Monetizing a website with your own ads
Monetizing a website can be done in several ways: by displaying ads, selling own products and services or promoting affiliate links.
Each of these approaches has its own pros and cons.
For showing ads from advertising networks you have to sign up and place some code on your website to show their ads. Advertisers offer various ad formats in different styles and sizes that will fit well into your website. No brainer to set and run but have thin option to choose what ads will be shown.
And most important you’ll need a ton of traffic to see a buck. By lot of traffic thin about 2$ CPM = 2$ for one thousand views on ad shown on your site.
That’s poor, you’ll need much more than that to squeeze any money from displaying ads.
Promoting affiliate offers can be much more profitable. With a single sale you can earn that much if not several times more from just one single sale made through your affiliate link. You don’t need to do anything, just try to drive traffic and promoting your affiliate links.
Selling your own products and services is another story.
If you have a good product, better price and better product then competition you might earn a lot more with a little marketing effort. Can sell your stuff on specialized markets and promote by showing ads on your site.
Showing ads from advertisers might not look the best option as same ads are showing over and over on thousands of websites and the share you get is so tiny.
Affiliate links pay much greater commissions if purchase is made as you can put a ad (or two) on your site.
Lastly comes your own products and services which you can control but it may be hard and time consuming to run a business your self and especially chasing for customers.
Why not display ads you want and show them as much as you want while trying not to get visitors bored?
Random Ads Manager offer a solution
Small web script written in PHP with minimalistic look that lets you manage your ad inventory and display various ad formats by showing random ads.
You’ll be in full control of the ads shown on your website. Add or delete ads that don’t perform or let them expire and delete itself.
How it works
- You install the script and additional files necessary to display various ad formats.
- Login to the Random Ads Manager
- Add new ads by pasting image URL and affiliate link there. Actually you can add call to action banners and link to your services (or products) to advertise on your website. Additionally can sell ad space. In other words, can charge for displaying ads from other people to be displayed on your site. Easy, straightforward way to monetize you site, isn’t it!?
- Set duration of the ad. When expire it will delete it self not showing any more. All the ads (images and links) will be shown in a table where you can modify or delete if chose to do so.
- Copy and paste the ad codes. Several ad formats are provided for now. Each Ad format has a field where you can take the code and place it in your webpage, right where you want the ads to appear. Optionally can use a pop-up that shows up then closes it self for about 3 minutes and then ad pop ups again. A repeating cycle you may find great option if have long articles on your blog.
- Display random ads on your website and place ads where ever you want.
Random ADs Manager ver1.1 script is available for download on GitHub.
Can test it and play around to see how it works here: Random Ads manager Demo
P.S.
Ads are easy to customize and you can even create your own or simply customize the javascript files for ad formats.
