How to earn money from website?

There are many ways to monetize a website but, as you asked, it has to be popular.

First, you need to be in a niche that is profitable. You know - where money goes around briskly.

Your site should have good on-page and off-page SEO so that you can be prominent in search results where free organic search traffic is available in droves.

Traffic, even targeted traffic, is useless if your site is not converting well, meaning that visitors are not persuaded to take the action that you want.

So you have to make adjustments.

To monetize your site, you can register for Google AdSense and deploy their ads and other monetization methods on your site. You can also join affiliate programs and promote affiliate products/services.

People go online mostly for information. Create informative and valuable content the search engine friendly way. If you need more insights into the matter, try searching for "content marketing for beginners" to find websites with free information.

Once you have enough traffic, then you can implement Google Adsense to start serving some ads on the site.

With a larger volume, you can start to look into other specialized ad networks that cater to your audience (and work with advertisers specifically in your vertical) to see if you can yield better eCPMs.

Another choice is to work with an outsourced ad optimization company like MonetizeMore-- we actually did an interview with the founder and he goes into great detail about website monetization here: http://www.thalamus.co/blog/monetizemore-kean-grah...

Obvious things are to offer advertising either to local companies to you or through Google Adsense or Yahoo do something similar as well.

If you want your website to become popular and for people to find you in search engines then you need a Search Engine Optimisation strategy and to employ a company to do this for you professionally.

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