101 Ways to Monetize Your Website or Blog

Text Link Advertising

Advertisers pay to have links on your site.If you are approved, you get the html code to put on your site and you start earning for displaying those ads.

Below are a list of Text Link Ad providers:

Text Link Ads (aff.) - The leader in paid text link ads.
LinkWorth - Keep up to 70% of the ad revenue.
Text Link Brokers - Make money buy selling links in a directory on your site.
Live Customer - Static HTML ads with flat monthly rates.
LinkAdage - Matches advertisers with publishers
Direct-Link-Ads - Keep up to 75% of the ad revenue.
PaidTextLinks - A smaller text link program.
Kontera - Create contextual links automatically.
AdSter - Customize your ads to match your website.
Vibrant Media - Vibrant in-text advertising.
TextAd.biz - Basic text ad service.
SearchFriendlyAds - Not live yet.
YzMedia - Another text link option.

Direct Sales

Direct sales involves sellingitems on your site. There are free programs that provide free shopping carts that enable you to sell on the internet.

Below are a list of free shopping cart providers:

KickStartCart - A shopping cart, merchant account and marketing tools.
PayPal - One of the lowest-cost choices for selling your own products.
EasyStoreCreator - Provides a package that includes hosting, merchant account integration, and shopping cart.
1ShoppingCart - Offers different packages with marketing tools, shopping carts and merchant accounts.
ASecureCart - An affordable shopping cart service
NetSuite - Full e-commerce option.
GotShoppingCart? - Free version available.
3D Cart - Includes marketing, statistics and more.
Americart - 30-day risk-free trial.
MonsterCommerce - Full of features.

PPC (Pay Per Click)

In this group, you earn money when users of your site click on ads on your site You register for publisher and webmaster accounts and you generate the code to serve contextual ads on your site. You get paid per click.

Below is a list of the big players in the pay per click market

Google AdSense - The industry leader.
Yahoo Publisher Network - Yahoo's AdSense alternative.
Chitika - eMiniMalls is not a typical PPC program, it is different kind of pay-per-click product promotion.
Kanoodle - A second-tier PPC option as opposed to Google and Yahoo.
Ads-Click - You set the price per click for ads showing on your site.
AdBrite - Control and customization options.
ABC Search - Another 2nd-tier option.
BidVertiser - Large network PPC program.
Clicksor - Contextual ads program.
Qads - Ad program from Qumana.
PeakClick - Pays in Euros.
DoubleClick - Another targeted PPC
option.
RevenuePilot - Keep 60% of the revenue.
Search Feed - Another option for targeted PPC ads.
Targetpoint - For publishers of all sizes.
OneMonkey - Keep 80% of the revenue.
Miva MC - PPC ads plus the option for contextual PPD ads.
ClickBooth - Claims to have the highest payout in the industry.

Banner Ads

You make money by displaying advertiser banners on your site.

AdEngage - Not a typical banner ad, the're photo ads with text.
AdDynamix - Also offers other options besides just banners.
BannerBoxes - Your keep 75% of the revenue from each click.

Affiliate Programs

Affiliate programs pay you for refering customers to their site that when that referal results in a sale or registration. You are paid a commission for each sale or lead.

Commission Junction - One of the leaders. Manages affiliate programs for all kinds of products.
Click Bank - All downloadable affiliate products.
LinkShare - Claims to be the largest pay-for-performance affiliate marketing network.
Azoogle Ads - Also claims to be the largest performance-based online advertising network.
Amazon - One of the oldest and most successful affiliate programs.
Context Links for Amazon's Affiliate Program - Auto creates affiliate links to Amazon's products.

Paid Reviews

These sites pay you to review other sites.

ReviewMe - Get paid to review other websites and blogs.
PayPerPost - Make money writing about website, products, services and companies.

Parked Domains

Revenue Direct - Make money from a parked domain.
Parked - Another option for parked domains.

Random/Various

The News Room - Make money by placing news items on your site.
Tribal Fusion - Represents the advertising for selectively approved websites.
IndustryBrains - Has a few different options that would fall into various categories above.
Adknowledge - Options for email, web, and search engine inventory.
Yesadvertising - Lots of options, including contextual ads, email, banners and pop-unders.
ValueMedia - Several different options, including video.
Auction Ads - Make money by displaying Ebay items.
IntelliTXT - Contextual ads that include video.
PremierAd - Lots of different options. You keep 80% of ad revenue.
BurstMedia - A variety of different options.
Advertising.com - Multiple options, including video ads.
Openads - Online advertising software.
Casale Media - You choose what type of ads you want on your site.
VC Media - CPC or CPM options.
Ads by RSS - Places ads on your website, using RSS.
AdSpaceAuctions - Sell ad space on your website through an auction.
TextMarks - Monetize your blog with text message alerts.

Sell Ad Space

AdSonar -Provide content-targeted ads.
BlogAds - You control the ads that appear on your site.
Crisp Ads - name your price for direct sponsors.
ADSDAQ - Choose your asking price for ads and ADSDAQ matches you with advertisers.
AdVolcano - Set your own prices and ad sizes.

RSS Feed Monetization

Pheedo - PPC for RSS feeds.
PostPostWordPress Plugin - Display affiliate links or ads before or after your feeds (other uses beside just advertising).
Feedvertising - Runs txt link ads in your feed.
FeedBurner Ads - If you use FeedBurner's services for distributing and tracking your feeds, you also have the option of using their advertising services in your feeds.
MediaFed - Automatically inserts ads into your feed.
FeedShow - Puts PPC ads into your feed.
Fedafi Publishing Network - Monetize your feed with the Fedafi WordPress plugin.
Yahoo Publisher Network - PPC ads in your feeds.

Job Boards

Joards - Put a job board on your site and keep 75% of the revenue.
Job-a-matic - Another option for making money with a job board.

WP Plugins

AdSense-Deluxe - Embed AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network ads into your blog.
AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System - A plugin for blogs that have multiple writers. Let each of your writers make money from ads on their own posts.
AdSense Injection - Inject AdSense ads throughout an existing blog.
Google AdSense Referral Rotator Plugin - Make money by referring other users to AdSense.
Amazon Media Manager - Easily ad Amazon affiliate products to your blog.
WP-Amazon - Quickly search for products and add Amazon affiliate links while writing your posts.
Last Amazon Review Plugin - Displays your most recent review of a product listed on Amazon and includes your Amazon affiliate link.
Text Ads Link Widget for WordPress Sidebar - A simple widget that makes it easy to display text ads in your sidebar.
WPAds Plugin - Show and rotate ads on your blog.
AdRotator Plugin - Randomly rotates ads that you choose.
WP E-commerce Shopping Cart Plugin - Creates a shopping cart with tons of features and options for your WP blog or website.
EasyPayPal WordPress Plugin - Integrates your blog and your PayPal account to accept donations or fees.
Buy Me a Beer Plugin - Accept donations from your readers by asking them to buy you a beer (or coffee) if they liked your post.
CafePress - Sell your own products on your blog.
YAK - Simple shopping cart plugin.

What other methods do you use to monetize your site or blog? This post may be updated, so please leave your suggestions in the comments. If you own or represent one of the advertising programs mentioned on this page and you feel that you should be in a different category, please leave a comment. Thanks!

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