How to Make Money with Ads on Your Website

Google Adsense is not the only way website publishers can make money. There are several other advertising networks that allow you to place their ads on your site for free and generate revenue. In fact, some companies let you place ads from multiple networks on one site.

You don't want to place too many ads on your pages, or your visitor will get distracted and end up leaving your site entirely. However, display ads combined with contextual ads can not only help you make money - but they can help your website visitors find what they are looking for without taking away from the feel of your website.

For people who want to make money with Google (make money with Adsense), these are simple tools that you can implement quickly and increase your advertising income significantly overnight. It is a good idea to review the layout of the ads before posting them on your sites to make sure they can match with look and feel of your web property. The last thing you want to do is drive away traffic an lose valuable visitors because your site looked like one big ad.

Below are a few of the more popular display and contextual ad networks that you can join for free. Similar to Google's ad program, they provide you with a small piece of code which you then place on your website.

• Chitika Website Advertising
• Kontera contextual advertising
• Infolinks contextual advertising
• Publisher Media
• AdBrite

Keep in mind that you can usually make money with website advertising on your blog too. You can also incorporate website advertising on more than one site. When placing ads, you may need to go through a trial-and-error period where you make weekly adjustments to your ad placements to find out where you get the best results.

Take a look at what your competitors are doing. Sometimes you can learn from their successes. However, note that every site is different, and a placement strategy that works well for one site may not be as effective for another.

Emma Active pays webmasters for tagging images on their sites. You can tag products in the images that are located on your site. When visitors click on tagged images on your website, you make money. The process is as simple as placing a small pice of code on your site, which takes up no extra space and leaves your pages looking the same except for a small watermarked logo on the tagged images. Watch this video to see how it works.