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In this post I try to round up every monetization method I can think of that can be utalized by bloggers and website owners to further monetize their websites, some of them you may know, others might be new.

1- CPM Ads

Probably one of the oldest and most well know methods of monetizing your website, you get paid an X amount for every 1000 impressions on your site (viewing a banner is an impression)

Some of the more well know CPM ad networks include:

• Value Click Media (min. site requirements, more than 3000 monthly page views, English only, more requirements)
• CasaleMedia (min. site requirements, 10,000 monthly uniques, English and Spanish sites only, more requirements)
• BurstMedia (min. site requirements, 20,000+ monthly page views, English sites only, more requirements)
• Tribal Fusion (min. site requirement, 2000 daily uniques, more requirements)

Some of the lesser know networks include:

• BannerConnect
• MediaShakers

2- CPA Ads

Cost Per Action Ads, you get paid when someone you refer, either by displaying a banner, text link or through an email Ad, buys or signs up for something, it depends on the advertisers, CPA offers pay anywhere between $0.2 to $200 and more, the higher the payout is, the harder it is to get a lead, CPA ads or affiliate marketing is extremely popualr and extremely competetive, especially in certain niches such as ring tones, some of the more popular CPA networks include (some are aff .links):

• Azoogleads One of the more well know and highly respected networks.
• CPAEmpire Excellent support, try to get Doug to be your account manager, he’s very helpful (Affiliate FAQ)
• CPAStorm Good daily updated offers emailed to you
• MaxBounty Lots of incentive offers here, but be careful if you own an incentive site
• Hydranetwork haven’t personally tried them but I’ve heard good think about them
• Neverblueads Haven’t personally tried them
• Millnicmedia Recently applied and things look good so far
• Commission Junction Didnt like them allot, support isnt fast, but lots of offers there

Recommended blogs and forums to read discussing CPA and affiliate marketing:

• CPA Affiliates
• Pepperjamblog
• Super Affiliate Marketing blog
  
• Digital Point Affiliate forums
• WickedFire
• EarnersForum

3- Contextual PPC Ads

PPC Ads or contextual Ads, Google Adsense and Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN) come to mind when ever you hear this term, a part from those two programs that everyone is familiar with, you can find the follow networks useful (aff. links):

• Clicksor
• Bidvertiser
• Adbrite
• Kontera

4- Popunders & Popunders

Popunders and popups are popular with sites like proxies and online arcades, they usually pay well (either CPM and CPC basis) some of the CPM networks mentioned above offer those Ad options, I usually don’t use them mainly because they piss off users.

Popular networks include:

• Adversal

5- Text link ads

A new monetization method when compared to other older methods like CPM, in this type the advertiser hand picks the website he/she wants to advertise on, price of the link is usually determined by the network it self and it depends on lots of factors (Google PR, link popularity, technorati rank, Alexa rank and others), some of the more well known sites are:

• Text Link Ads
• TNX

6- Blog reviews

If you own a blog and your not making at least some money out of it (I am assuming you do want to make money out of it) then you should definitely read on, it doesn’t matter how popular your blog is, its PR or its technorati rank to make money out of your blog (of course the more of these you have the more you’ll make) but you can definitely make some bucks out of:

• ReviewMe (advertisers selects the blog, ReviewMe recommends a suitable price for your blog depending on its popularity but you can set your own prices)
• Pay Per Post (You select the offers that your blog qualifies for)
• Blogsvertise (Advertisers selects the blog and determines the price, make sure to accept or reject the offer or you’ll account be disabled after some time)

7- Product ads

I placed these companies in their own category for a number of reasons, mainly because they are growing in popularity (thus they deserve their own point) and because they mainly display product ads, they pay on a PPC basis and most of them are contextual (optional in most), they include (aff. links):

• ShoppingAds, displays Amazon products and claims high CPC rate.
• AuctionAds, displays Ebay auctions, originally launched by Shoemoney and later acquired by MediaWhiz.
• WidgetBucks, unlike the 2 other sites, Widgetbucks displays product ads in a nice interactive widget which helps improve CTR
• Ttzmedia, owned by JohnChow

8-Toolbar installs

Lots of the affiliate networks mentioned in point 2 have toolbar offers (you get paid when a member installs the toolbar), howver, websites in this category pay you a recurring fee for users who you refer install/use the toolbar, I havent tried this type of monetization yet but I’ve seen some do well with them. This category includes one website till now. (aff. link)

• Agloco

Thats it, hope you earn more money with one or all of these companies!

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