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Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design. I got this in my capstone IT class and it has some very illuminating info in it about how to design a compelling webpage that people want to linger on. I figured I would throw it up here because I am not the only one of us that has a page.
I found #7 to be interesting. In my experience, I have found that the most effective way to make money is not through banner ads and the like. In fact, the click through rate on those kinds of ads is miniscule. Much more effective is integrating text ads into the content of one's site as part of that content.
I don't much advertising at all on my site. In my experience they just don't generate enough revenue to justify the effort I put into them. I only get 10-15 thousand visits a month and something like 1 in 1200 visitors clicked an ad. I tried Adsense for a year and a half and generated a whopping $25, not even enough to get paid when I quit.
The best way to make money on a website is to provide content worth subscribing to or to offer something people will make donations for. Otherwise you have to get lucky and create a site that generates a ton of traffic that will entice others to want to advertise on your site.
The best way to make money on a website is to provide content worth subscribing to or to offer something people will make donations for. Otherwise you have to get lucky and create a site that generates a ton of traffic that will entice others to want to advertise on your site.
Good thing I am not in it for the money huh?
The best way to make money on a website is to provide content worth subscribing to or to offer something people will make donations for. Otherwise you have to get lucky and create a site that generates a ton of traffic that will entice others to want to advertise on your site.
I don't know...I've never donated to a site for the sake of having that site stay open. I might make a donation to a cause, but not really to a site. If a site has to ask for donations to stay open, perhaps it should reconsider its business model, or it should close down altogether.By the way, I typically make more from Amazon commissions on a small but focused sales site than on much more popular sites which are not focused on items for sale. This is why I think that "incidental advertising" is just not all it's cracked up to be.
