Business model

How to make money out of a website

[tristo]

I have been building small sites for a while and have only recently started building larger sites for myself with the intent to make money. Are there any business models available on how to actually make money from your site?

I am guessing there must be a lot of approaches other than, "get lots of traffic and set up an Adsense campaign" .... or is that basically it?

[chrisnrae]

Without knowing more about the topics, I'll shoot blindly in the dark LOL. Adsense, affiliate programs, advertising, subscriptions, products (downloadable or regular) - to name a few of the more well known.

[shigamoto]

To get people to subscribe to content on your site you can always release some material for free and then demand a subscription fee if they want to view more specialized content, it's a pretty common approach.

The stuff mentioned before is pretty much the things you can use. But remember thinking outside of the box can always give some new approaches on how to make money on a website.

Good luck!