How To Create Multiple Income Streams From Your Website

Creating multiple income streams from your website is a proven marketing
strategy. An effective strategy anyone can use to earn a part-time or
full-time online income. If you are not currently earning revenue from your
site, you could be leaving significant amounts of cash floating in
cyberspace.

Significant amounts of cash that can help pay your monthly
bills: your rent or mortgage, your car payments, your utility bills or even
your hosting costs. Many alert webmasters are doing just that by creating
multiple income streams from their site or sites.

Creating these multiple income streams is not a difficult task. Nor is it a
lengthy or time consuming one; monetizing your site can be done within a few
hours of work.

Here are some effective ways of creating multiple income
streams:

* 1. Affiliate Programs

Joining affiliate programs related to your site is an easy process. Placing
html code or java script on your site with your affiliate IDs embedded only
takes seconds. I find joining major affiliate networks like Commission
Junction, LinkShare, Amazon, ClickBank, Shareasale... to be the most
effective. You can quickly find and join affiliate programs related to your
site's topics.

Affiliate programs are excellent income producers, all you have to do is
supply the traffic or leads and the affiliate company does the selling,
shipping and handles all customer interactions. These programs pay on time
each month and there are no disputes about commissions. Amazon pays
quarterly!

* 2. Google Adsense

Perhaps one of the easiest way to monetize your site is through Google
Adsense. All you have to do is add a snippet of code to your site and Google
serves up ads to match your site's content. Getting those checks from Google
each month will put a smile on your face. Guaranteed!

* 3. Sponsored Links

Another simple way to earn revenue from your site is offering sponsored
links. Selling links to other sites who want to be listed on your site. Set
up a PayPal subscription service, and if your site has a high PR page rank
you will have plenty of webmasters more than willing to pay you each month.

* 4. Banner Advertising

A simple, direct way to earn revenue from your site is to host and sell
banner advertising on your site. Bit traditional but still a money producer
for high traffic volume sites.

* 5. List Building

Building an opt-in list of contacts interested in the topic of your site can
be one of your most effective income producers. Many webmasters and
marketers use followup e-mails to keep in contact with their site's
visitors. This does require some work and set-up time, but once you have
your autoresponders in place, you can forget about them.

In addition, marketing special deals, joint ventures and offers to your
permission based email contact list can be another lucrative income stream
for you. That's just five ways to create multiple income streams from your
site.
There are many, many more but these are good starting points for any
webmaster who wants to monetize their site or sites.

* Additional Marketing Tip

Here's my #1 marketing strategy on how to increase your number of income
streams:

I use the Long Tail keyword marketing model to create high ranked keyword
listings in organic search for profitable keyword phrases on the topics of
my sites. First, I use a keyword research tool like Brad Callen's Keyword
Elite or an online site Yahoo's Overture to find profitable keyword phrases
for my sites.

These tools will tell you how many searches are made each month for a given
keyword phrase and also tell you how much marketers are willing to pay for
each click to this keyword phrase - as in PPC or Pay Per Click advertising.

The trick is to find low to mid-range keywords or keywords phrases that are
profitable but have little competition.
Then design a content page on your site to target these keyword phrases and
draw in traffic. I use keyword targeted articles which I place on my site
and also submit to online article directories like Ezinearticles,
Goarticles, Articlealley, among others.

In the resource box at the end of each article, I place my keyword anchor
text and links back to my site. As these are competitively low ranked
keywords, my content pages usually land on the top positions in the search
engines for my targeted keywords within a week or so.

This is a simple effective marketing strategy that feeds targeted traffic
into my sites, making them more profitable with each keyword phrase I
develop content for on my sites.
It is an online marketing strategy that you can also use to booster your
multiple income streams from your own website.

Granted, all the above information comes with a disclaimer, the amount of
income will usually correlate to how effective you are at marketing your
site and how much traffic you can generate. Your different abilities will
play a large role in how much you will earn. However, there is no reason why
any healthy site getting a decent amount of traffic can't be used to create
multiple streams of income. Just cash in!

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The author is a former teacher who now works full-time online operating
numerous websites, including two sites on Internet marketing. For the latest
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