The 13 Proven Ways to Make Money From your Website

Owning a website comes with a lot of opportunities but most people do not understand that it is possible to legitimately make money from your website, regardless of your location.

A number of people have found some of these proven strategies and they’ve used it to monetize and earn from their websites but so many others have not been able to do so.

In this tutorial, I’ll be discussing with you some of the popular and full proof strategies you can use to create a website and start earning from it in the following paragraphs.

These ideas are time tested, practical and straight to the point ideas that have worked for others. And can also work for you.

But before we proceed, I want to point out that the first three steps to make money online is firstly, having a clear idea about the goal you want to achieve, understanding what you’ll give in return as value to achieve th and creating the strategies that will help you to achieve those goals.

So, at this point, I want you to pause and ask yourself the following questions, “how much money do I really want to make with my website? and what strategies can I use to achieve that?”

Again, i want you to ask yourself, What am i willing to offer in return as value for the money and how much effort am I willing to put in so I can get to achieve my goal?

These questions are very important to your success. As soon as you get your answers, write them down somewhere, they’ll form a part of your business plan.

Alright. The following are the practical steps you can use to make money online with your website…

Sell Items

Selling merchandise on your website is one of the easiest ways to make money from your website. This is what ecommerce websites do all the time and you can extend your website to sell goods related to your niche.

To make money with a website selling merchandise, you will need to set up an ecommerce store section alongside a blog on the website. For example, if you want to sell baby products, you’ll get a niche blog and start creating content around babies and baby stuff.

The reason for this is because a well written and search engine optimized posts in your niche area will get Google bots to index your site regularly.

This will in turn make your website more visible in search engines for people searching for the things you sell. 

With this, you’ll be able to attract potential client to your website.

Join Affiliate Marketing

If you don’t have a product, you can sell other people’s product or services. This is the idea about Affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is a system that allows you to earn commission while promoting and selling the products or services of other businesses. It is one system that’s enabled a lot of people to make money online.

As an affiliate marketer, you promote the product or services of other businesses either on your website or else where and whenever anyone buys the product via your recommendation, you get a commission.

It’s a pretty straight forward passive income system. A lot of online entrepreneurs started making money online using affiliate marketing. And there are lots of affiliate programs you can join both locally and internationally.

Use Display Ads

Do you have a high traffic website? Display advertising is one of the ways you can easily make money from your website.

With display advertising, you create ad spaces or banners on your website where people can pay to display ads targeted at your readers.

A lot of successful websites like lindaikeji.com, Nairaland, Punch and many others are using display advertising as one of their top money making models. You can also key into this model if you have a decent traffic on your website/blog.

PS: While setting up ad spaces on your website, be sure you do not fill your website with too many ads in a way that it affects the overall user experience for the website.

Signup for Google AdSense

Google AdSense is another advertising program that’s given a lot of businesses the chance to earn passive income online.

Unlike Affiliate Marketing, Google Adsense is owned by Google itself. But like Affiliate Marketing, you’ll also need a decent traffic, to make money from your website, using Google AdSense.

With Google Adsense, Google places ads on your website and you get paid, each time a reader clicks on your ad.

To get started, all you need is to register with Google Adsense, after your website is approved, you’ll get to use the codes on your website and then ads will start getting displayed as soon as it is approved.

PS: AdSense approval can be tasking sometimes. To make it easier, try creating a decent number of valuable content before you apply for Google AdSense.

Create Sponsored Post

A sponsored post is a blog post or content written for another company or entity, to promote their product or services. It is usually a paid post. That’s why it comes in as a great option to make money from your website.

Usually, it’s either you create the post for clients, based on their requirements or they can create it for you to publish directly by yourself.

Depending on the niche, creating a sponsored post might not be too difficult. Where it’s too difficult, you can ask clients to create it themselves while you get it to meet up with your publishing requirements before having it published.

While creating options for sponsored posts, you’ll have to be concerned about your readers… You don’t want to fill up your blog with too many sponsored posts all of the time. You want to mix things up, here and there, to create a balance.

Use AdSense Alternative Ads

Like I mentioned above, sometimes AdSense approval rates can be very low and their eligibility requirements very stringent for creators in certain countries.

