affilite program that sells children's clothes.
You have many options, when it comes to picking affiliates to sign up for, so think about it hard before you go on. If you sign up for an affiliate program that sells baby clothes and your site is about fishing you probably won't make much money from it. You need to really think about what you want to sign up for.


Where Do I Get These Banners?
Banners, that will help you make some money on your site are pretty easy to find. What you want to look for are affiliate programs. Affiate programs can be found through many companies throughout the Web. These companies will pay you a commission based on sales made from your Web site.
One way to sign up for these affiliate programs is to search for a company you think your visitors will buy from. Then search their site for their affiliat program and sign up for it. There is a better way, much better!
Affiliate Companies
There are many companies companies on the Net that will help you find affiiates to sign up for. These companies will not only give you a list of affiliates but they will also give you statistics for each of the companies. They can tell you what percentage you will earn, how well they pay and what the average person makes when they link to them from their Web site.
After you sign up with one of these companies, and get a couple banners up on your site, you will be able to track everything that goes on with each affiliate. When you log into the site you will be shown which affiliates you have signed up for. Then you will be able to click on the name of one of the affiliates and find out how many times people have clicked on the banner and if they bought anything.


Who Are They?
The two affiliate companies that seem to be among the most popular are Commission Junction and LinkShare. The are both very easy to use and give you a lot of information to help you choose which programs you want to sign up for.
When you sign up with one of these affiliate companies they will ask you for personal information. They have to do this because they will be paying you money based on the commission you make from the programs you sign up for. You will need to provide your address, phone number, social security number as well as some other information. They also require that you send them a W-9 so they can report your income to the IRS.
Think About Commission
When deciding which programs to sign up for you will want to look as different factors. We already discussed matching the programs to your site information to get people to click through. The next thing you will want to look at is what percentage commission the company is willing to pay you. Most of them are between 5% and 10%. Some of them pay more and some pay less. A few of them also have bonus' that you might be able to qualify for.
Commissin Junction gives you more information than just what the commission percentage is. They also show you how good each company is at making their payments and what the average payouts are. With all this information you can make an educated decision which programs you want to add to your site

Adding Banners
Once you choose the program you want to sign up for the rest is pretty easy. A lot of them will let you sign up immediately while others have criteria you have to meet to be accepted to their program. When you have been accepted you will be sent an email telling you what to do next.
When you get your acceptance email it will probably tell you to go to either their Web site or back to the affiliate companies site to search for a link to add to your site. From both Commission Junction and LinkShare you can find banners and text links to add to your site for companies that have accepted you.
Decide if you want to add text links or banners. If you want to add banners decide which size you want to add. They come from very small to very large. Some can be added to the top or bottom of your page and some can be added to the sides.
After you decide which banner or link you want to add click on where it says "html code". Then you can copy the code from their page and paste it into the HTML code on your Web page where you want the banner to show up. You can add the same banners to all your pages, if you want to, or you can choose many different programs and banners and add different ones to different pages.