Archive for the ‘Monetizing Your Website’ Category

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Getting Traffic to Your Website

May 14, 2008

Hello, I hope you are having a great week. Today I’m going to talk about some ways to generate traffic to your website. Traffic is one of the most important things you need when you have a business. Even if you don’t have a business, you need traffic if you have a website, period. What would be the point in spending lots of time planning, developing, and maintaining a website if no one will see it?

One way to generate traffic is to submit your website to directories. There are literally thousands of directories out there, too many to list. You can do this yourself, which can be tedious and time consuming. But by doing it yourself, it’s also free. This can be a major deciding factor. Especially when you’re just starting out with little or no budget. You can also pay a directory service to submit your articles. This is convenient for a lot of people because it not only free’s up your time, but some directory services will submit your website to hundreds to directories. Imagine how much time that can save, so you can focus on other areas.

Submitting your website to directories lets people know that you’re on the map and builds one-way links to your website. This helps your Google pagerank. Which in turn, helps you get visitors.

Here is one place that submits your website to directories Directory/Article Submitter

Have a great night everyone.

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Using Adsense to Put Ads on Your Website

May 1, 2008

A lot of you have been asking how you get advertisements on your websites.  First of all, there are many places to find advertising for your sites.  A good place to start is with Google Adsense.  Google Adsense is a free tool that places relevant ads on your website.  You don’t even have to choose the products or the ads.  Google uses keywords on your website and customizes the ads according to the content on your website.  It’s the simplest form of advertising.  The ads are constantly updated and changing.  You just choose whether you want text ads or image ads or whatever you want and just copy the code that is generated especially for you, and paste it on your website.  How cool is that. 

There are a lot of people making quite a bit of money from Adsense.  If you can get the traffic to your website, Adsense pretty much does the advertising by itself.  The only thing that your readers need to do is click on an ad and you start earning.  Of course you can earn even more $$ if they buy something through one of your ads. 

But most money making sites will tell you that Adsense is a great place to start.