Also, AdSense has a minimum monthly payout threshold of 100 USD. Meaning you won’t get anything for the month if your accumulated earnings isn’t up to the minimum threshold. These and many more peculiarities have made some creators to opt for AdSense alternatives.

If you’re having approval issues with AdSense or you need an alternative platform to make money from your website, there are a handful of these platforms you can conveniently use. You can check out some AdSense Alternatives here.

These programs also use a system where the website owners makes an earning, each time an ad is clicked on the website.

Write & Sell your Books

Are you an expert or a recognized thought leader in any field of endeavor with an existing audience? You could use your expertise to write books and sell online via your website.

This doesn’t have to be too hard. All you need is research your audience, find out what they want and find a way to put this together for them as a book, using your own expertise.

After this is done, you can use your blog to create content around the niche area in a way that further builds your expertise.

On the other hand, if you already have your book published elsewhere, you can get it online and promote it across to your audience via your website.

Now, doing this does not stop you from selling on sites like Amazon and so on. Instead, it expands your audience, giving you the chance to reach a larger market and make more profit.

Besides the above listed ideas, there are many other ways to make money from your website. I am going to list some of them below…

Set up Agency Services

Now, another easy way to make money from your website is to set up agency services and have them displayed on the website.

So, if you own a real estate agent website for instance, you can display your product and real estate agency services on the website, create content and promote the site

Over time, you could also get other agents to display their services on your website free or for a token, depending on the popularity of your website.

Video or Photo Editing Services

If you are a video editing expert or photographer with photography skills and a flair for editing pictures or graphic design then you can set up a photo editing and graphics design as some of the services you offer on your website.

Doing this, you’ll leverage the increasing need of social media users to capture great moments to share online, to monetize your website and make money by creating a photo editing or graphics design business with your website.

There are people making it in this niche. And with a combination of your social media and website as marketing tools, you can create content that will bring in the leads.

As a video editor, you can also leverage your skills and start making money from your website using your video editing skills.

Offer Virtual Assistant Services

If you have multiple skills that can be useful in the virtual world then welcome to the world of virtual assistance. You can make money from your website by offering any one of these skills.

In this niche, you can earn online income doing anything from managing websites for busy people, managing forums, guest posting on other blogs, managing social media accounts, writing specific emails and newsletters to project management etc.

In fact, using your website you can display your portfolio or even bid for and get virtual contracts outsourced to you from companies and individuals.

Offer Software Development Services 

Are you a software developer or programmer with diverse skills in website development? You can turn your website into a client generating machine.

Instead of creating a static website where you display your portfolio alone, add a blog to your website, and then create well optimized and valuable content on the blog from time to time.

What this does is that it will increase your visibility, build your brand as a thought leader and bring in quality leads and traffic to your website.

With this in place you’ll increase your chances of making money from your website either directly with this service alone or a combination of other strategies

Content Creation Services

If you’re a blogger with a flair for content writing, one of the easiest ways to make money from your website is by creating content for other people.

With the surge in the number of online platforms, there’s an increasing demand for quality content creators.

Instead of creating all the content for your website alone, with your experience you can also offer content writing services for other clients and get paid for it.

Use a Donation Button

Lastly, you have put in so much work, effort and sweat to building your website, “adding a donation button” could be one of the ways to get your readers to appreciate your efforts.

With a ‘donate button’ on your site, you can ask people who appreciate what you’re doing to make donations towards supporting you and your cause.

This works well if your site is doing stuff that’s really affecting people positively.

Sites like Pavlina.com among many others do this and it’s working for them. You can also have this as one of your top options to make money from your website.

Final Words

Do you remember the questions i asked you at the opening of this tutorial about how much effort you want to put in return for the money you want to make online?

If you didn’t answer that question, I want you to go back and think about it. Because, the effort you’re willing to put in and the smart strategies you’ll use are some of the things that will determine whether you’ll really make money online with your website or not.

Whether you’re offering writing or graphics designing services, or selling a product online, to really stand out and achieve the result you need, you’re going to put in the work and effort that will complement the result you want.

From building your website, to expanding your capacity and growing your skillset, to really make money online in Nigeria, you’re going to bring in your A-Game. That’s what works.

So, are you willing to put in the work and evolve a website that will help you make money online? The choice is yours! And yes, I can help you to get started, if you’ll get in touch with me today.

So, it’s over to you now. Which of these strategies would you like to use to make money online with your website?