Our website is designed to attract targeted traffic. We'll transform this traffic into profit in two ways: affiliate networks and pay per click advertising. Striking a healthy balance between affiliate revenue and pay per click revenue will be best.
Pay Per Click Ads
Pay per click networks allow us to set aside sections of our website for banner
and text advertisements. We simply paste a code into this area of our webpage
and advertisements automatically appear. Every time someone clicks on one
of these ads, the advertiser pays the ad network (such as google) a predetermined
amount of money. We receive a percentage of this pay per click amount.
Google is the pioneer of the pay per click market with Google Adsense. Google automatically fills in these parts of our website with appropriate advertisements based on our content. In recent months, competitors like Yahoo and Amazon have been putting together similar advertising networks that will rival Google's. Take a look at your best Pay Per Click Network options with our Guide to Pay Per Click Networks.
We recommend you start with the proven Google Adsense network. You can always try out new networks and opportunities down the road. However, there is plenty of literature and information written about the Adsense program that will help you quickly become an expert in the Pay Per Click revenue system.
Affiliate Networks, Affiliate Programs
Affiliate networks are composed of companies selling physical products and
services on the internet. We offer our visitors their products and services.
If our visitors click through from our website to their website and make a
purchase, we receive a percentage of the sale.
We are an information source. Regardless of what your website is about, products and services will naturally arise in your conversation. Provide visitors with information about these products and services and it can become an extension of the service you provide. We aren't selling anything to our customers - they are buying something they naturally read about at our website.
Rather than sign up as an affiliate with individual companies, join an Affiliate Network. Networks work with thousands and thousands of retailers and service providers and by signing up for one network we have access to all of these amazing companies. Perhaps best of all, we can track and monitor all of our different programs and products through one single website. (and we'll get one single check!)
Commission Junction is the largest and most recognized Affiliate Network and it's the one Build and Earn recommends you join. You can join more than one, but especially for beginners, the whole point in affiliate networks is to simplify everything. Stick to one affiliate network. Take a look at a few of the best affiliate programs at the Guide to Affiliate Networks.
Now that we've got an awesome website with revenue streams, it's time for Step 6 - increasing website traffic!