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Top 5 income streams for website owners

With the rapid growth of Internet population, more and more people are making a decent income on Internet. Nowadays, it’s no secret that some of the website owners earn 6 to 7 figures annually via their website revenue. Are you one of those who makes thousands per month online; or you are lurking from other? If you ever own a website or wish to earn extra income from the Internet, this How-to article is highly recommended.

1. Google Adsense

Google Adsense logo The reason we list Google Adsense first and isolate them out from other usual advertising program is because Google Adsense is so far world’s most popular make-money-online method. Because of Google Adsense, individual webmasters quit their day job and make a living via Internet; because of Google Adsense, bloggers like Darren Rowse makes 6 figures annually; and because of Google Adsense, small websites and blogs get to compete with giant cooperations with a better ROI efficiency.

Basically, here’s how Google Adsense works: You place a piece of java codes into your website, showings ads related to your website topics, if your website visitors got interested in those ads and click on them, you earn certain amount of commissions by refering your visitors to the advertisers. Such kind of advertising program is normally known as cost-per-click (CPC) advertising as money is made when the ad is clicked. Earnings per click range widely from a penny to a few dollars depends on the advertisement clicked.

2. Affiliate Program

Affiliate Networks In affiliate program, webmasters are more like sales who sell (or some call it pre-sell) a merchant’s product. By placing banner ads or affiliate links (a hyperlink that enables merchant to track who’s who) webmasters refer their visitors to the merchant commercial websites. If the visitors buy something, the webmaster got credited with commissions. The major advantage for being an affiliate is that in most cases, all you need to do is attract Internet traffics and refer them to the merchant – you don’t need to do customer support, inventory management, or website shopping cart.
Commission Junction, Click Bank, Amazon, Share A Sale are some of the well known affiliate program/networks.

3. Selling your own products

Selling your own product (digital product especially) makes good money online. Lots of one-man biz opeations are producing and selling digital products like ebooks, computer software online and make a good fortune. John Reese for example made a million bucks on the day he launched his Internet marketing course “Traffic Secrets”.

4. Other advertising program

Besides Google Adsense, there are more MSN Adcenter, YPN (by Yahoo!), Adbrite, Text Link Ads, Adgenta, CrispAds, SearchFeed, AVN, Target Point… etc. These advertising program might not be as famous as Google Adsense but they do offer lucrative ads revenue to many webmaster.

5. Paid to blog / Brand Sponsorship

We think number 5 could be the next money-printing-machine for bloggers. As more and more people are writting and reading blogs, we believe that big brands like Nike, Levi’s, Coke, Budwiser will (or already have) soon direct sponsor high traffic blogs. Also, bloggers can now be easily paid by writing blog post with the existence of payperpost.com.

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