SEM Tycoon

**Optimist5** · 10-21-2009, 05:23 PM

Why that way and not the other? What worked for you and what did not? Thanks!

**kdenisk** · 10-25-2009, 02:54 PM

Depends on what kind of site you are trying to monetize. For some AdSense works quite good. For some you have to find very tricky schemes in order to monetize a website well.

**infotech rules** · 10-25-2009, 04:14 PM

It depends upon your selection mate what you choose for what..

**Optimist5** · 10-25-2009, 09:41 PM

Hey guys. Thanks for replying.

This is why I'm curious: I think it is interesting to see what works (and what doesn't) for different kinds of websites, so maybe you could get and idea and try on yours.

**ForumTalker** · 10-27-2009, 04:07 AM

i monetize my sites with Adsense. i have also tried monetizing with other ad network but was not satisfied witht the earnings from those. so better i stuck with Adsense to get the best from my websites

**Clarence_82** · 10-27-2009, 01:34 PM

Adsense tends to give more targeted ads increasing the chance of a clicks.

**Optimist5** · 10-27-2009, 05:44 PM

Anyone tried Affiliate advertising? Success or not?

**host1plus** · 11-05-2009, 04:56 AM

How about comission junction?
It is good?

**Lemonie** · 11-09-2009, 08:02 PM

i use google adsense for my blog..and yesterday i put AdEngage photo text ads in my blog. i like photo text ads..make my blog looks better. but i dont know yet its good for monetize or not..

**frih** · 11-10-2009, 12:18 AM

i go for adsense and chitika. they are the best.

**Hosting24** · 11-11-2009, 09:58 AM

Well, we do monetize our website by selling hosting services for visitors

Let's back to business now. I do believe that any way to monetize site is good as long as it brings money for you and doesn't pi** off your visitors.

**Jessica14** · 11-11-2009, 10:35 AM

I monetize my blog through adsense. I'm handling it by gaining my traffic and assuring that my blog has a good content with a clear and simple design. So that, Adsense will noticed by visitors. And that's the way I handled my blog.

**non-reciprocal** · 11-17-2009, 07:41 PM

I use adsense on most of my sites, but on certain sites such as blogs I imagine affiliate programs may work better.

**crush25** · 01-11-2010, 10:28 AM

There are different ways to monetized your site like google adsense, affiliating, writing reviews like in blogsvertise ,payu2blog etc

**guidomonti30** · 01-19-2010, 04:17 PM

I use an affiliate program for my site. Thats the main earning model. Its a site about hotels. You earn a comission of around 5-6 % for each booking, resulting an average of 40 dollars.
The other earning model is to charge to hotels and cabins to upload the profiles, for that we charge around 60 US dollars.
We also plan to sell advertisement, like banners or to use google adsense in the future.
The site is about hotels in South America so its in spanish. If you want more details ask me.

**cecille20** · 01-20-2010, 04:46 AM

I monetize my websites by doing the SEO process. And focusing in link building to improve my rankings in Google while promoting it in doing SMO to get a good traffic.

**holyrhapsody** · 07:00 PM

I'm 20 years old, i've been doing this for about 3 years. What i'm slowly beginning to realize is that you can't rely on just one way of monetizing a site. You'll make a lot more money if you find creative ways of showing advertisement. IMO one site should have 3 forms of making money.

some ideas could be:
banner ads
pop-unders/overs
text link ads
gateway ads
paid content
seo links for sale(like from linkworth)
cpa offers
affiliate commissions

I'm not saying to go fill your site with ads, that will annoy and drive users away. It must be done in a way that will not be intrusive to your visitors.

**Hosting24** · 01-26-2010, 04:13 AM

holyrhapsody, you forgot to mention that NONE of these methods works if site isn't high quality and popular.

**Asthoner** · 02-08-2010, 11:45 PM

I monetize my site with adsense, review and paid link because I want to make money with it, it simply because I want to get paid for what I do for what I love and blogging and writing seems easier to me compare to other job I could get when I work under the supervisor of older guy

**john546** · 03-04-2010, 01:58 PM

As to your title asking why we monetize our sites, the reason for this is because it's more easier to increase your revenue by 25% to 50% or even double it by improving the ads monetizing rather than leaving it alone and improving our traffic by 25% to 50%.

Also bet earnings per 1000 page views means you get more per visitor on average meaning you have more advertising opportunities.