My web site is nearly ready, so how do I make money from it?
The business model we use relies on three methods of revenue generation: advertisements, affiliate links and e-commerce. They are covered in more detail in each of the sections below.

Advertising
There are a number of ways to earn money for your web business by hosting adverts on your site. Certain companies will pay you for 'leads' (potential online customers) that you direct from your site to theirs via an advert (in the form of an image which is called a banner - and which is also a html link). This form of advertising is more commonly referred to as an affiliate scheme. Another method of using adverts for revenue generation is to sign-up for one of the main online advertising systems. Google AdSense is an excellent place to start. You register initially, choose the type of banner you want, they send you some html code, you insert it into your web pages and then when a potential customer visits your site they will see adverts with content that is relevant to your site. Google ads actually scan your site before the ads are loaded and only adverts that are deemed connected in scope to your site will be displayed.. it is a great idea and can be very profitable. Click here to read more about AdSense and to signup for it if you want to (it is free).

Affiliate schemes
This method allows you to personally choose individual banners (advertising images/links) to host on your site. You choose the type of banner, the colour, layout, style (skyscraper, block etc) and you can really make it fit into the look of your site, as well as only allowing relevant adverts which you directly aim at your target market. For instance rather than having generic adverts on Lawnmowers for a web site dedicated to Yachting, you can choose to only include adverts that deal with marine products.. your revenue generation is a lot better for targeted adverts than for generic ones. However, you will not necessarily get paid for every click a visitor to your site makes on the advert.. more likely than not you will subscribe to an affiliate scheme that will pay a commission on whatever sales occur as a result of that visitor linking to the advertisers site. This can be extremely profitable if you direct many paying visitors through your affiliate advertising link. Often commissions can be quite high, 30% is common and even 50% is not unusual, it depends on the company offering the service and the conditions of your affiliate scheme. See the links below to view good affiliate schemes and follow the online instructions (Note: a good scheme is one that is legal, gives a good product and offers you good stats on your earnings - don't go for the highest commission just for the sake of it, see the bigger picture and tailor the adverts to your target market).

E-Commerce
Ok, a little bit more involved. See e-commerce explained for a description of the technical challenges you will face getting an e-commerce site up and running. You need to have an idea of the products you wish to sell or perhaps even consider reselling; either way do your research and treat the business a lot more formally. Follow the links below for access to useful online services, CGI scripts and more.

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