Are you tired of being dependent only on the few bucks you’re hoping to get each day from google adsense ?

I was, until I found out that there are more similar solutions on the net. Google Adsense is a good way of monetizing your website or blog, but it’s getting a little bit overcrowded. Nevertheless I still use it, but as a complementary source of revenues I also use other money making programs that are as good as adsense. When you make a good combination of all of them ( not on the same page ) you can gain more than you ever expected. Of course everything depends on your website content and taffic. Here we go :

Adbrite is very popular, maybe more than all other programs that exist. They provide text link ads, banners, full page ads, and inline ads. Inline ads are good for blog use. The program is very similar to google adsense. AdBrite is the Internet’s Ad Marketplace. The company makes it easy to buy and sell advertising online, giving advertisers and publishers more transparency and control than any other ad network.

Linkworth may seem a little bit complex at the beggining, because you have simply too much options of making money, but after 30 min navigating within their website you’ll feel more comfortable. LinkWorth is one of the web’s largest and most innovative marketing portals that caters to both Advertisers and Partners. Their products consist of text link ads, paid blog reviews, in-text links, in-content pay per click ads, rotating text ads, hosted content pages, article submission, directory submission and many more. When you join LinkWorth you’re automatically exposed to thousands of advertisers in a variety of industries and market segments that have the ability to view your website, blog or network. And, if you choose to become a preferred partner, the LinkWorth sales team will actually generate ad revenue for you by placing managed advertiser’s text link ads, billboards or cost-per-click contextual ads on your site, increasing your ad revenue with no additional promotion or sales involvement on your part.

Bidvertiser offers a very innovative system based on bidding. You get paid for every visitor that clicks on an ad. Our goal is to enable you to make as much as possible from your advertising space, by letting advertisers bid on your ad space. We pay monthly, either by check, or instantly through PayPal with a minimum of only $10.

These are some of the major networks, I know several other programs that can be of interest too, but if you look to monetize your website first start with those guys, you won’t be disappointed.

As a directory owner I happen to see a lot of websites that subscribe to Linkdor Directory. Some of them are really good looking and useful resources. Others pretend to be. And what about the rest of the websites out there, I’d say about 45 % that are total rubbish!!! People, please don’t create something without purpose. Do you really think that directory submissions are useful if your site is not complete, if there’s no content on it or if it’s only filled up with adsense ads ??

Ok let’s not get nervous. I’ll give you some tips for starting a successful website, that every directory owner would be more than happy to approve.

First of all GOOGLE ADSENSE : it should be used moderately and what I mean by this is that when a visitor opens your website, google ads should NOT be the first thing that flashes right in front of his eyes! Some of you will probably say that google recommends putting the ads on certain places, where conversion is better. But after all, if you’re serious about making your visitors return, you should think about this. Put google ads but only on places where these ads will give the visitor more information, ralated links, additional reading etc. After all you know very well that adsense should be only your complimentary revenue source.

Content comes next. Real, Unique, Useful and user oriented. Remember that the primary role of your website is to share your ideas or whatever else with other people. So write for them, people often appreciate good content and are more likely to link back to you and recommend your website to their friends.

Promotion is the key for a successful website. There are hundreds and thousands of ways to promote your business. Simply don’t spam people. As long as you’re honest and careful everything should be all right.

Before doing anything else, I recommend to submit your website to web directories. This will fire up your website in the search engine results and maybe some pagerank.

If you want to know more about directories and link building download our free ebook : Directories From A to Z. Read it and you’ll become an expert in directory submissions and link building techniques.

Hosting is a well known problem for every webmaster. When you visit your website, your own baby and see that it’s not working, due to hosting problems, it’s like your heart stops for a while. If your entire business relies on your website, it’s essencial to have a quality web hosting solution. 99,9% uptime is not enough. We want to make it at least 100%.
Imagine what happens if the server hosting your website goes down, if the HDD(s) just stop working, and all the information you had on your website is lost FOREVER. It’s a catastrophic vision, it’s like the end of the world.
These are just some small reasons WHY hosting is very important. FREE and CHEAP reliable hosting solutions don’t exist. I prefer to pay an expensive one, because I’ll feel better all day long. It’s like an insurance that nothing can happen to your baby and everything is gonna be all right.

OK let’s come to the point, here I gathered a list of some of the hosting services I’m using and some of those I used before, that I’m very proud to present you.

Do you see those brand new flashing from all over banners? All web hosting companies are trying to get a part from the market. They’re all concurrents and do unbelievable things in order to get more and more customers. Nowadays hosting has become very affordable. The above hosting comanies are well known and very reliable. Simply compare them, thought there are no big differencies neighter in prices, nor in functionalities. At least you’ll be sure to have maximum security and a website running 24/24 hours.

If you’re already a satisfied (or not) customer, please let me know that by leaving a comment. Your feedback will be highly appreciated.