How Do Websites Make Money?
3 Primary Ways You Can Turn Know-How or Hobbies Into Income Online

Method 1: Google Pay Per Click Ad Revenue

Payments are earned for clicks visitors make on any Google ads which are automatically served to the owner's web pages via Google's free Adsense Program.

See the short intro video lower down this page.

Here's a summary of one of the most popular and lucrative ways most websites make money (in fact, many are making HUGE money this way)...

How Google Makes $Billions and Spreads the Wealth

Google's online advertising program is one of the biggest earners for them.

Millions of businesses and websites also benefit from their ingenious ad system which efficiently brings consumers and sellers together on the web.

There are two major halves to their brilliant ad system: "Adsense" and "Adwords".

Adsense is for publishers (website owners like me).

Adsense allows we webmasters to have pay per click ads automatically displayed by Google on our websites.

Google does all the heavy lifting and we get paid if someone clicks one of the ads. More details below.

The Adwords half enables advertisers to get their ads distributed automatically by Google's system onto many websites (such as this one) and along side search results.

Customized targeting is the key to it all. The ads are relevant to the content they are displayed next to, whether on websites or in search results.

Google coordinates it all and of course takes a cut as the administrator. But the website owner gets the biggest percentage.

Below is a sceen-shot from a page on Home-Air-Purifier-Expert.com showing one of the Google Adsense pay per click ad blocks automatically served to my page by Google. Notice how the ads are related to this site's topic.

Each page can have a maximum of three of these ad blocks, but I try to always keep ads to a minimum on each page.

Adsense + My Secret Weapon = a VERY Simple & Powerful Way to Grow Multiple Streams of Online Income

In my website page builder, I simply paste in a snippet of Google's ad code they supply.

Ad block colors, sizes, ect. can be easily customized too.

It takes about 30 seconds of work one time. Copy, then paste. That's it.

This is all very simple to do with the all-inclusive SBI system I use to research, host, and build my web pages.

SBI does it all, includes it all, teaches it all.

Watch this video tour to see how it all works.

SBI is my secret weapon for online success and it's a perfect way to earn with Adsense and the below other methods for making money online based on your passions or knowledge.

SBI makes it easy to set it and forget it, and scale it infinitely with never extra hosting fees.

My overhead for running an SBI-powered website is very low - a fixed 82 cents per day.

Unbelievably, there has never been a price increase since I began in 2005, and new and powerful functionality is always being added too.

A major benefit of using SBI to build my websites + monetizing with Adsense is that no matter how many pages I add or how much traffic my site gets there are never extra costs.

More content pages usually means more income since ad views often will increase.

The unlimited hosting is rock solid and ultra secure and allows me to build unlimited pages and unlimited traffic without ever having to pay more.

I've tried other hosts. They nickel and dime you to death for increased file storage and rising traffic and lots of things in between.

And I have also found that outages and security hacks are common at most regular web hosts. But not at SBI.

And regular web hosts don't supply any of the essential traffic or business building tools you get included in the cost of SBI. It's one of the best bargains I've ever found.

And with an overhead of less than the cost of a cup of coffee, just a few clicks on a few Google ads can easily cover all my business expenses.

The rest from this and several other monetization methods (outlined on this page) is all profit afterwards.

YES! Websites Enable You to Make Money Even While You Sleep

Google's Adsense ads show up immediately on any live pages where the code is present. Google takes care of everything else.

When someone clicks an ad I get paid. Clicks accumulate every day.

Google tallies it all up, and I get an automatic deposit to my bank account every month.

That's as hands-free as it gets!

Your content keeps right on earning for you 24/7/365 no matter where you are or what you're doing.

I've received nice and regular monthly checks from Google since I first started using Adsense in 2006.

Earnings from Google alone went a long way toward helping me pay off the 30 year mortgage on my house 20 years early.

These steady Google Adsense checks (plus the other below described methods for making money online) also helped me retire at the age of 38 from my much hated unhealthy day job.

More Content... More Visitors... More Earnings... With an Edge!

Every time I add a new live page to my sites, it's like giving myself a raise because more content often eventually equals more visitors and ultimately more clicks on ads, ect.

It can really snowball the more effort you put into adding high quality, unique content that helps people solve problems, or which provides entertainment, or which educates, informs, or pleases.

The above mentioned SBI system I use also includes one of the world's most powerful Brain-Storming Software applications. It helps break it all down into a simple science. It's just one of many powerful tools included.

BrainStormIt helps you find your perfect topic of interest, and then quickly provides an extensive list of all the specific things related to that topic people are looking for at the major search engines.

