Looking for good ways to make money online? Many people still doubts that one can really make a decent living from a website or blog. However, despite all the doubts, there really are a number of good ways to make money from a blog or website.

Here are five quick, tried and tested ideas to get you started.

Pay Per Click Ads – The Easiest Money Maker

Most bloggers and website owners, who are searching for good ways to make money, often start out with pay per click ads. These are ads that show links and short descriptions of advertisers’ websites. The ads are relevant to the content you have entered on your own site. Relevancy, in this case produces greater results. You’ll earn a small amount of money for every click a visitor makes on the ads.

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The most used Pay Per Click Ads system in this case is probably Google Adsense. Implementing this is super easy. Just create an account in Google Adsense. Create an ad channel. Copy and paste the code provided by Adsense into your website. You are then ready to make some cash on your website or blog.

Sell Advertisements To Make Money

Selling advertising slots is certainly a fantastic way to make money from your blog. However, in order to attract advertisers, you will need to bring up the rankings and ratings of your website or blog. Don’t expect to sell ad spots for much if you are only beginning. Not until you build up a good subscriber base and traffic numbers.

Once you have the numbers, you can sell direct text links, banner ads, mentions within your newsletter and more. You do have to choose your advertisers carefully, though. This is to avoid aggravating your readers.

Note – if you currently don’t have the subscriber numbers to sell ad spots, you should then think about signing up to paid or sponsored blogging programs such as PayPerPost.

Make Money From Affiliate Programs

Affiliate marketing has really taken off. Affiliate programs are in abundance today. There is an affiliate program for just about any topic you can think of. From digital products like eBooks, audiobooks, and podcasts to physical products like computers, televisions, and shoes you can promote anything you like and make money from them.

Just join any one or two of the many affiliate networks. You can then select any number of merchants whose products you can promote on your website. When a visitor buys the product through the link on your website, you earn a predetermined amount as commission.

At the moment, the most popular affiliate program is probably Amazon. I like Amazon. It’s probably the largest online store in the world at them moment. You will probably find something which is relevant to what your website is all about. Put up links on your blog to the Amazon products and you are all set to make money.

Make Money Promoting Your Own Business

Are you running a business? Why not create an online extension of that business? More and more companies and individuals are now setting up blogs to promote their own businesses.

As an example, if you have a restaurant business, you may choose to blog about the various dishes you offer. You can announce on your blog about the promotion you are having at your restaurant. You could write about that celebrity or VIP who happened to dine at your restaurant.

You’ll soon start attracting the kind of readers who may be interested in trying your outlet. At the same time, you are building your brand as a great dining place.

Sell Your Blog And Make Good Money

Selling your blog definitely isn’t a way to make ongoing money from your blog, but there are times when this becomes the best option. Perhaps you are really desperate for the cash, or you’ve just lost interest in the subject matter. If that’s the case then selling it could earn you a nice chunk of cash – especially if the blog is already earning money, gets good traffic and has a number of loyal followers.

You may find that you have to experiment with these five good ways to make money from your blog – what works for one may not work for another. It all takes time, but if you steadily work on building traffic and readers, your earnings should follow.