Ask HN:How did you monetized your website?
For me,I can develop,deploy and market website but when i think about monetization i sweat out,it is very hard . It will be great for me(and others too) if you please share your experience how did you monetize your website.
Thank you.
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It very much depends on the website.
Some websites will be best running Adsense. Seriously. I know a guy who, at its peak, was running a website making 5 figures a month off Adsense.
Many websites will work well with affiliate marketing - find a product that your audience wants that has an affiliate program (where you're paid commission for either selling it or generating leads) and recommend that to your audience.
Others are obvious fits for a designed product, or an email list, or upsell to consultancy, or - the list goes on.
There's no one-size-fits-all solution, I'm afraid.
It also depends on the person running the website. Do you like doing A/B tests and have a gift for selling? Affiliate marketing may be the way forward. Are you a fantastic writer? Ebooks, my friend, ebooks. Do you love interacting with your community, have a skill for building huge traffic, but hate selling? Adsense.
Some websites will be best running Adsense. Seriously. I know a guy who, at its peak, was running a website making 5 figures a month off Adsense.
Many websites will work well with affiliate marketing - find a product that your audience wants that has an affiliate program (where you're paid commission for either selling it or generating leads) and recommend that to your audience.
Others are obvious fits for a designed product, or an email list, or upsell to consultancy, or - the list goes on.
There's no one-size-fits-all solution, I'm afraid.
It also depends on the person running the website. Do you like doing A/B tests and have a gift for selling? Affiliate marketing may be the way forward. Are you a fantastic writer? Ebooks, my friend, ebooks. Do you love interacting with your community, have a skill for building huge traffic, but hate selling? Adsense.
No,I'm afraid but am not great writer but what I am creating will bring huge traffic on my website(or say blog).
After hearing lot of suggestions and googling, i found that i will use Adsense as default way for generating revenue with upgrade plan which can filter ads and provide other fancy extra things.
Thanks for your help
After hearing lot of suggestions and googling, i found that i will use Adsense as default way for generating revenue with upgrade plan which can filter ads and provide other fancy extra things.
Thanks for your help
I monetized it with good content. I got hired along the years because my writings.
I choose to not monetize my website (http://www.stratigery.com). I saw advertising very obviously corrupting newspapers in the 80s and 90s, and I view that corruption as part of why newspapers didn't adapt to The Internet. I decided to avoid all that potential bad influence by not monetizing.
I don't think you can assume everyone is in the same boat as you. Using something like AdSense isn't going to "corrupt" this guy's website. It's not like Google is making him do ads for Viagra. The key, like with most things, is moderation.
but then how you will make money. For the survival we need money,how do we get some money.
If you will put whole energy on your un-monetized website,you may have a difficult life,I guess.
If it's just as website without selling services then your probably going to be looking at advertising.
seriously saying,I don't think ads are the true solution for a monetization. Users are visiting on our website to read content(or to use our service) and if we show them ad they will leave our website.We don't want them to leave, i invested $1oooo+ to bring users to my website and now i showing the route abandon my website...
In the fastmoving world where everything is going better, it is hard to believe that ads are still surviving and sitting comfortably; where all entrepreneurs cleverness goes , why don't they solve this problem.
In the fastmoving world where everything is going better, it is hard to believe that ads are still surviving and sitting comfortably; where all entrepreneurs cleverness goes , why don't they solve this problem.
Most people won't simply leave if the ads are not intrusive; many of the people who are annoyed by ads will already have Adblock installed, anyway.
Did you consider having a paywall for a portion of your content?
Did you consider having a paywall for a portion of your content?
I think and believe that Adblock is mostly used by technical person ; non-technical person may not know or use such services.
Payway is good but it will limit the audience which I really don't want.
Something i think i should run donation campaign then deep inside i accept that i am not Wikipedia.
Payway is good but it will limit the audience which I really don't want.
Something i think i should run donation campaign then deep inside i accept that i am not Wikipedia.