Lately, i have been searching for better ways of website monetization. We all who have websites want more money, don’t we ? I have found a few ways of monetization, but almost all of them doesn’t sound too good, unfortunately.

1. Contextual Advertising. The best of these services seem to be offered by Google, with their Adsense program and by Yahoo, with YPN. Other services aren’t quite contextual and offer really low bids, in comparison with those. But, if you are banned by Adsense and outside US ( YPN allows only US Publishers ) you will have to choose from Clicksor or Bidvertiser, which seem to be the best, excluding Adsense and YPN.

2. Affiliate Marketing. This means putting affiliate banners or links on your website and getting paid for lead or sale. For sales you will be paid a percentage of the sale or a fixed amount. Of course, for many sales and signups, you have to put ads related to your website’s content ( e.g. Don’t try to sell auto pieces on kids website ). The best paying companies are: Commission Junction, ClickBank, Shareasale and AzoogleAds.

3. Contextual Advertising + Affiliate Marketing. Because you can add CPA banners along with contextual text ads on the same website, you should try to combine them for a better conversion. For me, the best combination seems to be Google Adsense and Commission Junction.

4. Link sales. If you have an interesting, high PR and high traffic website, people should be interesting in buying links or banners on your website. You can try to sell them directly, by putting a ‘buy’ button on your website or using a specialized link selling company. The most used is Text Link Ads.

5. Feed Advertising. This seems to be a new concept of advertising and it’s good for websites with much subscribers at their Rss feeds. I only know a company selling this kind of advertising ( Text Link Ads ). They will put a text ad in your feed and pay you just as for link sales.

6. Selling Memberships. If you have a Forum, Blog or almost any kind of website that could sell any membership, which gives the member a benefit than the guest, you should try to sell, first for low prices and if it works, you should raise it. You could offer them access to forums only available to paid members, to hidden blog posts, free downloads or anything you could think at.

7.Selling your own product. If your website hasn’t been built from scratch with the goal of selling a product of yours, you should think of providing the users a product related to the website’s content. There are more ways of doing this, like could simply selling it or using the idea from 6., requiring the user to pay a monthly/yearly/lifetime membership which offers him the ability to use or download the product/s.

8. Offering paid services. You can use your website to promote the services you offer, like Search Engine Optimization, Website Development, Web Design or Programming. This is still a monetization, because your website is the one that promotes you and your services.