Thursday, May 21, 2009

Internet Money-Maker: Advertisements in your Website

By Sean Galusha

Over the past few years, people have turned to the internet to make money in the comfort of their own homes. It is a fast and comfortable way to make money, however it isn't always peaches and cream, it can be very difficult.

There are actually many opportunities and ways on how you can make money online. You can either engage in buy and sell through a website, trade stocks, do freelance work, and many others. However, the most popular way is to place advertisements in your website.

Advertising is now all over the internet and one way to earn from it is through pay per click. In pay per click advertising, you can make money by allowing advertisers to post their ads on your website. When clicked, these ads will bring the online surfer to the advertiser's site. You will earn then when a user clicks an ad. However, the amount of your earnings will depend largely on how huge is the traffic to your site.

This works quite similarly with the usual advertising. In putting up billboards for example, a highway with huge traffic means a more expensive advertising price. In order to have expensive advertising on your website, there are however a number of ways to increase traffic.

To increase traffic on your site, search engine optimization (SEO) can be used. SEO focuses on using keywords on your site so that when internet users search subjects contained in your website, the search engines like Google and Yahoo can easily find your site, and give it more chance to be seen by many.

Advertising is also a way in increasing your site's traffic. If you want to earn higher from posting advertisements online, you can also advertise to sites similar than yours. This will give you more site visitors that is an important factor in earning a higher price for posting ads in your site.

You can also use tools from Google, being the popular and widely used search engine. Google Adwords can be used to put links to your websites. This may be costly but it will give you higher chances of being seen by a large number of people over the internet.

In a way, it is an investment, because the more traffic you have, the more money you will earn online. - 16890

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