Websites are great ways to earn a little bit of extra passive income, or potentially a lot of passive income. If you have a website or weblog, there are many ways you can earn a little extra revenue just by adding a few well placed ads on your page.

In my opinion, it is best to develop your site or blog, “SEO” it, and start to get a healthy flow of traffic before you start to add ads onto it, but it definitely doesn’t hurt to add them right away as well.

Adsense
If you dont know what Google’s Adsense is, then you need to get out more (maybe that saying is the opposite in this situation). Adsense is definitely a must have for most websites and blogs. Basically Adsense is a PPC program through Google, where you put text or simple image ads onto your site, and you get paid depending on how many clicks those ads get, along with eCPM.

LinkWorth
Linkworth is a great advertising program, that allows you to use a wide variety of advertising mediums. Through LinkWorth you can set up “Linkads” (text link ads) “LinkPosts” (paid blog reviews similar to PayPerPost), “linkwords” (in content PPC ads), “Linkintext” (in text link ads, similar to Kontera), as well several other Rotating ad units, etc, and a ton of tools and programs to help you out as well. This, along with Google Adsense is my favorite ad program.

Sign up for LinkWorth

PayPerPost
This one is one of my personal favorites. Basically advertisers will pay you a set amount to write a post of certain length about their product. Once approved you go to the PPP marketplace and go through all different listings and pick a topic to post about and they will pay you for it. The advertiser will decide the amount you will get paid, as well as their desired format, and tone (if the review will be positive or negative towards their product).

Sign up for PayPerPost

Text Link Ads
Text link ads are nice, because they aren’t necessarily advertisements like Adsense, but a list of links you can put on your page that don’t bother readers, and are nice for advertisers because the links provide them with traffic and search engine benefits. Your link price is set based on Alexia, Google Pagerank, number of RSS subscribers, and other factors.

Deal Dot Com
Deal dot Com is a site that sells marketing/online business products and software, but what is really cool about it, is you make a 35% commission off whatever anybody buys, who you refer to their site, as well as a 15% commission off anybody THEY refer as well. Unlike other similar affiliate programs such as AuctionAds, who only pays 5% commission and for 6 months, Deal dot com commission is forever. So if you refer somebody today, and they buy something 10 years from now, you still get paid.

Sign up for Deal Dot Com

Kontera Contentlink
Kontera Contentlinks allow you to advertise on your page without having to give up any space for advertisements. Basically, Kontera will crawl your pages, and turn certain words into a link to an advertisement related to that word. You have probably seen them around on several popular websites, when you hover your mouse over the link a small box will pop up in the form of an advertisement.

Review Me
Review Me can be a very huge money maker for a prestigious website. Simply put, companies will pay you to write reviews and/or articles about their product on your site for a somewhat negotiable price set by you.

Shopping Ads
ShoppingAds allows you to make money by displaying merchant ads on your website relevant to the content on your page. When your visitors click on the ads you can make money on a CPC (cost per click) or CPA (cost per acquisition) basis. Basically, you tell them the relevant keywords of merchant ads you want displayed and they will display a matching ad. These ads are especially good for product review blogs or an online store.

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