How to Monetize your Web Site Traffic

The most commonly used tool for making money from your Web site traffic is Google AdSense. Google AdSense is a contextual advertising technology that serves ads from the Google AdWords Content Network based on contextual relevance.

Even if they leave your Web site by clicking an ad, you get paid a percentage of the amount that the advertiser pays google to display the ad. Other quality contextual ad networks include Yahoo’s Publisher Network and MSN’s Content Network.

Affiliate marketing is responsible for generating billions of dollars in e-commerce each year. These companies pay you a percentage of any sales referred when you promote them on your Web site.

Top affiliates such as Upromise, CashBaq.com, and Clicks2Customers make millions of dollars per year in commission. The big three affiliate networks are Commission Junction, LinkShare, and Performics. Other newer networks such as Azoogle, Hydra, and Pepperjam are using innovative approaches and technologies to help affiliates monetize Web site traffic and bank large commission checks.