Is Your Site Monetized ?

Is your site as monetized as it could be? Are you using all the tools at your disposal? Are you squeezing as much profit from your efforts as you can? Chances are that you are missing one or more way to generate an income from your site. This is a list of 5 of the most commonly used ad networks and affiliate programs that I use in each and ever one of my sites. At present, there are over 130 different ad networks but I believe these to be the best.

A couple of my sites I use ALL 5 programs but as you will find out, some of the programs will not work on some types of sites.

1. Google Affiliate Program: This is one that everyone SHOULD know and use. Pretty straight forward and definitely a MUST for most sites. It places simple text and image ads on your blog that are targeted to the content of the page. So as your content changes from post to post, so do the ads.

2. Text Link Ads: This one underlines certain words in your post and when you click on the word it brings you to a sales page. If the visitor purchases, you get paid the commission for it. The visitor does not even have to be a member of your list to do this. This is similar to AdWords where the advertiser pays per click. Being just an underline on the word in the post, the visitor to your site is not bothered with advertisements so this is one of the less obtrusive forms of monetizing your site.

3. Kontera ContentLink: This one is similar to Text Link Ads in that it just underlines certain words in your text but with this one, when you mouse over the word, a small popup emerges from the word containing an advertisement associated with that word.

4. Deal Dot Com: This is a two-tier affiliate program. First tier (the ones who sign up under you) nets you a whopping 35% and second tier (the ones who sign up under your first tier) lands you a modest 15%. What is nice about this program is that it is FOREVER!!! No matter if your first or second tier buy something today, tomorrow or 100 years from now, when they buy, you get paid. NICE!

5. Bidvertiser: This one is similar to Google AdSense in that it is a CPC ad network. The main difference is that the payout level is a low $10.

All of these programs are easy to implement so you would be able to start making money with them today!

As I mentioned, there are over 130 of these types of programs, so don't limit your site to just Google AdSense. Make the most of it and try to squeeze as much income from each and every site you have.