Many web forums will allow you to place a link to your website below every post you make to the forum and that can be alot of links if you are a regular poster.

Some websites also offer “free classified ads” where you basically can post your web advertisement and a link to your site for free.

Other ways to promote on the web is by submitting articles to web sites like ezine.com, hubpages.com, squidoo.com or any other article sites like these. You can post links to your web site in your bio that will appear after each article you submit to the site.

One way to make a living online is by promoting affiliate products and services. The great benefit of affiliate marketing programs is that you can endorse your visitors by sharing your positive user experience to your visitors. As an affiliate you will gain a percentage or a fixed income from all sales that you refer to your program. Be aware that readers will easily understand wether what you write is a true user experience or wether you are just after selling them a product. So it is wise to only promote your favorite products which you strongly believe in and whom you would pay for yourself.

First. If you want to start affiliate marketing you need to join an affiliate program. Most stores and many service providers online do have an affiliate program that you can join simply by filling out a form. Look for a link that says “affiliate program”, “webmasters”, “make money”, “partners” or something like that on the store or service provider’s website that you want to partner with through their affiliate program.

• Most affiliate programs do not require you to represent a company but a few do.
• Many affiliate programs require you to have a website but some don’t.
• Some affiliate programs are only avaliable for people in certain countries but most are’nt.

Alright let’s continue. When you have joined and been accepted (most got auto accept) to an affiliate program you can start promoting their products and / or services. When you do that you are affiliate marketing. Simple? Yes, kind of like checkers. Easy learn – hard to master.

When you are affiliate marketing you will only be payed when you refer successful sales or leads to companies. Luckily most of em pay great!

So, what’s the benefits of affiliate marketing?

The biggest benefit of affiliate marketing is that you can actively promote the advertisements you put on your website. You can even create dedicated websites to promote niche products. As opposed to PPC advertising like AdSense you can ask your visitors and convince them to click on your ads and buy the product. Another great thing about affiliate marketing is that you can choose your own products to promote. You can select the ones that pays the best, the ones with most advertising material, the ones that have the best looking website and you believe will convert your referrals into customers best. That is all up to you as a webmaster and an affiliate marketeer.

Having AdSense ads on a website is a great way to make money from it but you might not get as much of a profit as you were hoping for. Then it’s time to make some small changes to improve the profit. The most common way I see people use Google AdSense ads on their website is by not changing the default colors and just putting in 1 or 2 ad units. Then leave those ads alone and never try optimize them for maximum earnings.

To make money with AdSense you need to always keep track on what ads is performing well and what ads are lagging behind. Add a different channel to each ad to track the individual ad performance. That way you can easily see where you need to put your focus and improve your website earnings faster.

Know how to get people to notice the ads on your site. The way humans (at least those who read read from left to right) scan websites, and anything else for that matter, is from the top left to the bottom right – and images are eye catchers. Just this short piece of information should give you a lot of insight on where you where you want your ads to be. To get more clicks its crucial that you try new placements and color combinations for your ads. Don’t make too many changes at once so that you can keep track on the statistics and find out what’s working and what’s not for your website.

Since image ads are eye catchers you can afford to place these far away from where you got your main content and most your visitors attention will still be drawn to the picture. This makes image ads perfect if you can’t fit enough of the default combination of text and image ads close to your main content.

Here’s an example of where to put 3 AdSense content ads for maximum visibility

• One ad would go in the upper left corner to be the first thing that visitors spot on the web page.
• Then another one somewhere in the middle of the content.
• And the last one in the bottom right.

For the link unit ad to get alot of clicks you should eighter put it as a horizontal “menu” in the top center of your website or put it below the main navigation menu of your website.

Keep in mind that the maximum number of AdSense units is limited to 3 content ads and 1 link ad per page. You want to always show them all to generate the most money as possible from your website. If you can’t make it look good with all the ads you should not give up and try further until you got all the ads up and looking good. If you already got all ads up and want to make more money from them (of course you do) then try to integrate bigger ads!

More tips

Keep the AdSense units in colors that go well with the rest of your website. Find matching color schemes