Make Money Online – The Ultimate Traffic and Monetization Guide

Make money online. My mentor, Stephen Pierce, taught me that the of essence of Internet marketing and make money online is these:

1. Traffic
2. Monetization (make money)

This is a no brainer. After all you effort to drive traffic to your sites, you definitely want to make money, don’t you? I do
Hence it’s very essential to drive traffic to your sites and then monetize it!

Let’s start with traffic first. Traffic generation methods can be classified into two groups: free traffic and paid traffic,each with its own advantage and disadvantage.
If you’re just starting Internet marketing or you don’t have any operational cost, free traffic may be good for you because it’s free.
However you must know that free traffic is not really “free” because you do it in exchange of your time and effort.
Paid traffic is where you pay for your traffic and it can be pay-per-click, pay-per-post, pay-per-lead, or claffisied ads.

Top 10 Free Traffic Generation Strategies

1. Stumbling using Stumble Upon
2. Article marketing
3. Blog posting and blog commenting
4. Forum participation and forum signature
5. YouTube and Google Video participation
6. Social Bookmark
7. Netscape’s stories and discussion participation
8. MySpace Banner and MySpace Commenting
9. Free classified ads
10. Banner exchange programs

Top 5 Paid Traffic Generation Strategies

1. Article submission service
2. Google Adwords.
3. Co-registration leads
4. Text Link Ads
5. Having affiliates promoting your products

You must have a destination where you drive your traffic to. It can be your own landing page, someone else’s landing page (if you’re his affiliate), or own your blog.
Your traffic destination usually depends on your monetization method. However I strongly suggest you to drive your traffic to your own landing page so that you can build your list and monetize it.
Remember that you can always monetize your list by recommending them related products.

Now let’s discuss how to make money online aka monetization

Top 3 Website Monetization Strategies

1. Become a super affiliate
   This is great for starting Internet marketing where you don’t have your own product yet. Good product publishers usually provide you with their promotional tools such as banners, link ads, articles, and autoresponder messages. You can sign-up to be affiliates for free at:
   • ClickBank.com
   • PayDotCom.com
2. Sell your web space for ads
   You can pursue this road if you’re a web publisher such as a blogger. Ads related to your sites’ content will appear and you’ll get paid if your readers click those ads. You can sell your web space for ads and make money online at:
   • Google AdSense.
   • Text Link Ads
   • ReviewMe
3. Get paid to surf the web

I really hope this information is helpful for you and help you to be succesful. Feel free to share it with your friends, stumble it or digg it. I also really appreciate it if you leave your comments.

Thanks!

Aldian Prakoso is a professional blogger and small business development coach. Learn how to make money online with topics like marketing blog, blogging for money, affiliate marketing, advertising network, Agloco, RSS feeds and a lot more money making strategies in his blog.