Video Introduction to BrainStormIt! - A Very Powerful Research Tool for Building a Popular and Profitable Web Business 

BrainStormIt! also quantifies the demand, and analyzes the competition and supply...plus a whole lot more.

It's a secret weapon within a secret weapon and a must-have if you want to successfully make lots of money online in a win/win way supplying the demand for information.

There are literally billions of searched topics and problems just waiting to be solved or supplied.

This is what the internet is all about. People connecting with and helping other people. Ad dollars often fuel the engine driving it all.

Sit back and take the video tour to see the full view of how you too can get started today and free yourself with your own online business.

What knowledge, or experience, or images, or recipes, or crafts, or gardening advice, or home-schooling tips, ect. can you offer online?

It doesn't matter what you know. Chances are thousands of people are this very second typing related search terms into the 3 major search engines of Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

If you build a website that successfully supplies the information people seek online...visitors will come. The search engines will send them. Visitors will click!

This is a great win/win way to earn extra income online or maybe much more.

Do the work one time, and your pages will just keep right on working for you.

It sure beats being a wage slave, in my opinion.

Anyone can do this. In fact, most owners of websites do have Adsense ads showing on their pages to one extent or another.

If not Google Adsense, there are hundreds of other such programs which publishers use to serve paid ads to their websites.

One example is Yahoo's Media.net ad program which is similar to Google's Adsense and which seems to be growing in popularity.

It is also common for website owners to cut out the middle man and directly sell ad space to businesses interested in advertising related products or services on websites.

I accept direct sponsorship on Home-Air-Purifier-Expert.com and my other sites too.

Method 2: "Affiliate Commissions"

The site owner can earn a percentage of sales that may result from their referral of retailers' products to visitors via special affiliate tracking links within the site owners' content pages.

It's very similar to the offline concept of earning a "finder's fee" from a company for recommending their product or service to a friend of yours.

My satellite provider mails special referral cards all the time, enticing word-of-mouth advertising by paying finders' fee on any referred sign-ups resulting from passing out those cards.

The referral opportunities online are far more vast, and the concept can scale significantly with a high traffic website.

Amazon.com's very popular "Amazon Associates Program" is a prime example of the vast universe of products you can recommend and earn referral fees from...

Amazon Associates Homepage

Amazon.com created the very first affiliate program many years ago, and now there are thousands of retailers with online affiliate programs.

Affiliate Programs (aka Associate Programs) are also free to join and usually supply everything (such as graphic ads and tracking links) you need to start converting traffic into income online.

They also handle all the details and most will pay you automatically.

I also know of many websites earning thousands monthly solely from "Affiliate Marketing", as it's officially called. I earn good money this way too.

In addition to Google ads, I also refer visitors to best of breed healthy home products on this website.

I only recommend high quality products with evidence of effectiveness and which I would use myself.

Affiliate programs are an important win/win part of keeping this website ever-growing with free helpful advice and resources.

Learn about what I've determined is the best affiliate program on the world wide web and see just how simple it is for you to become a high earning affiliate today

Method 3: Direct Sales of e-Goods, Hard-Goods, and Services

Traditonal EBAY-style selling involving monotonous "pic, pack, and ship" of hard-goods is the method many people falsely assume is required to earn money online.

Often folks fret that a web business might involve them having to find a product to sell online and dealing with all the other hassles that go along with retailing physical merchandise.

But as you can see by the first two methods, it is possible to have a profitable web business without ever selling a thing or dealing in any way with customers, payments, inventory, or shipping.

You can do well just with the above outlined passive methods of pay per click ads, or by recommending others' products as an affiliate marketer. 

Direct selling requires a bit more work up front, and can be a bit more hands-on too.

But it can also be much more lucrative for site owners who create and sell their own downloadable e-books, courses, or directly retail their own or others' physical products.

Most serious web businesses naturally progress to more direct selling because of the improved profit margins.

However, diversification is always wise. So on many established websites you will often see a mix of all three methods of monetizing at work.

But anything downloadable (eGoods) can give you the best of both worlds (less hands on, yet with much higher profit margins).

Learn more about how you can build an online empire selling downloadable e-Goods, ect. online with this simple step by step process of tools and techniques 

There are many webmasters currently making a nice living just from selling their Kindle e-books via online retailers such as Amazon.com and from their own websites.

Partnering with Drop-shippers is another popular way to sell, with less fulfillment headaches, but often less margins too.

If you have a service to offer, whether offered locally or globally, this can also be a great high profit margin product to sell or market via a content site.

A website (in combination with my above secret weapon) is the best low overhead way to enable your customers to find you, rather than you having to spend lots of money on advertising to find them.

Imagine a Yellow Pages Ad to the power of a thousand...yet at a fraction of the cost!