Techspirit March 2014 Volume 1 | Page 14

March 2014 Idea Ways to earn Find a market To generate the most traffic, and thus the most revenue, be selective in your target market. While every demographic has its strong points and weak points, studies have shown that younger people are generally more optimistic and more adventurous and thus likely to click on an advertisement more readily. Keep in mind that the goal is clicks, not sales; that's what generates your revenue. Once the visitor has clicked out of your site, it's up to the merchant to make the sale. You get paid, regardless of the outcome. Direct business Selling services and goods through your website in which you are creating and managing services. Indirect Ways Advertising and Promotions This is by generating traffic to your website in which you are just providing content or information in your website which is highly attractive or valuable and attracting a lot of people. Yes you can do ads where a lot of people gather together. Sign up for Google AdSense. AdSense will place ads for goods and services that are relevant to your site's visitors, based on the content of your site. You get paid every time an ad appears on your site, or an ad is clicked on. You get paid a very small amount for each impression (view) or click. Therefore, the more traffic you generate, the more clicks and impressions you will have, and the more money you will receive. Google AdSense, the largest advertising network, can get you $5-25 per 1,000 webpage views. You can keep track of traffic to your website through free services, such as Google Analytics and StatCounter. Register with the Google AdWords advertising service, its keyword tool that will also show you the average cost per click, or CPC, of ads for keywords. This is the average cost of ads for that keyword. Around 70% of this money will go to the website on which the ad is clicked. A high CPC means you earn more per click. Most visitors will discover your website through search engines, primarily Google. Before you make a site, check the competition that you will face from other sites in Google search results How Do I Earn On So you have the What should your website be about? Just like in other businesses, it is important to gauge demand in this venture as well. A niche website where people are looking for specific information and products online has more chances of success. The demand for content on any topic can be seen by checking the search volume on search engines such as Google. A highly successful website is the one which has a high traffic not the one which is providing innumerous information but not the one we are looking for. You should create a Facebook page for your website and add this to your site through a widget. Creating an account with Twitter.com and sharing your content also helps. Search engines track hyperlinks (also called backlinks) from other sites to your webpages to judge the importance of your content. An easy way to get backlinks to your webpages is by leaving comments on blogs and websites. Being active on forums will also get you backlinks. Adding links to your existing webpages in new articles too will improve the visibility of your content. Create Generate Traffic Sell Techspirit | 14