Ways to make money with your web site.

1. Advertising.
      There are two variation of the advertising model: Pay Per Click and Pay Per View. These are one of the easiest and widely used forms of monetizing. Just consider these two models.
   Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising generates profit when someone clicks on an ad on your website. One of the most widely used Pay Per Click engines is Google AdSense.
   Pay Per View pays based on the number of views.
   Both of the versions depend on targeted content and traffic volume. Though it can sounds like an easy way of making money, but it isn’t so in reality. Don’t expect that you can retire anytime soon if you don’t have a huge site with lots of highly targeted articles.
2. Sponsorship / Private Ad Sales.
      This monetization method is similar to the Pay Per View model. Instead of dealing with an ad network, this strategy in usual involves you going direct to the advertiser. This form of advertising model involves you doing the leg work to approach potential advertisers. So, you must be sure your website content is highly targeted and producing a lot of traffic.
3. Physical Products.
      This is the model of selling actual physical products, which involves listing one or multiple products for sale on your website, facilitating a secure transaction and shipping the product. Many big online retailers, for example Amazon or Dell, use this model. Remember that unless you use drop shipping there are warehousing and dispensation elements to this model, and shipping to overseas destinations can be cost prohibitory.
4. Drop Shipping.
      This model is very similar to the physical product model, but with someone else looking after the warehousing and distribution. In this case you set up an interrelation with one or more businesses who can look after the physical goods you’re selling. At all you have to worry only about sales.
   When a customer purchases a product on your website, looking after the bargain is on your own responsibility. Then you must forward the order through to your drop shipper who packages and distributes the goods.
5. Digital Products.
      Digital products (anything you can download-music, ebooks, software, videos) are relatively easy, as there’s a much lower cost of sale for them than for physical products. You can produce your own products for selling, pay someone to evolve a product for you, or promote other people’s products via affiliate networks (see the affiliate products section below), because there’s no physical warehousing, shipping or cost to reproduce the product with a digital product.
6. Affiliate Products.
      There’s another way of making money for the owners of website. That is making money from promoting other people’s services and products. You can apply to become affiliated with a merchant, either via one of the many affiliate networks or directly, for starting promoting. As a matter of fact you receive a commission on sales, when you refer a customer to the merchant. There are affiliate networks for both physical and digital products as well as for lead generation, otherwise know as Cost Per Action (CPA) offers. One of the largest digital product networks is Clickbank while Amazon has its own network for physical products.
7. Membership / Subscription.
      The whole point of membership sites is that they are making money by charging people a regular fee for having access to a secure “Members Only” area. This area might contain regularly updated and added training material, or it might be a web based application. Be sure, whether you want customers to remain and keep paying for the privilege you need to make sure that you provide only unique and high quality content.
8. Marketplace Flippa.
      Is a shining example of the marketplace monetization model, as are dating sites, freelance marketplaces such as 99designs and auction sites like eBay. Usually marketplaces use the following method of making money. That is by charging sellers a fee to list items for sale, or from advertising if the site produces enough traffic. Attracting enough buyers and sellers to communicate regularly is one of the biggest challenges with marketplace sites.
9. Services.
      This model includes a huge variety of offerings. Usually it’s based on involving customers paying for someone’s time. Selling a service may involve selling day to day tasks such as professional services like accounting or data entry. Usually you need to keep adding work-hours as your clientele grows, so Services can prove hard to scale.
   What Now?
   These monetization strategies are just an introduction for getting you started. Just look around and see what the pro’s are up to, before you decide which method is best for you and your website. You can find millions of articles about how to convert website visitors into dollars, but here are some good places to continue your learning: