Monetization

Last Updated: 2024-04-18

Monetization of this site

• Google AdSense
  • Read more: How To Add Google AdSense To Your Website
• Amazon Associates

In 2024, Google Adense has changed from cost-per-click (CPC) model to eCPM (effective cost per thousand impressions) model. So the revenue is based on num of impressions rather than clicks.

Announcement: https://blog.google/products/adsense/evolving-how-publishers-monetize-with-adsense/

After adding ads:

• Add Privacy Policy: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1348695?hl=en
• Add ads.txt: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/7532444?hl=en

Other options to try

Ads

• Carbon: A premium, invite-only ad network
• Facebook Audience Network
• Direct Ad: Directly contact the business to place ad on your website. So there's no cut from the ad network
• AdThrive: optimize your ad income.
• https://www.media.net/
• https://www.infolinks.com/

Affiliate Marketing

From wiki:

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.

Affiliate Marketing pay publishers on a pay-for-performance basis. You don’t earn anything for clicks or impressions. Only get paid for a sale or a user registration.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work

• sign up for an advertiser’s affiliate program
• get an affiliate link (a special URL so the advertiser can track the referral source).
• embed the affiliate links to your site
• a visitor clicks on the affiliate link, and hop to advertiser’s website.
• a cookie is added to the visitor's browser.
• the visitor makes a transaction(a sale) or perform some actions like registration(a lead)
• the advertiser associate the sale to your account via cookie's info
• commissions are paid out, may on a monthly basis

Affiliate Networks / Programs

• Amazon
• ebay
• bluehost
• Share A Sale
• CJ
• Avant Link
• Priority Pass
• Wix
• https://www.raise.com/affiliates
• Linkedin Affiliate Program
• Coursera
• Masterclass
• Udacity
• Udemy

eBook

• LeanPub
• Gumroad: not only eBooks, but any other digital assets.
• Amazon Kindle Direct: publish your eBooks as Kindle books. Think about the broad audience you can reach by it.
• GitBook

From Supporters

• Patreon: Recurring funding for creators
• Flattr: Fund creativity
• KickStarter

Sell Tutorials

• Teachable
• tutsplus.com