Websites and advertising

[Pretender]

Suppose you have a website that has a few hundred visitors or so monthly, and you wanted ot put an ad on it to make a little money.
a) would that be possible, or would the site need to be more active?
b) where could I find out more info about putting ads on your site?

 

[Pastore]

Use a search engine... there are plenty of companies out there that give you a certain amount of money every time a user clicks a banner on your site...

 

[Warpo]

Lots of articles at
http://www.ecommercebase.com/

 

[Pretender]

Beast: The problem is, I dunno what to search for. Searching for advertising or advertisements finds me the opposite of what I'm looking for

Warpo: thanks for the site. Looks good.

 

[snow patrol]

A few hundred a month will make you a spectacularly tiny amount of money I'm afraid. It really isn't worth it unless you're getting at least a few thousand a week (if not a few thousand a day really...).

A recent study showed that an extremely low percentage of surfers actually click an ad (something like 0.07% or something, I forget..). A few hundred a month won't get you anything.

 

[wake]

Check out Virtual Promote

 

[GoldenBear]

Yeah, I've been into this stuff for a bit now, and you really won't make any more than chump change unless you get a few hundred THOUSAND a month.

But here's a quick lesson, there are three methods of payment:

CPC: Count per click, which as its name indicates pays you for the amount of clicks you get. Some examples include eads.com or 1for1.com They typically pay $0.10-$0.15 a click.

CPM: Count per thousand (M representing the roman numeral for 1000), which pays by a certain rate per thousand visitors. These days these rates are pretty low, ranging at less than $1 at times. Unless you have a LOT of traffic, say a million+ a month, you really won't get much. Example, say you get 100,000 visitors in a month, and the CPM rate is $1, you get $100. Sometimes it COULD get really high though if you get a lot of traffic and a good deal, like $10.

Another is pay by commission, which includes services like Paypal, where you'll get $5 for each single person you refer. Not too bad at all..

 

[IBhacknU]

looks like I've got my work cut out

 

[perry]

10 cents a click.. 1% clickthrough, usually $50 minimum to get a check. You'll need 500 clicks to get a check. That's 50,000 visitors to your site to get those clicks. Say you get 500 visitors a month, that's 100 months before you get a check, or about 8 years.

Get your traffic up before you put an ad on there..... Of course, payment per click and clickthrough % will vary, but with a few hundred a month you won't get too much money.

 

[Pretender]

I'm not too surprised, thanks for all the info. The questions I guess were mainly to determine whether or not I should try to even make a site (I'm more of a software programming guy then a website guy, and despite what you web designers like to say, HTML is NOT programming ). I guess if I do decide to try making a site, I've got my work cut out for me

Thanks for the info, you people really are the best at knowing all this stuff

 

[pmark]

Another way to go is to become affiliates with companies. So if the user clicks on the ad and buys from the site you get some money.