Making money of websites???
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I've been told by a friend that having a website with high traffic is a license to print money so just wanted to ask anyone who has more of an idea, how do websites generate income if they aren't selling anything on their website. How much can an advertisements generate or even google adsense and what other methods do websites use to bring in cash. Is there anywhere I can read up on this. Google searchs tend to bring up some random stuff.
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If you have a site with high traffic (and that takes some time to get and more effort to keep) you can see ad space to people, they pay you a fee you add them to your ad scripts and they're message gets flashed up X number of times. Adsense works in a similar way but I believe people have to physically click on an ad first.
The thing to keep in mind is that if you litter the page with ads and have pop-up/pop-under stuff going like buggery most people will just leave; you also have things like adblock on Firefox running around disabling the images (although you may still get adsense getting through and depending on if the client pulls the content you can claim an impression).
The thing to keep in mind is that if you litter the page with ads and have pop-up/pop-under stuff going like buggery most people will just leave; you also have things like adblock on Firefox running around disabling the images (although you may still get adsense getting through and depending on if the client pulls the content you can claim an impression).
mcflurry said:
Why would you want to go to a website full of adverts?
PH has ads, and you're here
If the ads are unobtrusive, most people don't mind having ads on a website. With something like Adsense, you get paid every time a user clicks on one of your ads. However, just because you have high traffic, it doesn't mean you are going to become very rich! It depends on how well the site converts (forums don't tend to convert too well) and what content your site has (some niches pay better than others). Best place to start with info on adsense is Google's own website: http://adsense.google.com . Webmasterworld have good forums for adsense and other similar products.
I own a number of websites, and trust me unless you have something like Pistonheads it is not a license to print money. As no doubt Ted will agree, making the website is the easy bit, the development is the hard bit.
Even if you come of with a cracking idea for a site I can guarantee somebody somwhere has already done it or is doing it. You ideally need a niche idea / market, put in a lot of hard work developing the site traffic (takes years) and eventually you can generate income via sensible advertising / subscriptions.
A better way may be to sell something on line through a shop.
Even if you come of with a cracking idea for a site I can guarantee somebody somwhere has already done it or is doing it. You ideally need a niche idea / market, put in a lot of hard work developing the site traffic (takes years) and eventually you can generate income via sensible advertising / subscriptions.
A better way may be to sell something on line through a shop.
Go porn... I understand that used to make quite a lot of pennies but I don't know now...
IMHO, your mate is doing a lot of pub talking. Nothing is a licence to print money, if there was something, lots of people would be doing it and then know one would make any... just look at property development.
IMHO, your mate is doing a lot of pub talking. Nothing is a licence to print money, if there was something, lots of people would be doing it and then know one would make any... just look at property development.
shadowninja said:
ThePassenger said:
shadowninja said:
To help you decide on your new business, I'd like to say: Adblock rocks!!
Filterset.G rocks your house, floats your boat and spanks the monkey.
but does it have rough hands?
Nope, silky smooth hands just like using fairy to wash up with.
V8 EOL said:
Go lots of people would be doing it and then know one would make any... just look at property development.
Oh yes, I started off in development but have scaled down that side of my business. Just waiting for a crash (IT WILL COME TRUST ME) and then I can resume operations, while the DIY developers lick their wounds.
JamieBeeston said:
mcflurry said:
aranell said:
PH has ads, and you're here
Correctimondo - But I am here for the forums, not the adverts. Besides I have never clicked on one
Then you're hurting PH
Not really. I don't want anyone clicking on my ads unless they are genuinely interested in what we are offering. It might not be what they are looking for, they might just be a little bit curious, but someone who clicks through for no other reason than to randomnly click it is a waste really.
It may make the advertiser feel better that they are getting click throughs, but generating traffic to a site is the easy bit. Getting the visitors to buy is the key, and if the visitor is clicking on random adverts, then it serves no purpose to either the advertiser or the website hosting the ad for you.
tinman0 said:
JamieBeeston said:
mcflurry said:
aranell said:
PH has ads, and you're here
Correctimondo - But I am here for the forums, not the adverts. Besides I have never clicked on one
Then you're hurting PH
Not really. I don't want anyone clicking on my ads unless they are genuinely interested in what we are offering. It might not be what they are looking for, they might just be a little bit curious, but someone who clicks through for no other reason than to randomnly click it is a waste really.
It may make the advertiser feel better that they are getting click throughs, but generating traffic to a site is the easy bit. Getting the visitors to buy is the key, and if the visitor is clicking on random adverts, then it serves no purpose to either the advertiser or the website hosting the ad for you.
I never said I wanted random clicks, I said that blocking Adverts is hurting PH..
If the user has blocked the Ad, then they have no idea if they actually wanted to view it or not, so there's a good chance they would have been interested in what was on offer had they seen it..
I've had a number of conversations on here, with people after hosting / domains, whom i've told to 'click the banner up top' only to be told oh, sorry, I block adds, do you have a direct link
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JamieBeeston said:
I never said I wanted random clicks, I said that blocking Adverts is hurting PH..
If the user has blocked the Ad, then they have no idea if they actually wanted to view it or not, so there's a good chance they would have been interested in what was on offer had they seen it..
I've had a number of conversations on here, with people after hosting / domains, whom i've told to 'click the banner up top' only to be told oh, sorry, I block adds, do you have a direct link
ah ok. to be honest, I don't allow pop up ads on my browsers. embedded ads yes, ads that want to make their own window, no. can't actually believe anyone actually uses a pop up anymore, but they do strangely enough.
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