Advertising income is one of the simplest ways to earn money on the internet, especially if you have yet to earn your first passive income online.
But although simple, it's not necessarily easy. Don’t expect to make substantial revenue if you're just getting started. To do that, you'll have to learn how to drive a lot of traffic to your site.
Here are the top ways to earn online income in this category.
1. Adsense
With Google AdSense. you can earn passive online income from your website by showing ads that are relevant to your visitors. The great thing about Adsense is that Google does most of the hard work i. e. they find the advertisers, pick the ads, track the clicks, and even deposit the earnings straight to your bank account each and every month. No wonder that 65% of the top 200 websites that show ads use AdSense.
2. Media. Net
Similiar to Adsense, Media. net powers the Yahoo! Bing Network Contextual Ads and is probably the second largest contextual advertising company in the world. I've been running some Media. net ads for a few months and the income was very similiar to adsense. Bear in mind that their approval process is a bit more extensive than Google AdSense. - One has to get a certain number of page views monthly to get an account with them.
3. Chitika
Similar to AdSense and Media. net, Chitika claims that their ads perform unlike any other. However, after a few months I switched to Adsense as I could not see the difference. In many cases, the pay per click was lower.
4. Target your own advertisers
Using ad networks like adsense doesn’t prevent you from targeting advertisers directly. In fact, that’s how I started; I searched the net for potential advertisers who advertised products relevant to my content and offered them yearly packages. If you choose this option, bear in mind that you’ll need to provide traffic reports and other site statistics.
